24.000 Euros have been supported by Norway Grants to the Cilinder Theater and School Foundation for an interactive presentation of Hungarian and Hungarian minorities’ culture through tales and cultural artifacts.
Improve and defend minority culture
Through objects, tools and folk traditions connected with the tales,the children gain knowledge about their own history and culture. Fotó: Friends of the Museum of Ethnography” and „Top Hat”The project’s goal is to introduce Hungarian culture to students from the Cilinder Elementary Art School, mostly Romas, with the help of tales and theater.
With this approach the project hopes to improve social awareness, defend minorities’ cultural inheritance and encourage the professional cooperation
among the sectors. They also hope to spread knowledge about minorities’ culture.
Tales represented by minorities
At the end of January the project invited to a two-day event at the Museum of Ethnography, where participants could gain insight into the workshop and the pedagogical and methodology program that’s planned.
The children are not only told tales, they are also learning folk-songs and folk-dance. By presenting 14 folk tales at the Museum of Ethnography, while showing objects, tools and folk traditions connected with the tales, the children will gain knowledge about their own history.
The tales are represented by the minority schools (Croat, Armenian, Austrian, Jewish and Roma students) from Budapest and other schools from Pécs, Marcal and Szentendre.
The children also learn folk-songs, folk-dance, and they can try authentic clothes. Each lecture is followed by talks with sociologists and ethnographers in the theme of present, future and current problems facing minorities.
The project is implemented with joint effort by the Association „Friends of the Museum of Ethnography” and the Foundation „Top Hat”, subsidized by the Norwegian NGO Fund.