REEESNe | Romany Vengerka Documentary
Graves-Gilman House, Room G08
37 Hillhouse Ave
New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public (non-Yale attendees should arrive 15 minutes early)
“Romany Vengerka” (dir. Timofeyev and Gölz, 2022 - 90 mins) follows the life and progress of Vadim Kolpakov, his famous uncle Alexander Kolpakov of Moscow's Romani Theater, and several other Romani musicians. After the screening, attendees have an opportunity for Q&A with the film director (Oleg Timofeyev) and the prime subject (Vadim Kolpakov), who together with vocalists Alina Nazarevich and Anton Belov make up the Zingaresca Ensemble, in residence at Yale University on April 13th and 14th.
Zingaresca Residency 2026 Event 1 of 3
All events are free and open to the public (non-Yale attendees should arrive 15 minutes early to be granted access, as doors lock automatically on campus).
Event 1: "Romany Vengerka" Documentary Film Screening (April 13th, 7:30-9:30 pm)
Event 2: Lecture on Romani Culture and History (April 14th, 10:45-11:45 am)
Event 3: Zingaresca Performance (April 14th, 7:00-8:30 pm)
Zingaresca's April 13-14 residency at Yale is organized in conjunction with the April 12th Symposium (also free and open to the public) of the Yale-based Romani Studies Group
Sponsors
Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Northeast (REEESNe) Network
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism
Genocide Studies Program
European Studies Council
Program in Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM)