At the Arts High School in Oradea in the middle of March, students were able to discover, observe and learn more about folk costumes, traditions, dances and popular songs typical of the Romanian community.
This was the first event within the winning project Digitradition – Digitization of folk traditions, folk music and folk dance, of the Er Hangja Association.
The first steps of the project that started in February – which meant the preparation of the participants and the preparation of the events – spectacularly presented these segments of Romanian culture.
In this process, Aurica Bonțu, art high school teacher and her students, Maria Secan, Andrada Mates and Ariadna Borza, dressed in Romanian national costume, were recorded as part of a podcast presenting Romanian folk songs and will remain recorded for the future.
The purpose of the project organized by our association is to preserve traditions, music, digitization of folk dances and folk songs.
Another important objective of the program is multiculturalism.
Promoting the introduction and popularization of dance and popular music through digitization, in
the local community and especially among young people and contribute at the same time to the tourism of the subregion and at the same time to increase its attractiveness.
The target group of the project is the members of the local ethnic communities, who are involved by the organizers in events until July.
The organizers of the project are trying to get information from a hundred people of different nationalities, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak and German.
Adults who still know the folk customs and traditions of the listed communities, know the community specific folk songs and dances, folk stories and local legends,
they have national costumes and are familiar with the ethnic groups living in the region of Sacueni and Valea Ierului.
About four hundred students studying at the Petőfi Sándor Theoretical High School as well as their companions
teachers also participate in the project’s activities, which are carried out by Roma students.
The greatest emphasis is placed on their involvement, so that at least one hundred Roma students participate in the activities.
In the coming months, students participating in the project will get to know Hungarian, Slovak and German traditions.
The program supported by the European Solidarity Corps and organized by the Ér Hangja Association, the Petőfi Sándor Theoretical High School, the Zajgó folk dance group from Sacueni, in partnership with the Sacueni city hall, will end with a closing event in July.
