8. April 2020 (postponed due to coronation)
Student Campus, Pivovarniška 6, Ljubljana

In 2020, the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, together with its partner Student Campus, a social enterprise, will continue to organise cultural and educational events promoting Roma inclusion. In doing so, we are raising intercultural awareness and at the same time further commemorating the biggest Roma holiday – 8 April, World Roma Women’s Day (meaning, of course, all genders).

This year, we have specifically focused on topics that we feel need to be addressed as a priority given the slow progress in the community, which is of course our shared responsibility. These are the employment and inclusion of Roma women, socially responsible employment and the involvement of employers in the process of social inclusion (Fair employment), and educating the majority population about the meaning of antigypsyism and its occurrence in everyday life.

However, since Roma culture always includes celebrating life, socialising and joy, something that is often missing in all of us, and we are not aware of why we are not able to be happy despite everything, we will change this, at least on these two days, in Ljubljana. That’s why we will be visited by the hottest trumpeters in the Balkans at the moment and multiple winners of the Golden Tuba of the Guča Festival – the Boban Marković Orchestra.

On 8 April, Boban Marković Orkestar will present their latest album, released last year, on the Mrak World Tour in Ljubljana. It immediately jumped to number one on the World Chart in Europe and also received a lot of positive feedback from all over the world.

Boban Marković was born on the day of Ederlezi, the biggest Roma holiday, on 6 May, the Orthodox calendar’s Saint George’s Day (Slovenian: St George’s Day) in Vladičin Han, in southern Serbia. It is a place of around 10,000 people, mostly of Roma origin, and a rich tradition of Roma music. The whole Marković family has a musical past, the grandfather, the father, also the son of Boban, Marko Marković.

Boban Marković has so far received every possible award that can be won in this musical field. The most recognised is the First Trumpet of Guča or the Golden Trumpet of the Guča Festival. His music has been featured in the films of Emir Kusturica, the music of Goran Bregović and elsewhere. The Boban Marković Orchestra consists of:

1. Boban Markovic – trumpet, vocal

2. Ivan Pavlovic – trumpet

3. Zhivorad Dimitrijevski – saxophone

4. Boban Demirovic – tenor horn

5. Miroslav Sejdic – tenor horn

6. Goran Spasic – tenor horn

7. Stefan Petrovic – tuba

8. Djavid Demirovski – drums

9. Danijel Jovic – drums

10. Alexander Stosic – percussion

More on the programme at www.epeka.si, www.fairemployment.si in www.bobanmarkovic.com

The programme is supported by the European Social Fund, the Slovenian Youth Office, the Slovenian Office for Nationalities and the Southeast European University.

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is supported by: