Nataliya graduated from the Faculty of
Dramatic Arts in Bulgaria as a scolarship student. She had to face several
difficulties because of her origin and financial situation. For her,
"performing art makes it possible to give voice to her opinion" –
that is why she chose acting and this is what helped her to accept her
identity. Her play Gypsy Wheels is about people who have been discriminated
because of their origin. "No one shall go into hiding, we have to be
ourselves and I believe that Roma theatre can make a change."
What can a schoolgirl do to fight injustice? What do we look for in pedagogues? What can we do for our children to be taught of equality and accepting each other in school? In primary school, I always sat in the first or second row. I hated it! I always wanted to sit in the last row because there, I could have been next to the window watching the whole class. From time to time, some of the "worst" boys were seated next to me. The rules for table plan were the following: 1. bad students sit next to good students 2. if you are a good student and do something wrong (which happened to me quite often) then you will get a Gypsy next to you For a few days or for months, it depended on the scale of the punishment. I liked those boys because they found this process unfair, too. I had three seatmate by this method in the first four years of primary school. When teachers realized that this seating arrangement was no problem for us and we even made friends, I ...
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