Public Events

The Romany Roots event, was last presented at the famous Weald and Downland Museum in Singleton, West Sussex over a weekend. The event proved to be a major financial success for the museum, and thousands of people made the trip to visit over the 2 days.

This event can be presented by Clearwater Gypsies, off the shelf so to speak, with reasonable time for preparation and booking the exhibitors.

Exhibits can include any or all of the following :-

• Caravans, Vardo’s, Wagons
  • Displays of the construction, restoration, highly skilled painting and decoration of caravans including Gold Leafing. Also live demonstrations of the carvings on wagons, drays and trolleys.
• Crafts - Peg & basket making.
• Gypsy Artists.
  • Top international Artists such as Delaine Lebas run workshops for children to encourage their artistic side.
• Traditional Gypsy Music and Musicians.
• Displays of Gypsy Step Dancing.
• Authors and Gypsyologists
  • Available to trace the genealogy and history of Gypsy families.
• Story Tellers.
  • The traditional mechanism of passing on the Gypsy history and tradition to the next generation.
  • We also encourage Gypsies to have their life story and family histories recorded for posteritory. Gypsy history is a spoken tradition and may be lost now that the traditional gatherings and fairs are being lost. We fear that this spoken tradition may also be lost.
• Traditional Gypsy cooking on the fire.
• Professional Photographers
  • Photographers and their portfolios portraying traditional Gypsy images and subjects.
• Book Sales.
• Information Exchange
  • A concept developed by ClearWater Gypsies where teams of experts are at hand from top law firms who’s chambers are in the Inn’s of Court, who can give legal advice. National government and local council officers are also available to out reach to both Gypsy & Travellers and non Gypsy & Traveller communities, to explain the statutory requirements for site provision for Gypsies.

If you would like assistance to prepare an event where you would like exhibits and exhibitors from the Gypsy and Traveller community, or your event has anything to do with Gypsy, Roma, Traveller history or way of life, we at Clearwater Gypsies can help to find you those exhibitors. Call us facilitators if you like. We can easily provide the following exhibits :-

• Gypsy History
• Gypsy Culture
• Vardo’s (caravans)
• Wagon;’s and Wagon Painters
• Traditional gypsy Crafts (Peg making, Basket weaving etc)
• Gypsy Music and Dance
• Gypsy Artists
• Photographs, Postcards etc

However if you have any requirements not listed above please call or email us. We may very well be able to assist.