RESIST! The Art of Resistance Coming Soon! Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Cultures of the World, Cologne   RESIST! Illuminates 500 years of anti-colonial resistance in the Global South and tells about colonial oppression and its effects to this day. The exhibition pays homage to the women, men and children who resisted in the most diverse ways...

Friday, 11 December 2020 21.30 Concert of Ferenc Snétberger – Solo Guitar Improvisations Großes Haus, Volksbühne   Jazz guitarist Ferenc Snétberger is known worldwide for his extraordinary art of improvisation. His compositions range from Hungarian gypsy jazz to Spanish flamenco, from classical guitar to jazzy episodes. He has recorded numerous albums and toured Europe, as...

Thursday, 10 December 2020 21.30 Sinti_ze Jazz: The Rosenberg Trio Großes Haus, Volksbühne Guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, with his Rosenberg Trio, is an icon of Gypsy Jazz. For over 25 years, the trio has displayed their skills at the most important jazz festivals and in the most renowned concert halls of the world. In 2017, Stochelo...

Thursday, 10 December 2020 19.00 Sinti_ze Jazz  Großes Haus, Volksbühne Riah Knight, Rosenberg Trio, Sandro Roy & Jermaine Landsberger Trio feat. Giovanni Weiss, Lauenberger Quartet feat. TAYO Sinti_ze Jazz is a curated selection of the “bests” of contemporary Sinti Jazz. It brings together the leading musicians mixing contemporary and traditional sounds from diverse Roma/Sinti communities....

Thursday, 10 December 2020 Exhibition Opening Glaspavillon, Volksbühne The Family Archive/Diaspora Europe exhibition is a counterpoint to research into the State Archives. This research is carried out with the participation of Sinti, Roma and Jewish public figures, who have volunteered to share their own family collections, connecting to questions of memory, family, belonging and individual...

Strasbourg, 18.11.2020   On 18 November 2020, Germany took over the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe from Greece during a video-conference meeting with representatives of the Organisation’s 47 member States.   Greece’s Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis gave an overview of his country’s achievements during its Presidency. The new...

Online symposium organized by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University (RSP CEU)   Wednesday November 25, 2020 15:30 – 17:30 CET     The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Romani pupils compelling various private and public bodies to reconsider their strategies promoting the...

Open Call: Romani Language Teachers, Translators, Interpreters   ERIAC invites teachers, translators and interpreters for Romani language to apply!   ERIAC would like to bring together Roma teachers that have experience in teaching and developing teaching materials in Romani language, translators and interpreters for the Romani to facilitate communication, connection and cooperation at an international...

On the occasion of the World Day of Romani Language, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in partnership with the Council of Europe and the Plurilingualism Research Unit of the University of Graz organizes the International Conference Safeguarding our Romani Language (online event).

ERIAC Statement Delivered at the “Digital High-Level-Conference launching the new “EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation” until 2030 October 12 2020   Dear Commissioner Dalli, Dear Minister Seehofer, Distinguished participants, Dear colleagues,   We applaud the Commission for continuing to fight the discrimination against Roma. We applaud the Commission for continuing to...

DIASPORA EUROPE   Roma components of the Festival curated by ERIAC in the framework of the German Presidency of the Council of Europe 10-15 DECEMBER 2020   Volksbühne’s Diaspora Europe Festival invites Sinti, Roma and Jewish communities to take a stand, presenting their own perspectives and narratives for Europe. The programme encapsulates diverse forms and...

Roma Cultural History Initiative May – December 2020   ERIAC continues its international outreach activities with the “Roma Cultural History Initiative” (RCHI), financed by the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO). The Roma Cultural History Initiative continues previous ERIAC international programs which aim at bringing ERIAC cultural programming to diverse audiences in places outside of ERIAC’s...

Andaro Angluno Vast | First-Hand Exhibition: 25.09. – 15.12.2020 Nihad Nino Pušija ERIAC Space Reinhardtstr 41-43, 10117 Berlin In the framework of EMOP 25.09. – 15.12. 2020   Opening 25.09.2020 from 4p.m. to 8p.m.  😷Please wear a mask covering your nose and mouth and note that we can only allow a limited number of people...

PUBLIC WEBINAR “Commemorating the Victims, Remembering the Heroes” August 3, 2020 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)     On the occasion of the 2nd of August – European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day and in the framework of “Re-thinking Roma Resistance Project” financed by EVZ Foundation, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – ERIAC invites...

#RomaRemember: Joint International Campaign for Roma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance 2020   #RomaRemember: International Campaign for Roma Holocaust Remembrance 2020 reinforces the spirit of solidarity and unity, provides visibility to Roma Holocaust Remembrance activities taking place around the world and mobilizes Roma and non-Roma around the same political message. Through #RomaRemember Campaign we: ❗️ Call...

Open Call: ROMANI LANGUAGE BOOK ILLUSTRATOR Do you have experience as an illustrator? Come to our team to create a book together! You should work alongside with the authors and the photographer to produce the necessary illustrations that will accompany the learning situations from a Romani language book. The work should start in August 2020...

PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE (ERIAC) REGARDING THE “MEMORIAL TO THE SINTI AND ROMA VICTIMS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM”, THREATENED BY PLANS OF THE DEUTSCHE BAHN Berlin, July 17 2020 With deep preoccupation we have learned of the construction plans of the Deutsche Bahn which may affect “Memorial to the Sinti...

Hajde Te Khelas - ERIAC Dance Contest calls all Roma experts of dance, movement art and choreography, who perform alone, in pairs or in bigger groups from all over the world to present the virtuosity and diversity of Roma dance heritage passed on from generation to generation by applying with a short dance video. Read the call in Romanese, Albanian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian and Spanish