Event – Past

PRESS RELEASE Berlin, 8th April 2019   Join ERIAC and be part of the vibrant community of European Roma arts and culture scene by filling in the  online application form.   On the occasion of celebrating the International Roma Day (8th of April) we are announcing the opening of the second call for associate members! ERIAC is...

On April 5-6, 2019, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University will host Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora, the seventh Annual Roma Conference at Harvard to mark International Roma Day, organized under the honorary patronage of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture.   The conference...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) hosted a reception for the Ad Hoc Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (CAHROM), on 22 February 2019, at the ERIAC office space in Berlin, Germany. The CAHROM group of experts were participating in a three-day thematic visit to Germany, focusing on governmental support...

On February 13th, 2019, Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) reported to the Bundestag on the human rights activities of the federal government. His remarks are based on the 13th Report of the Federal Government on its Human Rights Policy (19/7730), which describes the domestic and foreign policy activities and initiatives of the Federal Government...

ERIAC Cultural Institutions Network Initiative (CINI) Transgenerational Knowledge Transfer Public Symposium     In Belgrade, on 06 February 2019, the Cultural Institutions Network Initiative (CINI) of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), the first transnational European-level organization for the recognition and promotion of Roma arts and culture, hosted a one-day public symposium,...

    ERIAC Barvalipe Academy Holds its First Meeting in Belgrade   Belgrade, 05 February 2019 – The Barvalipe Academy held its first meeting on 5 February 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. The Academy held a major discussion on the strategy of ERIAC, as well as made several key decisions, fulfilling the obligations defined in the...

ERIAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPOINTS 8 NEW MEMBERS TO THE BARVALIPE ACADEMY PRESS RELEASE Berlin, December 18th 2018   The first General Assembly of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) took place on 17 December, bringing together associate members, representatives of the ERIAC Board, and the ERIAC management.   The General Assembly appointed eight...

On 28 November the Non-Kin-State Working Group of the Flensburg-based Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) visited ERIAC in the context of their yearly assembly.   (C) FUEN, Kornél Szilágyi The group was composed of West Frisians (NL), Romansh People (CH) and Ladins (IT). The Roma community was represented by a delegation from Bosnia &...

ALBANIA’S ROMA CULTURAL HERITAGE ERIAC CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS NETWORK INITIATIVE PROGRAM 26-27 November 2018 Tirana, Albania       In the framework of the ERIAC Cultural Institution Network Initiative (CINI) an event was held on 26 and 27 November 2018, at the National Museum of History in Tirana.       The two-day event, entitled “Albania’s...

In the framework of a study visit on remembrance, culture, and “coming to terms with the past,” orgsanised by the Goethe Institute, a delegation of academics, decision-makers, and media representatives from Croatia visited ERIAC on 24 November 2018.   The participants represented the University of Zagreb, the University of Zadar, the Catholic University of Croatia, and...

In its programme, “Latscho Diwes,” Stiftung EVZ (“Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility, Future”) funds civil society organisations from Central, South, and Eastern Europe that are locally supporting survivors of the Roma genocide. On 20 November 2018, 25 representatives of such organisations from Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova were invited by Stiftung EVZ for a seminar in Berlin...

THE SHUTKA LESSONS   ERIAC CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS NETWORK INITIATIVE PROGRAM 13 November 2018 Skopje, Macedonia   On 13 November 2018, in the Museum of Macedonian Struggle in Skopje, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), in partnership with Romalitico – Institute for Research and Policy Analysis – organized a public event entitled “The Shutka...

 Nicolae Gheorghe Memorial Event at ERIAC     Nicolae Gheorghe († 2013), the founder of the Roma Movement in Romania and one of the most influential Roma public intellectuals, was born on 12 November 1946. To honour his contribution and to memorize his ideas the Pakiv European Roma Fund endorsed by the European Roma Institute...

FUTUROMA – ERIAC Proposal for a Roma Exhibition at the 58th Venice Contemporary Art Biennale ERIAC CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS NETWORK INITIATIVE PROGRAM 30th of October, 2018 Venice, Italy FUTUROMA, an exhibition commissioned by ERIAC and curated by Daniel Baker, is currently under evaluation by the Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale. It is a proposal under...

THE ROMA PEDAGOGY FOR RECONCILIATION ERIAC CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS NETWORK INITIATIVE PROGRAM 30th of October, 2018 Zagreb, Croatia     On 30 October 2018, ERIAC, in partnership with the Croatian Romani Union “KALI SARA,” hosted an event on “Roma Pedagogy for Reconciliation” at the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb. This event kicked off the ERIAC...

ERIAC Executive Director Timea Junghaus and Deputy Director Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka visited Musée Tomi Ungerer/Centre International de l’illustration in Strasbourg and met with its director Thérèse Willer. The meeting was attended and facilitated by Dr. Aurora Ailincai and Mrs. Camille Gangloff of the Council of Europe.   After a curatorial visit of the exhibition, possibilities...

Timea Junghaus and Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka of ERIAC attended the 16th CAHROM Meeting that took place at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. During an exchange on Roma cultural inclusion and the role of arts and culture in fighting anti-gypsyism, they discussed the work of the Institute and urged member states to commit to...

  In the framework of a seminar entitled, “Bilder von Sinti und Roma gegen den Strich gebürstet” (´Images of Sinti and Roma against the grain´), a group from the organization Arbeit und Leben visited ERIAC on 9 October. During a four-day seminar, the twenty participants visited a variety of institutions and stakeholders that work within...