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European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day | Statement by Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Event - Past History and Commemoration

European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day | Statement by Secretary General of the Council of Europe

August 2, 2025
Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset made the following statement to mark European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on 2 August:   “On the night of 2–3 August 1944, more than 3,000 Roma men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This atrocity marked one of the darkest chapters of the Roma Holocaust, in which...
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ERIAC Serbia Responds to Minister Demo Beriša’s Remarks on the Roma Community
Event - Past Knowledge Production

ERIAC Serbia Responds to Minister Demo Beriša’s Remarks on the Roma Community

July 25, 2025
  ERIAC Serbia expresses its deep concern over the recent statement made by Serbia’s Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue, Mr. Demo Beriša, regarding the Roma community. Public remarks by state officials that rely on paternalism perpetuate harmful stereotypes rooted in anti-Roma racism. These not only contribute to the stigmatization of Roma...
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Participate in the 20th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society
Conference Event - Past

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Participate in the 20th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society

June 30 – July 4, 2025
The 20th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society (Concept note) is scheduled to take place on 23-24 September 2025 in hybrid format, in Strasbourg and online, and it will focus on the social rights of Roma and Travellers, as highlighted by the European Committee on Social Rights (ECSR)...
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If Only It Were History…Why Roma Holocaust Education Matters
Academic Section Event - Past History and Commemoration

If Only It Were History…Why Roma Holocaust Education Matters

June 27, 2025
Despite efforts by scholars and educators in the last two decades, the genocide of the Roma remains underrepresented in commemorative practices, scholarship, and education on the Second World War in Europe. Several EU member states display strong feelings against their Roma populations, while others have made significant steps in the introduction of Roma History and...
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If Only It Were History…
Academic Section Conference Event - Past History and Commemoration

If Only It Were History…

June 26 – August 2, 2025
Why Roma Holocaust Education Matters Despite efforts by scholars and educators in the last two decades, the genocide of the Roma remains underrepresented in commemorative practices, scholarship, and education on the Second World War in Europe. Several EU member states display strong feelings against their Roma populations, while others have made significant steps in the...
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OPEN CALL | Your HistoryLab for New Perspectives
Event - Past History and Commemoration Knowledge Production

OPEN CALL | Your HistoryLab for New Perspectives

June 26–30, 2025
Ever heard of the “Schlussstrich” (drawing a line under something)? The Nazi era is over—but the questions about it remain. What endures? And how do we tell this story today? These questions deserve fresh perspectives—yours. The EVZ Foundation’s HistoryLab gives you the space, the exchange, and the tools to turn your questions into your own...
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Lali Gabor, Interventions for the 13th Berlin Biennale
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA

Lali Gabor, Interventions for the 13th Berlin Biennale

June 18, 2025
Forging and mending are ancestral practices among Roma artisans, where repair is both material and ontological. Lali Gabor’s coppersmithing intervention in the public sphere reclaims an urban space not through monumentality but through the intimate scale of the handmade. In the frame of the 13th edition of the Berlin Biennale, Lali Gabor is exhibiting Birdhouses,...
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – Podcast Series | Roma Youth for Holocaust Remembrance
Event - Past History and Commemoration

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – Podcast Series | Roma Youth for Holocaust Remembrance

June 16–25, 2025
The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) invite Roma youth to co-create and participate in the youth-led podcast project “Echoes of Memory – Roma Youth for Holocaust Remembrance.”   The project explores the history and legacy of the Roma Holocaust, connecting past injustices with the...
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HOLDING GROUND: Crafting New Paths in a Changing World | ERIAC Exhibition at the 13th Berlin Biennale
Arts and Culture Event - Past

HOLDING GROUND: Crafting New Paths in a Changing World | ERIAC Exhibition at the 13th Berlin Biennale

June 6–13, 2025
Throughout history, Roma have been cast into precarity – subject to forced migrations, systemic exclusion, and erasures that threatened both memory and material existence. And yet, within this violence, the Roma have forged worlds, mended the ruptures of history, and found refuge, often in nature. This exhibition at ERIAC engages with resilience and survival not...
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Dan Turner, Woven Strength, Inhabited Space, 2025
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA

Dan Turner, Woven Strength, Inhabited Space, 2025

June 13 – September 15, 2025
Dan Turner, Woven Strength, Inhabited Space, plants and mixed media, 2025    Spend some time among these precious herbs, heal your soul, listen to the wisdom they are here to offer and then visit our gallery across the street. Discover the exhibition HOLDING GROUND: Crafting New Paths in a Changing World We are the European...
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ERIAC Opens Exhibition at 13th Berlin Biennale – June 13, 2025
Arts and Culture Event - Past

ERIAC Opens Exhibition at 13th Berlin Biennale – June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025
The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Opens June 13, 2025 — Featuring ERIAC as Sister Organization     The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art launches on June 13, 2025, under the evocative title “passing the fugitive on”, curated by Zasha Colah. This edition centers on art’s power to resist systemic injustice and militarization,...
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Research Fellowship Opportunity in Czechia and Sweden | Antigypsyism, Roma Civil Rights Movements, and Cultural History
Academic Section Arts and Culture Event - Past

Research Fellowship Opportunity in Czechia and Sweden | Antigypsyism, Roma Civil Rights Movements, and Cultural History

May 20 – June 15, 2025
The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is inviting applications for two Research Fellowship in Czechia and Sweden as part of the JEKHIPE project – Reclaiming Our Past, Rebuilding Our Future: New Approaches to Fighting Antigypsyism. The fellow will document historical and current antigypsyism while exploring Roma civil rights movements and cultural history....
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ERIAC launches Film Pitch Deck 2025
Arts and Culture Event - Past

ERIAC launches Film Pitch Deck 2025

May 15, 2025
ERIAC launches Film Pitch Deck – now available online   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is proud to present the ERIAC Film Pitch Deck, a new publication created to increase the visibility of films that centre Roma narratives and perspectives within the international film industry.   The brochure features a curated...
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ROMA PAVILION RETURNS TO TRIENNALE MILANO WITH “MOTHERLAND OTHERLAND”
Arts and Culture Event - Past

ROMA PAVILION RETURNS TO TRIENNALE MILANO WITH “MOTHERLAND OTHERLAND”

May 13 – November 9, 2025
Exploring Home, Belonging, and Resistance through Romani and Sinti Art   For only the second time in its history, the International Exhibition of Triennale Milano will once again host the Roma Pavilion, raising the Romani and Sinti flag among those of nation-states participating in this major cultural forum. Titled Motherland Otherland, the Roma and Sinti...
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Exhibition | Roma Resistance: From Silenced Histories to Agents of Memory
Arts and Culture Event - Past

Exhibition | Roma Resistance: From Silenced Histories to Agents of Memory

May 16 – June 5, 2025
To commemorate May 16 – Romani Resistance Day, ERIAC is inaugurating the exhibition ‘ROMA RESISTANCE – From Silenced Histories to Agents of Memory’, honoring the courageous acts of defiance and the ongoing struggle for recognition, justice, and memory.   Exhibition Opening: Friday, May 16 2025, 18:30 ERIAC Art Space | Reinhardtstraße 41-43, Berlin   This...
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ERIAC at Marché du Film – Cannes 2025 | Participation at the Creative Europe MEDIA Stand
Arts and Culture Event - Past

ERIAC at Marché du Film – Cannes 2025 | Participation at the Creative Europe MEDIA Stand

May 7, 2025
The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is pleased to announce its participation in the Marché du Film 2025, held in conjunction with the Festival de Cannes, as part of the Creative Europe MEDIA Stand.   ERIAC’s presence at this key industry event underscores its ongoing commitment to advancing the representation and participation...
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Celebrating Roma Art of Resistance – Berlin Events
Arts and Culture Event - Past

Celebrating Roma Art of Resistance – Berlin Events

May 15–16, 2025
May 16, 1944 marks a powerful moment of courage and resistance in history, when Roma prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau bravely rose up against the SS in defiance of their planned extermination. Though armed with little more than their determination, they delayed the Nazi operation and stood together in a profound act of resistance. On Romani Resistance...
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Ferenc Snétberger in Concert – May 15 at Kesselhaus, Berlin
Arts and Culture Event - Past

Ferenc Snétberger in Concert – May 15 at Kesselhaus, Berlin

May 15–16, 2025
Marking the International Day of Roma Resistance   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) invites you to an extraordinary concert on May 15, 2025, at Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, featuring the internationally acclaimed guitarist Ferenc Snétberger.   Recognized by critics and audiences as one of the few truly distinctive voices of...
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