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Proud Roma. The message of love from a nation without borders
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Proud Roma. The message of love from a nation without borders

January 21, 2022
by Helios Fernández Garcés “In his 1940 film The Great Dictator a Romani named Charlie Chaplin sent a message of love against hate”. With these words, Romani filmmaker and screenwriter Pablo Vega introduces the evocative short film Proud Roma, whose premiere will be released on 25 January 2022, for the international audience. For Vega, the essence of Romipen, the essential...
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In which the Polish government invites a Romni to the Venice Biennale and the puzzle begins
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In which the Polish government invites a Romni to the Venice Biennale and the puzzle begins

January 20, 2022
Art most definitely speaks for itself, but La Biennale di Venezia is not just about art: it is also political, and the political language it speaks is not exactly democratic (in the sense we think of in the 21st century) or grassroots. At La Biennale, nations converse and compete, displaying their developments and achievements, hopes...
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“I believe stories can change the world”
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“I believe stories can change the world”

January 20, 2022
Jake Bowers speaks to Romani actor Alina Serban about her role in the new campaign film Proud Roma. There are some films whose impact is so profound, whose message is so clear, that the best thing any director or actress can do is pay homage to them and hope that some of their magic will rub off. A...
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The Word for World Is Forest
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The Word for World Is Forest

January 13, 2022
I had planned to discuss here the art of emancipation, an original perspective, and the starting point taken by an artist who brings a breath of fresh air. Drawing on the works of Krzysztof Gil, I had intended to analyse his visual strategies, which decolonise canonical art in an original and personal way, exploring elements...
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New Short Film Inspiring Pride in Roma Identity to Premiere This Month
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New Short Film Inspiring Pride in Roma Identity to Premiere This Month

January 13, 2022
Produced as part of the Proud Roma Free Europe campaign, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – ERIAC is pleased to release the short film Proud Roma, written and directed by award-winning Spanish-Romani filmmaker Pablo Vega, and starring Alina Serban and contemporary dancer Tony Gabarry.
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Members appointed to the ERIAC Barvalipe Academy
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Members appointed to the ERIAC Barvalipe Academy

December 23, 2021
Following the ERIAC Board meeting and the IV ERIAC General Assembly, new members were appointed ot the ERIAC Barvalipe Academy. The 3-year mandate of the Barvalipe Academy members, appointed in 2018, expires in 2021.    In accordance with the ERIAC statute, 7 members of the Barvalipe Academy are nominated by ERIAC’s Board “Pakiv”. These are: ...
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Practising Archival Alliances: RomaMoMA at Vulnerable Archives
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Practising Archival Alliances: RomaMoMA at Vulnerable Archives

December 17, 2021
“But don’t worry, coz you won’t rule any more, the future is ours”.[1] Undermining the modernity/coloniality strategy of situating other knowledges and identities in a disempowered past through the act of labelling communities as “traditional” and “primitive” and denying them the right to participate in the present, Mihaela Drăgan, with her performance, Roma Futurism: The...
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The Intersecting Gaps of Unknowing
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The Intersecting Gaps of Unknowing

December 9, 2021
Starting at the End: Unknowing OFF-Biennale Budapest was about to end in late April, when one of its most prestigious and yet under-recognised artworks, Péli Tamás’s Birth arrived in Budapest, to the Budapest History Museum in the Castle.[1] Shortly after closing the Mara Oláh exhibition[2] at the Glove Factory Community House (Kesztyűgyár Közösségi Ház), I...
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ERIAC launches the Barvalipe Digital Library of Critical Romani Scholarship
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ERIAC launches the Barvalipe Digital Library of Critical Romani Scholarship

December 8, 2021
On Wednesday, December 8 2021, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), in the frame of the Barvalipe Roma Online University, has launched the Library Digital Library of Critical Romani Scholarship. A critical turn in Romani Studies, requires a process of decolonization and an evaluative reframing of our current bibliographies. The Barvalipe Digital Library...
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TAJSA ROMA CULTURAL HERITAGE PRIZE CEREMOMY 2021
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TAJSA ROMA CULTURAL HERITAGE PRIZE CEREMOMY 2021

December 3, 2021
  The Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize was launched in 2019 by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).   Embodying the ERIAC founding principles, the Tajsa Prize honors a Roma individual who – by drawing from Roma cultural heritage – enriches the Roma arts and culture scene as well as shapes and...
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From the Dining Hall to the Budapest History Museum: Contemporary Roma art and cultural heritage, trapped in community space?
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From the Dining Hall to the Budapest History Museum: Contemporary Roma art and cultural heritage, trapped in community space?

December 2, 2021
The present text[1] presents a brief overview of the cultural and communal mission of Romano Kher from Hungary, especially focusing on their summer camps where significant artworks were displayed and made a major impact on generations of Roma youth. I argue here that due to a lack of proper institutional background, Roma cultural and art...
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COLLECTIVELY CARRIED OUT: Tamás Péli’s Birth
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COLLECTIVELY CARRIED OUT: Tamás Péli’s Birth

November 25, 2021
This week we present the film documenting the opening of the exhibition, Collectively Carried Out: Tamás Péli’s Birth. ERIAC Executive Director Tímea Junghaus takes you on an exclusive art historian-guided tour of the exhibition.   Entitled Birth, Tamás Péli’s monumental artwork is of unparalleled significance in many respects. Painted on fibreboard, the panel painting of...
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Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2021 announced!
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Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2021 announced!

November 22, 2021
Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2021 announced The Tajsa Prize honors an outstanding Roma individual who is enriching Roma arts and culture, embodies the founding principles of ERIAC, drawing inspiration from Roma cultural heritage while shaping and re-inventing forms of Roma cultural expressions for the next generation.   The Tajsa Prize is very...
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Dismantling ethnography, decolonising the museum, flipping the map: Wesiune thana / Place in the Woods by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
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Dismantling ethnography, decolonising the museum, flipping the map: Wesiune thana / Place in the Woods by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

November 18, 2021
There is no doubt that for some time now we have been witnessing two cultural processes in Europe, that are simultaneously complementary and competitive. On the one hand, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century can be characterised as a period of unprecedented growth of interest in...
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The Role of Artist Residencies in the Promotion of Roma Contemporary Art
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The Role of Artist Residencies in the Promotion of Roma Contemporary Art

November 12, 2021
  WEAVE LabDay The Role of Artist Residencies in the Promotion of Roma Contemporary Art 19 November 2021 11:00am – 12:30pm CET ZOOM   hosted by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in cooperation with WEAVE (Widen European Access to Cultural Communities Via Europeana)     Speakers: Timea Junghaus, ERIAC Executive Director Angelika Stepken,...
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Unexpected Encounters: Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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Unexpected Encounters: Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia

November 11, 2021
On 28 September 2021, a jury assembled at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art to select the winning curatorial project for an exhibition to be held at the Polish Pavilion as part of the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2022 (La Biennale di Venezia, 23 April – 27 November 2022, curated by...
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ERIAC joins the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society
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ERIAC joins the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society

November 4, 2021
On Novemner 2-3, 2021, representatives of ERIAC joined the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society (Concept note + Romani version).   The meeting took stock of recent developments in the teaching of Roma and Traveller history and Holocaust remembrance at school and in non-formal learning environments such as Youth work...
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Roma at the Venice Biennale
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Roma at the Venice Biennale

November 4, 2021
The selection of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas to represent Poland at the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale is a great step forward for Roma contemporary art, Roma recognition and for the Roma people. Mirga-Tas has been exhibiting internationally for many years to great acclaim, and this opportunity is a fitting milestone in the artist’s...
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