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***Find here the CALL in ROMANES***   ERIAC is proud to be a partner of the International Press Institute (IPI) and MIDAS who announced today, April 12, the first call for applications for the NewsSpectrum Fellowship.   The fellowship is open to journalists and other media professionals working for minority-language media in the EU (including Roma and migrant languages) and aims...

Join ERIAC and be part of the vibrant community of the European Roma arts and culture scene by filling in the online application form.   ERIAC is a membership-based organization, bringing together Roma and non-Roma individuals and organizations, with relevant and demonstrated competencies and experience in the field of arts and culture and who are...

The role of history in the participation and inclusion of Roma young people In the framework of the programme of the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe   Online conference and public event 7-8-9 April 2021 on the occasion of International Roma Day and the 50th anniversary of the First...

This week, we feature the Family Archives exhibition, currently on view at ERIAC Art Space Berlin, adapted from the exhibition originally curated within Diaspora Europe at the Volksbühne Berlin in December 2020. The Family Archives exhibition is a subjective counterpoint to research into the public and institutional archives. This research is carried out with the participation of European...

  As part of the online meeting of the Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM) of the Council of Europe, ERIAC hosted an online cultural programme including exclusive online opening of the “Family Archives” exhibition. The event took place on the occasion of the 3rd ADI-ROM meeting. The programme commenced with music...

ERIAC works with a broad network of Roma grassroots organizations and partner Roma-led organizations to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the First World Roma Congress. As a way of coming together, ERIAC developed a joint visual identity to brand the worldwide commemorative activities. We invite universal participation by using and sharing the identity by Roma...

Long gone are the times When Roma wandered around, But I still see them. They are like running water Always running away […] (Papusza: Water that always wanders)[1]  I think I became a feminist the moment I started to defend my mother and aunts from the violence they suffered. I have learned that I am...

  EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULUTRE (ERIAC) STRATEGY 2021-2025[1]  ERIAC’S THEORY OF CHANGE[2]   In order to advance the unique mission as the transnational Roma organization established “to promote artistic and cultural creativity of Roma to a European audience, and thereby to increase the self-esteem of Roma in Europe and to tackle the...

    Hate speech remains a global phenomenon which disproportionately affects Sinti and Roma around Europe and the world. Both in the traditional media outlets as well as online, in particular on social media, Sinti and Roma are victims of discriminatory and hateful discourses, misinformation, misrepresentation and fake news, all considered as manifestations of antigypsyism....

OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS REF SERBIA-ERIAC INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Five fully-funded Internship positions at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) Starting date:                          April 1 2021 End date:                                 August 15th 2021 Application deadline:              March 8th 2021   The European Roma...

Taking as its point of departure research from the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s reports on violent deportations of Roma from the European Union, my project, Naked Life (2004-16) addresses the fate of Balkan, German, Scandinavian, Scottish, Irish and British Roma, Sinti, Gypsy and Traveller populations. In this framework, I produced a number of multimedia...

International Conference “From Slavery to Movement and Policies” The Roma Education Fund, the Civic Platform Aresel, Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative – REDI and European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – ERIAC are inviting you to an international conference titled „𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀”, which is scheduled to kick-off on February the 20th,...

This critical reflection comprises a subjective questioning and mind-mapping woven into the analysis of the Sostar Collective’s video, entitled Rewritable Pictures, in which the author attempts to translate the issues raised by critical contemporary art into thinking about the institutional possibilities of a future imagined Roma museum. The following text is a succinct reflection of...

Video of the concert available here for free from 27.01.21, 11:00 am until 31.01.2021, 10:00 pm 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....

The RomaMoMA interview series continues! (Part 3 of 5) What concrete steps and/or obstacles do you envision in preparing a Roma Museum? What exactly is required in order to create a respectful Roma museum? It is no secret that creating a Roma museum is a great challenge, as it refers to an ethnic group rather...

This video was first published on post, The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. This presentation was part of The Multiplication of Perspectives, which took place in April 2019 at The Museum of Modern Art, and brought together scholars, artists, and curators from around...

Diaspora Europe Image: Detail of the artwork © Gypsyland. Roma Da Da. Damian Le Bas (2015)   Exhibition: 15.12.2020 – 17.03.2021 ERIAC Space Reinhardtstr 41-43, 10117 Berlin Organized in the framework of the German Council of Europe Presidency during 2020 Artists: Daniel Baker | Kálman Várady | Damian Le Bas | Gérard Gartner | Alfred...

  III. GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE (ERIAC) ONLINE   ERIAC held its III General Assembly organized on 14 December 2020.  Chair of the ERIAC Board, Zeljko Jovanović opened the assembly identifying difficulties that the year 2020 brought on the arts and culture world. It was asserted that...