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A Spanish Roma at the front of the stage In many Romani theatrical experiences, there is an unconscious desire to get out of Modernity, out of that public space that forces you to choose a competitive representation of an identity. Of any identity. It is lived, or wants to be lived, as a betrayal of...

Thanks to a partnership with Roma Education Fund Serbia, ERIAC Serbia is extremely pleased to welcome 5 INTERNS, who will be working with us until the middle of August. The Interns will support the development of ERIAC’s international hub, which strives to promote the activities of hundreds of Roma organisations, intellectuals and artists, forming multilateral initiatives...

The 3rd edition of OFF-Biennale opens Friday, 23 April 2021. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this edition will take a hybrid format, with the opening streamed online, 8pm CET. For up-to-date information on all programmes throughout the third edition, 23 April to 30 May 2021, please see: https://offbiennale.hu/en/2021 Here, the OFF-Biennale team offers an outline of...

  The European Solidarity Corps brings together young people to build a more inclusive society, supporting vulnerable people and responding to societal challenges. It offers an inspiring and empowering experience for young people who want to help, learn and develop. In the European Solidarity Corps programme, young people aged 18 to 30 years can have...

ERIAC is proud to announce being part of the WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana project!   This project aims to develop a framework to link cultural communities’ tangible and intangible heritage, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage they represent.   WEAVE will contribute to preserving for future generations the...

ERIAC held an extraordinary General Assembly organized on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the First World Roma Congress on Thursday, April 8th 2021.   Chair of the ERIAC Board, Željko Jovanović emphasized the importance of coming together and celebrating our International Roma Day, which means celebrating Romani courage and self-determination.   All ERIAC statutory bodies,...

***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,...