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In view of the current infection situation and in accordance with the decisions of the federal and state governments of 25 November, the Volksbühne Berlin is extending its event cancellations until 2 January 2021. All events on the big stage during this period are cancelled. This affects also the Diaspora Europe Festival. The concert below...

Strasbourg, 18.11.2020   On 18 November 2020, Germany took over the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe from Greece during a video-conference meeting with representatives of the Organisation’s 47 member States.   Greece’s Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis gave an overview of his country’s achievements during its Presidency. The new...

Online symposium organized by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University (RSP CEU)   Wednesday November 25, 2020 15:30 – 17:30 CET       The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Romani pupils compelling various private and public bodies to reconsider their strategies promoting...

Open Call: Romani Language Teachers, Translators, Interpreters   ERIAC invites teachers, translators and interpreters for Romani language to apply!   ERIAC would like to bring together Roma teachers that have experience in teaching and developing teaching materials in Romani language, translators and interpreters for the Romani to facilitate communication, connection and cooperation at an international...

On the occasion of the World Day of Romani Language, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in partnership with the Council of Europe and the Plurilingualism Research Unit of the University of Graz organizes the International Conference Safeguarding our Romani Language (online event).

In 2023, Barvalo[1] will be held at the Museum of Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (Mucem), in Marseille, in the south of France. This exhibition, focused on Romani cultures and professions, is designed in collaboration with Rom, Sinti, Gitano, Manouche and French Traveller representatives from France and across Europe. Through inviting Romani individuals to...

ERIAC Statement Delivered at the “Digital High-Level-Conference launching the new “EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation” until 2030 October 12 2020   Dear Commissioner Dalli, Dear Minister Seehofer, Distinguished participants, Dear colleagues,   We applaud the Commission for continuing to fight the discrimination against Roma. We applaud the Commission for continuing to...

RomaMoMA, the aspiring project of imagining a Roma transnational museum, is not merely a theoretical exercise. A Roma transnational museum has been a central desire of the Roma movement since the 1960s. RomaMoMA is the natural evolution towards what is yet to come. This transnational European Museum is inevitable in Europe. The vision for RomaMoMA...

In view of the current infection situation and in accordance with the decisions of the federal and state governments of 25 November, the Volksbühne Berlin is extending its event cancellations until 2 January 2021. All events on the big stage during this period are cancelled. This affects also the Diaspora Europe Festival. All concerts below...

May – December 2020 The Roma Cultural History Initiative (RCHI), financed by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (FFO) built on the results of the international outreach projects 1-3 to produce and disseminate long-term foundational materials for the preservation and education of Roma language, symbolism for identity; and for shaping a transgenerational understanding of Roma...

  REPORT 2020 Roma Tangible Heritage Network   As of August 1, 2019, ERIAC launches its third international program, the Roma Tangible Heritage Network.   The aim of the ROMA TANGIBLE HERITAGE NETWORK PROJECT is to organize the exchange through six (6) large-scale, regional meetings inviting an international – primarily Roma and expert – audience...

  ERIAC continues its international activities with the “ERIAC Cultural Institutions Network Initiative”,  financed by Federal Foreign Office of the German government. The aim of the initiative is to introduce ERIAC to diverse audiences in places outside of ERIAC’s headquarters in Berlin. For this program, ERIAC has chosen to focus on the Balkans, to increase...

  ERIAC initiates its international activities with the “International Cultural Outreach Program”, financed by the Federal Foreign Office of the German government. In the framework of the program, seven international events take place between January and February 2018.   The aim of the International Outreach Program is to introduce ERIAC to diverse audiences in places...

Roma Cultural History Initiative May – December 2020   ERIAC continues its international outreach activities with the “Roma Cultural History Initiative” (RCHI), financed by the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO). The Roma Cultural History Initiative continues previous ERIAC international programs which aim at bringing ERIAC cultural programming to diverse audiences in places outside of ERIAC’s...

Andaro Angluno Vast | First-Hand Exhibition: 25.09. – 15.12.2020 Nihad Nino Pušija ERIAC Space Reinhardtstr 41-43, 10117 Berlin In the framework of EMOP and of the Roma Component of the German Council of Europe Presidency during 2020. 25.09. – 15.12. 2020 Opening 25.09.2020 from 4p.m. to 8p.m.  😷Please wear a mask covering your nose and...

PUBLIC WEBINAR “Commemorating the Victims, Remembering the Heroes” August 3, 2020 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)     On the occasion of the 2nd of August – European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day and in the framework of “Re-thinking Roma Resistance Project” financed by EVZ Foundation, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – ERIAC invites...

#RomaRemember: Joint International Campaign for Roma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance 2020   #RomaRemember: International Campaign for Roma Holocaust Remembrance 2020 reinforces the spirit of solidarity and unity, provides visibility to Roma Holocaust Remembrance activities taking place around the world and mobilizes Roma and non-Roma around the same political message. Through #RomaRemember Campaign we: ❗️ Call...

PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE (ERIAC) REGARDING THE “MEMORIAL TO THE SINTI AND ROMA VICTIMS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM”, THREATENED BY PLANS OF THE DEUTSCHE BAHN Berlin, July 17 2020 With deep preoccupation we have learned of the construction plans of the Deutsche Bahn which may affect “Memorial to the Sinti...