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Fairytales from my Grandfather. Sami Mustafa at Manifesta 14
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Fairytales from my Grandfather. Sami Mustafa at Manifesta 14

October 26, 2022
Sami Mustafa is an independent film-maker, producer, and writer. His work explores memory and storytelling, often returning to the stories of his childhood. For Manifesta 14 Prishtina, he embarked upon a long-term collaborative project with members of the organisation Proud Roma to collect and preserve traditional Roma folktales – and, working with groups of youngsters...
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Manifesta 14 closes on 30 October 2022
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Manifesta 14 closes on 30 October 2022

October 26, 2022
The 14th edition of Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, is taking place from 22 July until 30 October 2022 in Prishtina, Kosovo. Organised for the occasion of the biennial, Manifesta 14 has set up the Manifesta 14 Western Balkans Project to enlarge the outreach and duration of the biennial by developing a cross-regional collaboration platform,...
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Overlapping Seraglios
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Overlapping Seraglios

October 26, 2022
As a young girl, I knew what not to speak. I knew not to talk about my legs in front of my elders. I knew not to talk about desire. I was told that if I were to use a tampon, it might get lost “up there”, and that sex was only with my (future)...
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Raportoru – from the in(DE)finite identity to The Abduction from the Seraglio. The Roma Cultural Resistance: Between Stereotype and Archetype
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Raportoru – from the in(DE)finite identity to The Abduction from the Seraglio. The Roma Cultural Resistance: Between Stereotype and Archetype

October 13, 2022
Painter Eugen Raportoru stands out both through the compositional value of his creations and by the themes addressed, which include significant and subtle references to Roma culture and history, thus endowing meaning to his ethnic belonging, the backbone of the artist’s inner constitution. Raportoru is a Roma painter and a universal painter at the same...
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When art making is just one part of the story
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When art making is just one part of the story

September 29, 2022
Eugen Raportoru is a phenomenon that cannot be understood outside of the complex circumstances characterising Romanian society and culture of the last fifty plus years. His validation as an artist came late, when other colleagues of his generation were already long on their vocational path. Somehow against all odds, if we are to believe the...
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WEAVE
Academic Section Arts and Culture Conference Event - Past Exhibition Media

WEAVE

September 19, 2022
Widen European access to cultural communities via Europeana    WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana project aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent. In particular, the project will aggregate over 5,000 new high-quality...
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Open Road / Phundrado Drom: Laying Foundations for the Roma and Sinti Centre in Prague
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Open Road / Phundrado Drom: Laying Foundations for the Roma and Sinti Centre in Prague

September 15, 2022
On 3 June 2022, the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and the Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum in Prague opened an exhibition, entitled Open Road / Phundrado drom. The exhibition, curated by contemporary artist Emília Rigová and curator of the Slovak National Gallery Petra Hanáková, is part of a long-term plan to build...
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Discover the WEAVE toolkit – online workshops
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Discover the WEAVE toolkit – online workshops

September 5, 2022
register now to learn about the tools for cultural heritage institutions that help collections management and curation: 7/9 – 8/9 – 9/9 – 13/9 DISCOVER THE WEAVE TOOLKIT A hands-on series of online workshops is being organised to showcase the capabilities of the different tools made available by the WEAVE project towards new forms of...
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Art and Culture Matter More than Ever- Roma Biennale 2021
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Art and Culture Matter More than Ever- Roma Biennale 2021

September 1, 2022
The Roma Biennale, an authentic festival that celebrates art, as well as its creators, was held for the second time last year. Although it was postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, its realisation in 2021 symbolically coincided with the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, an event at which Roma internationally...
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Dariya Kanti starts her artist residency at Villa Romana, Florence
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Dariya Kanti starts her artist residency at Villa Romana, Florence

August 31, 2022
The residence, co-founded by ERIAC and Villa Romana, Florence, will last from 25 August to 25 September 2022. The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) joined forces with the Villa Romana (Florence) residency programme to offer artistic residencies for two Roma contemporary artists in 2020. This exciting initiative drew upon the ground-breaking work, expertise,...
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Modifying Error: 404, towards green, digital and inclusive societies- ERIAC at KotorArt Festival
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Modifying Error: 404, towards green, digital and inclusive societies- ERIAC at KotorArt Festival

August 8, 2022
Since its establishment in 2017, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture has spearheaded an unprecedented effort to support Roma artists and to find untapped talent within Roma community and has become an international creative hub to support the exchange of creative ideas across borders, cultural domains and Romani identities. Our mandate covers a...
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RomaMoMA Summer
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RomaMoMA Summer

August 5, 2022
Please check the list of our Summer Events. In addition to the exhibitions listed below, you can also visit “All the Birds are Praying for Our Children” featuring works of Farija Mehmeti, Sead Kazanxhiu and Zoran Tairović in ERIAC Serbia in Belgrade. Next week we will host Alina Serban, Sead Kazanxhiu, and Zorain Tairović in...
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Transcontinental Collaboration: A Concert of Sinti and Roma and American Jazz
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Transcontinental Collaboration: A Concert of Sinti and Roma and American Jazz

August 3, 2022
ERIAC was proud to present “A Concert of Sinti and Roma and American Jazz” at Stiftung Kai Dikhas in Berlin. This performance was part of ERIAC’s new music initiative which celebrates the rich tradition of Sinti and Roma jazz. The all-star ensemble performed a diverse selection from Sinti and Roma and American jazz styles, as...
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All the Birds are Praying for our Children. Exhibition Opening.
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All the Birds are Praying for our Children. Exhibition Opening.

August 2, 2022
We are here. We are everywhere. Europe would want to contain us, to control us, to destroy us. And still we survive. We survive. In multiple acts of resistance, we care for our children and our elders; we care for each other; we hold onto our love and our family. We are still here. The...
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dis/heard: A Threnody OR Undoing the Archive of Persecution + Reconstituting Romani Women’s Subjectivity
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dis/heard: A Threnody OR Undoing the Archive of Persecution + Reconstituting Romani Women’s Subjectivity

August 2, 2022
Artist Statement, Ioanida Costache Roma Exhibition Collateral Event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia:  Romani people’s experience during the Holocaust, as a racialised group persecuted under the Nuremberg Racial Laws and targeted for extermination by the Nazis, remains one of the least known aspects of the Holocaust. Ignorance surrounding the persecution of Roma is...
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The Transnational Roma Movement Marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
Academic Section Event - Upcoming

The Transnational Roma Movement Marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

July 29, 2022
Each year, 2 August marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day – a day of official remembrance for the Roma victims of the genocide which took place during the Second World War. On 2 August, 1944 – despite resistance by the Roma – 2,897 men, women, and children were taken to the gas chambers and killed in Auschwitz....
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Farija Mehmeti in conversation with Avni Mustafa
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Farija Mehmeti in conversation with Avni Mustafa

July 27, 2022
Farija, you are about to open an exhibition at Manifesta 14, a major cultural event. Can you tell us something about your background? As is the case with everyone who lives, my childhood had good and bad periods, due to a difficult economic situation: we grew up in a poor family, where most of the...
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Roma Rajni: RomaMoMA Library ft. Daniel Baker and Farija Mehmeti opening
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Roma Rajni: RomaMoMA Library ft. Daniel Baker and Farija Mehmeti opening

July 22, 2022
With the exhibition Roma Rajni and the RomaMoMA Library, ERIAC brings together the painterly oeuvre of Farija Mehmeti and the RomaMoMA Library with the site-specific installation, entitled Adjacent, by Daniel Baker, at the National Library of Kosovo. The RomaMoMA Library was created in 2021 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the First World Romani Congress....
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