History and Commemoration

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...

Diaspora Europa: Opferkonkurrenz, Opferallianz?     March 1st, 2020   On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, Volksbühne and journalist Shelly Kupferberg curated the event-series Diaspora Europe, bringing together Jewish and Roma/Sinti communities to explore the cultural and political...

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of WW II, ERIAC and Volksbühne are hosting an eventseries entitled “Diaspora Europe” curated by Shally Kupferberg and Timea Junghaus. The events between March 1st and December 10 are gathering Roma/Sinti and Jewish communities to explore the politics and poetics of diaspora belonging within contemporary...

“Re-thinking Roma Resistance” Project funded by Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (EVZ foundation) We are proud to announce that ERIAC was awarded a grant for the development of the project “Re-thinking Roma Resistance”.   In recent years, the topic of Roma Resistance during the WWII has grown into a powerful symbol that contrasts the notion of...