History and Commemoration

Roma Youth: Together for Emancipation and Empowerment 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...

      17 March – 15 May 2021 ERIAC Art Space Berlin   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 Sinti and Roma public figures, intellectuals, artists, citizens and youth, who are willing to share their...

In the framework of the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, ERIAC will organize a series of activities to raise awareness of the importance of awareness of the importance of Roma arts and culture by highlighting the contributions of Roma to majority societies and advocate for the building of...

RomaMoMA shares a radical, visionary and subversive project this week: the Romanistan Monologues! ERIAC has made video interviews with Roma arts professionals and experts since last July, in an open and free discussion on the idea of Romanistan. This creative adventure is built on a discourse with numerous European Roma intellectuals, public figures, politicians, artists, citizens and youth,...

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,...

  On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism on 27 January, ERIAC and Volksbühne invite you to a digital edition of “Diaspora Europe”. For five days, the audience will discover contemporary artistic perspectives of Roma, Sinti and Jews on Europe, its history and present time. In the form...

  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...

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...

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...