Prelegeri, lecturi, muzică și teatru cu ocazia lansării RomArchive – Arhiva Digitală Romă, pe 28 februarie 2019, de la ora 18:00, la the State Jewish Theatre.
RomArchive, arhiva digitală romă, este disponibilă on-line din ianuarie 2019 la www.romarchive.eu!
RomArchive este o arhivă digitală internațională a artei și culturii rome, o colecție în continuă creștere, alcătuită din materiale ce provin din toate domeniile artistice, completată cu documente istorice si texte academice. Prezentând istoria spusă de ei înșiși, RomArchive va constitui o sursă de informații realizată profesionist în cooperarea dintre romi si neromi, accesibilă online pe plan internațional în trei limbi (engleză, germană și romani), contracarând, cu fapte, stereotipurile și ideile preconcepute. RomArchive va face ca arta și cultura romilor să fie vizibile și va ilustra contribuția acestora la istoria culturii europene.
Currently structured into sections devoted to dance, film, literature, theatre and playwriting, and the visual arts, together with thematic and interdisciplinary sections such as flamenco, the politics of photography, the Roma civil rights movement and the persecution of Roma under the Nazi regime, the archive will keep growing, reflecting the heterogeneity of the many Roma national and cultural identities.
The Bucharest launch event, part of a wider series of events across Europe, focuses on the "Voices of the Victims" section and on the archive's musical component. "Voices of the Victims" tells, for the first time, the story of the genocide committed against the Roma minority entirely from the perspective of the victims. The project concentrates on sources from the period of the persecutions themselves or from the immediate post-war years; various archives were searched for testimonies and accounts, above all from 1933 to 1945, extending into the mid-1950s. The primary sources are few in number, but because they stand so close in time to the experience of persecution they carry an intensity and a clarity about the suffering endured that still strike the reader powerfully today. More details at www.romarchive.eu/en/voices-of-the-victims.
18:00
Opening address: Mihai Neacșu, Manager of the National Centre for Roma Culture - Romano Kher
INTRODUCING ROMARCHIVE: Nicoleta Bițu, Chair of the RomArchive Advisory Board, Isabel Raabe and Franziska Sauerbrey, founders and directors of RomArchive
VOICES OF THE VICTIMS
Introduced by Karola Fings, curator of the "Voices of the Victims" section, who will present her curatorial approach and, in a short interview with Viorel Achim, will discuss the deportation of Roma from Romania to Transnistria during the Second World War, its consequences and the way those deportations were represented after 1945.
Readings from "Voices of the Victims" (in Romanian and Romani)
VOICES OF THE HOLOCAUST
The Roma ethnomusicologists Ioanida Costache and Petra Gelbart, both contributors to RomArchive, will speak about songs on the theme of persecution, with particular emphasis on music connected to the Holocaust, with live and recorded examples from this intense and poetic repertoire. More on the music section of RomArchive at www.romarchive.eu/en/music.
8 pm KALI TRAŠ (BLACK FEAR) - A production by the theatre company Giuvlipen
Admission & tickets
Admission to the RomArchive launch event (18:00-19:30) is free. We recommend booking in advance at rsvp@romarchive.eu.
Intrarea la spectacolul de teatru KALI TRAŠ (FRICA NEAGRĂ), începând cu ora 20:00, se face pe bază de bilet: 30/20 lei, respectiv 12 lei pentru studenți și pensionari. Biletele se pot achiziționa de pe site-ul mySTAGE.
Initiated and led by Franziska Sauerbrey and Isabel Raabe, RomArchive was created and developed between 2015 and 2018 by a diverse group of more than 150 curators, artists, academics and activists from 15 countries in Europe and beyond, most of them Roma. RomArchive is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Further support comes from the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the German Federal Foreign Office. The Goethe-Institut supports RomArchive through its own events, and the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum of Film and Television is the technical implementation partner. Following its launch in January 2019, the coordination of RomArchive will pass to the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. The Bucharest launch of RomArchive is also supported by the ERSTE Foundation and takes place in collaboration with the State Jewish Theatre and the National Centre for Roma Culture - Romano Kher.