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On 8th April 2021, Roma around the world celebrate the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, which took place in the UK on 8th April 1971. For the first time, Roma from both Eastern and Western Europe raised their voices in the fight against antigypsyism and in a common struggle for a better […]

Romani Embassy context relating to Aboriginal Embassy for We Are Here! Roma Biennale 2021“Like many moments in history, few could have imagined the impact of the Tent Embassy or its enduring legacy when it was first established on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia Day 1972.” Larissa Behrendt – Foreward The Aboriginal Tent […]

On 16th May, we remember the uprising of the Romani people in the so-called “Gypsy Family Camp” of Auschwitz-Birkenau and celebrate their strength to resist the Nazi regime – despite the seemingly hopeless conditions and exhaustion. On 16th May 1944, the SS decided to close the camp and murder all inmates in gas chambers. But […]

On the occasion of World Refugee Day, the self-organised art festival by and with Roma and BIPoC artists opens its third phase on the theme of survival. The open-air event celebrates the strength and courage of people who have left their old lives, their loved ones and their own homes – to survive, to escape […]

Stories behind the portraits of 5 victims of police violence photographs painted over by George M. Vasilescu

After the end of the Second World War, it took 37 years for civil rights activists from Romani communities to obtain recognition of the genocide of the Romani people by the German government. On 17th March 1982, after countless demonstrations and even a hunger strike by Holocaust survivors and their supporters in Dachau, the then […]

NOMADIC SEEDS is a platform for dialogue and exchange about healing plants and a place for the seeds of friendships to grow. It was founded by the artists Delaine le Bas and Mara Lea Hohn as a reaction to CoViD-19 with an urgency to invent strategies of self-care and create accesses to natural and non-industrial remedies independently from pharma-industries or governments for everybody. 

By and With Hamze Bytyçi and Delaine Le Bas Guests Idil Baydar, Lindy Larsson, Tucké Royale & Bon Bon Band a.o. An interactive talk show, in the legendary Hilton Room’s original furnishings, about feminism and queerness in art, and the emancipation movement of Roma and Sinti.

Performance by and with Delaine Le Bas Romani Embassy is an ongoing performance and installation by Delaine Le Bas. It is embodied within the artist and or within the space that the artist occupies. As a community Roma have not “one homeland”, not one country, not one nation state as such and therefore no embassy […]

Performance night, collectively developed Perfomancec by and with Hamze Bytyçi, Mihaela Drăgan, László Farkas, Franciska Farkas, Kristóf Horváth, Riah May Knight, Mihails Kokarevics, Lindy Larsson, Damian James Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Candis Nergaard, Sandra Selimović, Simonida Selimović Stage and Costumes Delaine Le Bas, Raissa Kankelfitz Dramaturgy Tobias Herzberg, Rebecca Ajnwojner Party afterwards with mit […]

A retrospective of the life’s work of Damian Le Bas, complemented with works by Gabi Jimenez and Karol Radziszewski. Damian Le Bas was one of the 16 artists who exhibited in the First Roma Pavilion Paradise Lost in Venice Biennale in 2007. He was a cross practice artist, he attended the Royal College of Art […]