International Roma Day 2024

On the occasion of INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY, the Jewish Museum of Belgium has hosted an event dedicated to celebrating Roma culture and raising awareness of anti-Roma discrimination.

This event was organized in partnership with ESMA, Carrefour des Cultures.

ESMA-CC is an association that promotes and supports artists, cultural creations and music from the Balkans and Roma, with the aim of encouraging encounters, debate and dialogue between groups, communities and cultural players in civil society.

Program

- 3:30 pm: Conference "Historical and cultural contexts of klezmer and Balkan Romani music: comparisons and contrasts
Jews and Roma are often considered Europe’s two most emblematic minority groups." w/ Carol Silverman researcher, teacher, artist and activist, and Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Oregon (Eng – Fr)

- 4:45 pm: Q&A

- 5:00 pm: Break

- 5:30 p.m.: Concerts

- 6:30 pm: Drink

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