TRACER - Transformative Roma Art and Culture for European Remembrance is a project funded under the European Commission's Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme. The aim of the project is to involve groups of Roma and non-Roma youths and teenagers in Italy, Portugal and Poland in the construction of a shared memory of the holocaust of Sinti and Roma minorities in Europe.
The 6 local groups of young people who will work within TRACER project have been set up. They will collect documentation on the history of the Roma and Sinti people, narratives about the Holocaust and the Roma genocide (Porrajmos) to discover what connects Roma communities to each other and to Europe.
Reclaiming a sense of history through the memory of Porrajmos so that policies directed towards discrimination are no longer possible: this is the theme that connects Tracer project groups' actions in the different territories.
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Are now available the video and other materials of the conference "Art and Culture for Narrative and Inclusion. Presentation of the European project Trasformative Roma Art and Culture for European Remembrance".
Link to the video recording https://youtu.be/FaEMQtSpHgM
Are now available the video and other materials of the conference "Roma Art and Culture for European History: from the Porrajmos to European Citizenship. Suggestions from the TRACER project".
The conference "Art and Culture for Narrative and Inclusion. Presentation of the European project Trasformative Roma Art and Culture for European Remembrance" will be held on 25 October at 4.30 p.m. at the University of Florence (teaching facility la Torretta).
The conference "Roma Art and Culture for European History: from the Porrajmos to European Citizenship. Suggestions from the TRACER project" is in the programme of the International History Festival and will be held at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna on 20th October at 4.30 pm.
The docu-film ‘Memorijako drom - memory tracks’ (directed by Danilo Caracciolo; produced by SMAIL - Department of Education Sciences - University of Bologna) based on the experience of the European project TRACER will be presented and publicly shown in Bologna on Friday 8 November at 8.30 p.m. at the Cinema Perla.
“Memorijako drom - Memory tracks" is the docu-film (directed by Danilo Caracciolo; production SMAIL - Department of Education Sciences - University of Bologna) created on the experience of the European project TRACER.
It is going to be presented and shown as a preview on monday 7th October to the students of the courses Sociology of extracurricular education and social policies (Prof. Maria Teresa Tagliaventi) and Intercultural Pedagogy (Prof. Ivana Bolognesi).
"Leaving a Trace. Action-research with Roma and non-Roma young people between history, memory and present” is the title of a book that collects process and results of the European project TRACER.
It was presented in Poland (Krakow), Portugal (Braga) and Italy (Bologna) by the authors: Luca Bravi (University of Florence), Maria José Casa-Nova, Maria Alfredo Moreira (University of Minho), Maria Teresa Tagliaventi (University of Bologna).
The TRACER International Conference “Leaving a trace: Roma and non-Roma young people between memory and present” aimed to disseminate the project's results both in terms of visible or material results (bibliographical research, murals, paintings, videos, graffiti, interviews, book), and in terms of invisible (or immaterial) results, such as the training that resulted from the entire process of participatory action-research.
