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 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.
"Leaving a trace: Roma and non-Roma young people between memory and present" is the title of the International Conference that will be held in Braga on 20th September 2024.
The morning session will be completed with the presentation of the book "Leaving a trace. Action-research with young Roma and non-Roma people between history, memory and present", realised by the Tracer team on the basis of the outcomes of the European Project.
Once the different activities (artistic and didactic workshops, training, public events...) were completed, all groups produced short video clips aimed at peers to promote the project and its objectives more widely.
The development of the project led local groups to involve several classes of students aged 12 to 16 in a didactic workshop on the genocide of the Roma and Sinti people during World War II.
During the workshop (10 hours for each class), the different local groups designed participative and interactive ways to involve and engage students, using videos and direct testimonies, interviews with members of the Roma and Sinti community, as well as the young leaders' narration of their trip and experience in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
From January to June 2024, the young people involved in Tracer project activities showed the artistic products realized during the workshops at several public events.
