We Work Towards

A Europe in which Roma artists, composers, filmmakers and writers work without political instruction or the requirement to represent anyone but themselves, under Article 13 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. A Europe that reads Central and Eastern Europe as the formative ground of Roma contemporaneity, where the field was constituted, where four generations of cultural producers have worked in unbroken succession, and where Roma artistic lineages have transmitted craft and position from one generation to the next across half a century of political weather. A Europe in which the whole Roma history is taught, the six centuries of Roma slavery, the Roma Holocaust, and the resilient Roma cultural genealogy. A Europe in which the voices first silenced, Roma women and queer Roma authors, hold curatorial decisions and can access budgets. A Europe in which Roma communities go on imagining futures the majority cannot yet see, and that imagination is recognised, funded, and named for what it is.