Romatopia - Roma talk about their Utopia for Europe

Romatopia - Roma talk about their Utopia for Europe

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Welcome to Romatopia! In this Podcast we are going to talk to Roma from all over Europe – and beyond – about their lifes, about their experiences and about their utopia. We present counter-images and counter narratives to oppose stereotypes and prejudices. Therefor we talk to a number of noteworthy community members from a varied cross section of the Romani Peoples.

The hosts:
William Bila - Bill - is living in Paris, is President of the French NGO La Voix des Rroms and member of the board of Roma Education Support Trust in the UK, the Center for Intersectional Justice in Berlin. He graduated with a BS in Finance and International Business from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago – his career spans both the corporate and the non-profit world.
https://blog.romarchive.eu/english/project-participants-archive-sections/william-bila/

Isabel Raabe is living in Berlin, works as a freelance curator and cultural producer, studied dance in Berlin and New York and later cultural management in Berlin. Together with Franziska Sauerbrey they curated and produced cultural projects on topics that moved them: exhibitions, installations, theatre festivals – always in an international context. “RomArchive – Digital Archive of the Roma“, which was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation for five years, went online in 2019 and won the European Cultural Heritage Award in 2019 and the Grimme Online Award 2020. She says that in her curatorial work she is interested in artistic and curatorial strategies that disrupt Western perspectives and traditions of thought.
https://isabelraabe.de/

Contact us via mail: mai@romatopia.eu

Find us on Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/Romatopia/
https://www.instagram.com/romatopia/

Credits:
Idea und concept: Isabel Raabe
Editors: Isabel Raabe and William Bila
Direction: Katja Lehmann
Sounddesign: Selamet and Kefaet Prizreni
Cover motive: Altered States: EU-R © Daniel Baker 2015
Mastering: Andreas Roth Production: Media Bricks

Romatopia is supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Council of Europe/Roma & Travellers Team

https://www.bpb.de
https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-and-travellers

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About this podcast

Roma und Sinti – die wahren Europäer*innen! Für den Podcast „Romatopia – Roma talk about their Utopia for Europe“ treffen wir interessante Menschen (Künstler*innen, Musiker*innen, Akademiker*innen, Aktivist*innen) aus ganz Europa. Sind Roma nicht – ganz im Gegenteil zu gängigen Vorurteilen – Vorbilder in Sachen Solidarität, kultureller Reichtum, transnationale Einheit trotz nationaler Besonderheiten – also ideale „role models“ für die „Idee Europa“? Wir sind gespannt auf die Utopien unserer Gäste für das Europa von morgen. Und: wir haben das ein oder andere Spiel vorbereitet...

Unsere Gäste in Staffel Eins:
Daniel Baker, Künstler, Kurator, Theoretiker (UK), Nicoleta Bitu, Soziologin, Aktivistin (Rumänien); Ethel Brooks, Soziologin, Gender Studies (USA) ; Zeljko Jovanovic, Jurist, Open Society Foundation/Roma Initiative Office (Serbien/Deutschland); Timea Junghaus, Kunsthistorikerin, European Roma Institute for Arts and Cultures (Ungarn, Deutschland); Lindy Larsson, Schauspieler, Sänger (Schweden); Saimir Mile, Aktivist, la Voix des Rroms (Frankreich/Albanien); Selamet und Kefaet Prizreni, Hip Hop Musiker (Deutschland/Kosovo); Romani Rose, Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma (Deutschland); Sandra und Semonida Selimovic, Schauspielerinnen (Österreich); Selma Selman, Künstlerin (Bosnien); Miguel Angel Vargas, Kunsthistoriker, Schauspieler (Spanien)

Roma – the true Europeans! For the podcast "Romatopia - Roma talk about their Utopia for Europe" we meet interesting people (artists, musicians, academics, activists) from all over Europe. Aren't Roma - quite contrary to common prejudices - role models in terms of solidarity, cultural wealth, transnational unity despite national peculiarities - ideal role models for the "idea of Europe"? We look forward to learn about the utopias of our guests for the Europe of tomorrow. And: we have prepared one or the other game...

Our guests in Series 1:
Daniel Baker, artist, curator, theorist (UK); Nicoleta Bitu, activist (Romania); Ethel Brooks, sociologist, gender studies (USA) ; Zeljko Jovanovic, Open Society Foundation/Roma Initiative Office (Serbia/Germany); Timea Junghaus, art historian, executive director European Roma Institute for Arts and Cultures (Hungary, Germany); Lindy Larsson, actor, singer (Sweden); Saimir Mile, activist, la Voix des Rroms (France / Albania); Selamet und Kefaet Prizreni, Hip Hop Musicians (Kosovo/Germany); Romani Rose, Chair of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma (Germany); Sandra and Semonida Selimovic, actrices (Austria); Selma Selman, artist (Bosnia); Miguel Angel Vargas, art historian, actor (Spain)

Credits:
Idea and concept: Isabel Raabe
Hosted by William Bila and Isabel Raabe
Directed by Katja Lehmann
Sounddesign: Selamet and Kefaet Prizreni
(c) cover motive: Altered States: EU-R © Daniel Baker 2015
Produced by Media Bricks 2020

Romatopia is supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Council of Europe/Roma & Travellers Team

by Isabel Raabe, William Bila, Katja Lehmann

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