IOE to host exhibition voicing the stories of Roma people

Organised by the Roma Support Group, the exhibition will take place from 6-7 September and will share the work of the ‘Roma Stories’ Oral History Project. It focuses on the key themes of: The Porrajmos (Roma Holocaust) and the Second World War, life in post-war communist countries, migration to the UK, Roma identity, and feelings of belonging in the UK.

The project has been produced through cooperation between Roma researchers, local community members, volunteers, the London Metropolitan Archives, museums and academic institutions in order to explore, archive and share the unrecorded stories of Roma refugees and migrants in London. IOE academic Professor Li Wei has been involved as an advisor.

Through National Lottery funding, the exhibition will include extracts from interviews, rarely seen archive photographs (courtesy of the Robert Dawson Collection), a video, and artwork by Roma artist Robert Czibi.

Links

• 'Roma Stories': Roma Oral History Project
• Register for the Roma Stories exhibition
• Roma Support Group
• Department of Culture, Communication and Media
• Centre for Applied Linguistics
• View Professor Li Wei’s research profile

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• Roma Support Group. Photographer: Claude Savona.