Celebrating Survival

Images from the daily life, festivals and celebrations of the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller people

The historical exhibition from the German Documentation centre, "The Holocaust Against the Roma and Sinti" is supported by displays of contemporary displays of Gypsy Roma and Traveller culture curated by Eva Sajovic.

On Friday 18 June additional work can be seen as part of an open day "Celebrating Survival". The work includes images, slide shows and a film.

Work by Valentian Schivardi, Damian LeBas, Paul Polansky and curator Eva Sajovic is on display.

Itinery

12 - 3pm showing slide projection

• GYPSIES AROUND THE WORLD / Esteban Widnicky
• FIRST COMMUNION / Valentina Schivardi
• ROMANO BUMBURUMBUM / Marta Kotlarska
• PAVEE WIDDEN (TRAVELLERS TALKING) / Eva Sajovic
• GRTHM LAUNCH 2010 Photographs taken by the children on the 1 June 2010 at the Arts pavilion during the national GRTHM Launch. (This project was delivered by photographer Quintina Valero and is available to groups on reques)t.

12 – 6pm showing additional photographs

Positive Portraits

Selected portraits of GRTHM 2008/09/10 including "Birthday Bride by Patricia Knight, the National Coordinator for GRTHM.

Work by Quintina Valero

Hormonsden Horse Fair

Gypses and Travellers in France and teh Balkans

St Marie De La mer

3pm Screening

The First in Six Hundred Years (Hatszáz év után az első)

A documentary film by Gábor Osgyáni about János Horváth, a Roma man, who is living in Miskolc and is the first in his family to gain a University degree. For some he is an artist, for others the saviour of Gypsy children, while some people know him simply as a plumber. The course of his life has taken some strange turns but it is always about doing something positive, about endurance and the basic philosophy of "being a good man". This is a man who puts all his time and energy into making the world a better place.

Shown in collaboration with the Hungarian Cultural Centre.

Drinks afterwards

6pm Close

Where:

The Arts Pavilion
Mile End
London E3 4QX

Nearest tube: Mile End