The Route will help to familiarise the public with Roma culture by providing opportunities for direct encounters with Roma communities and artists in Roma settlements or in the context of special cultural and educational events. The Route will originally link places where founding organisations are based, and will eventually grow as new partners join in.
Launch and Partnership Meeting, Lendava, Slovenia, October 2009
Lendava Cultural Centre, Slovenia.
Irena Guidikova, Council of Europe and Jean-Pierre Liegeois.
Jake Bowers interviews Miranda Vuolasranta, Vice-Chair of European Roma Forum
Julija Sardelic, Roma Academic Club,Slovenia and Georg Armbruster, Documentation Centre of German Sinti & Roma, Heidelburg.
Spyridoula Pyrpyli - Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens and Pat Reynolds, Surrey Heritage.
Maryse Alise Gardaud, Michael and Ann Wilson, Joseph Stimbach (Chav Found I Winta).
Jake Bowers interviews Robert Palmer, Council of Europe Director of Culture.
Lendeva Conference presentation.
Jane Jackson from The Rural Media Company at Kamenci.
Lavinia Raducanu and Orchestra Rromak.
Ludvik Levacic, Chief of Kamenci settlement in the audience.
Aven Romanale Band.
Rodica Pop, Muzeul de Istorie si Artheologie Maramures, Romania.
Jake Bowers and Julija Sardelic, Roma Academic Club,Slovenia.
Living history presentation at Kamenci, Municipality of Crensovci, Slovenia.
Pat Reynolds and Lalage Grundy - Surrey Heritage Centre.
The Route will seek to empower Roma themselves to be presenters (“ambassadors”) of their own culture by face-to-face encounters and through media.
The Council of Europe published Jean Pierre Leigeois' book Roma in Europe to foster a better understand of the Roma by describing, on the one hand, the richness of their culture and lifestyle and the strength of their identity and, on the other, the mistreatment they have suffered over the centuries.
The Council of Europe also initiated the Dosta campaign, based on a Romani word meaning "enough", it is an awareness raising campaign which aims at bringing non-Roma closer to Roma citizens.
The Rural Media Company was one of the original partners in the Council of Europe's Route of Roma Culture and Heritage. Partners from France, Germany, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and the UK have been meeting since June 2008 to learn more about each other's organisations, to develop ideas and concepts and to begin fundraising.
Roma Route
Jake Bowers interviews Miranda Vuolasranta, Vice-Chair of European Roma Forum 
