Romaday

On April 8, the ROMADAY parade will start at 4 pm at the Memorial to the Murdered Sinti* and Roma* of Europe and continue with music, political speeches and performances to Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, where a number of events have been prepared for you in the Grüner Salon and in the pavilion in front of the Volksbühne. 

With: Romatrial e.V., With Wings and Roots e.V., Gruppe gegen Antiromaismus, Romani Kafava e.V., Rashida Kyei-Mensah, Roma Art Action e.V., Carmen e.V., Widerklang Chor, Queer Roma e.V., Roma Center e.V. and others.

80 years after the Holocaust, we are once again asking the question: What about antiziganism and artistic freedom in Germany? Who cares – and who doesn’t?

ROMADAY on April 8 is a day of celebration:
We celebrate the strength of our communities and their unbroken resilience.
We commemorate the beginnings of the worldwide emancipation movement with the first World Roma* Congress in 1971 and continue on this path.

At the same time, ROMADAY is a day of struggle:
A day on which we show that we stand firmly against racism, austerity policies, remilitarization and the increasing narrowing of our spaces.

We, Sinti* and Roma*, have always been part of the resistance. We fought as partisans, and we are still fighting today: against all forms of racism and fascism.
We will not be played off against each other – neither against other marginalized groups, nor within our own communities.

We celebrate – and we fight.
Against forgetting.
Against the instrumentalization of our histories.
For visibility, justice and artistic freedom.