Exploring and recording Manchester’s Roma heritage

Exploring and recording Manchester’s Roma heritage

Three people working on the Roma Heritage Project.
The Europia team working on the Roma Heritage Project. Photo: Joanna Rajs.

National Lottery Grants for Heritage – £10,000 to £250,000

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Lleoliad
Deansgate
Awdurdod Lleol
Manchester
Ceisydd
Europia
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£74971
The Roma Heritage Project will work with local people in Manchester to share traditional dishes and record oral histories from Roma communities.

Led by community development organisation Europia, the project will focus on food and place. A group of people will meet regularly to explore traditional cooking practices to help them create a cookbook that will be shared with the wider community.

A person's hands working on a painting and collage of a Romanian Blouse
A workshop at the Romanian Blouse Day event. Photo: Joanna Rajs

The book will include Roma recipes, cultural stories and Romani dialects that highlight the various communities that have settled across Europe. The final recipe book will be made available at various venues including local libraries and through Roma networks.

Local people will be invited to join sessions to learn about Roma culture and food with the aim of increasing opportunities for integration, learning and inclusion.

Europia will work with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre to train volunteers in oral history skills so that they can collect stories from local Roma people.

The project will host traditional arts and craft workshops and an exhibition that displays the stories collected throughout the project. The work will be donated to the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education RACE Centre where it will become a permanent archive collection and will be made available to researchers.

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