exhibition within the series of events PATA RÂT 2012. ROMA PUSHED TO THE MARGINS
Around 1,500 people (42% of them being moved by local authorities) live in the four distinct locations of the isolated and polluted area of Pata Rât. Day-by-day they suffer not only the effects of spatial segregation and substandard housing conditions, but also of racism and discrimination. This cause challenges local and national authorities, as well as fellow citizens of Cluj. Consequently, a series of three events will be organized on the occasion of observing two years from the eviction and relocation of Roma families from Coastei street to Pata Rât:
17.12.2012, 17.00-17.15
We belong to the city!
Street action in the front of City Council
Organizers: Working Group of Civil Society Organizations, Community Association of Roma from Coastei, AltArt, Amnesty International
18.12.2011, 17.00-20.00
Roadmaps for Roma
Public debate, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Traian Mosoiu street no. 71, room 5/2
Organizers: Amnesty International, European Roma Rights Center, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at the Babes-Bolyai University, Working Group of Civil Society Organizations
17.12.2012 – 14.01.2013
No Place for Roma?
Exhibition (ȘPAC [People’s School of Contemporary Art], children from Pata Rât)
Opening: 17.12.2012, 18.00, tranzit.ro/ Cluj, Brassai street no. 5
Organizers: tranzit.ro/ Cluj, Community Association of Roma from Coastei, Foundation Desire