THE community of Govanhill on the south side of Glasgow, will host an exceptional and important arts event today and tomorrow. Created for Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month, and titled astar e iag (feed the flame), the programme aims to “elevate the everyday of Roma life and culture, and celebrate intergenerational Romani resistance.”
Coming only a month after the Roma Holocaust memorial in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park was vandalised, astar e iag will focus on the cultural and political resistance of Roma people to the often violent, sometimes genocidal, racism they have faced, and continue to face, in Europe. Hosted above the community arts space known as The Deep End, the show is another example of the ever-stronger foundations being laid down by the Roma community in Glasgow.
