Despite the difficult situation caused by the pandemic, the Polish team is continuing the work on the musical culture by the Roma. We are focusing on music- related objects to be found in Paweł Lechowski’s private collection of Romani artefacts.

On the first days of February 2020, as member of the Finnish team working on Romani circus people, Laurence Prempain was in Paris to collect data and meet witness and scholars. This post is made to thanks all people who shared their knowledge and memories.

One of the BESTROM main fields of work is the Romani people’s experience in the circus milieu. That is why our Finnish team, based in the University of Helsinki, is currently developing a research to re-map and re-imagine the cosmopolitan area of circuses throughout Europe. This enquiry is about to come to life thanks to BESTROM’s new associate partner, ArtTeatro Ltd, a Finland based production company specialized in creating original circus and theatre performances.

BESTROM held its 2nd Seminar at the University of Helsinki (Finland) on 12th and 13th December 2019. Our purpose for this meeting was to check the progress of our respective case studies and to plan the collective schedule for the months ahead.