January 27th: Holocaust Remembrance Day

by sergi | Jan 10, 2016

The exhibition Roma Memory will be be on display at  the headquarters of the European Commission on 27 January and will run until 19 February. The show is the result of  research led by Yahad In Unum in partnership with the collective Roma Dignity since 2010, and...

Students who wanted to see the sea. Francoist repression against education freedom

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

Debate and projection of the documentary “El Retratista” (The portrait maker) The film tells the story of the young teacher Antoni Benaiges, who was assigned to a rural school in Buñuelos de Brueba (Burgos) in the year 1934-35. During that year he applied...

Franco 4040: Francoism under quarantine. 40 years of dictatorship after 40 years of democracy

by EUROM | Sep 20, 2015

On November 20, Spain commemorates the 40th anniversary of the end of the last dictatorship in Western Europe. Francisco Franco died on such a day in 1975 leaving behind almost 40 years of repression. 40 years later Spain still deals with its consequences. Franco...

Memorial Movement, a performative action

by EUROM | Jul 20, 2015

‘Memorial Movement’ is the result of an intervention curated by Stella Flatten to explore the topic of action in the public space a temporary memorial sculpture. It was performed at three memorial places of Barcelona, questioning the need of permanent monumental...

Srebrenica, memory of a genocide

by EUROM | Jun 20, 2015

Through the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), the UB Solidarity Foundation (FSUB) organises a number of activities around the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide devoted to the memory and remembrance of the facts that took place in 1995 in that town in...