Venue: First Space Chapter Arts Centre,
Market Rd, Cardiff CF5 1QE
Admission: The cost for the day (to include
light refreshments & lunch) is £156.90 per delegate, if you book before the
Thursday 22nd November and £173.07 per delegate if you book between Friday 23rd
November and Monday 3rd December 2018. Places will only be secured with a
confirmed payment.Organisers – The Romani Cultural & Arts Company
General
Information
The
Romani Cultural and Arts Company will be delivering three training workshops in
three cities, focussing upon the Romani and Travelling people in Britain and
their cultures, histories, languages, as a solid foundation to understanding
the present communities. The workshops will deliver critical knowledge to
professionals, policy-makers, and practitioners in local government, housing,
accommodation, health, justice and education services; how to develop a
respectful relationship with communities, approaches to constructing a positive
dialogue around accommodation and ‘stopping-places’, to supporting better
access for Romani and Travellers to health and wellness provision, to
strengthening schooling, to raising attainment and improving elective home
education, leading to increasing employment opportunities.
The
situation for Romani and Traveller communities looks set to become more and
more uncertain, as the protections offered under European legislation,
conventions and frameworks will probably be rescinded. Show-people, Fair-gound
families, Circus-folk and Bargees are likely to face significant changes in
their businesses and operations too, with the post-Brexit legal framework. The
overall social, economic and cultural impact of the departure from the EU will
be especially deep upon these communities. The Romani Cultural & Arts
Company has the best track record in the UK of delivering effective training in
working with Romani and Traveller people, having carried out a range of
training courses, international conferences, arts exhibitions and cultural symposia,
schools workshops and heritage projects with Gypsy, Roma, Traveller,
show-people, Circus-folk, Fairground families and Bargees, across Wales and
Europe.
The
Cardiff workshop will focus upon the current policy initiatives associated with
the ‘Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales, 2015)’ have left behind the
Romani and Traveller communities of Wales, particularly in terms of the
‘Well-being Assessments’ carried out by the Public Services Boards established
by the Act and the recent review of these by Netherwood, Flynn and Lang (2017)
for the Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe. These crucial processes
have ignored the needs of Romani and Traveller people in ‘planning today for a
better tomorrow’, with inadequate consultation of the present and future needs
of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller communities, insufficient sustainable development
principles being applied to these needs, resulting in Romani and Traveller
people being missed in the most important opportunity for improving the public
sector’s delivery of provision rooted in the everyday reality of their lives
and ensuring little benefit for the well-being of future Romani and Traveller
generations.
Our
training in Cardiff, in December 2018, will address these critical lacunae in
government policy and practice, providing an opportunity to rectify, for local
and national government policy-makers and service-providers, this absence of
data and content and how to include the most marginal and excluded groups in
Wales today.Book at
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gypsy-roma-traveller-fairground-circus-folk-show-people-and-bargees-training-day-tickets-51135839673
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