Daniel Baker is an artist. A Romani Gypsy, born in Kent in the UK, he holds a PhD on the subject of Gypsy aesthetics from the Royal College of Art, London. His work is exhibited internationally and is found in collections worldwide. Baker curated FUTUROMA at the 58th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2019. He also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2007: Paradise Lost and 2011: Call the Witness. Baker’s art practice examines the role of art in the enactment of social agency via the reconfiguration of elements of the Gypsy aesthetic. Publications include WE ROMA: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, Ex Libris, FUTUROMA and GRT LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive Book. Former Gypsy Council Chair, Baker lives and works in London.

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YCC Episode with  Dr Daniel Baker

Artur Conka is a filmmaker and advertising producer based in London, UK.

YCC  Episode with Artur Conka

Sarah-Jane Miller was born and grew up in Northumberland but is currently  living in South London.  Miller has Romany grandparents on her paternal side - Kirk Yetholm/Gateshead/Northumberland and on her maternal  side, she has Irish Traveller descent - (Quinn, Faloon, Fitzgerald). 

Miller is a musician and singer and plays the fiddle, flute, penny, whistle, recorder, mandolin and uklele.  Currently teaching violin/fiddle for Lambeth Music Services in various educational settings.

YCC  episode with Sarah-Jane Miller

Dr. Ioanida Costache is an ethnomusicologist, activist, musician and filmmaker. She earned her PhD at Stanford University. Her dissertation "Sounding Romani Sonic-Subjectivity: Counterhistory, Identity Formation and Affect in Romanian-Roma Music" explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-oral traditions. Currently, she is on a Fulbright fellowship in Romania. She had held visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the USC Shoah Foundation. Her writing has been published in Critical Romani Studies, Bridge Magazine, Baricade and Decat o Revista. Her short documentary, Light Upon (2014) paints a portrait of her violin teacher, Nicu Ciotoi and touches on issues of identity and heritage through musical transmission.

YCC episode with  Ioanida Costache

RosaSenCis Film Production Company has been set up to take on small to medium scale film projects. Our focus is mainly on producing films that look at dance, arts, cultural heritage, oral history, vulnerable groups and the Roma community. Based in the UK but working closely with organisations in Barcelona, Spain too.

The director of the company works at Coventry University's Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) as well as with various NGOs and other arts initiatives. Rosa is a dancer, choreographer, Roma scholar, activist, dance historian and teacher.  More info can be found here: www.rosasencis.org

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