Saturday | May 30 | 5 PM | Free (Suggested Donation $5+) | RSVP for Address

Join Jborhood LBC for an in-depth look at photojournalist Cristina Salvador Klenz's work featuring Roma communities across America. Appetizers will be provided. Address given upon RSVP.

 

Have questions? Contact Kati Szeker at [email protected]

 

Generations: Faces & Voices of Roma People

Since their exodus from India more than a thousand years ago, the Roma (widely known by the exonym "Gypsies," which is increasingly considered an offensive pejorative) have migrated all over the globe, having survived centuries of discrimination and persecution along their travels.

Klenz’s work ― the first of its kind ― features various nations of Roma in America, including the Kalderash and Machvaya, whose ancestors were kept as slaves in Eastern Europe for 500 years; the Xoraxay, whose people arrived in California after extended stays in Chile; the Mihais, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia; and the Ludar, who were forbidden from speaking their native tongue while enslaved and therefore had lost the Romani language entirely by the time they encountered Klenz.