Talking Romani CIC is female led by practicing creatives. It aims to provide a platform for the emerging voice of the Romani – Europe’s largest ethnic minority – their diversity, unique history, arts and culture.
Our first project, ‘The Resistance of Remembering’, is an online exhibition of intimate unedited photos from the first years of the Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month in the UK, taken between 2008 and 2011. Documented from an insider perspective by GRTHMs’ then national coordinator and Talking Romani director Patricia Knight, the exhibition showcases creativity, family, and tradition from within the Romani community. Co-funded by The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture and the Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative.
About Our Directors

Patrica Knight is a British Romani with a degree in Social Policy and postgraduate qualifications in Social Work and Mental Health. Her career has spanned work in local authority, hospital, and third sector settings. In 2003, she led a human rights campaign against racial hatred after Travellers in her area were targeted. For her advocacy on behalf of the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GRT) community, she received an Honorary Award from Lord Avebury in 2007. The following year, Knight was appointed the first National Coordinator of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, a government-funded initiative promoting education about Britain’s GRT citizens through history, arts, and culture. In 2012, she collected the largest oral history archive of the Welsh Romani for the Romani Arts and Culture Company, and more recently collaborated with Sussex University and Jake Bowers on a project exploring British Romani concepts of cleanliness. Knight is also an integrated health practitioner, having developed numerous initiatives focused on Traveller women’s health. Currently, she fosters unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK, having supported over thirty children in the past five years.

Riah Knight is a British-Romani artist based in Berlin. The musician, actress, and writer first gained recognition in theatre, performing with the Maxim Gorki Theatre and the collective Glossy Pain. Rooted in feminist thought, her work challenges dominant ways of knowing, using music, poetry, and performance to question hierarchical narratives and reclaim the female gaze. She has performed across Europe, co-authored award-winning plays, and composed for numerous productions. Her latest EP, Wicked Laughter, was released in November 2024.

Jane (Garbutt) Jackson led and fund-raised for the Travellers’ Times magazine and the many creative Gypsy, Roma and Traveller projects produced by The Rural Media Company, where she was Deputy CEO until 2012. Her previous media career spanned independent British films and directing for BBC, ITV and Channel 4. She is now retired, and as one of the founders of Borderlines Film Festival, the UK’s largest rural film festival, she curates a strand on Romani Cinema.