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ICAF 2026 Early Bird Tickets are LIVE!
We are incredibly excited to announce that Early Bird tickets for ICAF 2026 are now officially on sale. Our Early Bird ticket offering will be available from today until Friday January 30, 2026. To secure your ticket for the festival please send an e-mail to: info@icafrotterdam.com There are several types of ticket available for ICAF…
Introducing our ICAF NWE MKRS 2025/2026: Kai Slaghek
As part of his graduation performance for the Maastricht Theatre Academy, Kai Slaghek, ICAF NWE MRK 2025/2026 is searching for the feeling of ‘home’. In his own experience, Kai believes he arrives at this feeling of ‘home’ faster than most people – making it difficult to leave the apartment whilst he is on vacation, becoming…
Save the date! Invitation to the National Community Arts Network: Community Art Zwolle Symposium
On Thursday November 27th, 2025 the International Community Art Festival (ICAF), cordially invite you to the second edition of the Community Art Zwolle Symposium, organised by the partners of Community Art Zwolle, in collaboration with ICAF. This symposium will focus on community art in practice. Inspiring examples from Zwolle will be shared, and together we…
ICAF NWE MKRS Part 2: Festival Announcement
ICAF NWE MKRS Part 2 event will be taking place on Thursday 30th October* from 19-22h at Podium Islemunda, Rotterdam. NWE MKRS is an annual event that connects, inspires, celebrates and gives a stage to young community arts talents from the Netherlands. For 2025 we are delighted to have Sophie Polhuis as our ICAF NWE…
ICAF 2026 – A Programme in the Making
Since receiving a historic number of Open Call applications in January of this year, the ICAF team have been busy reviewing and responding to the exceptional list of people and projects who have applied, and puzzling together the programme for the International Community Arts Festival 2026 (our 10th Edition!) We are now deep in the…
Introducing ICAF NWE MKR Sophie Polhuis
Sophie is our newest ICAF NWE MKR. She began her trajectory with ICAF in April this year and will be working closely with ICAF and Rotterdams Wijktheater towards the presentation of her performance later this year. After several years of working in healthcare in various settings, Sophie felt it was time for a moment of reflection.…
ICAF’s First In-Person Hub Event: ICAF Hub Singapore ‘The Gathering’
June was an exceptionally busy travel month for ICAF, as the core team – Jasmina, Anamaria and Amy – travelled to Singapore for eight days to celebrate and attend our first ever international hub gathering event: ICAF Hub Singapore ‘The Gathering’. We had a momentous time at The Gathering, attending lectures, workshops, special interest circles…
ICAF Participates in Academy of the Desejar festival in Braga, Portugal
Last month, ICAF travelled to Portugal to take part in a dialogue on participatory and community art practices. As part of the Portuguese Capital of Culture 2025 we spent two days at the Academy of the Desejar festival to question and reinvent the relationships between those who create and those who engage with artistic practices. …
A New Era Begins for ICAF
We are hugely excited to share some very important new developments for ICAF, as a long-time goal of ours has just become a reality. As of the start of April 2025, ICAF is an independent foundation. What this means, is that our new independence will grant us the possibility and opportunity to continue to grow…