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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…

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 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. …

Mycelium of the Soul Gathering – Re-Conectando

Re-Conectando, in alliance with ECCO, invites you to be part of the Mycelium of the Soul, a global call to those who, from diverse paths, recognize the healing of collective trauma and the co-creation of regenerative cultures as essential tasks to address the polycrisis facing our planet. This gathering arises from over seven years of experience…

ICAF 2026

YOU ARE INVITED TO ICAF 2026 TAKING PLACE FROM WEDNESDAY 25-SUNDAY 29 mARCH, 2026 The International Community Arts Festival will be back and take place again in Rotterdam, in March 2026. Mark your calendars and start arranging your travel for Wednesday 25-Sunday 29 March, 2026! For this Edition of the Festival (our 10th Edition!) we…

Open Call: Board Member at Take A Part

Become part of the new team of board members at take a part, uk Take a Part, the UK’s leading socially engaged art (SEA) organisation, dedicated to supporting, furthering and sustaining SEA practice, community co-creation and community embedding placemaking in the UK, are seeking to expand their board.   Take a Part are clear, robust, and dynamic in…

Online Seminar | Hiba Elhindi & Carlota Matos

In this online seminar series, Community Theatre practitioners from around the world have been telling their stories, and participants have been learning lessons from across our borders. For this seminar, attendees will hear from two practitioners who are migrants themselves, and now work predominantly with other migrants. Through sharing stories, strategies, and successes we hope…

ICAF receives positive funding advice for the next four years! 

With immense joy, excitement and pleasure we thank Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie for assessing ICAF’s application positively and deciding to continue supporting us, our vision and activities for the coming four years.  What this means is all of the plans we’ve been cooking up including our next ICAF Festival taking place in March 2026, new makers…

JOB OPENING: LECTURER IN DANCE: UNIT LEADER  

Open call for a LECTURER IN DANCE: UNIT LEADER  (MA DANCE: PARTICIPATION, COMMUNITIES, ACTIVISM) at london contemporary dance school An exciting opportunity for a professional with an extensive community/activist dance practice in a country of the Global South to join the postgraduate faculty at London Contemporary Dance School.  London Contemporary Dance School’s student body has a wide…

FAACCC 2024 OPEN CALL

Want to form part of the FAACCC 2024 programme in Barcelona?   For 2024 FAACC will continue to explore irreverence and a sense of humor as engines for questioning and transformation. They are looking for companies or artists who want to be part of the programming.   1 project will be selected to form an…