Het Wilde Westen
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Common Stage is a stage in Utrecht-West where we create Improvisation Performances with people from different backgrounds, ages, and artistic experiences. Visitors of the Ubuntuhuis, people from the asylum seekers’ center, students from social or artistic courses, and local residents come to play. Since Common Stage is on Monday afternoons we mostly attract people that…
Introducing Will Weigler: ICAF 2023 Rapporteur
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[Will’s Blog 1. March 29] And so it begins—The International Community Arts Festival 2023! In March of 2020, a certain uncertainty that was unfolding around the planet meant that Edition 8 of the festival could not be the traditional full-on gathering of artists coming to Rotterdam. Nevertheless, our intrepid crew of producers managed, as we…
TIMESLIPS
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Timeslips’ evidence-based and award-winning approach brings joy to elders and their care partners by infusing creativity and meaning-making into care relationships and systems. They began with one volunteer in 1998, then became an independent non-profit in 2013, and now train and certify individuals and organizations across the world. There is currently 900+ Certified Facilitators, and…
Stut Theater
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Stut Theater is a special theatre company from Utrecht. Stut creates theatre performances about social issues, based on stories and experiences from the people it works with. Stut creates its performances to bring current events to light, to break the silence that surrounds taboos and to empower its participants. The performances are multidisciplinary – words…
Expedition Metropolis
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Expedition Metropolis is a community theater that offers space and a stage for artistic work.For them, the development and strengthening of each person are in the foreground.Theatrical art is their tool and expertise: through theater they bring people together through theater they enable and encourage dialogue through theater they explore and test the potential of…
Spirit of Culture Award for Citizens and Debaj in Glasgow
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Recently, the Community Company of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and Dejahemujig Storytellers from Manitoulin, Canada received the coveted Spriti of Culture Award from the City of Glasgow. Citizens and Debaj are longstanding partners of ICAF and met at our event in 2011. They decided to create a co-production together for the 2014 Commonwealth Games…