We are overjoyed to share with you our part-trailer, part-after movie, which, we believe, so perfectly encapsulates the energy, the atmosphere, and the beautiful, colourful, diverse practices that together made up ICAF 2023. After premiering during MINI ICAF last month, the after movie is now available to view on our ICAF Platform. The film is part…
ICAF The Sound of Change is now available to purchase for €10 plus postage by contacting us directly at info@icafrotterdam.com The publication is both a continued reflection and expansion upon our 2023 festival theme “The Sound of Change”, as well as the many activities, conversations, and ideas that percolated from this theme during ICAF 2023. ICAF:…
The ICAF Library is live! After almost two years of preparation, our fully interactive library is ready and waiting for you. Access and immerse yourself in our growing archive of media and resources dedicated to documenting processes, reports, research and more from across the global community arts field. The ICAF Library is organised under the…
Save the date: Saturday 25 May 2024 Our May Edition of the festival, which also serves as ICAF NWE MKRS Part 2, will see the culmination of the propositions and projects that were introduced back in November 2023 by Abdallah Omar Mahamed, Kevin Sweep, under the thematic framing of “the art of community” as presented by…
Recorded live at the ICAF NEW MKRS Festival’23 in Islemunda, Rotterdam, “The art of community” is a lecture by Theron Schmitt that looks at both the philosophical and practical implications of working with, and as part of, a community. Theron’s lecture is based upon the questions: what can community art learn from other approaches to…
You can now pre-order our upcoming ICAF publication: “The Sound of Change” The publication is both a continued reflection and expansion upon our festival theme “The Sound of Change”, as well as the many activities, conversations, and ideas that percolated from this theme during ICAF 2023. We have commissioned three extraordinary texts from community arts…
The runup to ICAF 2023 kicks off with Drama Box’s online programme series Join us online via Drama Box’s Facebook Page or Youtube Channel this Friday, 13 January at 10am CET / 5pm GMT+8 to hear more from Mekong Cultural Hub. The runup to ICAF 2023 officially begins this Friday, 13 January, with the first…
Fanfakids are group of youngsters from Brussels, ranging from 6-16 years in age, who transform their youthful energy into explosive concoctions of rhythms that combine a metropolitan mix of dance and music and will turn the city up to full volume, and get everyone, of all ages, moving and dancing. We are overjoyed to have them…
Over the course of the Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings of ICAF, we warmly welcome Athens Comics Library/Comicdom Press to facilitate a series of workshops where you can create your own Take Away Art Pack, which will be opened and shared with the children of the IJsselmonde Neighborhood, where ICAF has its headquarters, during our Saturday family day. The…
For ICAF 2023 Dançando com a Diferença will be bringing their latest work, “GABO”, a children’s and family show where differences are highlighted so that young people and children can make their own interpretation of the way certain communities are treated within society. The name of the show, GABO, is also the name of the puppet who, like…