The Diaconal Center Pauluskerk supports all people in Rotterdam and surroundings that cannot survive without help: Homeless people, addicts, psychiatric patients, people without residence permit, people without employment, young adults that have no guidance for the way of life and vulnerable elderly people. The base of the Pauluskerk is the importance and the ‘perspective of…
faaccc2023 SAVE THE DATE! FAACCC is back! With confirmed dates for the 2023 Edition. The Festival de les Arts Comunitàries de Catalunya will be a collaborative space for destruction and confusion around the Arts Comunitàries. After a first edition in 2021 with more than 30 activities, 50 organisations and collaborators actively involved and 1,200 people…
Nantea Dance Company is a Tanzanian based non-profit contemporary dance company composed of Tanzanian freelance dance artists, founded in 2015 by Alawi Saidi Alawi and Samwel Japhet. The company provides multifaceted performances and community-based projects through dance; promoting and developing contemporary dance scene in Tanzania and inspiring youths in the society to became the ambassadors…
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…
Driven by the belief that theatre is a public space and art is a public service, Corpo Máquina has been working since 2017 under the artistic direction of founder and Brazilian born choreographer Guilherme Miotto. The common thread and essence of all their activities is “Instinctive Performance”, as developed by Miotto. Though based in Tilburg,…
Isadora is a Honduran-Argentinian dance artist who studied development, politics and culture. Co-founder of DA escenica, an independent collaborative project and comprehensive performing arts workshop, she promotes collective inquiry through dance and movement research in marginalized neighborhoods of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. There, she leads The way back community: raising youth voices, empowering presence and participation through…
Nigeria has a long history surrounding arts-in-education, which, in many African countries, often blends with community-based art. As such, participatory arts often provide inspiration for young people in under-resourced areas where options for employment or further education are extremely limited and the temptations of less desirable career paths are ever present. In the second half…
UrbanDig is an artistic, participatory site-based research project developed by theatre maker and engineer Giorgos Sachinis and the Ohi Pezoumi, an arts collective from Athens. Every UrbanDig project begins at a specific spot in the city and involves the different people who live and work there. Together, artists and neighbourhood participants explore the synergy, the…
Dançando com a Diferença, which translates to ‘Dancing with Differences’ originates from the Portuguese island of Madeira, has been making dance performances with people who experience limitations and diverse possibilities for more than 21 years. Under the inspiring leadership of the dance pedagogue Henrique Amoedo, Dançando com a Diferença has gained national and international recognition. …
Tiuri is a place where people with disabilities are trained to become performers, and where their unprecedented talent comes to the surface. Jordy Dik is a community artist and resident choreographer of Compagnie 21, Tiuri’s professional dance and theatre company. Four years ago, he co-created a choreographic method with these unique performers called Relational Choreography.…