SAVE THE DATE! Consider this your official invitation to Mini ICAF 2024 taking place across Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 March, 2024 – so save the date! Mini ICAF is the smaller counterpart to the international festival and acts as a bridge between festivals. The programme is still in the making as we are writing this…
The Encontro MEXE Associação Cultural is a non-profit association that organises a meeting point in the context of the Portuguese national and international cultural panorama. Their programme creates as a space for the appreciation and dissemination of artistic projects that cross different languages and communities based on the dialogue between creation, public space, and civic…
Common Frames believes in the unifying power of creating media. They develop and organize film and media literacy projects for and with young newcomers. Media plays an important role in how we view the world and the people behind Common Frames are convinced that making media teaches us to look at this more critically. In…
Charnwood Arts has been around since 1976, and with different focus due to the landscape they, and we, now find ourselves in, Charnwood Arts wants to embrace community, and provide access to relevant and meaningful art and provide opportunities to enable people of all ages with an interest, a range of skills and abilities, experience…
Jaśmina Wójcik is a visual artist and social activist who creates videos, paintings, projects in public spaces, and interactive installations. She was born in 1983. In 2003 she graduated from the National High School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów. In the years 2003-2008 she studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of…
Appalshop is a U.S. nonprofit cultural arts organization based in the mountainous central Appalachian coalfields of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia. Appalshop was founded in late 1969 by Bill Richardson, an architect, and a group of aspiring young artists who secured funding from the Kennedy administration’s War on Poverty program to engage their neighbours in…
Founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Allison Orr, Forklift Danceworks actively engages diverse communities through the creation of unique dance projects featuring all kinds of people. Using the movement that come from daily life as the choreographic starting point and casting community members as the primary performers in these projects, Forklift presents dances in intimate…
Lieux Fictifs is an experimental research lab for art and society. It works with artists and researchers to transform borders between space and people, art and scholarship. It tackles a multitude of borders including physical borders, like prisons, alongside social, cultural and generational borders, as well as borders between art forms. Lieux Fictifs involves filmmakers,…
Cinedans FEST is unique in the Netherlands and in the world, celebrating dance film as genre and art form. Cinedans sees the ideal dance film as a true synthesis between the media of dance and cinematography. At Cinedans FEST the emphasis lies on choreographies which are created specifically for the camera and on special film…
Todo Films aim to initiate and carry out social projects through media and different types of artistic expression. Their main focus is employing participatory video methodologies to produce a group work together that tells a story or communicates a message. Characteristic to their approach is the participation of people from social groups whose voices are…