With a background in theatre-making and further studies in journalism, Bart Huijser combines creative dramaturgy with journalistic craftsmanship. His work focuses on telling stories from his own neighborhood, Feijenoord in Rotterdam, a place where many regional and national developments intersect in everyday life. As a journalist and audio maker, Bart documents the lives and experiences…
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…
Κ&Α form a dazzling duo. Mixing their different backgrounds and their complex cultural roots they spread poetic & political concepts. Their mobile studio and stage fluctuate between variable combinations of latitudes and longitudes. Urban & rural territories, in which borders are alive, appearing and disappearing, magnetize their artistic practise. K&A create the tools to blurry…
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…
Since its inception in 1947, Pakistan has struggled with democracy due to a history of military dictatorships and multiple waves of religious extremism. Such an atmosphere has reduced spaces for marginalised communities, particularly women and minority groups. As an activist and an artist, the biggest challenge in such an environment is to counter the extremist…
Guy is a writer and theatre maker, based in County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland. He has been Theatre Artist in Residence for An Grianán Theatre and Donegal County Council for the last two years, funded by a bursary from the Irish Arts Council. He has over thirty years of experience in theatre, in…
EMPAF participated earlier in ICAF in 2011 with workshops from Soft Touch Arts and Charnwood Arts. EMPAF is a unique and nationally respected network, which is dedicated to championing the East Midlands as a Centre of Excellence for participation in the arts. During ICAF 2014 and ICAF 2017 a steadily growing delegation of the East…
InsightShare (UK) is an undisputed pioneer in the field of participatory video. From their homebase in Oxford, staff members travel around the world with video equipment to enable community groups to produce images with which to reflect on their own lives. In an ambitious project called Conversations with the earth InsightShare worked with indigenous people…
From 2009 until now Krista Burger has developed and taught various workshops and seminars for theaters, museums and schools. Their strength lays with workshops that last more than 2 days because then they can really explore a subject and develop a more in depth work with the participants. Krista has have worked with people from…
Soft Touch Arts was founded 25 years ago as a co-operative with 5 members. The company now employs 12 people. Over the years Soft Touch developed an issue-based approach to community arts which has become a model of good practice particularly, though not exclusively. with young people. The company is now well established as a…