Our Desire:To be a community arts organisation seeking new practices to create a sense of belonging through reimagining local community culture. Our Vision:how to transform local civil society through the energy of art and culture. Our Mission:to practice community art and refresh living heritage by celebrating local identity, adding unique and new histories together, and…
Project A is an award-winning artistic platform founded by Maia Steinberg (MAGU), a professional composer specializing in new opera and theater, singer, and sound & song healer from Uruguay/Poland, currently based in the Netherlands. By re-exploring her own voice after a life turnover, and sharing her experiences with the world, she created Project A as…
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…
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…
Merel Smitt is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam and works as a director, organizer, curator, social designer, researcher and educator. Her live-art projects take place at the intersection of performative interventions, socially engaged art and cultural activism. Her work is developed site-specific in public spaces, in collaborations with different communities, activists, fellow citizens, academics,…
Jeanskamel is offering a platform for guided interaction and exchange. This spirit spread is to act beautifully and creatively, to make purpose and joy more visible in our life. At Jeanskamel, hands-on every-day-recycling and re-using build a major part of the offered workshops. All donated used jeans and other fabric are recycled and turned into…
Bukjeh is a bilingual installation filled with real and intimate stories by people who have been forced to leave their homes, created in response to children’s questions about refugees. The Arabic word ‘bukjeh’ means a pack of belongings carried by travellers and refugees. The project has been developed by recently arrived refugees, together with artists…
Dr. Misha Myers is a Senior Lecturer in Art & Performance, Course Director of Creative Arts and Research Fellow in Deakin Motion Lab at Deakin University. Through her research she seeks to bring attention to and understanding of knowledges, contributions and experiences of isolated and marginalized groups including refugees and asylum seekers, women and rural…
Since 2011 The Torch has been providing art, cultural and arts industry support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program. The program supports the development of self-esteem, confidence and resilience, through cultural strengthening and artistic expression. The Torch assists artists to reconnect with culture, earn income from art sales (with 100% of…
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…