We are proud to share that TAKE CARE – Gesti di Cura · Gebaren van Zorg · Gestos de Cuidado – has been selected for funding through the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. TAKE CARE is an international cooperation project that brings together cultural organisations and artists from across Europe to explore artistic, social and…
Last month, ICAF travelled to Portugal to take part in a dialogue on participatory and community art practices. As part of the Portuguese Capital of Culture 2025 we spent two days at the Academy of the Desejar festival to question and reinvent the relationships between those who create and those who engage with artistic practices. …
In 2025, Braga will be the Portuguese Capital of Culture. A year-long celebration of national artistic creation, in connection with Europe and with the artists and cultural agents from Braga is therefore being organised. Braga 25 is a year-long cultural initiative set to take place at various locations throughout the municipality of Braga in 2025.…
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…
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…
Since its inception, mexe has been organized in a participatory way, having developed, among other devices, forum spaces open to all who want to think and do together. In this context, and as usual, a collective discussion took place from which emerged the triggering theme for the next edition of mexe – “the risk”.The last…
Last month Jasmina, Anamaria and Eugene had the pleasure of travelling to Porto to meet and exchange with friends and collaborators MEXE Associação Cultural, Festival FAACCC and Edith Scher and Matemurga de Villa Crespo, and to share knowledge and ideas and discuss future plans. Another reason for our visit was to experience the mesmerising performance of Matemurga de Villa Crespo, programmed by MEXE Associação Cultural, which successfully…
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. …
Marco Ferreira (1975) is one of Portugal’s most promising theatre makers and actors with a genuine interest in collaborating with theatrically inexperienced community performers. He received his initial training at the Evora Acting School before embarking on projects with Portuguese and foreign directors, including Eugenio Barba’s Odin Teatret. Starting in 2000 he began to collaborate…
A’Pele [Portuguese for ‘skin’] is one of Portugal’s leading community theatre companies. It was founded in 2007 with the intention of questioning the theatre as a privileged space. A’Pele uses this art form to generate dialogue and collective creations that involve the city’s popular and marginalised communities. A’Pele is home to Porto’s Theatre of the…