Want to form part of the FAACCC 2024 programme in Barcelona? For 2024 FAACC will continue to explore irreverence and a sense of humor as engines for questioning and transformation. They are looking for companies or artists who want to be part of the programming. 1 project will be selected to form an…
FAACCC 2024 is here! FAACCC continue to weave community culture and this year they will share FAACCC actions throughout the year and in collaboration with other festivals. What’s more, on OCTOBER 24 , they will have a dedicated FAACCC Conference! The Community Arts Festival of Catalonia wants to be a community space of destruction and confusion around the Community Arts. A madness of shows, activities, performance, workshops and…
Interested in irreverent methodologies based on humour, parody and the grotesques? Passionate about feminist, queer, anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies? Then Festival d’Arts Comunitàries de Catalunya is looking for you! From Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 October 2023, Festival Faaccc will be organising a public conference around the subjects of irreverence and community art practices and…
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…
In mid October of, ICAF Advisor Eugene van Erven visited Barcelona to view the community opera ‘La Gata Perduda’, translated as ‘The Lost Cat’, co-created by the residents of El Raval from mid-2018 to 2022. Whilst visiting, Eugene had the opportunity to interview Eva García from Comuart to learn more about the context and methodology…
After intensely combining practice and theorizing; travel, visit and carry out projects in more than fifteen countries; participate in the main international conferences in the sector; understanding that we do more than touch the balls and want to relate in other ways as an entity, from Basket Beat we thought it was necessary to start building a community…
ALMA is an inclusive theatre project for young people between the ages of 12 and 17 with severe mental health disorders. ALMA Project is also dedicated to teaching theatre as a creative and expressive language. ALMA combines two main activities: the first is a theatre school with a duration of 6 months to empower young…
What does it mean to genuinely work as a collective? What aesthetics emerges when every member of the collective, each with his/her own special talents and characteristics, has every bit as much input as another? Colectivo Lisarco is an inspiring example of a company for which the collective creative process is absolutely fundamental. Lisarco is…
Basket Beat is an entity, a project and a methodology with which they accompany people in their personal growth, especially those with fewer opportunities, through the creation and learning of music in groups and with basketballs. One of the most powerful examples of how sound, rhythm, music, and percussion can contribute to positive change is…
Frontera (Spain, 2013), a feature-length fiction filmed entirely on location in a prison near Barcelona with both professional actors and actual inmates in the leading roles. Eva García, artistic director of producer TransFORMAS and herself one of the actresses in the film, will be present to answer your questions. More information http://transformas.es/