Common Stage is a stage in Utrecht-West where Het Wilde Western create Improvisation Performances with people from different backgrounds, ages, and artistic experiences. Visitors of the Ubuntuhuis, which include people from the asylum seekers’ center, students from social or artistic courses, and local residents come to play. Since Common Stage is on Monday afternoons, Het…
Timeslips’ evidence-based and award-winning approach brings joy to elders and their care partners by infusing creativity and meaning-making into care relationships and systems. They began with one volunteer in 1998, then became an independent non-profit in 2013, and now train and certify individuals and organizations across the world. There is currently 900+ Certified Facilitators, and…
ICAF NEW MKRS, a festival produced especially for young talents and artist-facilitators within the community arts sector here in the Netherlands, will once again be offering a fantastic opportunity for audiences to engage with the newest, homegrown talent. The programme will be composed of a series of provoking lectures, discussions and performances including, organised around…
Orchestre Partout is a music group with a unique world repertoire and a musical breeding ground. It was originally inspired by the Allstar Refjudzji Band from the Czech Republic, which was featured at ICAF 2011. Since then, Orchestre Partout (French for ‘Orchestra Everywhere’) makes music with residents in asylum seeker centres and plays concerts on…
HoP – Home of Participation is an organization based in Amsterdam interested in exploring, developing and facilitating participatory arts methodologies for groups in conflict, at risk as well as for civic participation. More information https://www.facebook.com/homeofparticipation/?ref=page_internal
Formaat is a professional theatre of the oppressed company based in Rotterdam. For many years, the company has been working with vulnerable people and addressing burning social issues. Formaat has also been a driving force behind an important international network of TO practitioners. A few years ago, Formaat connected with Evan Hastings, who introduced Formaat…
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…
Theater workshop Tiuri believes that everyone has talent, and that those talents must be made visible. In particular for people with disabilities. In their theater workshop they we train participants, people with a (cognitive) disability, to become theater makers. The players learn to act, dance, move and gain insight into how a performance is made.…
Driven by the belief that theater is a public space and art is a public service Corpo Máquina has been working since 2017 under the artistic direction of founder and choreographer Guilherme Miotto to shape an independent platform that traverses existing structures. This collaborative and ongoing work aims to fuse talent development, physical activity, professional…
Theatre Group Signum (the Latin word for ‘sign’) is a Dutch company that creates performances in which the culture of those who are deaf and those who are hearing are brought together. The exchanges and collisions between these two worlds provide their source of inspiration. Their aim is to make theatre more accessible for deaf…