Between April and November 2018, a series of case studies of participatory and community art will be published on François Matarasso’s website A Restless Art. The first three case studies can now be read online, both in English and Portuguese: Festival de Música de Setúbal, Welfare State International and ‘Bed’, Entelechy Arts. Enjoy!
The registrations for our Summer School are flowing in from different directions. Australia, Greece, Portugal, England, Spain, Catalonia, Czech Republic, Mexico, China, Germany, the Netherlands… Not only are we impressed with the diversity of nationalities, but also with the high quality of experience and education of the participants, including social circus practitioners, visual artists, peace builders. Up until now we have…
Pre-registrations for our Summer School have been flowing in from different directions. Australia, Greece, Portugal, England, Spain, Catalonia, Czech Republic, Mexico, China, Germany, the Netherlands… Not only are we impressed with the diversity of nationalities, but also with the high quality of experience and education of the participants, including social circus practitioners, visual artists, peace builders. Up until now we…
Exciting news! We’re happy to announce that from 22 to 27 July 2018 ICAF organises its second Summer School! This time we take the event to Barcelona and team up with the local organisation ComuArt. The Summer School occurs under the umbrella of Grec 2018 Festival de Barcelona and is part of Obrador d’estiu of sala Béckett. Eva from ComuArt has been living and working…
It is with great sorrow that we have to inform you about the passing of Sifiso Majola on Tuesday 3 October 2017. Sifiso was a friend, a colleague, a dancer, a teacher and choreographer whose work touched many lives. He was affiliated with FLATFOOT Dance Company from Durban, South Africa. We had the honour of…
Last ICAF we had the honour of having our partner Kevin Ryan (Charnwood Arts, UK) as our official ICAF house photographer. Together with his friend and colleague Liao Yun Ching (from Taiwan), they did the impossible: not only did they manage to capture almost every ICAF workshop and performance with only the two of them;…
From 18th to 24th of September 2017 the third edition of MEXE, the international arts and community festival in Porto (Portugal), will take place! It is curated by Hugo Cruz, whom we first met through our Argentinian friend Edith Scher (ICAF 5, 2011), and who participated in ICAF 6 and 7. Our very own Eugène…
Met-x Movingmusic moved into new premises at Brede School Nieuwland in Brussels, Belgium. They’re celebrating the opening with an afternoon filled with musical and other activities. They invite everyone to come and have a look! One of the performances will be by Megafonix. You can check this gathering of more than 100 musicians at the…
It’s been a high-octane couple of weeks for Big hART’s film Namatjira Project. It has toured festivals from Melbourne to Western Australia and has now opened in cinemas nationally in Australia for a limited season only. Follow Big hART on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news. Full Screening list HERE
So much happens at ICAF that, inevitably, it is quite possible that you miss something amazing… But luckily, we have it on film! Choreographers Antonio Bukhar, Faizal Ddamba and Recab Mwesigye (from Uganda) worked together with Codarts School of Music and Dance in Rotterdam and created a dance performance with first-year students from Codarts and…