SEND US YOUR TIPS AND PROPOSALS FOR NEXT ICAF! From 25 through 29 March 2020 the next International Community Arts Festival will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The theme of ICAF-8 is ‘vision’. This time we were inspired by the number 20/20 and its association with sharpness of eyesight, but also with a vision for the future of community…
After the last ICAF festival in March 2017, our Spanish colleague Eva García approached us with the suggestion to hold the next ICAF Summer School in her hometown Barcelona. She had attended our very first Summer School in the Netherlands at the end of August 2016 and saw many possibilities to improve it – as…
Everyone who was present on ICAF 2014 or 2017 will probably remember the energetic tunes of Met-X: the community music organisation from Brussels led by Luc Mishalle, that works all over the city with a variety of groups. In 2017 we were lucky to host their Marockin’ Brass band on our opening night, and now…
A month ago, after our Summer School and during our summer break, we received horrific and heartbreaking news from our colleague Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn from AHRDO in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber had blown himself up in an educational establishment that is preparing young Afghan women for the national university entrance exam. They were rehearsing a…
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;…