Maati TV is a web based interactive video platform aimed at creating an alternative narrative of Pakistan that promotes peace, tolerance and democracy. The organisation – run by a young female documentary filmmaker called Risham Waseem (1991) – puts forward narratives of peace, tolerance, gender equality and cultural heritage through digital stories, mini web series…
Amparo González Sola (Argentina) – workshop Dance as a relational practice: exploring reciprocity Amparo is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, activist, and researcher from Argentina. She currently lives and works between The Netherlands, Paris and Buenos Aires. Her main field of work is dance, but her approach is very multidisciplinary. Amparo studied philosophy, political science and…
A few weeks ago, Dr. Marcia Pompeo, sadly passed away. She was one of the pioneering scholars and practitioners of community theatre in Brazil. In May 2016, when Anamaria Cruz and Eugene van Erven were scouting for the 2017 ICAF festival in Brazil, Eugene spent a lovely few days in Marcia’s house, outside Florianópolis. During…
Hjalmar Joffre-Eichhorn is a German-Bolivian theatre of the Oppressed practitioner whom we had the pleasure to meet on a number of occasions. In 2013 he presented a memorable performance together with his colleagues from AHRDO in Kabul at a festival in Utrecht, Holland. Since then, he unwaveringly brings grassroots arts activities in Afghanistan to the…
APPALSHOP (USA)FILM SCREENING AND WORKSHOP Appalshop, a U.S. nonprofit cultural arts organization based in the mountainous central Appalachian coalfields of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, upper eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia, is coming to ICAF to celebrate its 50th anniversary through exchange with its international peers! Appalshop was founded in late 1969 by Bill Richardson,…
Jasmina Ibrahimovic has been appointed as new director of the Rotterdam Neighbourhood Theatre Company (RWT) and will succeed Heleen Hameete on 1 June 2019. “Precisely now, in this historical moment, we need artists at the frontline of misunderstanding, who are capable of stepping out of their bubble and entering into a dialogue with ‘the…
‘Symphony of the Ursus Factory’ (Poland) – Film screening and workshop The Ursus factory in Poland once covered 170 hectares and employed 20,000 workers, producing 100 tractors a day. The Ursus tractor was well-known, not only in Poland but throughout the world. Now, its buildings stand derelict and empty; half have already been demolished by investors…
On 7 February we held our first ICAF consultation session. With 32 professionals from the field from what 13 international guests who were present via Skype to talk abut our (provisional) ICAF 2020 program. It was a very inspiring conversation. Looking forward to March 2020!
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…