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…

  Our Lithuanian-Irish colleagues Ed Carroll and Vita Geluniene started thinking about parade making already before ICAF 2017,  and continued their thinking process together with their ICAF workshop participants in Rotterdam.  On September 16th the result was ready to be presented! Lower Sanciai, celebrated its 3rd “Sancines” cultural festival and brought together all the district…

  On 17th and 18th of June the Activist Summer Camp was organised in Galway by Ed Carroll and Vita Geluniene.  The camp intended to build bridges between 35 activists and artists working in diverse ways at the community level. They moved from conversation towards practice sites that test the power of community art, culture…

It’s a wrap!  ICAF 2017 has officially come to an end. The coming weeks we will look back at a mesmerizing, moving festival edition and look forward to things to come. Head over to our Instagram to see what ICAF 2017 looked like. More coming soon!  Photography by Kev Ryan and Liao Yun Ching.

Meanwhile at ICAF… Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances Dudley Cocke will not be able to travel to The Netherlands. We therefore have to cancel the three-day story-circle conversation that we had programmed. We are working hard to come up with an alternative. The following workshops are sold out: Friday 31 March – Route 5 – Theatre and…

Less than a week to go until ICAF 2017!  The first international artists are arriving in Rotterdam, the flyers are being distributed and people from all over the world are signing up for their own unique festival experience. Here are three steps to joining ICAF:  1. REGISTER If you haven’t registered yet, do so now to ensure the festival experience of…