From this year onwards, ICAF is not only international in its festival programming, but also in the very heart of the organisation. We’d like to introduce you to our third and final guest curator: Bonnie Chan. Bonnie is a theatre practitioner, performer and researcher originally from Hong Kong and currently based in London. Get to know her by…
In Community News we share updates from community arts organizations from around the world. This month we share the seventh world summit on Arts & Culture, a reflection on the social impact of arts-based programs, a call-invitation from the Brazilian Amazon and some inspiring material on the theme of our next festival: movement! Event: The seventh world summit…
From 22 to 28 August 2016 ICAF and Sharing Arts Society organized a Summer School for professionals and students. It was a colorful week filled with music and movement in which we worked on a big parade that has ‘the horse’ as its visual theme. With actual themes such as fleeing, flying, freedom and peace at its…
Our Summer School on the art of parade making has kicked off! Participants from all over the world are now in Utrecht to follow masterclasses from the international guest teachers. For those who cannot attend the full program, there are the following possibilies to experience the Summer School: 1. International Summer School: be part of making…
In July ICAF artistic director Eugene van Erven made a trip to Hong Kong, Singapore and Tasmania. He met with exciting artists, talked to our guest curators and attended the Performance Studies International Conference. For blogs and interviews, visit https://eugenevanerven.wordpress.com/
From this year onwards, ICAF is not only international in its festival programming, but also in the very heart of the organisation. We’d like to introduce you to our second guest curator: Matt Jennings. Matt is an actor, musician, writer, director, scholar and community arts facilitator currently living in Northern Ireland. Get to know him by his…
The first part of the ICAF Summer School has a change of location! Previously we communicated that from 22 to 24 August, the Summer School on parade making would take place in Rotterdam. The choice for Rotterdam was made from a logistic, practical point of view. Because of the now completed content of the programme…
In Community News we share updates from community arts organizations from around the world. This month we share a residency opportunity in St. Helens, the fundraising campaign of the Imbali Visual Literacy Project and a letter from François Matarasso to his friends in the European Union. Residency opportunity in St. Helens (England)Heart of Glass is a collaborative arts commissioning…
In the past few months, ICAF and Sharing Arts Society have been exploring ideas on organising a Summer School at the end of August 2016. Sharing Arts Society (SAS) is a new, internationally and interculturally oriented initiative focused on ‘sharing’ art projects in which an artist works with the collective creativity of a group. SAS…
At the end of april our artistic director Eugene van Erven and producer Anamaria Cruz travelled around Brazil to scout community art projects that have links to the ‘Movement’ theme of ICAF 2017. You can follow their journey on Facebook and on this blog, where you can read about their first visit to Edisca, a community dance…