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…
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 first guest curator: Tania Cañas. Tania is a Melbourne-based performer, facilitator and researcher all within community driven settings. Get to know her by reading the short…
Recently we were sent a video from the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO). The video shows footage of a public event in Kabul organized in commemoration of National Victims Day. During the event, two different artistic, victims-led processes merged in order to acknowledge the untold suffering of countless Afghan men and women who…
The theme of ICAF 2017 will be MOVEMENT! We are well on our way to make sure that the 2017 edition of the festival will become the most moving one yet. At the moment, we are specifically scouting in Brazil for inspiring examples of how modern dance is literally used to make a difference in…
With ICAF 2017 just one year away, we are finishing our visual journey through the festival’s last edition with the parade that opened ICAF 2014. In July 2015, we started a brand new visual journey through that year’s edition of the International Community Arts Festival. Every month we have been sharing chapters of the documentary film…
We’ve collected some inspiring material for our spring reading list, featuring Stella Duffy and François Matarasso. “I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And I’ve heard that greatness come out of them, that great thing which is in people.” Novelist and theatre maker Stella Duffy quotes…