Two of last year’s ICAF participants have edited new books on community art in their home countries. Eva García of Transformas in Barcelona has edited a special edition of Abierto al Público [‘Open to the Public’] entitled Artes Escénicas y Comunidad. In it, she introduces community art in all its variety to a Spanish readership…
This past March, Catalina García returned to the Netherlands to conduct an extended workshop on parade making at Codarts University of the Arts. During her sojourn in Holland Catalina also gave an inspiring presentation in Utrecht on the work of Barrio Comparsa in her hometown Medellín and facilitated a spring ritual in Arnhem’s Immerloo Park.…
Earagail Arts Festival is a bilingual (Irish/English) multidisciplinary arts festival which has been around for 27 years. During two weeks it offers music, visual arts, circus, film, theatre, and workshops that are presented both indoors and outside in stunning rural and coastal landscapes in Northwestern Ireland. Integrated in the Earagail Festival will be a two-day…
We are very excited to share with you the trailer of the documentary of the sixth edition of ICAF. A group of wonderful film makers and friends documented our festival that one year ago took place in various locations in Rotterdam. Keep your eyes open the coming days, for the full-length documentary will be shared…
Order your own hard copy of ICAF IN THE PICTURE ICAF in the Picture is available as book and DVD package for € 15 including postage abroad (In the Netherlands € 10 including postage). Please send an e-mail with your postal address to info@icafrotterdam.com with the subject ‘ICAF in the Picture’. We will send you…
Many of you will remember the mesmerizing parade which opened our ICAF festival last March. The creator of that event was Catalina García, a Colombian artist from Medellín who has worked for many years with Caja Lúdica in Guatemala. She is now back in her native city to work with Barrio Comparsa, a local arts…
Recently, the Community Company of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and Dejahemujig Storytellers from Manitoulin, Canada received the coveted Spriti of Culture Award from the City of Glasgow. Citizens and Debaj are longstanding partners of ICAF and met at our event in 2011. They decided to create a co-production together for the 2014 Commonwealth Games…
On 12 and 13 March 2015 the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, Spain will host its seventh annual symposium on art and social inclusion. This year’s theme will be ‘the artist as agent of social change’. Our ICAF partner Eva García is producing this two-day encounter. Speakers include Volker Lösch (Staatstheater Stuttgart) and two people we…
On Friday 27 March, Formaat (Holland’s only professional Theatre of the Oppressed Company) is hosting a one-day symposium on the Polarized Model of theatre of the Oppressed. Special guests will be the Combatants for Peace, an extraordinary organization from Israel/Palestina. It is composed of former Israeli officers and fighters of Al Fatah who have decided to…
Blog ICAF director Eugene van Erven goes Florence Blog Last weekend (14 and 15 November) I was in Florence, Italy to present a paper on the Pitfalls of Participation at the International Artes Conference. I was there as a guest of Grodzki Theatre from Poland, another long-time partner of ICAF. Grodzki is one of…