Debajehmujig Storytellers is an Aboriginal arts collective based at the Wikwemikong unceded Indian reserve on Manitoulin Island, Canada. They are returning to ICAF for a second time, because unlike in 2011 where they performed on the main stage of Zuidplein Theatre, they wanted to work differently this time. In the week prior to the 2014…
In line with this year’s ICAF to emphasize transferable methodologies, we have asked two of the most experienced facilitators from the Philippines to come to Rotterdam.. to teach how they train people at the grass roots to continue on their own after the first exposure to what the Filipinos call ‘people’s theatre.’ The Philippines Educational…
This year’s ICAF includes two phenomenal community music workshops. On Thursday afternoon, Luc Mishalle (Belgium) will facilitate a three-hour long production-oriented music workshop for musicians of all backgrounds and competency levels. If you want to join, you’ll need to bring along your own percussion or melody instrument. Together with you, Luc will first lay down…
Take your time and scroll through the ICAF programme at your leisure, for otherwise you might miss some of the absolute goodies that we have in store for you. Depending on your interests, these range from active music making with some of the world’s most prominent community musicians to dance, Cambodian hip-hop and participatory video.…
In 1963, dancer and sculptor Peter Schumann, together with his wife Elka, founded the Bread & Puppet theatre. Since then, the company has gone on to become one of the most influential performance groups in the world with a very recognizable style and a generous, community-minded attitude. For over four decades now, Bread & Puppet…
In 2005, Tuy Sobil opened his house to a group of young children who were living and working on the streets near him. Tuy himself had just returned to Phnom Penh after spending much of his life in refugee camps in Thailand and later in gang-infested parts of Los Angeles. After a criminal sentence in…
One of the biggest hits in the Spanish theatre of the past few years was a production of García Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba performed by eight Roma woman from the troubled El Vacie neigbhorhood in Seville. The play was performed for sell-out audiences all over the country and the press praised it for the…
For the festival opening we will literally look for space. On Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March, artists from Barrio Comparsa in Medellín, Colombia will facilitate a workshop with residents of IJsselmonde and other interested parties. Together they will create elements for a festive, colorful parade that will move to Zuidplein at the end of…
Standard works about community art such as Staging America (2003) and Local Acts (2005) praise the work of Cornerstone Theatre from Los Angeles for the way they rework classical plays together with community residents into impressive productions. Instead of raising the community to the level of the great classics, they raise the classics to the…
Big hART is London: Wednesday 27th – Friday 29th November 2013 ‘a theatre performance… that has the rare power to touch the heart, lift the spirit, make us laugh, move us to tears and change the way we view our world.” – The Canberra Times Come and experience the award-winning Aboriginal performance Namatjira,…