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…
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…
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…
Sharing is caring: 10-11 October 2014 . A two-day international conference on participatory art. The aim of the conference is to unfold the complex ethical and philosophical issues that surround participatory art projects, and to encourage the audience to form an opinion and determine their own position.
From 3 through 14 July 2014, ICAF director Eugene van Erven was in Shanghai to attend a performance studies conference and explore Chinese interest in community arts. He discovered that there is a great deal of potential in that vast and densely populated country. Conversely, Chinese colleagues are very attracted to the gateway to worldwide…
They met at our 2011 festival and have been creating plans for a co-production ever since. This coming July, Debajehmujig Storytellers from Manitoulin Island, Canada and the Community Company of the Citizens Theatre will be performing a joint promenade show in the Gorbals area of Glasgow as part of the cultural programme of the Commonwealth…
On four consecutive mornings during our festival, Dr. Kerrie Schaefer from Exeter University conducted a very popular seminar series around the theme of Place, Space and Community Art. For all those who were there – or those who would have liked to be – she has compiled notes, which you can download here: Crowns…
One of Utrecht University’s community arts interns, Roos Hekkens, worked alongside Ut and Anat Shamai from Israel on an expanding sock mosaic. She made a very effective and attractive short video documentary about this highly engaging community arts practice in the Rotterdam neighbourhood of Ijsselmonde. You can watch it here.
On February 10th 2014, Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn sent us an urgent mail from Ukraine. Hjalmar, a German-Bolivian Theatre of the Oppresed (TO) practitioner based in Afghanistan, had responded to a call from colleagues in that beleaguered country to help organize grassroots TO sessions on the streets in the hope to engage local communities to find possible solutions…
… and find a mate (for the sock)! Ut and Anat Shamai, two Israeli visual artists who have many years of experience working at the community level both in their home country and abroad, are coming to Rotterdam to work with festival visitors and passers-by from the neighbourhood on the creation of a large sock mosaic.…