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.…
One of the most popular activities at previous ICAFs has always been the late night stage.Held in the café of Zuidplein theatre, immediately after the show on the main stage, people gather there to dance the night away to live or recorded music. It’s proved to be a good way to informally connect, hang out, or…
Today, we have only three weeks to go before ICAF-6 will be opened with homemade bread and puppets and a colourful latino-style street parade. We invite you once again to visit our programme to feast your eyes on all the fantastic events we have on offer. And please don’t forget to register as soon as you…
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…
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…