MEXE_II ART AND COMMUNITY MEETING The Mexe_II Art and Community Meeting is an initiative of PELE, a Social and Cultural Contact Space in Porto, Portugal. PELE promotes the exchange and sharing of national and international artistic community projects. It considers art as a suitable space for meeting and dialoguing between territories and people. Our meeting…
Order your own hard copy! Community, Art, Power is available as book and DVD package for € 15 excluding postage. Please send an e-mail with your postal address to info@icafrotterdam.com with the subject ‘Community Art Power order’. We will send you an invoice for € 15 + postage and will mail the package to you…
BOOK: Making Films, Youth, and Anti Chaos Recepies by Anna Spohr € 34,95 This book is more than a manual for designing and delivering film projects with young people. Telling your own story, making a documentary about yourself, is a good first step towards experiencing and understanding the complex process of making a film.…
In recent months, festival director Eugène van Erven has worked hard on editing essays that have been commissioned especially for an ICAF anthology on the theme “The Power of Community Art”. The book now includes background articles by Matt Jennings about dilemmas in Northern Irish Community Arts, by Kerrie Schaefer about Big hART, by Michael…
Last week, the alarming news reached us about the impending closure of Sering in Antwerp. Sering, based in the Antwerp neighborhood of Borgerhout, is one of the pioneer community theatre companies in Flanders. They have been part of our festival since its first edition in 2001 and the influence this company has had on us…
Ron Berti, Joe Osawabine, Bruce Naokwegijig, Jessica Wilde Peltier and Josh Peltier are currently traveling through Europe. They started in Paris, went to Glasgow and got together with the Glasgow Citizens Theater and they are coming to Holland and are performing at the Oerol Festival from 16 of June till Sunday 24 of June 2012.…
Zinneke is a living city project! Over a two-year period, Zinneke builds intense collaborations between residents, organisations, collectives, schools and artists from different neighbourhoods of Brussels and beyond. It’s a social and artistic project where people develop their creativity and explore imagination with others. © Photo: Lea Kestens Here a short film of Zinneke in…
The COAST project links four European organisations each of which uses Community Theatre within its own national context as a means of addressing social and artistic inequalities, enabling greater access to theatre and the arts, and providing a platform for the creation and expression of original theatre which gives a voice to the most excluded…
The International Festivalof Community Theatre in Bristol is taking place from 26 through 29 March, 2012. The programme will contain six performance presented by the four COAST partners,post-show discussions, practical workshops and seminars with expert panels. The structure will be somewhat comparable to ICAF: evening performances, followed the next day by a morning talk show…