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,…
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.…