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 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…
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 main guest of our MINI-ICAF will be the renowned Community Arts expert François Matarasso. In the morning, he will present a keynote speech on the power of community art in the light of the recent uprisings in British cities. François Matarasso is a writer, researcher and consultant with 25 years’ experience in community-based arts…
On Friday 2 december 2011 we are hosting a MINI-ICAF in which we’ll look back on the fifth edition of International Community Arts Festival that took place late March/early April 2011. At the moment, the editors are putting the final touches on a video documentary of all the shows, events, and workshops that were filmed…
Curious to see the first ICAF record images. Go to our Video page for the first registrations.
BighART. The story of the Jamieson family’s journey from the shelter of an isolated life, out to the strange new non-indigenous world of opportunity and oppression. By combining performance with documentary footage Trevor Jamieson, intimately, simply, physically and musically takes us through a distilled journey of his extended family’s first contact with white people, missionaries,…
Merlijn Twaalfhoven An interactive concert with professional singers, an experienced amateur choir and audience participation. You’ll experience the natural beauty of music. It is a short, intensive, surprising concert that will immerse you in a miraculous sonoric world. Merlijn Twaalfhoven is an unusual composer and cultural entrepreneur. He creates large-scale projects in which he…
Glasgow Citizens Theatre ‘It all started when my addictions got me into trouble with the law, I had two choices: go to jail or do something about my recovery. This is the story of how I ended up in the theatre.’ At the heart of the Gorbals in Glasgow – where remnants of an era…