The ICAF Library is live! After almost two years of preparation, our fully interactive library is ready and waiting for you. Access and immerse yourself in our growing archive of media and resources dedicated to documenting processes, reports, research and more from across the global community arts field. The ICAF Library is organised under the…
Save the date: Saturday 25 May 2024 Our May Edition of the festival, which also serves as ICAF NWE MKRS Part 2, will see the culmination of the propositions and projects that were introduced back in November 2023 by Abdallah Omar Mahamed, Kevin Sweep, under the thematic framing of “the art of community” as presented by…
We are delighted to announce that MINI ICAF will be taking place across the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 20 March, 2024, entirely free of charge. MINI-ICAF is a one-day event where we look back on the big ICAF festival of 2023 and look ahead to the next four years and the festival of March 2026.…
Recorded live at the ICAF NEW MKRS Festival’23 in Islemunda, Rotterdam, “The art of community” is a lecture by Theron Schmitt that looks at both the philosophical and practical implications of working with, and as part of, a community. Theron’s lecture is based upon the questions: what can community art learn from other approaches to…
You can now pre-order our upcoming ICAF publication: “The Sound of Change” The publication is both a continued reflection and expansion upon our festival theme “The Sound of Change”, as well as the many activities, conversations, and ideas that percolated from this theme during ICAF 2023. We have commissioned three extraordinary texts from community arts…
ICAF NWE MKRS is back…but with a twist ICAF NWE MKRS, our annual festival which connects, inspires, celebrates and gives stage to young community arts talent from the Netherlands will once again be taking place. Yet, this year, with a slight twist. At ICAF, we consider community arts to be an art discipline on its…
Interested in irreverent methodologies based on humour, parody and the grotesques? Passionate about feminist, queer, anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies? Then Festival d’Arts Comunitàries de Catalunya is looking for you! From Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 October 2023, Festival Faaccc will be organising a public conference around the subjects of irreverence and community art practices and…
Exciting Podcast news! During ICAF’23 we had the absolute pleasure of hosting Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly, co-hosts of the cultural democracy podcast Meanwhile in an abandoned warehouse (miaaw.net), who were invited to attend this year’s festival to meet with festival participants and produce a series of podcasts to help capture the energy of the festival and…
Just over two weeks ago now, ICAF 2023 drew to a close…and what a beautiful, inspiring and memorable festival edition it proved to be! For those who attended ICAF, whilst the festival is still fresh in our minds, we would like to kindly ask you to fill out our ICAF 2023 Participant Survey. The survey…
Rhizome In the festival programme, the description of events scheduled for our final day together includes a passage that eloquently captures the spirit and purpose of ICAF. “Over the past four days – and if we count the residency projects, much longer – we have been exploring sounds of change rising from many different community…