In Rotterdam we are currently celebrating our yearly national Festival ICAF NWE MKRS. A festival produced especially for young talents and artist-facilitators within the community arts sector here in the Netherlands. As part of the festival programme Professor Sruti Bala, from the University of Amsterdam will be facilitating an in-depth conversation with Jasmina alongside lecturers…

A few weeks ago we organised our very first virtual ICAF, live broadcasted from Rotterdam and Singapore! Most programme items of MINI ICAF have been recorded and in the coming months we will share the recordings via our newsletters and social media channels. 

 In the first conversation about empathy, art and community, facilitated by…

  As we are looking towards the future for our online development, we find your opinion very important. That’s why we would love to receive feedback about your experience with MINI ICAF 2021. The survey will only take 10 minutes of your time, and it will give us valuable insights. We sincerely hope you can find…

Kids Stay Home #KidsStayHome is a family-friendly channel featuring arts-based activities that children and families can do at home. Featuring a total of 60 projects, viewers can expect activities such as craft, dance, cooking, and clowning!       Say Louder Teahouse What did You Say Teahouse / 大声D茶室/ Warung Cakap Apa is a community arts project created…

For a few years now we have been dreaming about creating a digital platform for ICAF, one that colleagues from around the world can visit, consult, and contribute to continuously. On it we question the boundaries between the virtual and the tangible world and we explore how to translate ICAF’s inclusive vision into a virtual…

After the cancellation of our festival last March, we have been thinking of new ways to harness all the positive energy and the wonderful projects that we had wanted to present there… We will therefore organise a MINI – ICAF: a two-day event this coming February 26 and 27. All the activities will be live-streamed and only…

Community theatre company A’Pele from Porto, Portugal, produces every two years the community performance festival MEXE that ICAF is proud to be associated with. There is an open call for applications right now. In the coming edition, MEXE celebrates its 10thanniversary. In the past ten years MEXE has become an international point of reference in…

On August 31, the Netherlands Fund for Cultural Participation (FCP) announced that it will be continuing to finance the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF) for the next four years. In its assessment of our application, the FCP advisory committee particularly praised our plans to develop more activities in between our triennial festivals, including a multifunctional digital…

A tip for our friends and colleagues in the Netherlands! Theater of the Opressed organisation Formaat and The Paulus Church from Rotterdam jointly invite you to the exhibition People and Papers from 11 to 30 August 2020in Formaat’s Studio at Westzeedijk 513 in Rotterdam.This exhibition was a part of the ICAF 2020 programme and since…

Thriving Facilitators Are you a heart-centred practitioner – change-worker, lecturer, artist & social/health-care worker? Are you committed to supporting others in the service of social change? Do you work in challenging settings with vulnerable groups with little support or are left feeling isolated and overwhelmed? We know that such experiences can create doubt, anxiety, and feelings of…