Dear friends and colleagues. As you know, the Corona virus has also reached The Netherlands. As ICAF we are monitoring the news about the virus closely and have been in contact with the Dutch National Institute for Public Health. They do not give negative advise about organising the festival. For the time being we do…
THE ARTISTIC ENSEMBLE AT SAN QUENTIN PRISON (USA) Workshops on Thursday and Friday The statistics are well known. Today in the United States there are 2.2 million people who are currently incarcerated. 6.2 million on parole and probations, 64 million people who have criminal records affecting their ability to find housing, receive food stamps,…
TEATRO LINEA DE SOMBRA (MEXICO) Live performance on Friday night and workshop on Saturday About the CompanyTLS is an internationally renowned performance collective founded in 1993 in Mexico City. It is composed of visual artists, musicians, actors, film makers and scholars. Their work is characterised by deep social engagement and meticulous research in their development…
Corporación Humor y Vida [‘humor and life’] is composed of women artists from Ecuador and Colombia. They work on the contested borderlands between their two countries, an area frequently used for illegal crossings, also by guerrilla fighters. Humor y Vida will first conduct a workshop in which they interactively share their community work and arts…
Museu dos meninos (MdM), ‘Museum of Children’, is a transdisciplinary arts project that involves mapping and the collection and preservation of narratives and memories of Afro-Brazilian youth between the ages of 15 and 29. These young men live in the Complexo do Alemão, an area composed of many favelas in the city of Rio de…
Maati TV is a web based interactive video platform aimed at creating an alternative narrative of Pakistan that promotes peace, tolerance and democracy. The organisation – run by a young female documentary filmmaker called Risham Waseem (1991) – puts forward narratives of peace, tolerance, gender equality and cultural heritage through digital stories, mini web series…
Cardboard Citizens is UK’s leading Theatre of the Oppressed organisation founded by theatre director Adrian Jackson who is still the head of the organisation. Adrian was a student of Augusto Boal himself and the first interpreter of Boals books from Portuguese to English. Cardboard Citizens has been making life-changing theatre with and for homeless people for…
Amparo González Sola (Argentina) – workshop Dance as a relational practice: exploring reciprocity Amparo is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, activist, and researcher from Argentina. She currently lives and works between The Netherlands, Paris and Buenos Aires. Her main field of work is dance, but her approach is very multidisciplinary. Amparo studied philosophy, political science and…
A few weeks ago, Dr. Marcia Pompeo, sadly passed away. She was one of the pioneering scholars and practitioners of community theatre in Brazil. In May 2016, when Anamaria Cruz and Eugene van Erven were scouting for the 2017 ICAF festival in Brazil, Eugene spent a lovely few days in Marcia’s house, outside Florianópolis. During…
Hjalmar Joffre-Eichhorn is a German-Bolivian theatre of the Oppressed practitioner whom we had the pleasure to meet on a number of occasions. In 2013 he presented a memorable performance together with his colleagues from AHRDO in Kabul at a festival in Utrecht, Holland. Since then, he unwaveringly brings grassroots arts activities in Afghanistan to the…