Sarah Kaushik is an artist and scenographer based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She holds a Master’s degree in Scenography from HKU (2020–2022) and has worked as an artist and designer since 2010. Originally from India, she began her career as an exhibition designer, collaborating with curators, craftspeople, and artists engaged in traditional craft practices. Her…
Eva Koopmans (1993) is a relational artist and designer. With a background in scenography, she focuses on spatial interventions that bring people and places into contact with one another. Facilitating encounters forms the common thread throughout her work — whether in theatres, at festivals, or within organisations. Eva uses art as a means to participate…
KULTURA COLLECTIVA is an art collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia since 2020 and founded by Dias Prabu, who is a visual artist, muralist, and drawing artist. Previously, Kultura Collectiva was a personal art project worked on by Dias Prabu called Kultura Project from 2017. This art project prioritizes painting and mural art programs based on…
Shadows United is a collective of Rotterdam-based artists, both with and without residence papers. Through theatre, visual art, and community projects, they give voice to those living in the shadows of the city — people navigating life between darkness and light. Using methods from the Theatre of the Oppressed, the collective creates performances and installations…
Under the Blue Surface is a foundation that creates projects at the intersection of cultural heritage, art, and community participation. Through collaborations with local communities, artists, and educational partners, the foundation brings stories, craftsmanship, and cultural memory to life. Their work often connects Surinamese and Dutch heritage, using theatre, visual arts, architecture and research to…
Our Desire:To be a community arts organisation seeking new practices to create a sense of belonging through reimagining local community culture. Our Vision:how to transform local civil society through the energy of art and culture. Our Mission:to practice community art and refresh living heritage by celebrating local identity, adding unique and new histories together, and…
Project A is an award-winning artistic platform founded by Maia Steinberg (MAGU), a professional composer specializing in new opera and theater, singer, and sound & song healer from Uruguay/Poland, currently based in the Netherlands. By re-exploring her own voice after a life turnover, and sharing her experiences with the world, she created Project A as…
U bent UITGENODIGD VOOR ICAF 2026, dat plaatsvindt van woensdag 25 tot en met zondag 29 maart 2026. Het International Community Arts Festival komt terug en vindt opnieuw plaats in Rotterdam, in maart 2026. Markeer je agenda en begin je reis te regelen voor woensdag 25 t/m zondag 29 maart 2026! Voor deze editie van…
The Diaconal Center Pauluskerk supports all people in Rotterdam and surroundings that cannot survive without help: Homeless people, addicts, psychiatric patients, people without residence permit, people without employment, young adults that have no guidance for the way of life and vulnerable elderly people. The base of the Pauluskerk is the importance and the ‘perspective of…
Merel Smitt is een interdisciplinaire kunstenaar gevestigd in Rotterdam en werkt als regisseur, organisator, curator, social designer, onderzoeker en docent. Haar live-art projecten vinden plaats op het snijvlak van performatieve interventies, sociaal geëngageerde kunst en cultureel activisme. Haar werk wordt vaak op locatie ontwikkeld in de openbare ruimte, in samenwerking met verschillende gemeenschappen, activisten, medeburgers,…