Velen van jullie zullen nog de indrukwekkende parade herinneren die het festival openden afgelopen maart. De artistiek leider van de parade was Catalina Garcia, een Colombiaanse kunstenares uit Medellin die jaren lang met Caja Ludica in Guatemale heeft gewerkt. Catalina is nu in Colombia aan het werk met Barrio Comparsa, een lokale kunstorganisatie dat in…
Onlangs heeft de Community Company van het Citizens Theatre in Glasgow en Dejahemujig Storytellers uit Manitoulin in Canada, de Spriti of Culture Award gewonnen van de stad Glasgow. De Citizens en Debaj zijn langdurige partners die elkaar ontmoet hebben tijdens ons festival in 2011. Ze hadden besloten om een coproductie te maken for the Commonwealth…
Op 12 en 13 maart 2015 zal de Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona in Spanje de 7 editie van de jaarlijkse symposium over kunst en sociale integratie organiseren. Het thema van dit jaar is ‘de kunstenaar als agent van sociale verandering’. Onze ICAF partner Eva Garcia produceert dit 2 daagse evenement. Sprekers zijn Volker Lösch (Staatstheater Stuttgart) en…
Blog ICAF director Eugene van Erven goes Florence Blog Last weekend (14 and 15 November) I was in Florence, Italy to present a paper on the Pitfalls of Participation at the International Artes Conference. I was there as a guest of Grodzki Theatre from Poland, another long-time partner of ICAF. Grodzki is one of…
Sharing is caring: 10-11 October 2014 . A two-day international conference on participatory art. The aim of the conference is to unfold the complex ethical and philosophical issues that surround participatory art projects, and to encourage the audience to form an opinion and determine their own position.
From 3 through 14 July 2014, ICAF director Eugene van Erven was in Shanghai to attend a performance studies conference and explore Chinese interest in community arts. He discovered that there is a great deal of potential in that vast and densely populated country. Conversely, Chinese colleagues are very attracted to the gateway to worldwide…
They met at our 2011 festival and have been creating plans for a co-production ever since. This coming July, Debajehmujig Storytellers from Manitoulin Island, Canada and the Community Company of the Citizens Theatre will be performing a joint promenade show in the Gorbals area of Glasgow as part of the cultural programme of the Commonwealth…
On four consecutive mornings during our festival, Dr. Kerrie Schaefer from Exeter University conducted a very popular seminar series around the theme of Place, Space and Community Art. For all those who were there – or those who would have liked to be – she has compiled notes, which you can download here: Crowns…
One of Utrecht University’s community arts interns, Roos Hekkens, worked alongside Ut and Anat Shamai from Israel on an expanding sock mosaic. She made a very effective and attractive short video documentary about this highly engaging community arts practice in the Rotterdam neighbourhood of Ijsselmonde. You can watch it here.