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PROGRAMME
ICAF ROTTERDAM
Rotterdams Wijktheater I RWT
Jan Ligthartstraat 63 I 3083 AL Rotterdam
tel: (+31) (0)10 – 4230192
[email protected] I www.icafrotterdam.com
INTRODUCTION
Before you lies the programme for the sixth edition of the International Community Arts
Festival (ICAF). The main theme for this year's festival is ‘space and community arts,’ in
the broadest sense of the term:
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in the physical or geographical sense: site-specific performance, community arts in
public space, participatory art as a counterweight to violent, commercial or
religious images that dominate cityscapes;
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in the representational sense: art with, for and by under-represented groups who
wish to express who they are on their own terms and in their own voice, body
language and cultural taste, or who let others do it for them;
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in the sense of ‘what is a legitimate place for community arts in society and in the
cultural field?’ Associated with this question is our conviction that powerful,
beautiful, moving, unsettling community arts products should not be restricted to
platforms in peripheral neighborhoods, but should also reach regular arts consumers
so that peripheral perspectives and voices also receive a platform in the center;
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in the mental or spiritual sense of community arts opening up creative spaces in the
mind, stimulating the imagination, bringing collaborators in contact with new ideas
and perspectives, and showing or creating alternatives to current realities.
We have done our best to bring together inspiring practitioners and create a stage, also
beyond the Zuidplein Theatre, for their work, which literally comes from all corners of the
earth. It will be your task, dear visitor, to actively engage - physically, emotionally,
creatively, intellectually - with all these amazing people and the events we have
programmed. Because only you and the energy you are prepared to invest in whatever you
encounter at ICAF can make this festival a success.
The recipe is simple: open your mind and enjoy!
Eugene van Erven,
Artistic director ICAF 2014
2 GENERAL INFORMATION
Each festival day starts at 10 am for the people wishing to partake in Kerrie Scheafer’s
seminar exploring space and community arts in all imaginable dimensions. For everybody
else the day begins at 11.00 am with different workshops that either require from you a
listening ear, a viewing eye, verbal comments or active physical and creative involvement.
The idea is that, under the guidance of experienced community artists from around the
world, you get to take a look in the kitchen of international arts organisations, which each
in their own unique way try to create space through Community Arts. Each day around
noon we offer you a buffet lunch.
Our afternoon programme, just like our evening shows, is varied and international.
Afterwards, around 5.30 pm we invite you for dinner, coffee and a chat with foreign
colleagues. Below you will find detailed information about each separate event. It includes
fascinating artists and their projects from a range of disciplines and locations; spanning
the globe they come to Rotterdam from Porto, Barcelona, Australia and Congo, but also
from South Africa, Cambodia, the Philippines, Canada and Colombia.
Space for Conversations about Community Arts
Just like in 2011, we have reserved the mornings between 10 and 12.00 am for those who
are interested in reflecting on your ICAF experiences under guidance of a seasoned
scholar. This time Dr. Kerrie Schaefer of Exeter University has kindly agreed to take on the
task of facilitating our morning seminars. For those of you interested in seriously testing
your ideas, unpacking relevant theoretical concepts, or engaging in debates with
colleagues: the small auditorium of Zuidplein theatre will be the place to be in the
morning. For those who are perhaps less interested in academic discourse and more
inclined towards exchanging impressions, thoughts, impulsive reactions, in English or in
other languages including the non-verbal, we have a whole range of other conversational
formats in store for you. For example, at lunchtime, you can enjoy home-cooked food
mixed with local and your own personal stories at the PeerGrouP's round table, which we
have set up on a social care farm on the outskirts of Rotterdam. And during dinner you can
sign up to share a meal with a community arts practitioner of your choice. For this
purpose, each evening we are setting up different captain's tables. Finally, throughout the
day many of our activities have plenty of formal and informal dialogical elements built in.
Playgrounds
In various locations in and around Zuidplein, we have placed ludic installations that inspire
play and talk. It could be the warm glow of a woodfire in an outdoor brazier or an IKEA
style ball crèche. Let yourself be surprised...
Performances
All tickets for the performances are included in the all-in festival packages. For people
who do not participate in the daytime programme, separate tickets are also available for
the evening shows starting in the main auditorium at 8.30 pm (as well as for the Sunday
matinee). You can book those tickets directly at the Zuidplein Theatre box office
(Zuidplein 60, phone +31-10-203 02 03, or via www.theaterzuidplein.nl).
3 Late-night Stage
We finish every day with a festive late night stage. With a drink and a snack you can enjoy
live music and dance performed by local or foreign groups, or you can participate in
intercontinental karaoke. A number of the organizations who are presenting or performing
at the festival have talented musicians - or deejays - in their midst who don't want to miss
another chance to get on stage. Come dance the night away!
Registration
From Friday 7 February 2014, you will be able to register for the festival through our
website. You can indicate there which workshops and performances you wish to attend.
Please note, however, that since space is limited for some events we recommend that you
indicate a first and second preference.
You can also register for the entire festival. This will give you access to the workshops (but
even so you still need to indicate your preferences!), performances, lunches and suppers,
as well as information to help you prepare for the festival – and once the festival has
ended, you will also be sent a festival report in the form of a book and film package. Of
course it is also possible to register for either one or two days.
4 PRE-FESTIVAL, ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES,
FEBRUARY - MARCH, ROTTERDAM, ARHEM & BREDA
Artist-in-Residencies: visual art, dance and site-specific performance
Artist-in-Residencies commence several weeks before the festival proper. This time, two of
the residencies will take place at quite a distance from Rotterdam. In collaboration with
CAL-XL and Kunstbedrijf Arnhem we have connected visual artist Krista Burger of
Heimprofi with her Slovakian colleague Edita Karkoschka from Kosice. They will be
experimenting with interventions in public space and public transportation. Lodging is
being provided by Motel Spatie [‘motel space’], an alternative residence for arts exchange.
In a similar fashion, we have linked Dansnest from Breda to choreographer Filip van Huffel
of Retina Dance Company (based in Nottingham, England and Antwerp-Berchem, Belgium).
Both organizations like to work in unusual places with untrained dancers. The third ICAF
residency involves Upstate Theatre from Drogheda, Ireland and the Rotterdams
Wijktheater (RWT). Our RWT colleagues Stefan van Hees and Jasmina Ibrahimovic, who
have both been involved in large-scale neighbourhood-based projects, will collaborate with
Irish theatre maker Louise Lowe, who is well known for her intimate site-specific work. In
the weeks prior to ICAF-6, these three will work together on a project in the southside of
Rotterdam. Lodging for this Rotterdam-Irish collaboration will be provided by Atelier
Tarwewijk.
Caravan of Dreams: the EMPAF tour
Also in the week prior to the festival proper, a mobile sound studio driven and operated by
a team from Junction Arts (Chesterfield, England), will be traveling through the
Netherlands. The van contains an exhibition of work by various community arts
organizations associated with the East Midlands Participatory Arts Forum (EMPAF), one of
the oldest networks in the UK. Led by Paul Steele, a small team will also create video
impressions of different Dutch community arts projects in Brabant, Arnhem, Drenthe,
Leeuwarden and in the West of the country, which they will visit on this pre-ICAF journey.
Their trip will be co-organized with CAL-XL and during ICAF the EMPAF Caravan of Dreams
will be installed in the RWT studio so festival visitors can see the exhibit, hear the results
of what Junction Arts encountered on their trip through the Dutch community arts world,
and interact with representatives of EMPAF to discuss possibilities for future collaboration.
5 WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2014
1 PM Street Parade by Barrio Comparsa
Catalina and Luís García, two artists from Barrio Comparsa in Medellín, Colombia, will
facilitate a workshop with residents of IJsselmonde and other interested parties, including
music and dance students from the Codarts college of the arts. Together they will create
elements for a festive, colourful latino style street parade that will move from IJsselmonde
to the city center and from there back to Zuidplein for the opening of the festival.
Catalina has recently returned to Colombia after working for many years in Guatemala
with Caja Lúdica, a group which also frequently intervenes in public space with colourful
parades of their own. In 2012 and 2013, Catalina collaborated with Anouk de Bruijn on an
international co-production entitled 'Hidden War' [guerras escondidas/verborgen oorlog].
Anouk and other members of the Hidden War cast (including some special guests flown in
from Guatemala) will also join in this special edition of the 'barrio comparsa'. Catalina's
father, Luis Fernando 'el gordo' García, founded Barrio Comparsa back in 1990 to reclaim
Medellín's neighbourhoods from drug gangs through the arts.
5 PM Opening - Baking Bread with Peter Schumann of the Bread & Puppet
Theatre I Location: outdoors, in front of Zuidplein Theatre
In 1963, dancer and sculptor Peter Schumann founded the Bread & Puppet theatre. Since
then, the company has gone on to become one of the most influential performance groups
in the world with a very recognizable style and a generous, community-minded spirit. For
over four decades now, Bread & Puppet has connected itself to the natural environment
and the local residents of a rural community in northern Vermont, where it stages very
popular annual festivals in which thousands of people actively participate. Peter Schumann
is the driving force behind all Bread & Puppet's activities. From the earliest beginnings he
has always baked his own sour dough bread, offering it to audiences worldwide as a symbol
of the essential importance of art in our human existence. Especially for the opening of
ICAF-6, on the 26th of March Peter and a group of local volunteers are constructing an ad
hoc bread oven made of used bricks on the outdoor terrace of Zuidplein Theatre. Later that
afternoon, he will light the oven and will bake and break bread right at the time when the
ICAF Barrio Comparsa reaches Zuidplein. This will signal the official opening of our festival.
6 5.30 – 7.30 PM Workshop with Peter Schumann I workshop I Location: Zuidplein
Theatre – SOLD OUT
During this interactive workshop Peter will create a short participatory performance piece
with a number of volunteers. The results of this unique collaboration with one of the
world's truly great artists will be incorporated as the epilogue to the Bread & Puppet
production Legend of the True Cross.
8.30 PM PM Legend of the True Cross I Bread & Puppet theatre (Vermont, United
States) I Opening performance I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
In the main auditorium of Theatre Zuidplein, the festival will be opened with a
performance by the legendary Bread & Puppet theatre, the grandmother of modern
community arts. For fifty years now, this company has been part of a rural community in
northern Vermont (USA), creating annual festivals that attract (and involve) thousands of
people. At ICAF, Bread & Puppet will present the cryptically titled Piero Della Francesca’s
Legend of the True Cross (Exultation Manufacture with Crucifixion of Oppositionist). It is
a mesmerizing, symbolic production with giant puppets and stunning live music about the
fragile relation between man and nature.
Peter Schumann created this hour-long show last year to celebrate Bread & Puppet's 50th
anniversary. At first sight, the performance seems full of Christian imagery, whereas the
company has always been wary of institutionalized religion. The images and characters,
however, are used here not to convert or worship, but to tell a contemporary ecological
story with roots going back to the beginning of humanity. Schumann visually based the
show on frescoes painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, who also
appears as a character. The central story is about twigs that grow into a tree, which later
provides the wood for the cross on which Jesus is executed. But the story doesn't stop
there: forces of evil and good (or those that pretend to be) continue to fight over the
ownership of this sacred wood. One reviewer in Vermont, where the play premiered last
August, even recognized references to Assange and Snowden in it.
9.30 PM Late Night Stage
7 THURSDAY 27 MARCH 2014
The daytime programme consists of 10 different routes, of which you should choose one:
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Routes 1 and 2 consist of the seminar, a workshop and a performance.
Routes 3 to 6 consist of the seminar and a long workshop.
Routes 7 to 10 consist of a short workshop, the lunch performance and an
afternoon show
In the evening you must choose between two performances, after which we all attend the
last performance of the day.
ROUTES 1 AND 2
You attend Kerri Schaefer's seminar and the lunch, after which you can choose from one
of two workshops offered by different companies. After the workshops you will see the
Archa theatre show ‘Solo for Lu’.
10 AM Seminar ‘Space and Community Arts' I Kerrie Schaefer (England) I Location:
Zuidplein Theatre
In this daily seminar, Dr. Kerrie Schaefer will discuss work that was on the programme the
previous day together with the artists responsible for it. Each day, she will also explore
more theoretical aspects of community art and space. One of the issues she will consider,
for example, is how community could be understood as a creative space and community
arts as dynamic social and artistic processes in which possibilities for people to be, work,
live, and create together are actively imagined and constructed. At the same time, the
very existence of a space of creative process and production invites question about power
and the dominant order of knowledge, meaning and value. On the one hand, community
art can question or redefine fixed, stable and secure knowledges through creative,
participatory and democratic processes. (There is a clear connection here between the
growing grass-roots interest in community art in countries like Spain and Portugal and the
economic crisis that particularly affects young people.) On the other hand, one could also
question the relative autonomy of this ‘creative space’. Isn’t this creative space already
shot through with commercial, corporate, governmental and other interests and
investments? Should we speak, instead, of a creative space of mixed interests and messy
alliances? How do community artists and participants (self-)define and create space for
process without being subsumed by the logics of these other interests? And shouldn't we
also wonder whether participants might not tire of endless process? Why is it important
that the products of process go ‘public’ – for a moment of open interpretation such as at
this festival - rather than back into process and praxis? All these questions, and more, will
be addressed in this seminar, with guests from around the globe providing refreshing and
sometimes surprising perspectives on the space and the place of community art.
Kerrie Schaefer completed a PhD on the work of the Australian performance ensemble,
The Sydney Front, in the Centre for Performance Studies, Sydney University (2000). From
1999 to 2006 she was Lecturer in Drama at the University of Newcastle, NSW. In 2007 she
relocated to Exeter University, UK, where she is one of the coordinators of the BA and MA
8 programme in Applied Theatre. She is currently working on Community Performance and
Creative Adaptation, scheduled for publication by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015.
12 PM Lunch I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
PART 1: CHOOSE ONE OF TWO SHORT WORKSHOPS
1 PM – Route 1- Playing Together at the Commonwealth Games I Debajehmujig
(Canada) & Glasgow Citizens Theatre (Scotland) I Workshop
What do a tribe who've been travelling for 18,000 years discover when they meet
Glaswegians 'On Common Ground'?
Debajehmujig Storytellers from Manitoulin Island in Canada and The Citizen's Theatre from
Glasgow Scotland first met at ICAF 2011 and enthusiastically began to brainstorm around
the possibility of joining forces to create a large scale, outdoor theatrical event for
Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014. Both organizations are approaching this project
from contrasting environments: the urban, built up backdrop of the Gorbals neighbourhood
in Glasgow and the rural nature of Manitoulin's landscape. Despite their differences in
geography, culture and practice, they have found 'common ground'.
Working on a genuinely collaborative international project poses a number of challenges.
As the two partners deal with the practical, they continue to strive towards a shared vision
that encompasses the joint creativity and principles of the companies, whilst assuring a
quality experience for the 130 community participants and the potential global audience
who will be in the city during the largest sporting and cultural event in Glasgow's history.
The destination, the creation of the story, has space at its heart, just like this festival.
Returning to ICAF 2014, both companies introduce their project 'On Common Ground.' This
workshop is both practical and informative and is intended to provide community arts
practitioners with some experiential insight into this unique collaborative enterprise
between First Nations artists and a Scottish community theatre company.
1 PM – Route 2- Life-changing Cambodian Hip-Hop I Tiny Toons ( Cambodja) I
Workshop
In 2005, Tuy Sobil opened his house to a group of young children who were living and
working on the streets near him. Tuy himself had just returned to Phnom Penh after
spending much of his life in refugee camps in Thailand and later in gang-infested parts of
Los Angeles. After receiving a criminal sentence in the US, he was deported back to
Cambodia in 2004. Soon rumors started among local youth that he had been a successful
break dancer in America and as a result more and more kids began to knock on his door for
lessons. His house thus became an informal community center and today is the heart of a
veritable hip-hop movement that involves hundreds of children and youth. In this workshop
they will tell their story, show how they work in the volatile context of the backstreets of
Phnom Penh, and demonstrate parts of their methodology.
PART 2: PERFORMANCE
9 3:30 PM – ROUTES 1 & 2 - Solo for Lu – Archa Theatre (Czech Republic) I Solo
performance
Is my name Ching, Chang or Chong? How mysterious is the Orient? Will the Chinese rule
over us?
A performance by Jing Lu and Jana Svobodová based on the real life story of the Chinese
actress, singer and dancer. The show is an intimate tale about migration from China to the
Czech Republic, full of tragedy, adversity and ambition. It also confronts us with global
questions of today’s world and western society’s ambivalent relationship to China, which
ranges from admiration of eastern culture to fear of China’s economic hegemony. Jing Lu
is an excellent musician and singer, so music plays a major role in the performance. The
performance features Czech and many Chinese dialects (and, you'll be happy to know,
English subtitles).
Archa Theatre is one of the leading contemporary theatre organizations in the Czech
Republic. They have worked with Vaclav Havel, were instrumental in bringing inspiring
artists from the West to their country (including Bread & Puppet and Dogtroep), and more
recently have discovered the power of community arts. Their home base is a popular
theatre venue in downtown Prague, but they also work site-specifically in provincial towns
and camps for asylum seekers.
ROUTES 3 - 6
You attend dr. Kerri Schaefers seminar and the lunch, after which you can choose from
one of four long workshops.
10 AM Seminar ‘Space and Community Arts' I Kerrie Schaefer (England) I Location:
Zuidplein Theatre
In this daily seminar, Dr. Kerrie Schaefer will discuss work that was on the programme the
previous day together with the artists responsible for it. Each day, she will also explore
more theoretical aspects of community art and space. One of the issues she will consider,
for example, is how community could be understood as a creative space and community
arts as dynamic social and artistic processes in which possibilities for people to be, work,
live, and create together are actively imagined and constructed. At the same time, the
very existence of a space of creative process and production invites question about power
10 and the dominant order of knowledge, meaning and value. On the one hand, community
art can question or redefine fixed, stable and secure knowledges through creative,
participatory and democratic processes. (There is a clear connection here between the
growing grass-roots interest in community art in countries like Spain and Portugal and the
economic crisis that particularly affects young people.) On the other hand, one could also
question the relative autonomy of this ‘creative space’. Isn’t this creative space already
shot through with commercial, corporate, governmental and other interests and
investments? Should we speak, instead, of a creative space of mixed interests and messy
alliances? How do community artists and participants (self-)define and create space for
process without being subsumed by the logics of these other interests? And shouldn't we
also wonder whether participants might not tire of endless process? Why is it important
that the products of process go ‘public’ – for a moment of open interpretation such as at
this festival - rather than back into process and praxis? All these questions, and more, will
be addressed in this seminar, with guests from around the globe providing refreshing and
sometimes surprising perspectives on the space and the place of community art.
Kerrie Schaefer completed a PhD on the work of the Australian performance ensemble, The
Sydney Front, in the Centre for Performance Studies, Sydney University (2000). From 1999
to 2006 she was Lecturer in Drama at the University of Newcastle, NSW. In 2007 she
relocated to Exeter University, UK, where she is one of the coordinators of the BA and MA
programme in Applied Theatre. She is currently working on Community Performance and
Creative Adaptation, scheduled for publication by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015.
12 PM Lunch
1 PM START LONG WORKSHOPS I Various locations - You can choose from one of 4 long
workshops offered by different companies.
1 PM - Route 3: A Colourful Music Fest I Luc Mishalle (Belgium)
Dit is een drie uur lange op productie gerichte muziekworkshop voor muzikanten van alle
achtergronden en niveaus die bereid zijn een muziekinstrument mee te nemen. Samen met
jou legt Luc eerst een basis van Marokkaanse ritmische patronen (shaabi, raï, gnawa)
waarna de melodische patronen verweven worden tot een kleurrijke, feestelijke soort
muziek. De deelnemers bepalen zelf de duur en de geluidsnuances van de stukken. Er zal
genoeg ruimte zijn voor improvisatie en we besteden speciale aandacht aan de dynamiek
van ‘call and response’ en de combinatie binair-ternair. Noten kunnen lezen is niet
essentieel - veel van wat we doen zal geleerd worden door het te spelen op gehoor.
Luc Mishalle is artistiek directeur van MET-X, het thuisfront voor muzikanten gebaseerd in
Brussel. Voor vele jaren is hij een welbekend figuur geweest in zowel de professionele
muziekscène als op straten en pleinen in de stad. Hij werkt zowel in de context van
theater als in hedendaagse- en improvisatiemuziek. Zijn veelvuldige samenwerking met
Marokkaanse percussionisten heeft geresulteerd in de formatie van de muziekensembles
Marakbar, Al-Harmonia, Remork en Marockin’ Brass.
11 1 PM - Route 4: Training People's Theatre the Philippine Way, PART 1 I P.E.T.A.
(Philippines)
The Philippines Educational Theater Association (PETA, founded in 1967) is one of the
oldest and most respected community arts-organizations in Asia. One of their specialities
is training 'facilitators' so they can work with the inhabitants of rural villages and
metropolitan slums and pass on their skills in such a way that the arts activities continue
after their initial intervention. Bong Billones, the head of PETA's School for People's
Theater, and Melvin Lee, associate artistic director of PETA, will show you in a hands-on
process how this company trains its trainers. Together with you they will explore how their
approach might be adapted to your own context. Note: this is a two-day process.
1 PM - Route 5: Saying it with Puppets I Teatr Grodzki (Poland) I followed by: a
Conversation with Peter Schumann I Bread & Puppet (USA) I Interactive workshop,
performance + informal conversation
a. Teatr Grodzki was founded in the southern Polish city of Bielsko-Biala, which is close to
the Czech and Slovakian border. It is a collective of artists, teachers, and cultural
entrepreneurs which tries to positively influence the lives of vulnerable people through
participatory arts. They connect economical activities and, when necessary, therapy to
their arts activities. They make puppet theatre, films, photographs, and they design
clothes. The company also operates a print shop and, in the mountains outside BielskoBiala, a hotel which is run by people with disabilities.
In this workshop, Maria Schejbal, one of the original members of Grodzki, will teach you
some simple puppet-making techniques before inviting you to participate in a special
performance of a puppet play about the trials and tribulations of a young man she has
worked with over the years. It is entitled Magic Mountain or a few facts from M`s life.
Way back in the '80s, when Poland was still under Communist rule, Maria managed to get
permission to travel to the USA to work with the Bread & Puppet Theatre. This experience
continues to inspire her to this very day. When she heard that Peter Schumann was coming
to Rotterdam, she immediately started to raise funds in Poland. Thanks to her efforts, she
is able bring along Teatr Grodzki Junior, a puppetry group composed of people with various
ability levels. Peter Schumann will also attend this workshop.
b. In the second part of this afternoon, Peter Schumann, the co-founder of Bread &
Puppet, will talk informally about the fifty years he has been working with this
extraordinary company. From the streets of Manhattan, Bread & Puppet has travelled
through Europe and all over Latin America and North America, inspiring people wherever
they have gone. This is a unique opportunity to converse with Peter - up close and personal
- about his work, his dreams, and the role of art in the world today.
1 PM - Route 6: Participatory Video I InsightShare (United Kingdom) I Methodology
Workshop
InsightShare is an undisputed pioneer in the field of participatory video. From their
homebase in Oxford, staff members travel around the world with video equipment to
enable community groups to produce images with which to reflect on their own lives. In an
ambitious project called Conversations with the earth Insight Share worked with indigenous
people on a series of grass roots films about climate change that were also screened at
12 renowned heritage institutions like the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Over the years,
Insight Share has developed a very transparent, transferable methodology to which the
quality of process and self-reliance are central. At ICAF, some of the most experienced
Insight Share staff members, including the company's founders, offer you insight into the
scope of their work and a hands-on opportunity to experience their methodology.
ROUTES 7 and 8
Firstly you can choose from one of 2 workshops offered by different companies, after
which you attend the lunch performance of The PeerGrouP's Round Table. To finish your
afternoon, you will attend the unusual Czech-Chinese production ‘Solo for Lu’.
11 AM ICAF PLAYGROUND I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
11 AM - Route 7 I Ik Ben Hier [I am Here] I Todo Community Film Productions
(Netherlands) I Film screening + discussion
Ik Ben Hier (‘I Am Here’) is a participatory video project produced by, with and about
pupils at Utrecht’s ISK international school. Having lived in the Netherlands for no more
than 18 months, youngsters at this special secondary school focus mainly on learning the
Dutch language and culture as preparation for enrolling in regular education. For this
project, two groups of pupils created their own documentary films under the supervision of
two professional filmmakers. The pupils taking part in this project were aged between 15
and 20 – mature enough to make up and follow their own minds, but not yet old enough to
decide for themselves where to live. Having come to the Netherlands for reasons of war or
political persecution in their native countries, or because one of their parents married a
Dutch partner, the films document their new lives in Utrecht.
The young ISK pupils did most of the filming, interviewing, editing and production for this
documentary themselves. Tracing the process of building up a new existence in Utrecht,
they ask: What do you hold onto and what do you let go from the life you leave behind in
order to make a new home in the Netherlands?
Todo Films aims to initiate and carry out social projects through media and artistic
expressions. Their main focus is on employing participatory video to make a group work
together on telling a story or communicating a message. Characteristic of their approach is
the participation of people from social groups whose voices are rarely heard, who have no
access to this kind of technology, or whose limited command of the Dutch language
prevents them from expressing their views and experiences in a more conventional way.
Todo associates, Femke Stroomer and Sanne Sprenger, will facilitate a discussion after
the screening of the films.
11 AM Route 8 I Without Words / Sin Palabras I Marco Ferreira (Portugal) I Workshop
Marco Ferreira (1975) is one of Portugal's most promising theatre makers and actors with a
genuine interest in collaborating with theatrically inexperienced community performers.
He received his initial training at the Evora Acting School before embarking on projects
13 with Portuguese and foreign directors, including Eugenio Barba's Odin Teatret. Starting in
2000 he began to collaborate with rural communities in association with Baal17, an
experimental performance company. Since then he has become more and more interested
in participatory drama, training in Finland and currently in the Community Theatre M.A.
program of the Lisbon Theatre and Film School.
Over the years, Marco discovered that during artistic processes those with the loudest
mouths tend to dominate. So he created a new, visual, non-verbal theatrical language that
favours those who are at a loss for spoken words. In this workshop, which includes a
sample of a short performance he presented at Portugal's very own community theatre
festival Mexe-II in Porto last November, he will teach you some techniques and methods by
which you can learn to create a poetic, visually attractive and meaningful performance
without speaking.
In this workshop, Marco invites you to explore the artistic singularity of silence. Silence is
the key to genuine expression of body and soul, to building collective non-verbal
narratives, to organizing and representing individual "voices", and to expanding the
creative space for community participation. Silence can be a very powerful metaphor for
modern society, providing us with new perceptions of what surrounds us. Silence can also
be a social phenomenon, the absence of sound, a path that connects to our memories, a
privileged non-verbal form of communication, and a learning process to create new ethical
values together.
This workshop is about the power of being in the here and now and about creating a
common, poetic, ritualized space using our true, genuine “voice”.
PART 2: BRUNCH PERFORMANCE
1 PM Route 7 & 8 - The Round Table I The PeerGrouP (The Netherlands)
In collaboration with PeerGrouP, a site-specific performance company based in rural
Drenthe, we will create a special edition of the Round Table. Designed by Henry Alles, the
table is an art object, a mobile restaurant plus kitchen, and a stage for local stories
related to the dishes that are cooked and served on the spot. Especially for ICAF, Henry
has set up his Round Table on the premises of social care farm de Buytenhof, in the rural
village of Rhoon. A maximum of 49 guests are seated at a round table with a 30 foot
diameter. The cook and the actors are set up in the middle and take you along on a
14 gastronomic journey that includes produce from around the corner and stories from all
over the world, including yours.
Eating together is special. Seated at a table we are ourselves, with all our peculiar
manners and tastes. At a table you can talk about almost anything. Also about how on
earth things have become as they are, with ourselves, our food, our natural surrounding.
Together with you, the Round Table adds new material to the ongoing story it has been
gathering over the past six years. It is a tale that nourishes the head, the heart, and the
stomach.
PART 3: PERFORMANCE
3:30 PM Route 7 & 8 -Solo for Lu – Archa Theatre (Czech Republic) I Performance
Is my name Ching, Chang or Chong? How mysterious is the Orient? Will the Chinese rule
over us?
A performance by Jing Lu and Jana Svobodová based on the real life story of the Chinese
actress, singer and dancer. The show is an intimate tale about migration from China to the
Czech Republic, full of tragedy, adversity and ambition. It also confronts us with global
questions of today’s world and western society’s ambivalent relationship to China, which
ranges from admiration of eastern culture to fear of China’s economic hegemony. Jing Lu
is an excellent musician and singer, so music plays a major role in the performance. The
performance features Czech and many Chinese dialects (and, you'll be happy to know,
English subtitles).
Archa Theatre is one of the leading contemporary theatre organizations in the Czech
Republic. They have worked with Vaclav Havel, were instrumental in bringing inspiring
artists from the West to their country (including Bread & Puppet and Dogtroep), and more
recently have discovered the power of community arts. Their home base is a popular
theatre venue in downtown Prague, but they also work site-specifically in provincial towns
and camps for asylum seekers.
15 ROUTES 9 and 10
You will start with the lunch performance of The PeerGrouP's Round Table and
subsequently you can choose from one of 2 workshops offered by different companies.
After the workhops you will see the ACTA theatre show ‘Ticky Picky Boom Boom’.
PART 1: LUNCH PERFORMANCE
11 AM - Route 9 & 10 - The Round Table I The PeerGrouP (The Netherlands)
gastronomic journey that includes produce from around the corner and stories from all
stomach.
1 PM - Route 9 - Collaborating Sevillian Neighbours: How the Bernarda Alba
Production was Born I Atalaya -TNT (Spain) I Workshop
Atalaya-TNT is a professional theatre company and laboratory based in Seville, Spain. The
company has developed an international reputation for its innovative productions. A few
years ago, Atalaya decided to open its doors to its neighbours in the nearby area of El
16 Vacie. In this workshop, members of the company reconstruct the extraordinary
relationship they have built up with a group of Roma women since then. As part of this
workshop they will screen parts of a professional documentary that was made for Spanish
national television about this unique collaboration.
1 PM - Route 10 - Participatory Theatre in Iran I InterAct (Iran/The Netherlands I
Workshop
In December 2013 a unique theatrical event took place in Tehran. Its title was The Odor
and the location was a former bath house. There, spectators took part in an interactive
performance about life under a totalitarian regime, about the need to be in control of your
own life, and about the hope for change and freedom. The event was closed: all the actors
invited two people they knew. A professional film crew documented the show and the
resulting documentary will be screened for the first time outside Iran in this ICAF
workshop. The Odor is also on the shortlist for an Iranian theatre festival later this spring.
In this workshop, director Nasrin Ghasemzadeh (formerly a well-know screen actress) and
writer and producer Farhad Foroutanian will share their experiences in trying to get
participatory theatre off the ground in Iran. Over the past few years, they have been
introducing their home-made interactive theatre approach to students, actors and other
interested people through a series of workshops. The people they trained have since
facilitated their own interactive theatre in hospitals and on oil rigs. Recently, they formed
their own theatre company, with which they performed The Odor.
Nasrin Ghasemzadeh and Farhad Foroutanian use the power of theatre to invite the
audience on stage. The audience thus not only experience the emotions and stories of the
actors; they can also act themselves and engage in a dialogue with the actors and each
other. With their company InterAct Nasrin and Farhad previously participated in the
interactive theatre project Without Invitation about refugees (which was part of the
Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe programme in 2001). They also created theatre
shows around safety in schools and about saying farewell to a neighbourhood (in the
context of urban renewal) and they collaborated with well-known theatre makers like
Dries Verhoeven (No Man’s Land) and Alan Yadegarian (Persians).
PART 3: PERFORMANCE
3.30 PM - Route 9 & 10 - Ticky Picky Boom Boom I acta Community Theatre (United
Kingdom) I Performance
17 acta Community Theatre and the Malcolm X Elders Theatre Company present Ticky
Picky Boom Boom
Based on folk stories from their Caribbean childhood, the Elders devised this show to tour
to Bristol schools, making links across generations and cultures with a lively, fun show
which has delighted audiences of all ages.
5.30 PM DINER
EVENING PROGRAM
You will begin your evening by attending one of two performances, after which, at 8.30,
we all come together to attend the final performance of the day. To end this day you can
dance and make music on the late night stage.
7 PM Women Connected I Rotterdams Wijktheater (The Netherlands) I Performance I
Location: Zuidplein
In this double bill, we introduce 'Women Connected', the new long-term women's project
directed by RWT associate Kaat Zoontjens. In part one, 'Known Strangers', we meet four
women who live in the same street. Everyone has an opinion about the other. One day, a
newcomer enters their lives. Who the hell is she? Gradually, the stranger and the four
women get to know one another. As a result, reality turns out to be quite different from
what everyone expected.
Part two, 'Sahra', is a solo performed by Sahra Muse, a Somali mother of three. When
Sahra's own mother asks her to return with her to her native country she is forced to come
to terms with some difficult questions like 'where do I and my children really belong?' Full
of passion and humor, Sahra searches for answers and talks about her life in Somalia and
the Netherlands. 'Sahra' is the first of hopefully many solo portraits that Kaat Zoontjens
intends to create in the years to come under the name of Women Connected, preferably in
collaboration with partners from other countries. So consider yourselves invited to
approach Kaat after the show...
18 7 PM The Far Side I UpState Theatre (Ireland) I Film + performance I Location: Islemunda
The Far Side premiered in the Drogheda Arts Festival 2013 with a sell-out show in the
Droichead Arts Centre and a subsequent tour to the Light House Cinema for an eight night
run at Dublin Fringe Festival 2013. Critically acclaimed (★★★★★ Irish Times), this show is an
intimate look at an Irish town through the memories of seven local people. The
performance captures a diverse perspective delivered with typical Irish humour, but is not
without its poignant moments of genuine personal reflection. Contemporary art-making
blends with local, personal and popular heritage in a unique and unsentimental cocktail for
the here and now. Under the guidance of artist Feidlim Cannon (Brokentalkers), seven
performers develop a contemporary, living history exploring the social history of an Irish
town through personal recollections of growing up and living there.
While Upstate Theatre Project and The Far Side explore the universal truths and
preoccupations of our citizens, the result of this process gives audiences something they
too can contextualise. After all, every town has its far side. Melding the performance of
professional and citizen artists, fusing film and live performance, The Far Side is
contemporary both in form and content. The production not only successfully blurs the
lines between genres but also melds the local and universal through the prism of favourite
TV shows, cinema and song, celebrating a peoples' history of themselves, and a town
divided by a river.
Director Feidlim Cannon, who will host this evening, explains: "On the stage there are
screens. On the screens are the magnificent seven. They are Elma, Ged, Gerry, James,
John, Roisin and Vivienne. The 'seven' are the authors and performers of this show. The Far
Side is the result of the Thursday evening club. A club for the recovery of stories. A club
where you look at your history as a series of written and unwritten narratives. A club
where everyday life experiences are discussed to create a seedbed of memories. From your
first kiss to where you go when you die. The piece that you will watch is a record of
memory. Tonight the 'seven' will share their stories with you".
Upstate Theatre Project was founded in 1997 and has pursued a collaborative,
participatory practice since its inception. Upstate is a community-engaged performing arts
organisation adhering to collective and collaborative approaches in keeping with principles
of cultural democracy. Through their work, Upstate advocates for social change and
challenges audience's pre-conceptions of who can shape the world around us.
8:30 PM A House for Bernarda I Atalaya TNT (Spain) I Show I Location: Theater
Zuidplein
19 A spectacular show from Spain with Roma women from Seville
One of the biggest hits in the Spanish theatre of the past few years was a production of
García Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba performed by eight Roma woman from the troubled
El Vacie neigbhorhood in Seville. The play was performed for sell-out audiences all over
the country and the press praised it for the extraordinary power of the women, who
adapted the script to their own living conditions. They were supported by professionals
from the renowned theatre company Atalaya-TNT, which has its headquarters right next to
El Vacie. A few years ago this ensemble decided to make its activities more accessible to
its immediate neighbors. The unique collaboration that led to tonight's production was the
immediate result of this outreach.
The play, which Lorca wrote right before his violent death in the Spanish Civil War in 1936,
is about a rural house in Andalusia. Three generations of women, headed by the rather
dominant Bernarda Alba, try to live together in this place with ups and downs and plenty of
tension. The performance effectively explores all kinds of pressure, passion, and gender
relations from the perspective of Roma women.
The production continues to be a life changing experience for these amazing women.
Without any formal schooling, it enabled them to leave their homes and chores for the first
time in their lives - and their children in the care of their husbands - to travel around Spain
and now, by plane, to Rotterdam.
Atalaya-TNT is a leading theatre company and experimental laboratory in Spain with an aim
to create poetic performance projects with and for people regardless of cultural
background, social status or age. The dual company (Atalaya is the production company
and TNT is the lab; its acronym stands for 'Territory of New Times') has an international
orientation and received the Spanish National Theatre Award in 2008.
20 FRIDAY 28 MARCH 2014
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Routes 5 to 8 consist of a lunch performance, a short workshop and an afternoon
show.
Routes 9 and 10 are slow and consist of a short workshop, lunch and an afternoon
show.
ROUTES 1 – 4
of four long workshops.
10 AM Seminar ‘Space for Community Arts' I Kerrie Schaefer (England) I Location:
Theater Zuidplein
In this daily seminar, Dr. Kerrie Schaefer (Exeter University), will discuss work that was on
the programme the previous day together with artists who were involved. Each day, she
will also explore more theoretical aspects of community art and space. Today, she opens
the door to a recent project from Northern Ireland, 'Crows on the Wire', a community
theatre project with, for and about police officers, and for all those affected by the
history and themes of this work.
'Crows on the Wire' addresses the transition of what was formerly called the Royal Ulster
Constibulary (RUC) to what became known as Police Services Northern Ireland (PSNI) after
the Good Friday Peace Agreement that nominally ended the violent civil conflict known as
'The Troubles'. The play, written by Jonathon Burgess, is informed by authentic stories of
individual police officers and deals with their frustration during this transformation that
deeply affected their sense of identity. In November 2013, this production was widely
performed across Northern Ireland and included highly animated post-performance
discussions. The project will be presented by Dr. Matt Jennings (University of Ulster) who
served as a dramaturg for the playwright and studied the process from an academic
perspective, and Dr. Mhairi Sutherland, a visual artist, curator and educator. She was the
community-engagement co-ordinator for 'Crows on the Wire' on behalf of the Verbal Arts
Center, the initiator and producer of the project.
12 PM Lunch I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
1 PM START LONG WORKSHOPS I Various locations - You can choose from one of 4 long
21 1 PM – Route 1 - Training People's Theatre the Philippine Way, PART 2 I P.E.T.A.
(Philippines) I Methodology Workshop
The Philippines Educational Theater Association (PETA, founded in 1967) is one of the
oldest and most respected community arts-organizations in Asia. One of their specialities
is training 'facilitators' so they can work with the inhabitants of rural villages and
metropolitan slums and pass on their skills in such a way that the arts activities continue
after their initial intervention. Bong Billones, the head of PETA's School for People's
Theater, and Melvin Lee, the associate artistic director of PETA, will show you in a handson process how this company trains its trainers. Together with you they will explore how
their approach might be adapted to your own context. Note: this is a two-day process.
1 PM – Route 2 - Merlijn Twaalfhoven I followed by: Choral Singing and the Sacred
Harp I La Vie Sur Terre (NL) and Bread & Puppet (US) I Film Screening + Improvised Singing
a. Premiere: Station East - breaking the invisible wall (a film by Adam Sèbire, Australia)
The neighbours of the Roma ghetto in Prešov, Slovakia, want to build a wall to prevent
Roma children from stealing fruit and vegetables from their gardens. Composer Merlijn
Twaalfhoven believes there are other ways to soften the hardened relations between the
two groups. With a team of musicians and organizers from Germany, Holland, Poland, and
Slovakia he designed a music festival in which Roma and non-Romas performed together. In
doing so they touched the tip of an iceberg made of cultural differences and deep-seated
mistrust.
Merlijn Twaalfhoven, one of Holland’s better-known community music composers, will be
present to comment on the film and this recent project. Over the years, he has undertaken
similar initiatives to bring divided population groups together in such places as Cyprus and
Israel-Palestina. At ICAF-5 he performed his spectacular interactive choral piece The Air
We Breathe.
b. Together with her husband Peter, Elka Schumann has been a crucial part of Bread &
Puppet's fifty-year history and their farm, museum and theater based just outside Glover,
Vermont. Especially for ICAF, Elka is offering an interactive choral singing workshop on
Sacred Harp music. She first came across it as part of Bread & Puppet's connection to the
local communities in Vermont, where she discovered a Sacred Harp choral group. Although
most of the Sacred Harp songs are religious, Bread & Puppet is not religious at all. They
simply fell in love with the archaic language and the beautiful harmonies. We are pretty
sure that you will too.
1 PM – Route 3 - Cornerstone (Los Angeles, USA) & Zid Theatre (Netherlands) I
Workshop
Cornerstone Theatre (Los Angeles) is widely regarded as one of the most important
community-based theatre companies in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1986,
during the first six years of its existence the company specialized in rural residencies
around the U.S., deconstructing and rebuilding classical drama texts together with local
residents. In 1992, the company relocated to Los Angeles and began to relinquish its
exclusive focus on the classics in favour of a new dramaturgy based on personal
experiences of the participants, who come from all walks of life. In this workshop,
22 playwright and Cornerstone co-founder Peter Howard, together with designer Nephelie
Andonyadis, performer Marcenus Earl, and director Juliette Carrillo, will take us through
the company's fascinating and globally inspiring history. They will interactively explore
some of the artistic and social methods that have made this company so successful.
In the second half of this workshop, the Cornerstone artists will be joined by Karolina
Spaic of Zid Theatre in Amsterdam to demonstrate how the two companies have been
working together over the past two weeks on Zid's latest production: From the Rooftops of
the World (scheduled for Saturday evening). Like Cornerstone, Zid is interested in
reconstructing the classics for community purposes, but it comes from a very different
background. Strongly influenced by Eugenio Barba's International School for Theatre
Anthropology, the company first toured around the world before settling in one of
Amsterdam's more troubled neighbourhoods, Kolenkit. There they have been developing a
strong name for themselves as a successful community-based theatre company.
1 PM – Route 4 - Communal Composition from a Secret Place: Accessing Hidden
Musical Brain Power I Michael Romanyshyn (USA)
This workshop is designed for musicians, performers and anyone who has an interest in a
challenging musical collaboration. We will work using the form of a symphony with four
movements and produce a short symphonic work in three hours with the title: The City of
Empty Rooms. The score will develop collaboratively during the workshop. Your level of
musical education or skill is not important. The crucial thing is your willingness to listen,
share and play. The only condition of the workshop is that you bring your own musical
instrument of any type. Contributions of poetry by refugees in any language are
encouraged.
Michael Romanyshyn is a theater artist, musician and composer. He was with the Bread
and Puppet Theater for 17 years before founding and directing theater spaces in New York
City and in rural Maine. He has worked with groups of trained and untrained musicians and
artists on theatrical and musical projects all over the world, developing collaborative
methods of composition and theatrical production. He is the Musical Director of Archa
Theatre's Allstar Refjudzi Band.
ROUTES 5 and 6
First you can choose from one of 2 workshops offered by different companies, after which
you attend the lunch performance of The PeerGrouP's Round Table. To finish your
afternoon, you will attend the production ‘A view with a room’ by the Rotterdams
Wijktheater.
11 AM ICAF PLAYGROUND I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
23 PART 1: CHOOSE ONE OF TWO SHORT WORKSHOPS
11 AM – Route 5 - Performing Histories / Collaborative Methods in Search of a
Form I Upstate Theatre, Ireland I Illustrated Presentation
PART ONE with Declan Mallon, Director of Upstate Theatre Project: Performing Histories
Upstate Theatre Project is a performing arts organization based in Drogheda, Ireland. It
seeks, through collaborative methodologies, to create original performance-based
presentations. This is achieved through a devising process with participants from the
community, be that a ‘community of place or of interest’. Hence, Upstate’s workshop
programme is designed as a place where people can collectively work in collaboration with
artists to realise performances based on themes, ideas, and issues of mutual interest. This
section of the workshop will put ‘The Far Side’ (the film that was on the programme last
night) in the context of the Shared Heritage Programme. This initiative sought to create a
trilogy of projects using the Drogheda oral history archive. The testimonies were used as a
springboard for community members to respond, under the guidance of an artist, to the
archival materials and search for contemporary means of re-presenting the unofficial
history back to the community. Effectively, they created a history of themselves.
PART TWO by Feidlim Cannon of Brokentalkers: Collaborative Methods in search of a form.
Brokentalkers (Winners of a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation & Playing
with Form at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013) have built a reputation as one of Ireland's most
innovative and original theatre companies, making formally ambitious work that defies
categorisation. They have been acclaimed internationally for their pioneering approach to
theatre. They are an Irish Company with an international outlook, committed to touring
work internationally and developing relationships with international partners. Feidlim
Cannon will discuss the shaping of the form for ‘The Far Side,’ referencing his work with
Brokentalkers and their interrogation of performance styles and presentation form in
search of an inclusive format for both professional and non-professional performers.
11 AM – Route 6 – Legislative Theatre I ImaginAction (Colombia / USA) & Formaat (NL)
I Interactive workshop
From March 7 through 13, internationally renowned Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners
Hector Aristizábal and Luc Opdebeeck have been experimenting with Boal's Legislative
theatre techniques at the van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. Their intervention was part of
the arte útil [useful art] manifestation at the Van Abbe. There, they created a so-called
'anti-model' with senior citizens from Eindhoven and local politicians to explore legislative
aspects of political issues related to ageing. They will perform this anti-model for you at
ICAF. You will be invited to react verbally or physically get in on the action. Hector and
Luc will also share some of their methods and explain the ins and outs of Legislative
Theatre, which from Brazil to Afghanistan has proven to be an effective tool for enhancing
people's involvement in generating new legislation from the bottom up.
24 1 PM The Round Table I The PeerGrouP (The Netherlands) I Location: The Buytenhof, a
care farm in Rhoon
stomach.
3.30 PM – Route 5 & 6 - 2. A View with a Room I Rotterdams Wijktheater (NL) I
Performance
‘Seen from the perspective of the moon all of us are equally tall’ - Multatuli
A former shop at Dordtselaan 19 is the starting point of site-specific performance A View
With a Room. The only object in this space is an elevated tiered construction of seats,
from which spectators have a view of the street through the shop window. As if in a live
movie they see people walk by. Some are in a hurry, others are more relaxed. Some of the
individuals we get to know better. The theatre makers interviewed residents from this
neighbourhood, Tarwewijk (literally ‘wheat area’), in a luxury apartment on the tenth
floor of this same building. From 50 meters high in the sky they looked down upon their
place, their city, and their lives.
25 ROUTE 7 - 8
You will start with the lunch performance of the PeerGroup’s Round Tabel and
subsequently you can choose from one of the 2 workshops offered by different
companies. After the workshop you will see the performance by Debaj.
11.30 AM The Round Table I The PeerGrouP (The Netherlands) I Location: The
Buytenhof, a care farm in Rhoon
stomach.
PART 2: CHOOSE ONE OF TWO SHORT WORKSHOP
26 1 PM – Route 7- Creative Collaborations in Europe I EU community arts
collaborations (various countries) I Panel
Over the past few years, community arts organizations have begun to discover the road to
Brussels. ICAF and RWT, for example, became involved in an EU-Culture partnership called
COAST, together with initiator Acta from Bristol, Expedition Metropolis from Berlin, and
Teatr Grodzki from Bielsko-Biala. This collaboration, in turn, led to a new successful EUbid, this time under the Gruntvig program. Similarly, 5th Quarter from Haarlem and Archa
Theatre from Prague have been involved in their own EU enterprise called Karaoke,
together with partners from Hungary and Slovakia. In this round table conversation,
different partners will talk about their experiences and offer advice to prospective
applicants. Is the EU the way to go now that national and local arts and culture budgets
are increasingly under pressure? Klaartje Bult, of the Creative Europe desk at Dutch
Culture, the governmental agency that supports EU arts and culture applications, will also
be on site to answer questions. It supports the international cultural policies of the
Netherlands, which currently prioritize collaboration with Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy,
France and the United Kingdom.
1 PM – Route 8- Community Theatre in Portugal I A’Pele (Portugal) I Workshop
A'Pele [Portuguese for 'skin'] is one of Portugal's leading community theatre companies.
Judging by MEXE, a biennial national festival that A'Pele also organizes, Portugal has
developed a distinct community theatre style of its own: large-scale, outdoor,
neighbourhood-based productions with colourful mass scenes involving anywhere between
50 and 100 residents. Hugo Cruz, the artistic director of A'Pele and MEXE, will
demonstrate his particular hands-on approach to community theatre à la Portuguesa.
Through exercises, informal chats, and short clips from productions he has been involved
in he will provide you with a fascinating insight into contemporary community arts in his
hometown Porto and Portugal at large.
Hugo Cruz trained as a psychologist and theatre maker in Portugal and Spain. He is one of
Portugal's most experienced community theatre practitioners, working in prisons,
factories, neighbourhoods and other settings. In addition to his work for A'Pele, he also
publishes and teaches at the University of Porto and in the post-graduate community
theatre programme of the Porto Theatre Academy.
PART 3: PERFORMANCE
3.30 PM 1. Global Savages I Debajehmujig (Canada) I Performance
Debajehmujig Storytellers, an Aboriginal arts collective based at the Wikwemikong
unceded Indian reserve on Manitoulin Island, Canada, has been roaming through the streets
of Rotterdam in the week prior to the festival. Even earlier than that they established
contact with local community activists and volunteers in Rotterdam, who during this prefestival roaming residency served as their guide. Wearing traditional tribal dresses, they
engaged with passers-by to gather local stories and storytellers, which they incorporate in
daily updated versions of their ‘Global Savages’ performance. In this way, an already
18,000-year-old story receives new input from one of the world's largest port cities. You
27 will be brought to a site of Debajehmujig's choosing, somewhere in the city, where around
a warm fire you will hear old stories mixed with contemporary local tales.
ROUTES 9 AND 10
You will start with one workshop of your choice. Then you will be offered lunch, after
which you attend a performance. For those among you who want to take it a bit slower.
11 AM – Route 9 - Caravan of Dreams I EMPAF (UK) I Installation and Discussion
In the week prior to the festival proper, a mobile sound studio driven and operated by a
team from Junction Arts (Chesterfield, England), has been traveling through the
Netherlands. The van contained an exhibition of work by various community arts
the oldest community arts networks in the UK. Along the way, Paul Steele and a small crew
created video impressions of different Dutch community arts projects in Brabant, Arnhem,
Drenthe, Leeuwarden and in the West of the country. Their trip was co-organized with
CAL-XL and during ICAF the EMPAF Caravan of Dreams will be installed in the RWT studio.
Festival visitors can see the EMPAF exhibit, sea and hear the results of what Junction Arts
encountered on their trip through the Dutch community arts world, and interact with
representatives of EMPAF to discuss possibilities for future collaboration. The partners of
this dynamic network are determined to bring their Caravan of Dreams back to the East
Midlands filled with concrete ideas and commitments from European partners for
innovative and inspiring international community arts collaborations in the years to come.
Jump on board...
11 AM – Route 10 - Women Connected I Rotterdams Wijktheater (The Netherlands) I
Workshop
In this interactive workshop, RWT director (and film maker) Kaat Zoontjens introduces her
plans for a worldwide relay of theatre portraits and flms under the umbrella of a project
she has entitled Women Connected. Today, she wants to make a start with this ambitious
enterprise, teaching you first how to make mini portraits using smart phones and then
explore how these moving images and stories could lead to a self-sustaining, new mix of
self-generated community theatre and film on the internet.
12 PM Lunch | Location: Islemunda
28 PART 2: PERFORMANCE
3 PM – Route 9 & 10 Living room Operas I Care and Culture (The Netherlands) I
Performance
Margreet Melman is a Dutch double bass player with considerable experience in
community music. Three years ago she began working on collaborative arts projects with
residents of retirement homes. This led to Care & Culture, with which she is currently
developing multiple choir projects and the Living Room Opera, extramural community arts
projects involving musicians, dancers, theatre makers and older people who still live at
home. With more and more professional artists out of work and the number of lonely
ageing people increasing by the day, this may well become a new niche for community arts
in the near future. You'll be amazed to see what these new partnerships between young
and old, trained artists and non-artists, can lead to in surprising new contexts.
5.30 PM DINER
EVENING PROGRAM
we all come together to attend the final performance of the day. To end this day there
will be a concert by Orchestre Partout.
29 7 PM Rencontre au pluriel [‘meeting in the plural’]I K-Mu (Kinshasa) I Performance I
Location: Theater Zuidplein
In 2010, K-Mu from Kinshasa was runner-up in the Freedom to Create Award with their
music theatre production Basal’ya Bazoba about the violent persecution of child witches.
They performed the show on the back of a truck in most of the neighborhoods of Kinshasa,
attracting over 100,000 spectators. The performance particularly revealed the role of
religion in maintaining prejudices that lead to unsavory practices like witch hunts. At ICAF6, K-Mu founder Toto Kisaku will perform his own autobiographical solo Rencontre au
pluriel [‘meeting in the plural’] about his childhood, his training as an actor, and his
complicated relation with Europe. He will be accompanied live on stage by composer and
guitarist Toussaint Kimbembi (Subtitled in English.)
7 PM Brothers, Friend & Go Hasigu I Umsindo (South Africa), Stut (The Netherlands) I
Performance I Location: Islemunda
In November 2013, actors Hassan Oumhammed and Güner Güven of Stut theater opened the
Isigcawu festival in KwaMashu township, Durban, South Africa. The double bill they
performed there, Friend/Mahmoud, is partly inspired by their own youth in the rough
Utrecht-neighborhood of Overvecht. In Durban, Hassan and Güner also met two young
artists who call themselves Umsindo and run their own cultural center where they offer
free art courses to township youth. The two, who are twins, are also powerful performers
in their own right and together they created Brothers, a highly physical but also
metaphorical performance about life in the township and how it relates to South Africa as a
whole. ICAF-6 is happy to provide a platform for both these shows. In the week prior to
ICAF, Umsindo and Güner and Hassan have also been creating a new short show under the
30 direction of Sharon Varekamp. Entitled Go Hasigu, it explores what connects Holland,
Turkey, Morocco and South Africa and how community art can form a bridge.
8:30 PM Life: Based on a True Story I Tiny Toones (Cambodia) I Performance I
Location: Theater Zuidplein
In 2005, Tuy Sobil opened his house to a group of young children who were living and
working on the streets near him. Tuy himself had just returned to Phnom Penh after
spending much of his life in refugee camps in Thailand and later in gang-infested parts of
Los Angeles. After a criminal sentence in the US, he was deported back to Cambodia in
2004. Soon rumors started that he had been a break dancer in America and as a result more
and more kids began to knock on his door for lessons. His house thus became an informal
community center and the heart of a veritable hip-hop movement that involves hundreds of
children and youth. Today, Tuy’s performance group is also beginning to attract
international attention. With the help of the Prince Claus Fund, which structurally supports
the group, ICAF is proud to create space for Tiny Toones' spectacular European debut.
9:30 PM Live in Concert I Orchestre Partout (Netherlands) I Performance I Location:
Zuidplein Theatre
On their newly released CD we can read that Orchestre Partout is 'not just a band, it is a
collective energy and a big circle of friends. In a world full of Babel, music is our universal
language'. Inspired by the Czech Allstar Refjudzji Band, Ted van Leeuwen approached the
asylum seekers camps in Alkmaar and Utrecht to see if he could also interest some of the
people there to create a 'refugee orchestra' of their own. The result was nothing short of
miraculous, as you will experience tonight at this exclusive live concert by one of Holland's
most exciting community music projects. Jumping ju-ju beats, old Sufi poems, an Indian
harmonium, the raspy sound of the Sudanese desert, they can all be detected in Partout's
music. The repertoire contains songs about love, desire, yearning, pleasure and nostalgia.
31 SATURDAY 29 MARCH 2014
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Routes 6 to 8 consist of the lunch performance, a short workshop and an afternoon
show.
Routes 9 to 10 are slower consist of a short workshop, lunch and a performance.
ROUTES 1 – 5
of five long workshops.
10 AM Seminar ‘Space for Community Arts' I Kerrie Schaefer I Location: Zuidplein
Theatre
In this daily seminar, Dr. Kerrie Schaefer, will discuss work that was on the programme the
previous day, together with some of the artists who were involved. Each day, she will also
explore more theoretical aspects of community art and space.
While Thursday’s session focused on introductions (getting to know each other) and
interactively explored various definitions of place/space and community arts, and Friday
focused on community arts practice in ‘conflict zones’ broadly conceived, on Saturday we
turn to an interactive exploration of the relationship between the space of economics and
community arts. What effect has the ‘Great Recession’, and related national/global
economic policies (of ‘austerity’, etc.), had on the practice of community arts? Do
community arts thrive, or not, under these conditions? How are community arts (or indeed
‘the arts’) valued, or not, in times of austerity, scarcity or plenty (after all the global
picture is rather uneven)? How do community arts create spaces in which to imagine and
enact alternatives to globalization/neo-liberalism, or do they not need to?
All these questions, and more, will be addressed in this seminar, with guests from around
the globe providing refreshing and sometimes surprising perspectives on the space and the
place of community art.
12 PM Lunch I Location: Theater Zuidplein
32 1 PM START LONG WORKSHOPS I Various locations - You can choose from one of 5 long
1 PM – Route 1 - Dancing Balls I Básquet Beat (Spain)
Josep-Maria Aragay of Básquet Beat (Barcelona) seduces basketball players in public
courts of marginal neighborhoods to explore music and dance through choreography and
percussive rhythms. Josep discovered the potential of this approach while working as a
youth worker in the northern suburbs of Barcelona. The method he invented simply
through trial and error has become a potent instrument for working with youth as well as
adults. It teaches them music and dynamizes communities. Josep has been traveling
around the world over the past few months to try out his approach in such places as South
Africa, South America and North America. In Rotterdam, he now wants to find out whether
his method could perhaps work here as well. ICAF delegates are welcome to join, shoot a
hoop, beat a drum, do a dance; or otherwise just watch and listen.
1 PM – Route 2 - BLUE ANGEL I Big hART (Australia)
Big hART (Australia) develops its long-term arts and community cultural
development projects lead by a key position they term 'creative producer'. These figures
are spiders helping to weave the steadily growing 'web' of a project, that incorporates
many aspects all at the same time - such as social policy reform, community engagement,
and high quality art production. In lead up to ICAF, Big hART's creative team led by
creative producer Cecily Hardy and Creative Director Scott Rankin have invited
international collaborators to join them in a unique creative development process in
Rotterdam, as they embark on the creation of Blue Angel - the latest Big hART project that
aims to connect world port cities.
Following this development process, ICAF is hosting a special 'think tank' session
with Cecily Hardy and collaborators, where they invite you in, to peak at the work they
have gathered and created in its raw state. They are offering opportunity for attendees to
think creatively, and offer response in this open session, as they work to make the exciting
possibilities for this project become realities.
Blue Angel, 'Stories of the Sea and Our Slaves of Convenience' is a multi-layered project in
development, which includes the creation of a performance work woven from actual
stories from the ships. These rich tales of adventure, solidarity, struggle, loneliness, love,
sex, and laughter, act as a prism to expose the dire situation today for over one million
seafarers internationally; some of the most exploited workers on the planet. Every night,
there is a city of workers afloat on our oceans, delivering our consumer goods along a
liquid highway to our doors. Yet they are mostly invisible to us, their dramatic stories
almost unknown. Blue Angel wants to tell these stories. Truly international in spirit, it
wants to create this project through partnership with three port cities around the globe, in
multiple languages, and with material created in each location. This extended workshop is
really an open session with special guests from the local Port Authority, old sailors, and
unions. This creative development in Rotterdam signals the start of the international vision
for this project, following on from intensive community engagement processes, research &
development in Australia.
33 1 PM – Route 3: Three Residencies Report
This year, ICAF organized three Artist-in-Residencies. In collaboration with CAL-XL and
Kunstbedrijf Arnhem we connected visual artist Krista Burger of Heimprofi with her
Slovakian colleague Edita Karkoschka from Kosice. They experimented with interventions
in public space on Kosice’s public transportation and a home for the elderly in Arnhem.
Also with the help of CAL-XL we linked Dansnest from Breda to choreographer Filip van
Huffel of Retina Dance Company (based in Nottingham, England and Antwerp-Berchem,
Belgium). Both these organizations like to work in unusual places with untrained dancers.
The third ICAF residency involved Upstate Theatre from Drogheda, Ireland and our very
own Rotterdams Wijktheater. Our Rotterdam colleagues Stefan van Hees and Jasmina
Ibrahimovic, who have both been involved in large-scale neighbourhood-based projects
before, collaborated with Irish theatre maker Louise Lowe, who is well known for her
intimate site-specific work.
This afternoon you will travel to a special location in the southside of Rotterdam where, on
site, you will be shown the tangible results of these three residencies. Afterwards, the
three partners will frankly discuss with you what the residencies did and did not bring
them.
1 PM – Route 4 - Hacking Public Space I Esther Slegh (The Netherlands)
Rotterdam-based landscape designer Esther Slegh (the driving force behind an artistically
designed urban garden in Crooswijk and the temporary museum of random art) will
investigate together with ICAF delegates the practical and legal limits for ludic
interventions in public spaces of our city.
Most of us enter public space as soon as we step through our front door. On average, Dutch
citizens spend 9 hours per week moving through public space. Yet, the collective
ownership of public space does not seem to give the individual citizen much influence on
the actual design or use of public space. Commercial parties, transportation companies
and particularly municipalities play a much larger role. What external or internal
boundaries stop citizens from taking ownership of public space? And what is the bandwith
of these boundaries; how far, can we push them personally? Through a set of temporary
interventions you will discuss, visualize, stretch, and cross boundaries. Together with
Esther you will make them visible and - who knows? - even break them down and replace
them with something more positive and personal. For the more adventurous among you.
1 PM – Route 5 - Sock Mosaic I Ehud and Anat Shamai (Israel)
Ehud and Anat Shamai are two experienced visual artists from Israel, associated with the
Plastic Art Center in Hofit. They work on intercultural dialogues through the arts, involving
Palestinians, Israelis but also other communities in countries like Finland, Italy and New
Zealand. In 2011, as one of these interventions, they established a Guiness record for the
world's largest sock mosaic. In Rotterdam, they propose to do something similar. All it
takes is you, a large number of walk-on participants from the neighbourhood, and about
6,000 socks that have no pair (of which all of you must have some lying around in a drawer
at home, so put them in your suitcase and bring them!). Here is your chance to get
involved in an amazing work of art, which is fun and will surely lead to surprising
conversations across cultural and political boundaries. And if nothing else, it will help you
get rid of your useless, orphaned socks.
34 ROUTES 6 - 7
Various locations – You will start with the lunch performance of The Round Table by the
PeerGrouP, and then you can choose from one of 2 workshops by different companies.
After the workhops you will see a performance by Debajehmujig Storytellers.
11 AM ICAF Playground I Location: Theater Zuidplein
PART 1: LUNCH PERFORMANCE
11 AM – Route 6 & 7 - The Round Table I The PeerGrouP (The Netherlands) I Location:
The Buytenhof, a care farm in Rhoon
stomach.
35 PART 2: CHOOSE ONE OF TWO SHORT WORKSHOPS
1 PM – Route 6 - Creating Art with Amsterdam's African and Caribbean
Community I Untold & Bijlmerpark Theatre (The Netherlands) I Workshop
The Bijlmer is located on Amsterdam’s southside. It is an area full of energy and diversity.
The Bijlmerpark theatre is its cultural hub, programming exciting shows and supporting
local community arts and talent development projects. The venue was opened in 2008
after youth circus Elleboog (‘elbow’), Krater Theatre and youth theatre school Southeast
decided to join forces a few years earlier. Youth theatre company Untold is one of
Bijlmerpark’s flagship projects. Ernestine Comvalius, the director of the Bijlmerpark
Theatre, and Otmar Watson, one of the driving forces behind Untold and Obia (the show
which is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon) will present their way of working.
1 PM – Route 7 - Making Basal’ya Bazoba I K-MU (Kinshasa), Compagnie Dakar &
Theatre Embassy (Netherlands) I Workshop
Basal'ya bazoba was a music theatre project in Kinshasa, Congo, created to generate
attention to the issue of child sorcery. In Kinshasa, an estimated 20,000 children live on
the streets. 70% of them have become homeless after relatives accused them of
witchcraft. These accusations give desperately poor parents an excuse to kick children out
of their homes. In 2009, Theatre Embassy, Compagnie Dakar and K-Mu théâtre joined
forces to create a participatory arts project about this topic. They offered theatre classes
to street children and produced a highly successful show that was performed on the back
of a flatbed truck all over Kinshasa, attracting more than 100,000 spectators. After each
show, one of the actors facilitated a discussion with the audience in the presence of
children who had been accused of sorcery.
Guido Kleene of Compagnie Dakar, who co-directed the show, Toto Kisaku, the artistic
director of K-Mu and one of the performers, and Berith Danse, who directs Theatre
Embassy, will jointly discuss the inter-cultural (nortth-south), social and artistic aspects of
this ground-breaking project.
PART 3: PERFORMANCE
3.30 PM – Route 6 & 7 - Global Savages I Debajehmujig (Canada) I Performance
Debajehmujig Storytellers, an Aboriginal arts collective based at the Wikwemikong
unceded Indian reserve on Manitoulin Island, Canada, has been roaming through the streets
of Rotterdam in the week prior to the festival. Even earlier than that they established
contact with local community activists and volunteers in Rotterdam, who during this prefestival roaming residency served as their guide. Wearing traditional tribal dresses, they
engaged with passers-by to gather local stories and storytellers, which they incorporate in
daily updated versions of their ‘Global Savages’ performance. In this way, an already
18,000-year-old story receives new input from one of the world's largest port cities. You
will be brought to a site of Debajehmujig's choosing, somewhere in the city, where around
a warm fire you will hear old stories mixed with contemporary local tales.
36 ROUTES 8 & 9
You will start with one workshop of your choice. Then you will be offered lunch, after
which you attend a performance.
1 PM – Route 8 - Dancing for Change I Dance United ( United Kingdom) I Film +
Workshop
Dance United is an award-winning dance development organisation with an international
reputation for marrying artistic excellence with social concern. It works with people in
difficult circumstances who are marginalised in society and whose potential is often
unrecognised or unfulfilled. As part of ICAF 2011 and in partnership with LUNA, Dance
United delivered a highly successful 3-week intensive dance project with young people as
part of the artist in residency programme. Join choreographer Carly Annable Coop in this
seminar workshop, which will use film and discussion to learn about the company's
methodology and work as well as to hear about the company's new areas of development
since that project. These now include dance-led interventions working in mental health
and family projects in the UK using intensive contemporary dance training to help
transform the lives of people.
1 PM – Route 9 - Caravan of Dreams I EMPAF (UK) I Installation and Discussion
In the week prior to the festival proper, a mobile sound studio driven and operated by a
team from Junction Arts (Chesterfield, England), has been traveling through the
Netherlands. The van contained an exhibition of work by various community arts
the oldest community arts networks in the UK. Along the way, Paul Steele and a small crew
created video impressions of different Dutch community arts projects in Brabant, Arnhem,
Drenthe, Leeuwarden and in the West of the country. Their trip was co-organized with
CAL-XL and during ICAF the EMPAF Caravan of Dreams will be installed in the RWT studio.
Festival visitors can see the EMPAF exhibit, sea and hear the results of what Junction Arts
encountered on their trip through the Dutch community arts world, and interact with
representatives of EMPAF to discuss possibilities for future collaboration. The partners of
this dynamic network are determined to bring their Caravan of Dreams back to the East
Midlands filled with concrete ideas and commitments from European partners for
innovative and inspiring international community arts collaborations in the years to come.
Jump on board...
12 PM Lunch | Location: Islemunda
PART 2: PERFORMANCE
37 3:00 PM Living room Operas I Care and Culture (The Netherlands) I Performance
Margreet Melman is a Dutch double bass player with considerable experience in
community music. Three years ago she began working on collaborative arts projects with
residents of retirement homes. This led to Care & Culture, with which she is currently
developing multiple choir projects and the Living Room Opera, extramural community arts
projects involving musicians, dancers, theatre makers and older people who still live at
home. With more and more professional artists out of work and the number of ageing
people increasing by the day, this may well be the community arts of the future. You'll be
amazed to see what these new partnerships between young and old, trained artists and
non-artists, can lead to in surprising new contexts.
5.30 PM DINER
EVENING PROGRAM
we all come together to attend the final performance of the day. To end this day you can
dance and make music on the late night stage.
7 PM Frontera I TransFORMAS (Spain) I Film I Location: Islemunda
38 Frontera is a fascinating feature-length fiction film shot entirely on location in a prison
near Barcelona with both professional actors and actual inmates in the leading roles. It is
the result of a truly collective creative process that took place in Quatre Camins prison
between January and July 2012. In 2013, the film received the Malaga Film Festival Award
for best director and best male actor. Frontera [the border] is about a prison theatre
process that is suddenly interrupted by an ominous alarm. As a result, the group,
composed of six prisoners and eight people from outside, are isolated in their part of the
prison. Apparently some epidemic has broken out and no one is allowed in or out. The lack
of information, fear and the possible contagion put a strain on the relations and individual
stamina. Exploring issues of guilt and innocence, the experience changes their lives
forever.
Eva García, artistic director and producer of TransFORMAS - and herself one of the
actresses in the film - will be present to introduce the film and answer your questions.
7 PM Drei, Twie, Ein... Veuls dich al get? [1, 2, 3.. are you feeling allright yet?] I
Mariaberg Community Theatre (Netherlands) I Theatre I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
Performed in a dialect that even Dutch people from the North will have difficulty
understanding, this physical and absurdist production has been collectively created by an
inter-generational group of residents from the Mariaberg neighbourhood in the southern
city of Maastricht. Based on interviews and improvisations, the play tackles such delicate
themes as alcoholism, abuse, school, ageing, loneliness, opportunities, traditions, and love
in a visually attractive show that literally and figuratively moves.
In this show, the cast, which ranges in age between 12 and 80, wanders from past to
present. Do these people want to move forward or backwards? They each get lost in their
own web of memories and desires and search for answers to that all important question.
But what do they remember? And what do they wish for?
39 8:30 PM uur From the Rooftops of the World I Zid Theatre with Cornerstone (The
Netherlands and United States) I Performance I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
Standard works about community art such as Staging America (2003) and Local Acts (2005)
praise the work of Cornerstone Theatre from Los Angeles for the way they rework
classical plays together with community residents into impressive productions. Instead of
raising the community to the level of the great classics, they raise the classics to the level
of the community by writing new roles, creating new characters and adapting contexts and
plots to local realities. In the Netherlands, Zid Theatre from Amsterdam has been
experimenting with similar ideas, collaborating last year with the prestigious repertory
company Toneelgroep Amsterdam on Chekhov's The Russians. Their latest production is
inspired by Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies. In the last phase of the preparations, Zid was
assisted by a dramaturg, a director, a designer and an actor from Cornerstone.
in From the Rooftops of the World, 40 community actors from culturally and socially mixed
neighbourhoods in Rotterdam and Amsterdam enter the political arena. They talk about
their frustrations with politics and about their dreams for the future. In this dynamic
production which has been created together with these community actors, ZID explores
the impact of politics on the daily lives of the people.
40 SUNDAY 30 MARCH 2014
11.45 AM LUNCH I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
12 PM FINAL CONVERSATION I Matt Jennings (Northern Ireland), Kerrie Schaefer
(England) and guests I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
Over the past four days, many conversations have taken place about space and community
art. Some of these were more formal, like the morning seminars, and others much more
informal, like the Round Table, the impromptu shows of Debajehmujig, and the evening
meals hosted by some of the ICAF artists. Today, Matt Jennings and Kerrie Schaefer together with some special guests - will try and tie together some of the conversational
threads that have been developing in all these different settings. Words, images,
movements, sounds, English, Dutch, Spanish, Tagalog, Zulu and creative non-verbal
utterings could all become part of this experimental attempt to make some sense of what
ICAF-6 has been, could have been, or perhaps should have been. Oh yes: this closing event
will contain food for thought as well as for the stomach.
2.30 PM OBIA I Untold (The Netherlands) I Location: Zuidplein Theatre
Untold is a arts collective of young residents of the Bijlmer neighbourhood in the SouthEast of Amsterdam. It is an area inhabited by many people of African and Caribbean
descent. Untold was formed at the end of 2002, after a group of youngsters from the
Bijlmer participated in an exchange project with the Brixton area in London. In England,
the young Dutch people performed spontaneously for an audience that was so impressed
that they believed they were watching an established performance group. Since then, the
group has been together and over the years has expanded to a membership of almost 50.
This afternoon, Untold performs their most recent production, a dance, music, and theatre
show called Obia. Its central character is a young man addicted to electronic gadgets and
social media. Walking through public space in a set that is suggestive of the Bijlmer he
encounters spirits, sounds, and movements that gradually affect him. In essence, the show
is about the young man's spiritual awakening through a direct confrontation with rites that
originate in West Africa.
41 5 PM FAREWELL WITH SNACKS & DRINKS
ORGANISATION
The International Community Arts Festival is a production of the Rotterdams Wijktheater
in association with Zuidplein Theatre. ICAF 2014 receives structural funding from the
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and project funding from the Arts and Culture
Division of the City of Rotterdam. We are also grateful for the support we have received
from Performing Arts Fund NL.
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