Voor het Community Arts Programma is er momenteel een vacature voor projectleider // 0,8 fte per 1 november 2008. Bekijk de vacature.

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In the years 2006 and 2007 activities of the Community Art Lab (CAL) were mostly of an exploratory nature with occasional in-depth research. In 2008 CAL is expanding its activities by involving students from cultural studies, social work and theatre studies programs. Our main goal in 2008 is to design and test a three-prone approach: social effect, artistic quality and the ethics of collaboration between professional artists and community participants. The idea is to develop research instruments and methods and to implement these systematically over the next few years.

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Originally intended to be screened right before ICAF’s final debate on Sunday March 30, the video is now finally available for viewing. Watch video:

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On 16 March 2007, at CAL we filmed an animated conversation between Ivan Iparraguirre from Chile and Jos Zandvliet from Holland. Ivan is the founder of Teatro Pasmi, an avant grade theatre collective from Santiago that has been working in Chilean prisons for more than six years. Jos Zandvliet was one of the original founders of site-specific spectacle artists Dogtroep. With Dogtroep, in 2002 he worked on a groundbrwaking project with inmates of Bruges prison (Belgium). Since then, Jos has worked more and more in prisons, most recently in Krimpen aan de IJssel.

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Better late than never: we have finally finished editing a 35-minute video impression of the WHO CARES conference that took place on 20 September 2007. In this conference, professionals from the world of art, art therapy, social work and mental health care came together to look into each others’ kitchens and to explore possible ways of collaborating. At times, this led to verbal firework.

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Read the conference report of Who Cares written by Eugene van Erven (in Dutch)