CAL XL Launched

CAL XL launched
In January 2010, a team was formed at Vrede van Utrecht to develop a national version of the current Community Art Lab which focuses primarily on local, Utrecht-based projects. A process of consultation is underway where a wide range of individuals and organizations are being consulted within various cultural and social sectors about […]

Nederlandse website

Klik hier om naar de Nederlandse website van het Community Art Lab te gaan.
Informatie over lopende projecten in Nederland vindt u op de Nederlandstalige community-art website. Op deze site leest u verslagen van internationale makers, critici en onderzoekers over onderzoek naar community art.

Guest editor for the Community Art Lab

Today is my first day in the new position of guest web editor of the Community Art Lab’s English website. I have been warmly welcomed by the staff of the Vrede van Utrecht organisation and am now seated at my new desk. Through the window, if I lean back, I can see a […]

What We Are Up To (March 2010)

The Community Art Lab continues to document and analyze projects in Utrecht town and province and beyond. At the end of January we completed three years of documenting the ‘Living With Differences’ project. In February we finished our work with ‘The Story Kitchen’ in Haarlem. Over the next months we aim to complete reports on these projects. After the summer, we will be publishing a monograph and DVD on Living With Differences in collaboration with the Utrecht School of the Arts. Before the end of the year, we will also complete a book and DVD on other projects we have documented since 2006. The focus of our future documentation activities will be on projects developed within our new CAL-U workshop for young artists. We will also continue to collaborate closely with CAL-XL, which will assume a national coordinating role.

François Matarasso gives feedback to Dutch community artists

François Matarasso gives feedback to Dutch community artists at the the first of what will hopefully become an annual event: a two-day working conference for Dutch community artists in Fort at the Klop in Utrecht, Overvecht.

Interviews in the Kunst in mijn Buurt-buzz

During Uitfeest, Sunday the 14th of September, the Kunst in mijn Buurt-buzz was the centre of a couple of interviews by Eugene van Erven (Community Art Lab). Main focus was to give an impression of Community art projects and new cultural neighbourhood stages.

Community Art Lab research 2008-2011

In 2008 CAL wants to expand its activities by involving students from cultural studies, social work and theatre programs. The main thrust in 2008 will be to design and test a three-prone approach: social effect, artistic quality and the ethics of collaboration between professional artists and community participants.

Kunst op de kop van Lombok

21.06.2008 15:00

Kunst op de kop van Lombok // Lombok // start 21 juni 2008

Asch van Wijckschool en mozaïek steentjes:

Op de Asch van Wijckschool zijn kinderen uit de groepen 6 en 8 hard bezig geweest om Lombok en de stad te verbeelden met mozaïek steentjes. Als je van links naar rechts kijkt, zie je op het paneel […]

Fanfare de Wetering daverend succes!

Met drie nagenoeg uitverkochte voorstellingen en in totaal 180 bezoekers, kan de Zuilense fanfare van een succes spreken. De foto’s van afgelopen weekend staan nu online.

Met de voorstelling Fanfare de Wetering hoopt het fanfare corps meer jonge frisse nieuwe muzikanten aan te trekken.
Naast dit “Wetering”-project wordt er gewerkt aan een nieuw jeugdopleidingtraject, een intercultureel percussieproject […]

Teatro Pasmi (Chile) meets Dutch Escape Artist Jos Zandvliet

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 garde theatre collective from Santiago that has been working in Chilean prisons for more than six years. Jos Zandvliet was one of the original founders […]

In the Name of the Fathers

In the name of the fathers: an intercultural community-based theatre project in the Haque, Netherlands

Living with differences

This project is a collaboration between the Utrecht School of the Arts, ZIMIHC (House of Amateur Art) and Kunstfactor (umbrella organization for Dutch amateur art). Its goal is to coach recent graduates from Dutch theatre academies who are interested in developing professional careers in community art.

The Opera Flat 2 (YO! Opera)

Opera Flat 2 was a new production of YO! Opera in the multi-cultural neighbourhood of Overvecht. It involved residents of a highrise apartment building at the Faust Dreef and children of a nearby primary school.

Fanfare de Wetering, de fanfare leeft!

11.07.2008 19:00 to 20:00. 13.07.2008 13:00 to 14:00. 15:00 to 16:00.

Altijd al benieuwd geweest naar de ‘ins and outs’ van de lokale fanfare? Of vraag je je af hoe het is om zelf een instrument te bespelen?

Youth Theatre Exchange Documentary now online

As part of our first festival and symposium in November 2006, four youth theatre companies participated in a creative exchange project. The encounter featured Dox from Utrecht, Théâtre du Fil from Paris, the Mostar Youth Theatre from Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Split Youth Theatre from Croatia. Special guests were a group from Nairobi, K-Pag. Film maker […]

BLEND festival

06.07.2008 12:00 to 19:00.

Op 6 juli staat jong talent centraal tijdens het BLEND festival in de Utrechtse wijk Kanaleneiland. Maar BLEND is meer dan alleen een festival voor jongeren. Het festival spoort talent op, investeert erin en biedt hen een podium.

WHO CARES conference video report now online

We have 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.

Kunst in mijn buurt video now online

Kunst in mijn buurt (Art in my Back Yard) is a festival around the theme of Community Art, hosted by Vrede van Utrecht and Culturele Zondag. It took place on the 23rd of September 2007. Watch the video to get an impression.

Theatergroep Movitep uit Nicaragua

09.06.2008 11:00 to 30.06.2008 11:00.

Theatergroep Movitep speelt in de maand juni in diverse Nederlandse steden. De voorstelling is gemaakt in het in het kader van de net gestarte campagne ‘Stedenbanden en Millenniumdoelen’, waarbij millenniumdoel 2: ‘Alle kinderen naar school’extra nadruk krijgt.

Photos and a newspaper article on ICAF-Rotterdam

Read the article about the International Community Arts Festival which took place from 26 till 28 March 2008 in Rotterdam. It first appeared in NRC Handelsblad, on March 29 th 2008 as ‘Kunst die buurtbewoners met elkaar verbindt’.

DIT IS ABSTEDE

24.05.2008 13:00 to 23:00.

De Utrechtse wijk Abstede in het teken van het festival Dit is Abstede dat op 24 mei plaatsvindt. Het wordt een festival boordevol activiteiten voor en door bewoners.

Theater Dichtbij - elke laatste zondag vd maand!

24.05.2008 20:00 to 22:00. 25.05.2008 15:00 to 17:00.

Elke laatste zondag van de maand presenteert Stut Theater onder de naam ‘Theater Dichtbij’ een toneelvoorstelling in het Stefanus Cultuurcentrum te Overvecht.

Jana Sanskriti

03.06.2008 13:00 to 17:00. 06.06.2008 20:00 to 22:00.

Het Community Art Lab van Vrede van Utrecht organiseert de workshop met Formaat Werkplaats voor Participatief Drama in Rotterdam.

Simcity Abstede

19.06.2008 17:00 to 21:00. 20.06.2008 12:00 to 21:00. 21.06.2008 12:00 to 21:00. 22.06.2008 12:00 to 17:00.

In navolging op het Dit is Abstede festival wordt in de 3e week van juni de Kunstmanifestatie in Abstede Utrecht
georganiseerd door de Stichting Kunstmanifestatie op Locatie.

Offenders’ Theatre Symposium, Durban (SA) 10 - 14 March 2008

In March 2008, The Community Art Lab helped sponsor the participation of Rustom Bharucha in a symposium on offenders’ theatre held at the Westville Medium B Correctional Centre in Durban, South Africa. In the event, staff from the university of KwaZulu-Natal participated along with staff from the Department of Correctonal Services, international experts and male and female offenders and ex-offenders. The aim of the symposium was to generate a number of recommendations for integrating theatre arts in the personal development and rehabilitation of offenders. This report includes unique video footage.

Live verslag ICAF

Het Liverpoolse Tenantspin maakt Community TV. Op het ICAF 2008 zal Tenantspin vanuit een geïmproviseerde studio met behulp van festivalbezoekers het programma verslaan.

International Community Arts Festival 2008

From 26 through 30 March 2008 the fourth edition of the International Community Arts Festival will take place in and around the Zuidplein Theatre in Rotterdam. In addition to theatre, the expanded festival will now also include other art disciplines like dance, music, visual arts and new media.

Stream interview with Rustom Bharucha

Eugene van Erven (Community Art Lab) interviewed leading intercultural theorist and dramaturge Rhustom Bharucha (Kalkotta, India). During the webcast, Bharucha commented on recent Dutch community performance projects. You can watch the webstream in our archive.

Live stream interview with Rustom Bharucha

13.12.2007 15:00 to 17:00.

On 13 December 2007 between 3 and 5 p.m. the internationally renowned cultural critic Rustom Bharucha will be interviewed live on this website by Eugene van Erven of the Community Art Lab. The subjects include a number of recent developments in the Dutch community art scene (video images of which will also be incorporated).

Community Art Cultural Sunday

On 23 September 2007, the Community Art Lab will produce a 1-day festival of performances and community art interactions all around Utrecht.

Between Past and Future: Re-imagining ‘our times’ in theatre today

In this presentation Rustom Bharucha reflects critically on the gap between past and future, he begins by asking a question - ‘where are we at this point of time?’ - posited at a juncture in time (the start of the ‘new millennium’), a moment of restructuring for Lift and a point of review and revaluation for himself. He evokes a journey with different paths taken, unpredictable and serendipitous; with divergence but also convergence.

Who Cares

20.09.2007 09:00 to 21:30.

A working conference for professionals from the care services and the arts concerned with children and young people in crisis situations

Join Artcorps

Artcorps is like the Peace Corps but for artists. Through community arts projects, artists educate and inspire people to participate actively in improving the environmental, health, and social conditions in their communities.

Mostarski Teatar Mladih

Since 1974 the Youth Theatre of Mostar has been producing European classics and ensemble-developed theatre pieces with Mostar youth.

Art and Troubled youth: Community Art, Therapy and Emotive’s Reverse Development Aid

In the days surrounding our Community Art Cultural Sunday, on 23 September 2007, we will be organizing workshops and other interactive encounters between community artists, art therapists, professionals from the world of trauma care.

Living With Differences

Living With Differences is a community art training project for recently graduated theatre makers.