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).

Kees Epskamp

The late Kees Epskamp was a senior staff member of the National Unesco Commission in the Netherlands, where he coordinated its World Heritage programme. Before that he worked at the Centre for Education in Developing Countries (CESO), where for many years he was a prolific author of publications on theatre and development.

Spotlight 4: Theatre and Development

In this session, artists from Europe, Africa and Latin America presented their experiences and visions. The discussion was led by Professor Tim Prentki of the University of Winchester (UK).

Creación colectiva

The publication of an interview with Santiago Garcia in the influential theatre magazine Escena and the simultaneous tent theatre tour through Costa Rica of a Candalaria performance constituted the country’s first direct exposure to collective creation, which by then had become widely regarded as the engine behind the influential ‘new’ popular theatre movements of Colombia and Cuba.

From Tim Prentki’s Preface to Kees Epskamp’s book

Theatre for Development (TfD) - whereby communities are enabled to address issues of self-development through participation in a theatre process - has grown in ubiquity, accessibility and importance over four decades. It began in the 1970s as a strategy for popular education with adults and children in sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Latin America.