http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art Vrede van Utrecht Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:04:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Expeditie Nieuw West Opent Buurthuiskamer Op 25 oktober jl. vond de feestelijke opening plaats van weer een nieuw station op de kunstroute van Public Amusement. Deze Kunstroute, die anderhalf jaar duurt en gelardeerd wordt door allerlei activiteiten en manifestaties, heet 'Expeditie Nieuw West' en is een vervolg op Expeditie Noord. Hij ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/11/21/expeditie-nieuw-west-opent-buurthuiskamer/ Download link Klik hier voor meer info over het project http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/11/18/filmpje-wittevrouwenveld/ In het najaar van 2007 werkte het 5eKwartier aan een portret van de wijk Voordijkshoorn in Delft. Buurtbewoners fotografeerden hun eigen wereld en deelden verhalen. Kunstenaars verwerkten de snapshots en anekdotes tot 90 korte films die dagelijks vertoond werden in een tijdelijke filmstudio in de wijk. Nu zijn alle foto’s van buurtbewoners vereeuwigd in ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/11/07/5ekwartier-presenteert-fluisterheuvels/ De afgelopen vijf weken heeft de Utrechtse theatermaker Paul Feld (Growing Up in Public) zich verdiept in de wondere wereld van community art in een Maastrichtse Volkswijk. Hieronder zijn persoonlijke impressies. In de loop van november hopen wij het filmpje waar hij het hieronder over heeft ook op deze site ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/de-wondere-wereld-van-community-art-in-wittevrouwenveld/ Zaterdag 4 en zondag 5 oktober 2008 vond de opening plaats van het derde Tolhuistuinfestival in Amsterdam-Noord. In het voorjaar van 2009 opent de Tolhuistuin officieel haar deuren als cultureel centrum voor Amsterdam Noord, maar deze dagen boden alvast een introductie op de muziek, het theater, de kunst en film die ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/tolhuistuinfestival/ Tessa van Gent is in 2005 afgestudeerd van de opleiding Theatere and Education van de de HKU, en in 2006 van de master Theaterdramaturgie van de PSAU. In het onderzoek naar een nieuwe vorm van community theater binnen het project Leven met Verschillen, is Tessa op zoek naar de schoonheid ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/snotneuzen-knikkerzakken/ Güner Güven heeft gedurende vijf maanden het werk overgenomen van Hassan Oumhamed, een goede vriend van hem uit Overvecht en tevens jongerenwerker in  Maartensdijk. Sojos heet het jongerencentrum waar Güner werkt. Wat hem gelijk opviel was dat een aantal van deze jongeren op zo’n jonge leeftijd al zulke heftige dingen ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/maartensdijk/ Lichaam en Ziel wordt een theatervoorstelling, gebaseerd op interviews met vrouwen vanuit verschillende culturele achtergronden. Er is een theatertekst geschreven en de voorstelling wordt gespeeld door professionele actrices. Theatervoorstelling Lichaam en Ziel valt onder Stichting Vida. Vida wil levensverhalen van mensen omzetten in theater. Vida is in 2007 opgericht door theatermaakster ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/lichaam-en-ziel/ Anouk de Bruijn: “Eén gezicht”  (werktitel) Mijn naam is Anouk de Bruijn. In 2006 ben ik afgestudeerd als docent drama/theatermaker aan de Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht. Ik wil met vrouwen uit de wijken Lombok en Oog en Al een theaterproject uitvoeren. De voorstelling die ik met hen ga maken zal gebaseerd ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/een-gezicht/ LEVEN MET VERSCHILLEN is een professionaliseringsprogramma voor vier pas afgestudeerde theatermakers die zich in community art willen bekwamen. Zij wisselen onderling uit en reflecteren op hun werk o.l.v. Paul de Vries van de HKU en Donna Risa, artistiek leider van Stut theater. Ze worden zakelijk begeleid door Jolanda Kamphuis van ZIMIHC. ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/24/leven-met-verschillen/ Door Margreet Zwart Na de audities in februari is de drama workshop eind mei gestart met 7 meisjes en 1 jongen, elke maandagavond in theater de Kleine Berg van United C te Eindhoven. Het is een klein groepje en Renske wil vooral meer jongens er bij en vraagt de deelnemers of ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/10/drama-workshops-voor-de-zomer/ Due to a rapidly increasing demand from Dutch practitioners for updates in Dutch on current projects, we are working very hard to construct a Dutch language version of our site. We hope to launch this new facility early in 2009. Until then, we are making space available on this site, ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/10/lopende-projecten-in-nederland/ Één van de projecten die het CAL momenteel onderzoekt is het jongerenspektakel ‘Radicaal doe FF normaal’ dat half december in Eindhoven in première gaat. Masterstudente Margreet Zwart van de PSAU (Professional School of Arts Utrecht) volgt het proces en zal op deze site regelmatig verslag doen van haar bevindingen. Hier ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/10/10/achtergrond-en-doelstelling/ 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. If you're interested take a look at the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/09/17/interviews-in-de-kunst-in-mijn-buurt-buzz/ Art Culture Nature invites you to share your practice, and research process together! They offer ten fellowships. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/08/29/art-culture-nature-offers-ten-fellowships/ 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 ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/08/22/community-art-lab-research-2008-2011/ 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 ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/07/16/fanfare-de-wetering-daverend-succes/ Stichting DOEN ondersteunt het Community Art Lab van Vrede van Utrecht uit de bijdrage van de Nationale Postode Loterij, omdat het verschillende groepen bewoners en kunstenaars met elkaar verbindt. Actieplan Cultuurbereik Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/07/15/subsidienten-en-fondsen/ 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: Download link http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/07/07/tenantspin-video-impressions-of-icaf-now-online/ 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 ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/07/07/teatro-pasmi-chile-meets-dutch-escape-artist-jos-zandvliet/ IN THE NAME OF THE FATHERS: AN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY-BASED THEATRE PROJECT IN THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS by Eugène van Erven (NOTE: all translations from ‘In the Name of the Fathers’ are mine and are based on the unpublished script from 21 April 2007.) Community art is currently attracting much attention from policy makers, ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/06/27/in-the-name-of-the-fathers/ 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. Four young artists were ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/06/27/living-with-differences-2/ THE OPERA FLAT 2 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. The project started in early March 2007. It built on the earlier ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/06/27/the-opera-flat-2-yo-opera/ 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. Film maker Sanne Sprenger followed ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/06/27/youth-theatre-exchange-documentary-now-online/ 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 ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/06/27/who-cares-conference-video-report-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. This is art produced and performed straight from the heart, by people from all corners of the world. ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/06/05/kunst-in-mijn-buurt-video-now-online/ Read the article about the International Community Arts Festival which took place from 26 until 30 March 2008 in Rotterdam. It first appeared in NRC Handelsblad, on March 29th 2008 as ‘Kunst die buurtbewoners met elkaar verbindt’. Read more http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/05/24/art-that-connects-neighbourhood-residents-with-each-other/ 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 Correctional ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/05/08/offenders-theatre-symposium-durban-sa-10-14-march-2008/ On 11 January 2008, Augusto Boal officially opened the new studio of Formaat Work Place for Participatory Drama in Rotterdam with an inspired speech about his past and current work in and outside Brazil. In this video, the now 76-year-old pioneer of the Theatre of the Oppressed proved himself to ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/05/08/augusto-boal-video-now-online/ Beginning in 2002, Engrenage Noir’s LEVIER Project has encouraged Quebec-based community groups and artists to work together co-creatively. The Community Art and Creative Humanist Activist projects that emerge from these collaborative processes are directly related to the community’s preoccupations and concerns. From the start, LEVIER, a private non-profit granting ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/04/18/community-art-or-finding-the-way-back-home/ This platform is an informal network of community arts officers and other intermediaries between communities and artists. It is led by the longest serving culture broker in the Netherlands, Sikko Cleveringa. Surf to his site. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/04/11/platform-culture-brokers/ Ucee Station is a participatory neighborhood radio and internet television station based in Stefanus cultural centre in Overvecht. Surf to the site. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/04/11/ucee-station/ Kaasschaafcollectief is a Utrecht-based arts organization that produces community arts events in the neighborhood of Kanaleneiland on the west-side of the city. It collaborates with CAL on annual events like the Blend Festival. Surf to the site. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/04/11/kaasschaafcollectief/ M & D is a dance company now based in the Utrecht neighborhood of Overvecht, where the six professional dancers make performances for children aged 4 to 14. More and more M & D seek ways to involve the children in this multicultural area and, in the process, explore the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/04/11/merkx-en-dansers/ SANe is an interactive self-supporting virtual network for people interested in socially inclusive arts. It was established earlier in 2008. CAL's Eugene van Erven met SANe initiator Matthew Taylor at a recent conference in Lund, Sweden (14-16 March 2008), where Matthew spoke about his 'Escape Artists', an organization that works ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/04/11/sane-the-social-arts-network-uk/ ICAF // TENANTSPIN Zuidpleintheater, Zuidplein 60, Rotterdam // vrij 28 tm zo 30 maart TUNE IN TO TENANTSPIN! (klik op het plaatje voor de live stream) ICAF presents LIVE webcast: Het Liverpoolse Tenantspin maakt Community TV. Op het ICAF 2008 zal Tenantspin vanuit een geïmproviseerde studio met behulp van festivalbezoekers het programma verslaan. Daarnaast zal ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/03/25/live-verslag-icaf/ 'In the Name of the Fathers' have been awarded the Kartini Emancipation award of the City of The Hague. This project was documented by CAL. More information about this project. This marks the first time that a group of men has received this award, but the jury, composed of only women, ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/03/07/in-the-name-of-the-fathers-receives-emancipation-award/ From 11 through 14 February, François Matarasso, one of Europe's leading community art experts, visited the Netherlands. Since his keynote address at our first festival and conference in November 2006 CAL has regularly stayed in touch with Matarasso. On February 11th, Matarasso consulted with CAL and Treaty of Utrecht staff ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/01/25/francois-matarasso-in-the-netherlands/ 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. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2008/01/25/international-community-arts-festival-2008/ Eugene van Erven of the Community Art Lab interviewed on 13 December 2007 the internationally renowned cultural critic Rustom Bharucha live on the internet. The subjects included a number of recent developments in the Dutch community art scene. These topics were related to Bharucha's own work and experiences. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/12/06/test-stream/ On 23 September 2007, the Community Art Lab will produce a 1-day festival of performances and community art interactions all around Utrecht. Performances include a try-out of Yo! Opera's 'Opera Flat', plays created by young community theatre makers under auspices of 'Living with Differences', a storytelling show in Overvecht involving ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/09/23/community-art-sunday/ On this site we have collected written information, still and moving images of past and current activities of the Community Art Lab (CAL), an initiative that resides under the larger Vrede van Utrecht ['Peace Treaty of Utrecht'] cultural program of the city and province of Utrecht. By clicking on any ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/07/28/welcome-to-the-community-art-site-of-the-peace-treaty-of-utrecht-2/ by Rustom Bharucha This is the written version of a lecture delivered at the Lift Festival, Riverside Studios, July 3, 2001 In this presentation Rustom Bharucha (see biography below) reflects critically on the gap between past and future, he begins by asking a question - 'where are we at this point of ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/07/13/between-past-and-future-re-imagining-%e2%80%98our-times%e2%80%99-in-theatre-today/ Donna Risa (1970) is artistic co-director of Stut theatre. Before joining Stut in 2000, she worked for ten years as a youth worker in the multicultural neighbourhoods of Hooggraven and Lombok, combining that career with a full time drama teacher’s study at the Utrecht School of the Arts (1991-1996). While working ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/06/16/donna-risa/ François Matarasso (UK) has a background as a community arts practitioner in Britain before moving into research in the 1990s and becoming one of Europe’s most influential community art experts. François Matarasso is an official partner of the Community Art Lab, which supports his research in the Netherlands. You can ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/06/07/francois-matarasso/ Eugène van Erven (1955) has been researching theatre and social change since 1980. He is a senior lecturer/researcher in Theatre Studies at Utrecht University and author of Radical People’s Theatre (Indiana University Press, 1988), The Playful Revolution: Theatre and Liberation in Asia (Indiana UP, 1992) and the book and film ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/06/01/eugene-van-erven/ In 2007, CAL documented three community art projects: (1) THE OPERA FLAT 2 (YO! Opera) (2) LIVING WITH DIFFERENCES (ZIMIHC/HKU/Theaterwerk) (3) IN THE NAME OF THE FATHERS (The Hague, Father Centre) Periodically, we visited rehearsals and other activities related to these projects, wrote updates and published video reports on this site, so cyber surfers ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/29/current-research-projects/ Dr. Dragan Klaic, a Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, teaches arts and cultural policies at Leiden University. Educated in Belgrade and at Yale, he held professorships in Belgrade, Amsterdam and the U.S., led the Dutch Theatre Insitute, co-founded the European Theater Quarterly Euromaske, and led European cultural networks ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/29/dragan-klaic/ Stefan van Hees (1969) was born and raised in Rotterdam. After a technical education he changed to profesional theatre training in Eindhoven, where he graduated in 1997. He immediately joined Rotterdams Wijktheater and has been working there ever since as head of technique and design and as a theatre director. ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/28/stefan-van-hees/ Jan van Sas (46) is artistic co-director of Stut theatre and director of Driftwood, a play he made together with asylum seekers in Utrecht. He was born in Zeist in a working-class family and studied drama therapy in Nymegen. He has been active as a theatre director for more than ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/28/jan-van-sas/ Jana Svobodová is a theatre director with Prague's Archa Theatre. She is also the artistic director of Archa.Lab, an ongoing Archa Theatre project aimed at discovering new ways of theatrical communication. Her work attempts to transcend the themes and forms traditionally used in drama. Drawing specific social groups into the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/28/jana-svobodova/ 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 ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/27/kees-epskamp/ Friday 24th of November 2006 Facilitator: Eugène van Erven (Utrecht University / PSAU / Community Art Lab) Speakers: Donna Risa (Stut), Hans Lein (RWT), Cees Bavius (BAF), Jacques Micquel (Théâtre du Fil), Mia Grijp (Sering). Stut: 'Máxima Comes' Download link This session is about community artists and their relationship with community participants. Directors from different ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/24/spotlight-1-the-neighbourhood/ Anthony Heidweiller is artistic director of the Yo! Opera Festival & Laboratory and developed from singer in the chorus of the Dutch Opera to freelance opera maker. In 1998 he made a flying start with Hot Hands, the Basketball Opera, performed by his own company, Buffo Operamakers. By now he is ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/23/anthony-heidweiler/ Victor Hugo Martínez was born in Guatamala City. He is a facilitator, musician, actor and a senior student in systems engineering. He was a co-founder of  Caja Ludica and has participated in productions throughout Guatemala and Central America. He is a youth rights activist. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/23/victor-hugo-martinez/ Julia Victoria Escobar Holguín was born in Medellín, Colombia. She holds a BA in Childhood Education and has an MA in Cultural Work. In 1987 she co-founded the Artistic and Ecological Coop of the Comparsa neighbourhood ik Medellin. She invented and systematized the 'Lúdica Acción' [ludic activism] methodology which stimulates ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/23/julia-escobar/ Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester where he is Programme Director of the MA in Theatre and Media for Development. He is co-author of Popular Theatre in Political Culture and a member of the editorial board of the Routledge journal Research in Drama ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/23/tim-prentki/ Rien was for many years director of the Utrecht theatre academy and later served on the board of directors of the Utrecht School of the Arts. He has been a driving force behind many important arts initiatives in Utrecht and beyond, including the foundation of a theatre school in Nicaragua ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/16/rien-sprenger/ Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World (Routledge, 1993), The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice (Oxford University Press/Wesleyan, 2000), and Rajasthan: An ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/07/rustom-bharucha/ Saleh (1962, Bagdad, Iraq) is an actor, director, and journalist who received his training at the Bagdad art academy from 1985 through 1991. He fled from Iraq and continued his training in Europe (Rome, Denmark and Amsterdam). He has directed and performed in numerous productions in Iraq, Yemen and the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/07/saleh-hassan/ Ingvild is prodcution manager at Growing Up in Public. She holds a degree in arts education and has almost completed professional training as a photographer. As a highschool student she acted in one of Jeroen Kriek's productions in Wageningen. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/05/ingvild-molenaar/ Mira Kho (curator) is an intercultural art project developer and consultant, connected (among many other things) to Roots & Routes and many visual arts community projects in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leidsendam and now Utrecht. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/01/mira-kho/ Nelly van der Geest is director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the Utrecht School of the Arts. She is also a member of the Art and Economics research group. Her main research concerns intercultural processes in the arts in the Netherlands. Her most recent publication is a collection ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/01/nelly-van-der-geest/ Hans Lein (1966, Roeselare, Belgium) is a director with the Rotterdams Wijktheater. In 2005 he directed  'Baba', a play he made with Moroccan youths and their fathers for Rotterdams Wijktheater. In 2006/7, he directed 'Under Cover', a play with young people in crisis. He is also artistic director of youth ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/05/01/hans-lein/ Annet Henneman (on the right, b. 1956) trained in Grotowski’s theatre laboratory in Poland. Before Nascosto, Henneman created and performed a series of successful solo performances under the theatre name Carte Blanche, together with her then partner Armando Punzo. In this period, they also started making theatre with prisoners ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/29/annet-henneman/ Chris Keulemans is a writer and journalist. In 1994, he visited wartime Sarajevo on the invitation of Haris Pasovic, the theatre director who had produced 'Waiting for Godot' with Susan Sontag that winter. Ever since, the way imagination survives war and crisis has fascinated him. During the nineties, he worked ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/28/chris-keulemans/ Annelies Spliethof graduated from the Maastricht Theatre Academy and subsequently worked for several years as an actress for the well-known educational theatre company GLTwee, which among many other things made plays for miners and working youths in the southern province of Limburg in the 1970s. After that, she worked ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/28/annelies-spliethof/ Last November, CAL organized a 4-day festival that featured community art performances from around the world, including artists from Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Bosnia-Herzegovina and, of course, the Netherlands. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/26/art-in-my-backyard-festival-23-26-november-2006/ Join ArtCorps and use your art-performing and/or visual-to strengthen international development in Central America in 2008.  It's 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.  Each works for ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/24/join-artcorps/ During the first art in my backyard festival (November 2006), CAL also organized a working conference on the question of ownership in community art processes. Under the banner 'whose play is it anyway?', we explored this question in the context of community-based theatre, creative partnerships with schools, modern dance and ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/23/whose-play-is-it-anyway-conference/ Facilitator: Nelly van der Geest (Utrecht School for the Arts) Speakers: Anthony Heidweiller (Yo! Opera), Saskia van der Ree (Yo! Opera), Jeroen Kriek (Growing Up), Ingvild Molenaar (Growing Up) The projects (1) Yo! Opera has established creative partnerships with two schools in Utrecht, the Rietendak primary school and ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/20/spotlight-2-creative-partnerships/ Excerpt from an interview by Cecilia Cruciani and Sarah Gagliarducci with Annet Henneman for the Italian journal Teatro e Stori. ------- I was born in Holland, in Velsen. When I was fifteen years old, the boy I was madly in love with was involved in theatre. He had long hair. For me ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/20/annet-henneman-interview/ Friday afternoon 24th of November 2006 (based on reports by Barbara Borgman & Noëlle van den Brand) Speakers: Hooman Sharifi and Lotte van den Berg Introduction: The main question this discussion addressed was: What is community Art? What is its quality, and what are critical comments one could make about this kind of art? [kml_flashembed ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/14/spotlight-3-development-of-an-art-form/ Elena is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Macedonia. She holds a BFA in Theatre directing and MFA degree in Performance and New Media from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is closely connected to, and inspired by, the political and economical crises in the Eastern ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/07/elena-jovanova/ Jeroen Kriek is one of three artistic directors at Growing Up in Public. He has been with the company since 1992. He studied directing a the Amsterdam Theatre Academy. He has directed over 40 professional productions. He is also a film maker and light designer. He specializes in working with ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/05/jeroen-kriek/ The Community Art Lab (CAL) is a research and experimental production centre that stimulates increased understanding and sustained quality enhancement of community art. To accomplish this CAL organizes public events and encounters between artists, students, policy makers and others interested in community art. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/04/01/the-peace-treaty-of-utrecht-community-art-lab-cal/ Conferences are a professional necessity and not always an enjoyable one: the combination of too much small talk and too much big talk can produce a degree of mental indigestion. Happily, ‘Kunst in mijn buurt’ (Art in my backyard) was not at all like that. A rich programme with outstanding ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/29/reflection-on-the-conference-francois-matarasso/ Community Art in Developing Countries (Co-reporter: Thijs Hazeleger) Facilitator: Tim Prentki (University of Winchester) Speakers: Cristina Marchán, Julia Escobar, Els van Poppel, Odak Isaiah, Sami Gathii, Berith Danse, Fre van Hoofduinen, Roel Twijnstra. Student performers: Mareen Klijn, Maike Flick, Swaantje Nijkamp, Kristien Sonnevijlle, Sanne van Willemswaard, Maaike Kres. Introduction The session ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/29/spotlight-4-theatre-and-development/ Introduction This is a discussion paper, aiming to prompt reflection and discussion among those involved in professional arts training about one specific dimension of their work: community art. I have attempted to sketch out some characteristics of the professional arts education that make it by and large resistant to the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/29/%e2%80%98community-arts-a-missing-link-an-enriching-dimension%e2%80%99/ Facilitator: Chris Keulemans Speakers: Jana Svobodová (Archa Theatre), Annet Henneman (Nascosto), Jacques Micquel (Théâtre du Fil), Jan van Sas (Stut), Stefan van Hees & Annelies Spliethof (RWT), Fleur Bakker (Foundation to promote Happiness). (from left to right: Saleh and Chris) The session begins with a short performance by Iraqi performer Saleh Hassan ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/29/spotlight-5-theatre-and-refugees/ Performed by Saleh Hassan Faris Text by Saleh Hassan Faris in collaboration with Chaalan Charif (translated by Eugène van Erven) Ladies and gentlemen, Let me be frank with you: This performance will be useless to you. Useless to anyone. Except to me. To me, and those who resemble me Those who, like me, feel the heaviness of time, And don’t ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/29/where-is-there-by-saleh-hassan/ Erica Kubic is project manager of  ‘Artists Elsewhere’ with Kunstenaars&CO, studied art history at the University of Amsterdam, taught from 1980 to 1989 art history and museum management at San Jose State University, California, while founding and heading the Art in Public Places committee for that city. Back in the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/erica-kubic/ Titia Bouwmeester calls herself a theatre director, visual artist, project developer and generator of ideas. Her main drive is to stage meetings between people. She has been doing that for many years, as director, cook, artistic director of Dogtroep (between 1999 and 2003), and as a mother. Art, beauty and ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/titia-bouwmeester/ Jos Thie graduated in Labor and Organisational Psychology in 1979. From 1973 through 1983 he worked as an actor and artistic coordinator for music theatre company Werk in Uitvoering (Work in Progress), which specialized in educational and political theatre for young people. From 1984 until 1991 he was the artistic ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/jos-thie/ Saskia van de Ree producer of the Yo! Opera Festival and Laboratory, studied dramaturgy in Utrecht and has worked as a producer in various executive functions in the performing arts. As business manager, she helped promote youth dance company ‘Dansend Hart’ [‘the dancing heart’]internationally from 1994 until 1998 and as ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/saskia-van-de-ree/ Ton van Vlijmen (Rotterdam, 1948) is former head of the Theatre and Education programma of the Utrecht School for the Arts and has been professionally involved in Dutch youth theatre for many years. After studying political science in Nijmegen, he became an actor and drama teacher, first in Nijmegen and ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/ton-van-vlijmen/ Marlies Hautvast graduated in 1974 from the Utrecht theatre academy and immediately began creating theatre in working-class communities, first in Amsterdam and then for almost thirty years in Utrecht. She is a co-founder of Stut theatre, from which she had to retire last year due to budget cuts. She has ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/marlies-hautvast/ Paul Mineur teaches perspectives on culture at the Maastricht theatre academy. As a researcher in the professorial program ‘autonomy and openness’, he investigates the ambitions in theatre to be of importance in the civic domain. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/paul-mineur/ Bruin Otten has been artistic director of the drama teachers’ training programme of the Amsterdam theatre academy since 1993. Last year, this programme paid special attention to community theatre and theatre for social change, which has now led to a new track. http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/bruin-otten/ Peter van den Hurk (1945) graduated from the Maastricht Theatre Academy in 1970. He subsequently directed theatre projects for La Mama in New York and for the Limburg Professional Theatre Ensemble GL. In 1972 he was one of the co-founders of GL2, the educational theatre company of Limburg. Since then, ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/peter-van-den-hurk/ Thera Jonker is head of the School of Theatre & Education of the Utrecht School of the Arts, where she teaches dramaturgy and research. She is also investigates theatrical creative processes in association with ‘Lector’ Nirav Christophe and lectures in the MA programmes Theatre Dramaturgy and Interdisciplinary Arts Education. Thera is ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/thera-jonker/ Paul de Vries (1953) has been a drama teacher, policy maker and innovator since 1979. At the moment he is senior lecturer in theatre and education at the Utrecht School for the Arts. He is also coordinator of the preparatory track of the Utrecht Centre for the Arts. In recent ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/paul-de-vries/ Saskia Valk graduated from the drama teacher’s programme at the theatre academy of Maastricht in 1994. In 1996 she returned to the academy as a lecturer, combining this position with freelance acting and directing in the Netherlands and Belgium. At the moment she is head of theatre making at the ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/saskia-valk/ Gudrun Beckmann is head of the drama teachers programme at the Northern Polytechnic, Leeuwarden. She graduated in Cultural Pedagogy from the University of Hildesheim (Germany) and as drama teacher from the Utrecht School for the Arts. Before moving to Leeuwarden she worked for six years as a dramaturge and ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/gudrun-beckmann/ Maria graduated from the Maastricht Theatre Academy and subsequently taught for many years at the Amsterdam School for the Arts. She has been a driving force behind the Dutch drama teachers association and IDEA, the international Drama and Theatre in Education Association. She operates her own theatre workshop, Studio Maria ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/maria-p-van-bakelen/ The Municipal Youth Theatre of Split has been in existence for 63 years. Its main task is to produce professional theatre pieces for children and young people in Split and its surrounding regions. It also offers theatre training to this age group. Its methods are based on Boal’s theatre of ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/the-municipal-youth-theatre-of-split/ Paul van den Hoven is Professor of Language and Communication at Utrecht University. His research concerns the relation between socially and ideologically motivated rhetoric. Paul is dean of the Professional School of the Arts Utrecht (PSAU). He is not a specialist on community arts or community theatre, but an interested ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/paul-van-den-hoven/ Evette A. Hunkins-Hutchinson is a mature PhD student in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health programme in the Centre for Ethnicity and Health at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.  Her background is in the arts and Black advocacy.  She was born in Nevis, West Indies and has ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/evette-a-hunkins-hutchinson/ Jos Zandvliet (51) worked for thirty years in theatre group Dogtroep and was its artistic director from 1990 until 1995. He left the company in 2005. Dogtroep, which developed an international reputation, brought theatricalized visual art to neighbourhoods and squares. It helped gain respect in the arts world for site-specific ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/jos-zandvliet/ Luc Opdebeeck (Schoten, Belgium, 1960) is artistic director of Formaat, a workshop for participatory drama. Since 1989 he has been conducting theatre of the oppressed projects in Holland and abroad. Together with Augusto Boal - the 'inventor' of the methodology - Luc is the driving force behind the International Theatre ... http://vredevanutrecht.com/community-art/2007/03/28/luc-opdebeeck/