High Peak Community Arts have played an active part in the delegation from EMPAF (East Midlands Participatory Arts Forum), travelling to Holland and taking part in the Caravan of Dreams tour in the lead up to the ICAF event itself.
Working over the course of 5 days, with Paul Steele from Junction Arts, Andy Barrett from Excavate and Millie Ferguson from the Core, Corby Cube we visited locations and projects across Holland, which reflected the great range of community and participatory arts active today. We were joined on the Monday before the festival by Julie Batten from People Express, Madeline Holmes from City Arts and Sally Norman from Soft Touch, and compiled our thoughts and finding as we went, onto the EMPAF Caravan of Dreams blog:
www.empafcaravanofdreams.blogspot.co.uk
We also recorded clips and interviews from each location – which the EMPAF network are using to reflect on the experience over a longer period.
Here are two of Sophie’s blog posts, to give a flavour of the trip: