This article first appeared in NRC Handelsblad, on March 29 th 2008 as ‘Kunst die buurtbewoners met elkaar verbindt’
The International Community Arts Festival goes into the neighbourhoods with performances.A Philippino theatre group re-enacts a mudslide disaster from 2004. There is also a play about the significance of Feyenoord in the neighbourhood.
For a moment it seems as if all possible prejudices are to be confirmed as the Philippino community-arts company Peta begins with the production Infanta. Some photographs are projected, then there is explanation about how people in the region …
