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b'According to the ICAF website, "ICAF is a multi-trajectory, international program. We are at once a digital platform, a global network, and, every three years, an international festival that emerges in Rotterdam, showcasing community arts organisations, professionals, and practices from across the world. ICAF\\u2019s main goal is to offer space for reflection and development of the community arts movement, locally, nationally, and internationally. \\n\\nEverything ICAF produces is built around the idea that community art is a worldwide, cutting edge and urgent arts movement \\u2013 the only one of its kind. Furthermore, for ICAF, understanding the context behind each community arts practice is central to all that we do, to ensure we actively build bridges to communicate between differences in knowledge and experiences across social, economic, geographic, and political boundaries."\\n\\nSophie Hope and Owen Kelly attended this year\\u2019s festival - ICAF 9 - with a view to meeting people and producing a series of podcasts to help capture the energy of the festival and help spread some of the ideas. In this first special ICAF edition of our podcast, Sophie and Owen meet in a room at one of the festival sites, on the last full day of the festival, to look back over what they have experienced.'