Creation & expression
We create educational and artistic workshops and support independent cultural creation and creative expression.
ABOUT US
About us.
APICCO connects art, education and social participation, with human dignity at the centre.
APICCO · COMMUNITY BASED ART
APICCO is an artistic refuge, with windows without bars, making room for the best version of society’s unseen side.
VISION
Equal opportunities, without exclusion.
A society that treats every person equally and provides equal opportunities without discrimination, economic, social or age barriers, physical limitations or borders, with absolute respect for human dignity.
MISSION
Access to art, room to grow.
To promote and facilitate access to, and engagement with, the arts — theatre and artistic creation more broadly — as a means of supporting people’s emotional, social and cognitive development, while empowering incarcerated people and preparing their return to their family and social environment.
PURPOSE
Our purpose in practice.
- To organise, design and implement educational and artistic workshops and programmes.
- To produce and promote independent cultural creation and creative expression.
- To cultivate social and life skills for individuals and groups experiencing exclusion — including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, migrants, people with disabilities and unemployed people — through education, artistic creation, training and work.
- To organise events and public-awareness actions addressing social exclusion and prejudice.
- To research, document, evaluate and present artistic programmes carried out in correctional facilities.
- To support the psychological and physical empowerment of vulnerable people and communities.
PHILOSOPHY & PRACTICE
Our philosophy becomes practice.
Our principles are not abstract statements. They are expressed through concrete ways of working, directly rooted in APICCO’s purpose.
Inclusion & empowerment
We use education and art to develop social and life skills and to empower people and groups experiencing exclusion.
Knowledge & awareness
We research, document and present artistic practices and organise actions that raise awareness of social exclusion and prejudice.