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APSC GOALS AND MISSION
Our goal is to provide London with a collaborative support and help with housing, employment and welfare, whilst providing a creative experience, to better support emerging APSC talents.
Our mission with our team will be to uplift GASCOIGNE CENTRE in Barking into a cool, membership-based creative space, geared towards connecting the community, families, businesses, artists, performers, influencers, brands, and such like, offering co-working spaces to creatives. The mission will be to help support
all young entrepreneurs, from influencers, small brands, dancers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, artists, musicians, singers fashion designers, writers, filmmakers, while helping and supporting the community with social services. We value young people as we value ourselves. They are the future generation after all, and we want to make young people realise they have the potential to be something special in life. This is the reason why we created the youth project.
APSC, often struggles to include their practice in their daily routine due to lack of space. Space can be very expensive and whilst most of our activities are not funded we will create a co-working space that welcomes all young artists and creative entrepreneurs to sit, relax, shoot, edit, study, paint, dance and ultimately share.
There very little or no space to support community especially for the local everyday APSC parents, youths, talents and artists.
The redesigned space at the GASCOIGNE CENTRE in Barking will also help to unite, promote and support the African speaking Portuguese, the Portuguese and Brazilian Communities by way of a cultural centre. APSC intend to run many events and workshops every year to its community.
The African Portuguese Speaking Community is a non-profit Limited by Guarantee Company aspiring to co-create artist collaborations and projects while providing services through a Community Centre geared towards increasing community participation to empower and build the capacity of vulnerable groups within the community.
The PSCC serves the collective population of 53,000+ including the diasporas of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea the Portuguese and the Brazilians. The PS Centre is an innovative approach to supporting the African Portuguese-Speaking community in the UK and we strongly believe that Together We Are Better.