+ ARTE - LIXO no Planeta e na Alma (meaning - More Art and less Garbage in the Planet and in the Soul) is a collaboration effort between UK, with Sol Green Art, APSC Business Alliance, APSC, MIND THE GREEN and Brazil with SERINTER (Extraordinary Secretariat for International Relations). This project is working with the soul of the communities in London through Arts Therapy Workshops that aims at healing the pain of the human souls by using creativity to transform garbage into art. From the experience of APSC Art Therapy teacher Solange Castro and her experience with garbage collection, art and her philosophical and therapeutic baggage; aims to re-signify history by disarming conceptual traps that allow rethinking and re-signifying traumas and frustrations, as well as understanding oneself. RecogniSing in the artistic process that transforms the garbage, the useless, the dirty, the ugly into something beautiful, useful, valuable and admirable, a metaphor that applied to life itself has the possibility of rethinking, reviewing your beliefs, resignifying your negative experiences, giving other alternatives for understanding their experiences, thus allowing them to broaden the horizon of perception of the permanent construction of the new.

Our Capoeira Camp is fun-filled days of Capoeira, dance, acrobatics, music, games, the Portuguese language, and much more. Your child does not need prior Capoeira class experience to join our Camp.

Esta formação I.M.A.G.E.M. Base Model da organização APSC (African Portuguese Speaking Community Ltd. By Guarantee) na Inglaterra é estruturada para indivíduos e Profissionais que após a formação estão preparados a superar adversidades involuntárias que o trabalho em equipa seja no trabalho ou em familia ou entre amigos apresenta a estes. Atendendo especificamente o mercado afro-português.

The BARKING & DAGENHAM CAPOEIRA & KIZOMBA DANCE LESSONS Project will put together an Afro Portuguese cultural performance with Traditional dance, Arts and martial arts, so the Afro Portuguese community can be part of cultural celebrations such as Faith and Belief and Big Half Marathon. Together with other cultural communities we aim to celebrate, learn and exchange moments, experiences and values. These events will be an opportunity for all communities to better understand each other, reduce loneliness, build social ties and improve wellbeing by strengthening physical and mental health within the BD borough and beyond. By introducing the Afro-Portuguese traditional dancers, capoeira and arts and craft we are also inviting the Afro-Portuguese residents to engage in activities that will for sure have a lasting effect on them, for those participating in particularly, but also for those attending the events. Perhaps this project could potentially become a yearly occurrence, which would be a big step in the community and its member´s relevance in the UK landscape.

Methodology developed from my experience and experience with garbage collection, art and my philosophical and therapeutic baggage; aims to reframe history by disarming conceptual traps that make it possible to rethink and give new meaning to traumas and frustrations as well as to understand oneself. Recognizing in the artistic process that transforms the garbage, the useless, the dirty, the ugly into something beautiful, useful, valuable and admirable, a metaphor that applied to life itself has the possibility of rethinking, reviewing its beliefs, reframing its negative experiences, giving other alternatives of understanding their experiences thus allowing to broaden the horizon of perception of the permanent construction of the new. Practical foundation The application consists of promoting well-being in artistic practice, providing the look for oneself and the possibility of reframing their traumas and frustrations. Based on the development of the work, the artistic piece, recovering their self-esteem and stimulating their construction and recovery of identity, which will be strengthened in the support and solidarity of one another that occurs in the sharing of their stories, frustrations and achievements. The therapeutic process takes place in the subtlety of respecting the rhythm of events that occur naturally, respecting the individual processes of awareness that are fostered by art and coexistence in the collective, insofar as the spaces for artistic development are also a space for it speaks of outburst, of sharing so that together we can join forces and weaknesses to recognize and transform it into healing. General objectives Develop from recycling, an environmental and human awareness capable of contributing to the recovery of the planet and the restoration of the soul.

APSC and Yaneise Ramos founder of C.A Lounge want to present The Art Spectacle as a cross-art event and shine the light on the Portuguese speaking community by exposing creativity from the Afro-Portuguese community to promote a stronger and more integrated arts community. Together we are better, a united art across various communities in London dedicated to raising good relations – one which is strengthened by its diversity, where the expression of art is celebrated and embraced. Furthermore, the unity within the community means a variety of interests to offer its people, the artists and art lovers. A growth in support and exposure will result in a boost of sales, increase of opportunities and recognition, a positive community impact and active contribution to a stronger arts and unity in the Barking and Dagenham communities.

APSC since June 2018 to this date, had helped over 3000 people from the Afro Portuguese community all over UK with housing, education, translation, interpretation, finding jobs, settlement status, with welfare support and mental health guidance, in partnership with OBASEKI Solicitors APSC have been providing legal aids to the Afro Portuguese Communities. And just in the BD borough APSC had helped more than 300 afro Portuguese families from these last 4 years navigating through Brexit and Covid-19, have successful build a strong relationship with other diverse communities by engaging in local community activities such as having Capoeira Performing on the 14th of February at the Free Family Fun Day with a number of small local BD Organisations and at the Youth Parade on the 5th June, we also managed to have a Stand, a Capoeira Performance, a traditional Brazilian Afro Dance Performance and a Traditional Cape Verde Dance Performance at the BD Carnival on the 9th of July 2022. APSC have been working in partnership with BD Giving, Closed Collective Group, UKON CAREERS, Faith & Believe Forum, Barking & Dagenham Youth Dance, Triangles, JDS, Barking and Dagenham Carnival, Capoeira Club London and Mola Movement (capoeira school). During COVID 19 APSC managed to offer to 10 kids of the community 5 coding lessons to 10 children from 10 to 18 years of age from the community. It was delivered only on Saturdays from 2-3pm UK time, it also managed to deliver an Arts Therapy Workshops during covid-19 for 15 single mothers of the community, also deliver over 15 online training programs aiming at influencing single mothers, youth and children's within the community so that they have a positive mindset during the very difficult pandemic times, and we have been also participating and collaborating with Faith & Belief Fun Run, Walking Together a family-friendly walking and social open to all cultures and communities in Barking and Dagenham funded by the London Marathon Charitable Trust. We have also recently managed to have an office space in the MAKE IT Building where we intend to deliver our capoeira, Batuke and Kizomba lessons if funds allows. We have recently also started to deliver regular business coaching and network events in person and online in partnership with APSC Business Alliance, and have over 600 community members register on our website and on the 5th of November we successfully delivered our second Afro Portuguese Award Nomination Event 2022. This event will be an opportunity for the diverse local organisations, businesses, families and groups within the BD borough to engage with the many local Afro Portuguese Organisations and businesses receive exposure and join other individuals, organisations, within the borough and have coalitions with our community aiming at sensitizing them about the importance of engagement and participation, community understanding issues, so that together we can promote prevention efforts, and create and strengthen community partnerships. The theme of the Award Nomination Event ‘Together we can MAKE IT HAPPEN’ in 2022 is “With Our Actions Today, We Live Safer and Better Tomorrow.” This theme reminds us that simple, daily acts of prevention, like helping a friend make positive choices or supporting a family member in need, can lead to better and safer lives for each of us today, and stronger, happier communities, tomorrow. The purpose of this event was to increase dialogue, reduce prejudices, encourage engagement & participation and encourage understanding of a community within the diverse BD communities.

African Portuguese Speaking Community (APSC) is organizing an Award Nomination Event in observance of the lack of engagement, participation and understanding of the Afro Portuguese Speaking Communities' issues within the Borough of Barking and Dagenham and within the UK. Our organization’s mission in the delivery of the Award Nomination Event is to Increase dialogue, reduce prejudices, encourage engagement & participation and encourage understanding of a community within the diverse communities in the BD borough, which will be held on the 5th of November 2022, at the MAKE IT building, at 15 Linton Road, Barking IG11 8HE, it is an underused building alongside a community of dynamic industries. This event will bring energy and social value to the building while engaging the diverse communities within the BD borough.