Institute APIS

Zavod APIS/Institute APIS was established in 2012 as socially engaged institute with a vision to promote social inclusion and empowerment of those most vulnerable and marginalized. Primarily we focus our work on migrants. We have done workshops with children and youth with migrant background, with young unemployed migrants and with people with migrant background from global South. As tools of empowerment we are mainly using video, photography, multi/trans media and new technologies. The goals we are pursuing are knowledge transference and giving voice to the socially excluded or marginalized. We use accessible and inclusive methodologies as participatory video, documentary video making, documentary photography, mobile video filmmaking… We have created and co-produced several documentaries and produced photo and transmedia exhibitions. We also work with internationally acclaimed artists to highlight the overlooked themes. In this frame we produced the first transmedia exhibition in Slovenia titled Migration (2014). We are making further steps and plan to incorporate new, but accessible technologies into our creative and socially responsible work even deeper. We would also like to share the knowledge we have gained and develop it further in terms of social entrepreneurship and raising employability.