ART BELONGS TO EVERYONE!
Cultural Centre PiiPoo – accessable centre for art and culture
PiiPoo´s community art and art education gives equal possibilities for everyone to participate in cultural life and in art processes. Activities are adapted for all age groups and groups with a special needs, gives opportunities to explore oneself and the surrounding world and offer equal means to express oneself to the others. Participation and art itself supports the wellbeing of children and young people as well as adults.
PiiPoo
- is a private non-profit organization founded in 2005 and started it’s actual activities and opened its 1000 m2 culture center in 2006 in Lempäälä Ideapark shopping centre – 15 km from Tampere city center, in Southern Finland.
- develops inclusive cultural services for all, cultural activities for disabled people and people who need special help in some field in their lives.
- is co-operating with several municipalities and cities, private and public sectors as well as consumers.
- has several ongoing regional and national development projects.
- produces services as well in its own cultural centre as in schools, institutions, hospitals, workplaces etc.
- uses different artforms and methods while producing the activities.
- is a member of Association of Children’s Culture in Finland and works actively in the national network of children's cultural centers.
- is named after the poem Herra PiiPoo (Mister PiiPoo the magician). The poem is written by the beloved poet and academician Kirsi Kunnas (1924–2021) who was a pioneer of modern Finnish children's literature and one of our most beloved authors.
PiiPoo produces
- cultural education program for Lempäälä municipality schools and day care.
- cultural services for children, families and seniors.
- inclusive circus and theatre groups and art camps.
- art projects in retirement homes, different institutions, youth work and child welfare.
- courses and training for professionals.
PiiPoo develops
- accessible cultural services for all and cultural activities that support the wellbeing of the participants
- the implementation of cultural human rights
- genuine participation of citizens through and in arts and culture services
- art and cultural projects with regional, national and international partners
PiiPoo coordinates regional Pirkanmaa's Taikusydän - culture, health and wellbeing network with the City of Tampere and the Wellbeing services county of Pirkanmaa, and is a member of the Association of Children´s Culture in Finland and Finnish Youth Circus Association and it’s national Social Circus steering group.
Staff
PiiPoo has 9 employees and 15 freelance artists and art educators working with the groups and in projects.
