Activities
Throughout the year we have an extensive programme offering a wide range of activities to raise the profile of Catalan illustration and meet illustrators’ needs.
All APIC members enjoy the paid activities we offer for a special price, but these are also open to any professional who wishes to attend.
Junceda Illustration Awards
The Professional Illustrators Association of Catalonia (APIC) knows it is vital to recognise the work of professionals in the world of illustration. For this reason, we created the Junceda Awards in 2003, with prize categories that reward all areas of illustration.
The Junceda Awards aim to reward and publicise illustration in all its fields of application.
The Junceda Awards create exposure and media impact that help legitimise our sector, while spreading knowledge on illustration among the public at large.
We invite you to view the work of previous years’ participants on the Junceda Awards website.
Barcelona Illustration Festival, Bill Festival
The Bill Festival is your annual illustration event. Illustration – and all the fields comprising what we understand as visual communication – is a discipline that can improve people’s living conditions. It can raise awareness, inform and communicate about society’s urgent problems. It does so from the perspective of innovative, creative, up-to-the-minute solutions that have an impact on the collective imagination within a specific spatial and temporal context.
The Bill Festival is organised around a theme that becomes the programme’s cohesive thread each year.
The conferences and round tables in which creators participate highlight how they undertake their commissions in relation to the proposed theme.
Every year, the festival invites both illustration professionals of recognised prestige and those who can provide valuable insight on the theme.
In 2021 edition, the Bill Festival reflected on the concept of illustration and travel. It was held in a fully online format via direct videos on APIC’s YouTube channel.
You have this year’s programme along with documentation from previous years on BILL FESTIVAL.
Professional talks, webinars and debates within the profession
At APIC we organise sessions to explore specific aspects of our profession. These are proposals from the sector in response to the matters that most concern illustrators. They aim to transfer knowledge from experts and key members of our professional collective out to the APIC community.
Browse our collection of one-off talks.
Explore them and join in! Tell us what you’d like us to discuss. We’ll keep it in mind for future talks.
Training
Throughout the year we programme courses that are open to all illustrators in the sector, people linked to the profession and illustration students.
The aim of these courses is to provide specialised training and promote the sharing of experiences within the professional illustration collective and people related to the sector.
Currently, all training is undertaken online, enabling all illustrators to participate, regardless of where they are based.
Browse our training opportunities
Portfolio review
APIC is a professional mechanism for connecting the various stakeholder groups within our sector. With the aim of acting as facilitators and a meeting place for professional development in the illustration sector, we organise regular portfolio review sessions. We invite stakeholders from all areas connected to our profession to judge illustrators’ work.
These sessions consist of a virtual meet-up in which illustrators can enrol by email invitation. We select part of their work and exhibit it on our virtual meet-up platform at the scheduled time.
Browse the portfolio reviews undertaken
In our 2021 Activity Report you have all the activities we ran throughout the year.
