A festival to foster creative, collaborative, problem solving, for a more integrated and just Cape Town.

Hip Hop and Youth Development in Cape Town

Can cultural projects targeting at-risk youth effect sustainable socio-economic transformation in cities, and if so how?

youth developmentZayd MintyJuly 12, 2018culture, youth, youth development, music, dance, hip-hop, city, cape town, artsComment

The Perils of Name Changes … and Alternatives.

Name changing of public spaces in resource tense, racialised societies? What are the alternatives for more productive dialogue, towards real transformation?

cultural policyZayd MintyJune 14, 2018cape town, race, city, citizen action, public space, heritage, cultural diversity, transformationComment

Crafting Crisis: How the State Undermines Creative Industries

Can a transformed South African creative economy ecosystem come to being without state investment in industry support bodies?

Memorials and Reconciliation in Cape Town

Can working with memory and memorialisation further reconciliation? An examination of projects in Cape Town.

post-colonialism, public artZayd MintyMay 3, 2018city, urban, cape town, culture, memorial, monument, public art, public space

The Memorial as a Tool for Dialogue

We explore how monuments to conflicted pasts can be turned into opportunities for constructive dialogue and societal change?

public artZayd MintyApril 26, 2018public art, public space, cultural diversity, heritage, cape town, memorial, monument, city, urbanComment

Cape Town's Cultural Policy 2014: A Plan Frustrated?

Telling the story of the development of the Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy 2014 - the only existing municipal cultural policy in Africa.

cultural policyZayd MintyMarch 15, 2018cape town, arts, culture, cultural centers, cultural policy, cultural planningComment

The People's Cultural Policy

Africa's first local cultural policy was an exercise in participatory planning, drawing on the optimism of cultural bodies in Cape Town, who had been denied access previously to use their voice.

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