26 May 2021
Equal Voices
Zayd Minty spoke on the online panel for the Centre for Creative Arts (ULKZN) on: how art draws on histories in order to allow individuals and communities to reflect, critique, and learn from our past to inform public discourse.
22 April 2021
Soft Launch of the Local Cultural Governance Network of South Africa
Creative City South and Wits CPM hosted the online dialogue: Culture, Sustainable Development and Cities in South Africa as a soft launch of the new LCGN of SA. See: https://creativecitysouth.org/culturesdgs
2 February 2021
doual'art in Forces of Art
The article "doual’art: Art, Publics, and the City as a 'Field of Experience'" was published in a book commissioned by Prince Claus Fond and HIVOS: Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World. Co-written by Zayd Minty with Rike Sitas, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Vaughn Sadie and Naomi Roux based on fieldwork done in July 2019. See: https://forces-of-art.org/book
10 December 2020
7 Keys Workshop in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Zayd Minty facilitated the first workshop using UCLG Culture Commitee's new 7 Keys approach to localising culture and the SDGs. The workshop was held in partnership with the Municipality of Bulawayo and organised by Nhimbe Trust, an arts development organisation. See: http://www.agenda21culture.net/our-cities/bulawayo
29 September 2020
SALGA Conference on Culture and Sustainable Development
An online conference for the South African Local Government Agency, the convened by Prof Sirayi of the Tshwane Unoiverity of Technology. Zayd Minty presented an aspect of his Phd study on Newtown and Urban Cultural Governance. See: https://www.salga.org.za/Salga%20News339.html
15 September 2020
The Rome Charter - South African Resonances
Creative City South ran its first online dialogue to discuss the new Rome Charter in a dialogue including international and South African speakers. See: https://creativecitysouth.org/rome-charter-agenda
August 2020
Research on Community Arts Centres in South Africa
On behalf of the national Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and Sibikwa Arts Centre, Zayd Minty produced a report entitled Towards a Redefined Approach and Mandate for Community Arts Centre Ecosystem Development in South Africa. The report collated research done on community arts in Limpopo, Free State, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga to inform the DAC's strategy in the area of cultural participation. For a summary of the report: https://bit.ly/3ys1kQR
2-6 March 2020
Shukuma Mzansi! 3 International Community Arts Centres Dialogue
Zayd Minty and Munyaradzi Chatikobi of Wits CPM presented and facilitated in Port Elizabeth/Gqebergha and Durban/Ethekweni for this road show exploring ideas of national cultural frameworks and municipal policies to support community arts centres. The road show had the support and involvement of government agencies - SALGA, DSAC, COGTA See: https://www.salga.org.za/Salga%20News368.html
26-27 February 2020
African Centre for Cities SA-EU Dialogue
This session dealt with Cultural Mapping, Planning and Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Just Urban Development. Zayd Minty and Avril Joffe of Wits CPM attended and responded. An extensive report emerged. See: https://www.africancentreforcities.net/acc-hosts-cultural-dialogue-in-cape-town/
12 February 2020
Co-Creating the City: Culture and the SDGs in African Cities
Zayd Minty presented at this session for the 2nd networking event of Culture at Work Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe. See: https://panafricanvisions.com/2020/02/culture-at-work-africa-second-networking-workshop-opens-in-harare/ and see here for more info on the broader initiative: https://www.cultureatworkafrica.net
19 October 2019
Culture-Led Placemaking in Johannesburg
Creative City South ran its first workshop in Johannesburg showcasing the work of The Trinity Session, Coloured Cube and the Maker Valley Collective. See: https://creativecitysouth.org/blog-1/2019/10/30/culture-led-placemaking-in-johannesburg-practitioner-perspectives
31 July 2019
Effecting Cultural Change from Below: Cape Town and Bandung
Laura Nkula-Wenz was the co-author, with Zayd Minty of the article "Effecting Cultural Change from Below: a comparison of Cape Town and Bandung's pathways to urban cultural governance" in Cultural Trends Volume 28, 2019 - Issue 4: Special Issue: Situating the local in global cultural policy. See: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09548963.2019.1644785
2 & 3 April 2019
UCLG Culture Summit Buenos Aires
Zayd Minty convened a day long workshop with municipal culture directors from latin America - Escazu (Costa Rica); La Paz (Bolivia); Buenos Aires (Argentina); Quito (Ecuador) - and with participants from Gqeberha/NMB (South Africa), Bandung and Jakarta (indonesia) and chaired a report back session on the culture in the global South at the 2019 UCLG Culture Summit. See: http://www.agenda21culture.net/summit/3rd-culture-summit
20-22 March 2019
Cultural Pluralism in Cities of the Global South
Zayd Minty presented the joint paper on Effecting Cultural Change from below: Cape Town and Bandung at this conference at the European University Institute, Global Governance Programme. See: https://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/cultural-pluralism-in-cities-of-the-global-south-conference/
16 & 17 August 2018
Researchers discuss an agenda to further the use of culture in city making
As part of an African Centre for Cities Seminar series to explore the governance implications of working with culture for city transformation, initiated by CCS, the following researchers presented their research. This included Avril Joffe (Wits CPM), Valmont Layne (UWC) Zayd Minty (CCS), Naomi Roux (UCT Architecture), Laura Nkula-Wenz, Anna Selmeczi, Rike Sitas, Vaughn Sadie - with respondents including Marco Morgan, Brenda Skelenge, and Deidre Prins Solani. The event was supported by SALGA. See: https://creativecitysouth.org/blog-1/2018/9/5/edging-forward-the-cultural-governance-research-agenda