What is
Creative Cape Town all about?

Creative Cape Town communicates, supports and facilitates the development of the creative and knowledge economy in the Central City of Cape Town. The key aim is to facilitate dynamic partnerships in the central city, in line with the goals of the central city development strategy, to make the central city into a leading centre for knowledge, innovation, creativity and culture in Africa and the South.

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Kala Ghoda arts festival in Mumbai, photo by Lisa Burnell

29 April 2013

Making the case for arts festivals

From Edinburgh to Mumbai, Cologne to Kampala, the growth in number and scale of arts festivals  indicates a global shift to reclaim the means of cultural production. This heightened awareness of celebrating and promoting local creativity gives societies an opportunity to redefine urban identities, form new communities, and express and share their unique individual and [...]

16 April 2013

Freedom Day concert: McCoy Mrubata, Moreira Chonguica and Paul Hanmer at City Hall

16 April 2013

Infecting the city with sound

3 April 2013

Public art: a right or a privilege?

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Communicating
Creative Cape Town

Integral to Creative Cape Town’s mandate is communicating the developments, trends, opportunities and news about the creative and knowledge economy in Cape Town central city. Information is key in developing a proactive creative milieu, a prerequisite to Cape Town becoming a truly creative city. Creative Cape Town’s communication is aimed primarily at the creative and [...]

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Design in
Cape Town

Great design requires fresh, open, responsive thinking and doing: in other words, creativity. Creativity in design feeds innovation, and innovation, essentially problem-solving, drives progress. Innovation is key to our economic development.

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