This month the Creative Cape Town team says goodbye to Stuart Denoon-Stevens, who has been working as a Creative Cape Town Staff member on the East City Design Initiative, on a draft Development and Contextual Framework Plan. This will provide the Cape Town Partnership with a guide to the current knowledge about the area, as well as an initial guide to the spatial component of the ECDI project. Stuart, who recently celebrated his graduation with a Masters in City and Regional Planning (UCT), is leaving to take up a position as an Assistant Professional Officer in Land Use Management at the City of Cape Town.
Stuart has been one of five new staff and interns who have been working on the Creative Cape Town team. Interns are not usually paid and use the opportunity to learn how to work in a professional environment, grow their networks and learn new skills.
Azwi Netshikulwe has completed a Masters Degree in Sociology (UCT) and is also an intern on the East City Design Initiative, where he has been working on a survey to understand the needs of the creative industries in the city for an innovation hub focused on design ICT and media in the East City. You can check out the survey here.
Caroline Reusch is a student at Macromedia University of Applied Science, Stuttgart, Germany, where she is studying towards a Bachelors Degree in Media Management, Public Relations and Communication. She has been assisting Creative Cape Town on a range of events including The ECDI Symposium, the Creative Clusters Bird Café Breakfasts, the Cape Town Design Network events and a planned Creative Week.
Noxolo Victoria Cacambile is a final year Graphic Design student from the Cape Peninsula’s University of Technology at the Bellville campus. Noxolo is on an internship during her mid year holidays and has been working on designs for various events and exhibitions in which Creative Cape Town has been involved.
The other parts of the Creative Cape Town team include Lorelle Bell who joined as the World Design Capital Bid Co-ordinator this year and Zayd Minty the Creative Cape Town Co-ordinator.
Zayd has worked since 1992 as a cultural producer, researcher, and consultant in Cape Town. He has an interest in culture, cities, and diversity in the South. As an independent producer he curated a number of contemporary art projects, festivals, dialogic forums and conferences including: A Place Called Home (2004), BLAC (1998 – 2003), Returning the Gaze (2000), Liberating Zones (2003), and The VANSA Conference on visual arts: Transformation | Growth | Opportunity (2006). He has served at a senior level in a range of cultural institutions including the District Six Museum (2003 – 2005) and Robben Island Museum (1997-98) , as well as on a number of boards. He is currently a board member of The Magnet Theatre Company , the Gold of Africa Museum and a Minstrels Carnival development board. As a research associate of the Isandla Institute – an urban studies think tank – he drafted a discussion document on cultural diversity in Cape Town entitled: Culture and the Right to the City: Diversity in the Cultural Ecology of Cape Town. He has written for various publications including Art South Africa and Urban Studies.
