12 May 2012
Public art and a people’s history in the Cape Town City Centre
Step out of the gallery and onto the pavement: Go find these public memorials, which all form part of The Sunday Times Heritage Project – an initiative to help us reflect on where we’ve come from and where we’re headed. Mannenberg What: Passersby on Bloem Street are invited to run a stick along this musical [...]
3 May 2012
10 easy ways to support our creative industries
It might have taken a while, but finally your mother/brother/auntie/friend is coming around to the fact that you didn’t study medicine or accounting and that your creative career is here to stay. Perhaps you took them to Design Indaba recently and they realised that creativity is pretty hot in Cape Town right now. Now they [...]
2 May 2012
International heavyweights to speak at the Loeries seminar
This year, the Loeries Judging migrates to Cape Town’s iconic City Hall and becomes part of Creative Week CT (15 to 23 September). The week includes a seminar on Friday 21 September, which promises to inspire its audience with insights from a selection of top global brand leaders – including the Loeries four international jury [...]
25 April 2012
Local creatives give Cavendish a lift
Change is not easy, especially change that effects over 1 million shoppers on a monthly basis. In an effort to alleviate the strain of its restorations on shoppers, Cavendish Square ingeniously turned to the classic panacea of creativity. “To bring the elevators up to date would involve serious reconstruction in the centre over a period [...]
10 April 2012
Arts Aweh: Looking at public art through the eyes of youth
As part of a programme called Arts Aweh!, over 400 grade 10 to 12 learners drawn from communities across Cape Town were led by local artists – like hip-hop artist Quintin Jitsvinger Goliath and performer, poet and writer Khadija Tracey Heeger – around this year’s Infecting the City performances. What did they think of it? [...]




