10 August 2010
Encounters Film Festival Brings World-Class Documentaries to the Big Screen
It’s again time for the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival 2010, which is now in its 12th year.
This year, the festival, which takes place from 12 – 29 August (a month later than in previous years, because of the World Cup), will again feature some of the best documentaries to be seen.
These are not [...]
28 June 2010
Public Art in the New IRT Stations will Resonate with Cape Town’s History
One of the legacies of the World Cup is the beginnings of a brilliant public transport system – a subway on wheels – built on the model of Curitiba (Brazil) and Bogota (Columbia). Both these cities have been exceptionally successful at addressing the needs of the middle classes and the poor and, significantly cutting [...]
28 June 2010
Breakfasts bringing designers together
Furniture design was the focus of the monthly Creative Clusters Breakfasts at Bird Café in June.
Designers Porky Hefer of creative consultants Animal Farm and the Pedersen and Lennard team of Luke and James joined Ziggy Strohbach of the Department of Industrial Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Bernadette Isaacs of the Western Cape [...]
28 June 2010
Interns boost the Creative Cape Town Team
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, [...]
28 June 2010
Creative Week Cape Town will provide a Platform for Creatives
Creative Cape Town, together with a range of partners including Cape Town Tourism, The Loeries Awards and a number of event managers and venues, has initiated Creative Week Cape Town. Taking place annually prior to and culminating in the Loeries Awards weekend in Cape Town, this event will be a “user generated” festival that [...]




