A&C Maps: For more than 20 years, A&C Maps has been producing informative pocket guides highlighting cultural and entertainment hotspots. A&C Maps produced Creative Cape Town’s new series of maps showing the wealth of creative and knowledge economy activity in the central city.
Africa Centre: The Africa Centre is a buzzing hub of City cultural life, organising and promoting key Cape Town creative events such as Infecting the City, the Spier Contemporary fine art competition, The Pan African Space Station and the Badalisha! Poetry Xchange.
Bell-Roberts Publishing: Bell-Roberts publishes South Africa’s only contemporary art magazine, Art South Africa, and the studio also produces the Creative Cape Town Annual.
Cape Africa Platform: Cape Africa Platform (CAPE) is a rotating programme of exhibitions, discussions, education and curator development that explores the complexity of uniquely African artistic expression.
Cape Craft and Design Institute: For more than 10 years the Cape Craft and Design Institute has been helping crafters create viable and sustainable businesses through regular workshops and promoting the work of Cape Town’s crafters locally and internationally.
Cape Film Commission: The film industry currently contributes more than any other creative industry to the income of the City: the Cape Film Commission facilitates film production in Cape Town.
Cape MIC: The Cape Music Industry Commission seeks to create a more cohesive and profitable music scene in the Western Cape through training, networking and research.
Cape Peninsula University of Technology: The Cape Peninsula University of Technology houses one of the largest design faculties in the country, including one of the only two industrial design programmes. The Design and Informatics departments are merged, as a forward-thinking acknowledgement of their synergies. Disciplines include industrial design, fashion, surface design, interior design, multimedia and architectural technology. CPUT is integral to the East City Design Initiative.
Cape Town Fashion Council: The Cape Town Fashion Council is an industry-elected body representing and supporting the whole clothing and textile value chain. The Council runs an annual fashion conference at Design Indaba and guides Cape Town Fashion Week.
Cape Town Festival: The Cape Town Festival takes place annually over a week in the Company Gardens. After 10 years, it still embraces its original premise of “One City, Many Cultures”.
Cape Town International Jazz Festival: The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is one of the City’s most successful creative events, both financially and culturally. The annual event at the Cape Town Convention Centre and surrounding venues draws a diverse and appreciative crowd.
Coffeebeans Routes: Aimed at curious travellers, this is a City-based tour company with a difference, introducing visitors to musicians, artists, storytellers and spiritual leaders from all walks of life and in places where tourists don’t usually go. Coffeebeans Routes tours have been described as “cultural treasure hunts”.
Design Indaba: This prestigious annual conference and its affiliated Expo and quarterly magazine put Cape Town design on the international map, enticing the greatest design minds from around the country and the world.
Design Infestation: This Gardens-based boutique design agency focuses on intelligent design solutions and worked with A&C Maps to create Creative Cape Town’s new series of maps.
District Six Museum: This important museum-cum-memorial in the East City commemorates the cultural life of one of the City’s most diverse areas, razed during the implementation of the Group Areas Act during the Sixties and Seventies.
Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts brings together various centres and departments in UCT’s Faculty of Humanities, and provides spaces for artists to collaborate, notably on the City’s Hiddingh Campus. Involved entities include the drama department, SA College of Music, UCT School of Dance, the Centre for Creative Writing, the Michaelis School of Fine Art, the Institute for Film and New Media and the Baxter Theatre Centre.
Infecting the City: The Africa Centre drives this unique festival of performance art that takes the City as its stage, shifting the way we interact with and perceive Cape Town.
The Loeries: The ad industry’s prestigious annual award-ceremony (and three-day party) comes to Cape Town for the first time in 2009, entrenching the City as a leader in commercial creative work.
Tank: This innovative Cape Town start-up helps people build simple, efficient websites in minutes. Sign-up is free and the application is easy, in line with Tank’s ‘it just works’ ethos.
Tsai Design Studios: Emerging award-winning designer Y Tsai of Tsai Design Studios creates exciting furniture design (including innovative solutions for small spaces) and architecture. He conceptualised Creative Cape Town’s “story tree” stand at the 2009 Design Indaba.
Urban Renewal: Justin Slack’s design, music and culture blog looks at creative developments with a distinctly South African bent.
XCON Films: This Cape Town-based film production company has produced many arts and faith-based programmes and is currently working on What’s on in Cape Town.
Zip Zap Circus: This circus performance school, currently housed in a tent on the Foreshore, trains kids to do “extraordinary things”, growing their skills and confidence.
