I am a cultural manager, producer and researcher with an interest in culture, cities, diversity and creative economy in the global South. I have a significant experience of working at various levels of civil society and government Cape Town.
I recently headed up the City of Cape Town's Arts and Culture Department where I had been responsible for developing the City's Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy (2014) - Cape Town being the only African city with a cultural policy.
I played a role in transforming the department which now focusses on Arts and Culture sector co-ordination and capacitation, cultural promotion, culture and public life (incl. public art, memorials and carnival), community cultural development and cultural spaces.
My previous background is as follows:
1. Facilitation Agency: Cape Town Partnership/Creative Cape Town. Here I developed the innovative and successful Creative Cape Town programme and its highly successful social media profile; wrote the winning bid for the World Design Capital 2014; helped initiate the Cape Town Design Network; and played a leading role in the establishment of a plan to turn the East City into a design incubation and development hub.
2. Independent cultural production: ran an independent consultancy ONE-The Cultural Production cc. Curated a number of contemporary art projects, festivals, dialogic forums and conferences.
3. Museums: District Six Museum and Robben Island Museum. I work at the intersection of new museology and public art practises.
4. Research: Wrote for various publications: including a report on diversity in Cape Town. Have been working for a number of years on a thesis on Newtown Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg
I am a cultural manager, producer and researcher with an interest in culture, cities, diversity and creative economy in the global South. I have a significant experience of working at various levels of civil society and government Cape Town.
I recently headed up the City of Cape Town's Arts and Culture Department where I had been responsible for developing the City's Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy (2014) - Cape Town being the only African city with a cultural policy.
I played a role in transforming the department which now focusses on Arts and Culture sector co-ordination and capacitation, cultural promotion, culture and public life (incl. public art, memorials and carnival), community cultural development and cultural spaces.
My previous background is as follows:
1. Facilitation Agency: Cape Town Partnership/Creative Cape Town. Here I developed the innovative and successful Creative Cape Town programme and its highly successful social media profile; wrote the winning bid for the World Design Capital 2014; helped initiate the Cape Town Design Network; and played a leading role in the establishment of a plan to turn the East City into a design incubation and development hub.
2. Independent cultural production: ran an independent consultancy ONE-The Cultural Production cc. Curated a number of contemporary art projects, festivals, dialogic forums and conferences.
3. Museums: District Six Museum and Robben Island Museum. I work at the intersection of new museology and public art practises.
4. Research: Wrote for various publications: including a report on diversity in Cape Town. Have been working for a number of years on a thesis on Newtown Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg