Creative Cape Town Clusters
The Creative Clusters provide a platform for networking between dynamic people in Cape Town’s creative industries, stimulating innovative partnerships for economic and social development. Collaboration is a strength in today’s business climate: the local industry will only grow through us openly sharing information, ideas, resources and energy.
reative Cape Town communicates, supports and facilitates the development of the creative and knowledge economy in the Central City of Cape Town. The key aim is to facilitate dynamic partnerships in the central city, in line with the goals of the central city development strategy, to make the central city into a leading centre for knowledge, innovation, creativity and culture in Africa and the South .
Creative Cape Town is a programme of the
Cape Town Partnership, a collaboration between the public and private sectors working together to develop, promote and manage Cape Town Central City. Creative Cape Town was put into action in 2006 with the input of more than 30 specialists working in and for the creative and cultural industry sector
Creative Cape Town’s strength lies in its ability to initiate dynamic partnerships both within and beyond the Central City through networking opportunities, information sessions and related support programmes. These activities serve to build a proactive creative milieu in the Central City. Critical to its work is its communication focus including such projects as
- The Creative Cape Town Annual – a snapshot of the creative and knowledge economy in the central city
- A Creative Cape Town map focusing on the cultural tourism experience of the city centre
- The quarterly Creative Cape Town Clusters
- A monthly Creative Cape Town E newsletter
- An active social networking presence
- Ongoing research work and advocacy including promoting the World Design Capital Bid and advocacy in developing a Design Precinct in the East City