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Join us for a capacity building workshop with Saki Zamxaka on financial literacy and access to SMME/MSME funding.

Join us for a virtual capacity building workshop with Prof. Margie Cullen who will discuss the Industrial Development Corporation’s Entrepreneurship Development Initiative.

Join us this Thursday for an awesome for an in-person masterclass with photographer and journalist, Victor Dlamini. Victor will cover the topics of: *Essentials in photography *How to make it as a photographer *Lessons and experiences of a practitioner and more.

Join Akhona Tota this Friday at the SACO coaching for creativity workshop in Mmabatho, former capital city of the North-West Province.

Live event technical and production services highlights a particular sector within the Cultural and Creative Industry. Those individuals and businesses, supporting and enabling a broad range of production including performing arts, music, festivals and other events. This is an important, but often overlooked, economic sub-sector within the CCIs. The purpose of this survey is to gather better quality data about the sector to make recommendations to support economic opportunities.

Legendary artists Lizo Pemba and Dolla Sapeta have teamed up to share the craft of their art as part of the South African Cultural Observatory capacity building workshop series.

THE creative economy, often synonymous with cultural economy, has enjoyed heightened scrutiny among academics in recent decades, generating a growing body of research and practice that increasingly spans the globe.

After 4-years of not staging one, the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) hosted its 4th International Conference in the City of Tshwane at beginning of November attended by over 450 participants who attended the event in person and virtually.

As way to signal the return of the awards, the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards (SBYAA) announced the winners of the 2022 SBYAAs at a ceremony in Johannesburg on 29 November 2022.

Indigenous languages seem to be on the decline as African people increasingly adopt the English language as their mother tongue over their indigenous languages.

The year 2022 has been an eventful and exciting one for the cultural and creative sector. This is particularly so given that it was a year in which the industry was allowed to function for the full year without the lock-down restrictions witnessed in the two previous years.

Inga Somdyala was announced as the winner of the overall Artist Award at the inaugural MTN X UJ New Contemporary Awards on 25 November, while Nkule Mabaso’s curatorial excellence was acknowledged with the Legacy Panel Special Award.