Official Opening

Coffee Klatch

Noun / an informal social occasion at which people drink coffee and talk

Lunch

Fresh & delicious – find the food truck.

Coffee Klatch

[Noun] an informal social occasion at which people drink coffee and talk

RESOURCES WORKSHOP

Something to GIVE! A VANSA workshop

with Dillion S Phiri

The business of creativity and culture is as important as the act and experience of the creation. Often this is left till the end when the struggles and challenges appear. Entrepreneurial/business thinking is important to your practice whether solo or team. This workshop dives into the best business practices that creative and cultural producers should merge into their daily practice.

The workshop is led by Dillion S Phiri. As the co-founder of Creative Nestlings, he brought thousands of creatives across the continent and the world together, introducing, supporting and spotlighting key voices in the global conversation on the business of creativity. As the co-founding partner and a lead mentor/coach at J&B Hive, Dillion co-created the operational strategy and creative fund that have supported the growth of SA brands like Tshepo the Jeanmaker, Bathu, and Wolf & Co.

ACCESS TALK

Access from the Perspective of Global Opportunities

with Michelle Rocha

Michelle is the Head of Touring at the Manchester International Festival (UK). She is also a Board Member of Quarantine (theatre company). Previously, she was the Producer (Music and Outdoor) at West Kowloon Cultural District (HK) and has worked at the Wales Millennium Centre (UK) for the 2012 Olympics, the Hong Kong Dance Company, Lushington/ Live Nation, the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong International Jazz Festival and is a Clore Fellow. If the world is calling, you need to get to this talk.

SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP

Ecosystems thinking: what does it offer us for rethinking project design?

with Tamara SCHULZ

Tamara Schulz (Guhrs) is a generalist: she desires that all of her writing, thinking, teaching, cooking, dreaming, planting and art-making might serve to destabilize the way we think about our belonging to and within earth systems and more-than human families. In this workshop, she asks what we really mean when we talk about ecosystems in terms of creative organisations or projects? How do we refresh ideas about project outputs and growth cycles, and indices for measuring success, using the lens of ecosystems – and moving away from extractive, competition-based thinking towards more interdependent models.

SUSTAINABILITY TALK

Sustainability has Creativity at Heart

with Thobile Chittenden

Presently CEO of Makers Valley Partnership, Thobile is a recent TedX Speaker with a passionate interest in Social & Creative Entrepreneurship and non-profit organisations. A member of the community organisation in the east of Johannesburg’s Inner City, she is also a Network Co-Lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, a global movement that advocates for alternative economies which serve people and planet, instead of the other way around. She is also a Board Member of an inner-city school in Johannesburg called City Kidz.
She has also most recently graduated from the Social Entrepreneurship Programme by the Gordon Institute of Business Science. Thobile talks to us about why creativity is integral to sustainability and how the sector can roll up its sleeves.

Pitch Den

You’ve got five minutes to pitch us your incredible creative idea. Three winning pitches take R30 0000, R20 000 and R10 000 respectively, courtesy of Business and Arts South Africa.

Sign up your pitch here before lunchtime on 6 July – but note that it’s first come, first served for a chance to impress the panel and kick-start your dream.

Opening of networking session

with DJ, Zandile Nongogo