Festival de Cap Town
Français
Rencontrer l’Afrique du Sud, sa culture et ses arts, ses communautés et ses habitants, voilà ce que propose depuis 1999 le festival du Cap. L’accent est mis sur le thème de la diversité et de la rencontre inter communautaire, pour découvrir la richesse d’un pays en pleine réconciliation avec lui-même.
English
Ubuntu is a philosophy that lies at the core of the Cape Town Festival, born from a sincere desire to create an environment where culturally diverse communities can understand each other and ultimately live in harmony together.
History
The Cape Town Festival, born from an initiative by the chairperson, Ryland Fisher, called the’One City Many Cultures Project’ started in 1999 as the One City Festival.
The City of Cape Town supported the initiative in accordance with its mandate to create tolerance and understanding amongst the many different cultures through hosting a city festival. Through a series of democratic processes the One City Events Company, a section 21 company was formed in 2000. The Company was registered in 2002, and a Board was created, comprising of arts related individuals, event managers and city councillors.
In 2003, the company was restructured under a newly appointed CEO and a new board was formed that comprised of business leaders and city management representatives. The new board changed the focus of the festival to achieve financial sustainability. The company has since undergone an organizational re-engineering process, the purpose of which was to arrive at the company’s key competences and focus areas
The long-term vision is to develop the Cape Town Festival into an International festival that will serve as the’Gateway to African Arts and Culture »
Mission
– A combination of artistic excellence and multi-cultural audience development define our delivery rationale
To this end we will use our in-house business, marketing and events expertise together with our strategic industry’partnerships’ as the key to our success
Aims
To host and manage a festival that appeals to the interests and needs of people from diverse cultural backgrounds
To provide a stage/platform and development opportunities for the performing arts in the city & communities
To align the objectives of the festival with the Integrated Development Plan of the city.
To provide skills training and education in line with the cultural industries vision in South Africa
To host conferences about the impact of cultural, political, social and economic developments on artists and arts organizations in South Africa
To utilize the festival as a means of marketing Cape Town and South Africa to the continent as well as internationally.
History
The Cape Town Festival, born from an initiative by the chairperson, Ryland Fisher, called the’One City Many Cultures Project’ started in 1999 as the One City Festival.
The City of Cape Town supported the initiative in accordance with its mandate to create tolerance and understanding amongst the many different cultures through hosting a city festival. Through a series of democratic processes the One City Events Company, a section 21 company was formed in 2000. The Company was registered in 2002, and a Board was created, comprising of arts related individuals, event managers and city councillors.
In 2003, the company was restructured under a newly appointed CEO and a new board was formed that comprised of business leaders and city management representatives. The new board changed the focus of the festival to achieve financial sustainability. The company has since undergone an organizational re-engineering process, the purpose of which was to arrive at the company’s key competences and focus areas
The long-term vision is to develop the Cape Town Festival into an International festival that will serve as the’Gateway to African Arts and Culture »
Mission
– A combination of artistic excellence and multi-cultural audience development define our delivery rationale
To this end we will use our in-house business, marketing and events expertise together with our strategic industry’partnerships’ as the key to our success
Aims
To host and manage a festival that appeals to the interests and needs of people from diverse cultural backgrounds
To provide a stage/platform and development opportunities for the performing arts in the city & communities
To align the objectives of the festival with the Integrated Development Plan of the city.
To provide skills training and education in line with the cultural industries vision in South Africa
To host conferences about the impact of cultural, political, social and economic developments on artists and arts organizations in South Africa
To utilize the festival as a means of marketing Cape Town and South Africa to the continent as well as internationally.
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