Register as a supplier

If you are doing a project in the city for the first time, we recommend you register your venture and join us as a partner or vendor so that you can get maximum support from the Arts and Culture Branch. Doing so will help you access support and advice on how to get funding for your venture.

If you have a business within the arts, culture, creative industries and heritage sectors, and you want to be considered as a service provider, you will need to first register with the City as a supplier. Find out about the registration process following the City Connect link below.

Join our partner database

We work with registered organisations – whether for-profit or not for profit – and with individual artists who are registered as a vendor with us.

By becoming a partner you can:

• access funding or ‘in kind support’ opportunities from the City;
• competitively bid for work opportunities with the City; and
• enter into an agreement of co-operation with us (if you are a representative industry support body).

Download and complete the application form.

Email the completed form to artsand.culture@capetown.gov.za or call us on 021 417 4101 to be added to the database.

Funding and support

You can apply for event support from us. Grants are advertised in both community and city newspapers. Find out more about the application process by following the City Connect link below.

Job and business opportunities with the City

The City's Arts and Culture Branch often requires services from project managers, researchers or consultants in the following areas:

• Cultural promotion/tourism
• Community cultural development
• Cultural mapping and cultural planning
• Cultural heritage
• Restoration of monuments
• Public art
• Facilitation of workshops
• Design thinking
• Creative industries
• Feasibility studies
• Event management

You will need to regularly check our job search app for openings or our tender portal for new RFQs and tenders.

Our Arts and Culture Branch occasionally has posts available either as management, project managers, administrators, or cleaners. See our latest vacancies.

The Arts and Culture Indaba

A landmark event for the creative industries, the City of Cape Town’s annual Arts and Culture Indaba is an opportunity for all arts, culture and creative bodies in Cape Town to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Our pioneering Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy could not have been created without the Indaba.

Find support with City-affiliated, creative agencies

The City works with a range of agencies who support cultural and artistic development in our city. Below is a list of these agencies. We have ordered the agencies according to their sectors or areas of focus:

• Visual Arts: Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA)
• Craft: The Craft and Design Institute
• Heritage: SAHRA
• Magic: College of Magic
• Circus/Acrobat: Zip Zap Circus School
• Furniture: Western Cape Furniture Initiative
• Fashion: Cape Town Fashion Council (CTFC)
• Publishing: Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA)
• Writing: Writers Guild of SA

Contact us

The Arts and Culture Branch can also refer you to relevant organisations that provide skills development training.

For more information:

Telephone:
021 417 4101

Email:
artsand.culture@capetown.gov.za

Document downloads

• 1. Arts and Culture Organisation Database Application Form

     01/01/2017, Application form - 200.3 KB

  2. Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy

     01/12/2014, Policy - 393.5 KB