Creatively collaborate with the City
We actively support commercial and community-based creative ventures and encourage all artists and creatives to work with us.
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.
Please note
Information on the database is shared with other City departments who host events or projects.
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.
Did you know?
The opportunity city: The Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy is the first cultural policy created by a city in Africa.
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:
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