Challenging Boundaries through the arts

The Cape Cultural Collective has grown from humble beginnings in 2007 to a powerful arts movement.

The Cape Cultural Collective mission is to foster inclusion and unity and promote personal and collective development through the arts.

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to promoting equality and justice through our programmes. We recognise the social divides in society and seek to build a shared and active citizenship and humanity.

We do so through the following nine programmes:

Cape Cultural Collective in action

News on recent projects and events

Show up for your writing, Professor Barbara Boswell tells Writer’s Club

In the end, all the writers had a story waiting to be fleshed out after a workshop on short fiction by novelist and UCT Professor Barbara Boswell. She shared a three-part story formula - the beginning, the middle and the end - with a packed Mowbray library at the Cape Cultural Collective’s Writer’s Club meeting on 5 September. Author of The Comrade’s Wife and Grace: A Novel, Professor Boswell said this simple formula was a good way to start when writers were unsure how to.

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Pupils put their best moonwalks forward at arts showcase

The power of the arts to inspire the youth was on full display when the Kids Performing Arts Collective (K-PAC) held their performance showcase at Bridgeville Primary in Silvertown on Saturday, August 8. K-PAC is a free-to-attend, weekly performing arts programme for children from communities including Athlone, Gugulethu and Manenberg. 

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Cape Cultural Collective – Arts & Nature Group Hike to Constantia Nek

Fifteen members of the Cape Cultural Collective's Arts & Nature Group enjoyed a guided nature walk from Constantia Nek to the first dam. The outing encouraged participants to connect with nature, learn about the local environment, and experience the peace and beauty of the mountain.

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