Bid to strengthen tourism and economic growth through cultural impact
WHEN: 6pm, Monday 20 October
WHERE: Artscape On the Side.
WHO: Cape Town Tourism, City of Cape Town, British Council South Africa
WHAT: Launch of Cultural Impact
What role can the performing arts play in strengthening Cape Town as a
tourist destination? Can tourism and its economic impact in the Western Cape
be improved through effective policies and strategies for cultural tourism?
What are the tangible long-term benefits - if any - of striving to be a
capital of culture? Can culture really lead to urban regeneration? Is there
any point at all in Cape Town having a cultural marketing strategy - and if
so, what key events could or should be promoted?
These are among the questions prompting next week's launch of Cultural
Impact - a year-long series of cultural tourism planning and discussion -
initiated by Cape Town Tourism, the British Council, the City of Cape Town's
Arts and Culture Department, GrandWest Cape Culture and Heritage Foundation
and Cape Town cultural producer Zayd Minty.
Minty - Deputy Director of the District Six Museum and a former Director of
the Cape Town Festival - has been a passionate advocate and prime mover of
the initiative until this point. His conviction continues to be that
cultural tourism - unlike the clear niche markets of eco-, sport or leisure
tourism - is distinctly underdeveloped in South Africa despite the country's
good cultural infrastructure.
Over the next year, Cultural Impact will explore and identify the practical
ways in which this potential can be developed, focusing on economic, job
creation, and the status of the city/region/country as a destination.
Specifically, Cultural Impact will seek to draw out strategies
incorporating:
* the ways in which cultural tourism can stimulate regional economic
regeneration and growth by attracting greater numbers of tourists
* the creation of new tourism products linked to arts and culture sectors
* existing local cultural resources and infrastructure underpinning a
responsible cultural tourism industry
* a critical understanding of how cultural tourism impacts on communities
* the marketing of local arts and culture to international visitors and
local audiences
* the importance of developing an educated and knowledgeable local community
* the marketing of the city as a key cultural tourism destination
* possible models of partnerships for financing an arts and culture vision
of the city, built around constructive relationships between the tourism and
arts and culture industries
Cape Town Tourism's Sheryl Ozinsky anticipates the Cultural Impact series
will provide a framework for a consolidation of arts and culture in tourism
and economic promotion of the Western Cape. "The information generated will
prove invaluable not just to tourism organisations and cultural
institutions," she said, "but also to architects, urban regeneration
practitioners, investment and planning agencies and any other parties
seeking creative ways to capitalise on the economic potential of our
cultural assets."
The series will lead up to an international conference in 2004 which will
also continue some of the debates from the earlier 2002 Liverpool Cultural
Impact conference (www.culturalimpact.com).
Cultural Impact will be launched on Monday 20 October at 6pm at Artscape On
the Side. Interested media are welcome to attend. For further information,
please contact the Cultural Impact Programme's Anthony Smith on cell /
voicemail 072 390 6780.
Issued by:
Paul Johnson,
Director Communications,
British Council Southern Africa,
cell: 083 626 1427
Die Burger het tans 'n kompetisie aan die gang waar mense voorstelle moet
indien van hoe die Bokke die Engelse kan wen.
Iemand het voorgestel die bokke moet vinnig 'n Jood in die span kry.
Ander dat die bokke moet knoffel eet.
Julle kan 0862233004 skakel of 0866102004 faks om julle voorstelle in te
dien.
--
Annette
Gister is daar toe 'n onderhoud met iemand wat duidelik Afrikaans-sprekend
is wat 'n album saamgestel het van Johannes Kerkorrel se bekende, minder
bekende, en selfs onbekende komposisies.
Die man talk elke dear tweede word in Engels, dit is soos like jy know 'n
cool album that baie popular oor a groot part van the algemene population
hier and oorsee sal wees. Die songs is all baie careful uitgesoek.
Anders as met sokker, begin mens te wonder wat nou eintlik die doel met die
rugby WB is.
Krieket tel nie, omdat "onbekende" spanne wel die halfeindronde kan haal
weens tegniese berekeninge en die weer.
Maar met rugby is dit 'n ander storie. Sedert die WB begin het, ek dink dit
was 1987, was daar nog nooit geen kans van enige van die mindere spanne om
ooit die halfeindronde te haal nie.
Hoekom al die onkoste maak en nie sommer maar net die 8 spanne wat elk geval
die halfeindronde sal haal in elk geval net laat speel nie.
Watse "ondervinding" is daar vir die mindere spanne om keer op keer met
naastenby dieselfde telling teen die beter spanne verneder te word? Is dit
groei?
Watse "wedstrydoefening" is daar vir die sterker spanne om die mindere
teenstanders te verpletter en in die proses miskien 'n goeie speler te
verloor weens 'n besering?
Miskien moet die mindere spanne meer internasionale blootstelling kry deur
op gereelde basis byvoorbeeld teen die sterker lande se klubspanne of
provinsiale spanne te speel.
Dit is nie lekker om na 'n wedstryd te kyk waar mens voor die tyd weet 'n
eensydige spulletjie gaan wees nie.
Dit was nogal opmerklik hoe min toeskouers daar was met die SA wedstryd in
teenstelling met die Engeland wedtsryd by dieselfde stadion. Miskien het dit
iets te doen met die wisselkoers.
Prentjie in Argus vandag. Kombi met bg registrasienommer. Sitplekke van die
Kombi bo-op die dak vas met toue. Seker so 10 boerbokke agter in. Twee mense
met 'n hond voor in.
Net in SA?:))
--
Annette
hayesstw...@yahoo.com (Steve Hayes) skryf in boodskap news:...
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:39:10 +0200, Frikkie wrote:
>
>> You are invited to join the SA-Truth Newslist with articles about The
>> True situation in South Africa which the left liberal newspapers
>> suppress to publish:
>
> O Boeremag! O Boeremag!
> Jou het ek lief bo alles!
So Steve, you are actually a Boeremag-Supporter. Did You already post
something on: http://www.rebellie.org/ ???
Ek hou van die "Remix" van die volkslied wat hulle sing by die rugby....en
aan almal wat dink SA is 'n groot kak wie het nie trots gevoel toe hulle die
stem sing nie en jy al die nuwe vlae sien nie...dis nou behalwe daai doos
met die ou vlag by die Skotland game!
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