Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Community Arts Project
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- CAP
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1977-2008
History
Community Arts Project (CAP) was established in Cape Town in the period following the Soweto uprisings (1976). By the late 1980s two CAPs had emerged: the ‘art school’ (Chapel Street, Woodstock) and the Media Project (Community House, Salt River). The latter constituted as an independent trust (Media Works), before joining again with the mother body to form the Arts & Media Access Centre. CAP/AMAC closed in 2008.
Places
Chapel Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa.
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
CAP was founded to provide accommodation, facilities, and training to artists, particularly those marginalized by apartheid . The training provided at CAP was meant to serve not only its members, but the larger community as well. The center was founded on the idea of “each one teach one” – after an artist had been trained, they would take what they had learned back to their community to help empower the broader society.
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Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
BC1195
Institution identifier
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
- Afrikaans
- English