Despite its low barrier to entry, the cultural sector can be difficult to navigate without business skills, strategic vision and marketing expertise. Meeting the need to provide creatives with these entrepreneurial skills, the Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) Debut programme, with the support of the Department of Sports, Arts & Culture, has completed the…
The climate change conversation moves firmly to the top of the agenda this week, as global leaders gather at COP27 in Egypt. Economic turmoil has derailed many of the previously agreed efforts to curtail emissions but evidence is mounting that the world is in ecological peril. While conversations typically look at the bigger levers of…
Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) is one of five entities involved in implementing the South African Presidency and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture’s (DSAC) PESP funding initiative. The Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP) was developed in response to the severe economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. It aims to create new…