Programmes

The Cultural Producers Programme aims to enhance leadership in young creatives and arts organisations in South Africa as well as strengthen the creative sector in Sub-Saharan Africa and the United Kingdom. Leadership and creative business skills are developed and markets, networks and connections built through training programmes, work placements, grants to produce cultural products as well as participation in the SO Creative Summit 2024.

The Debut Programme is designed to provide information and skills development to emerging artists in all of South Africa’s nine provinces. Through strategic partnerships with community arts centres, local government and relevant agencies, the programme assists artists with everything from ideation to venture implementation.

The Industrial Development Corporation has partnered with BASA in projects designed to facilitate the exposure of emerging artists and to support entrepreneurs in the creative economy. One such project is the IDC Gallery, which aids social and economic development programmes for youth, women and people living with disabilities.

Partnered by Arts & Culture at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), BASA is mentoring 6 interns funded by the Culture, Art, Tourism, Hospitality, and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA), one of the 21 SETAs established under the Skills Development Act (No 97 of 1998) in 2001.

The Climate/Culture Programme (CCP) presented by Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) with support from the Industrial Development Corporation of SA (IDC), seeks to locate the current discourse amongst, and praxis of, leading cultural and creative practitioners in response to the climate emergency.