About us
The SA Creative Industries Incubator in a nutshell – #NormalisingAccess
Who are we?
The SA Creative Industries Incubator is a Turn-key creative hub providing technical skills training, business and arts incubation.
The SA Creative Industries Incubator provides a SOLUTION to unemployment and poverty by growing SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES in the CREATIVE INDUSTRIES and developing SKILLED CREATIVE ENTERPRISES.
What is the SA Creative Industries Incubator?
The South African Creative Industries Incubator (SACII) is a turnkey creative hub focusing on technical skills training and business incubation for creative industry entrepreneurs. Production facilities support arts incubation and business product and service development. The three legs of the business are all geared towards market access and job market outcomes for creative industries entrepreneurs and practitioners
SACII has adopted the slogan “#normalisingaccess” which summarises its objective to create innovative, sustainable businesses in the creative industries sector run by highly skilled creative practitioners in a sector where barriers to entry can be high due to the costs of training and equipment. SACII is positioned to address these barriers by providing access to training, equipment, production facilities and business skills. The Incubator is township based, in Eersterust, Tshwane.
Why are we in business?
The SA Creative Industries Incubator is in business to
- Provide accessible, affordable, accredited SKILLS programmes in a variety of creative industry sectors.
- Provide BUSINESS INCUBATION support, facilities and training for creative industry entrepreneurs (start ups, micro enterprises, smme’s)
- Provide support and facilities for ARTS INCUBATION through hosting and facilitating artistic events, performances, exhibitions, film screenings etc, networking sessions and creative industries dialogues.
- Niche sector programs (e.g Leaders In Motion Academy)
WHAT ARE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
“those industries that combine the creation, production and commercialization of products which are intangible and cultural in nature. These contents are typically protected by copyright and they can take the form of goods or services.”
UNESCO website: https://portal.unesco.org/culture.
The Creative Industries generally include:
- Music,
- Film, Television, Media and Sound Production
- Literature and publishing
- Visual arts (fine art, graphic design, photography)
- Craft
- Heritage (museums, historical sites, traditional ceremonies etc.)
- Design (fashion, textile, graphic, jewellery, industrial etc)
- The performing arts (dance, live music, theatre, opera etc.)
- Cultural tourism.
