Deadline: 4-Nov-22
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) calls on all cultural and creative industry practitioners to submit their applications for the Mzansi Golden Economy Grant Program.
The purpose of MGE is to make strategic investments to optimize the economic benefit of the arts in South Africa. By improving investment in key areas of the creative economy, it is anticipated that job creation and productivity will be enhanced and the sector’s global competitiveness will be increased.
Objectives
The MGE objectives are:
- Stimulate Demand: the result will be the expansion of supply and work opportunities. The focus areas within this programme will consist of the Public Art Programme, Cultural Events, the Art Bank, and the Sourcing Enterprise.
- Audience Development and Consumption: Building on existing initiatives, the aim of this programme is to elevate projects into large scale national programme to develop audiences for the creative and cultural industries and increase consumption of the offerings of the arts, culture and heritage sector.
- Building Heritage Resources: Development of areas of heritage to change the colonial and apartheid bias of heritage exhibition and interpretation in the country. The three focus areas are Heritage Projects, the National Liberation Heritage Route and the Marine Heritage.
- Information Gathering: To collect evidence and analyze the performance of the arts, culture and heritage sector to inform policy shifts and guide future resource allocation.
- Human Capital Development: Focusing on the early identification and development of talent and influencing choice of career path. The focus areas include the Arts Education and National Cultural Industries Skills Academy
- Developing cultural entrepreneurs: Focusing on the identification and development of the skills, products and services of the cultural entrepreneurs and the development of sustainable enterprises in the creative industries
Streams
The Open Call is for the following streams:
- Cultural Events: The cultural events work stream supports large and small scale local, regional and national events that promote the arts, culture and heritage and that contribute to local economic development, job creation and the development of audiences.
- Public Art: The aim of the grant funding is to enable the creative arts sector to stabilize and consolidate, providing access to work and experience, build capacity, transfer skills and create linkages to support infrastructure (e.g. urban renewal project & parks), Expanded Public Works Program (EPWP), enhance quality of life, support heritage and tourism.
- Touring Ventures: The Touring Ventures programme aims to support broader, cost-effective opportunities for the nation’s cultural output to be viewed, participated in and enjoyed within South Africa and abroad.
Funding Information
- Cultural Events: The maximum available grant is R 2 Million per grant per beneficiary.
- Public Art: The maximum available grant is R 500 000 per grant per beneficiary.
- Touring Ventures: The maximum available grant is R 1 Million per grant per beneficiary.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call is open to all tax compliant South African Citizens owned and managed arts, culture and heritage organizations and enterprises that have independent legal status i.e. are registered as a Non-Profit Company, a Public Limited Company.
- No beneficiary will be awarded two DSAC grants simultaneously, regardless of the size of the grant, sourced from any DSAC programme, in any given year. Organizations must declare any other involvement with DSAC.
- Only one application per organization/company in one funding cycle is allowed.
- Depending on the total budget and the scale of the project preference will be given to projects that are co-financed or part-financed or have any other form of partnerships Proof of such commitment must be provided.
For more information, visit https://www.nac.org.za/latest-news/dsac-announces-the-opening-of-mzansi-golden-economy-mge-open-call-grant-funding-applications-to-the-cultural-and-creative-industries/