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Acronym: [[AMAC]]. A non-governmental art organisation a non-profit community arts and media centre based in Cape Town, which provides access for under-resourced individuals and community organisations to training and production opportunities in the media and arts disciplines.  
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Acronym: [[AMAC]]. A non-governmental and non-profit [[Community Arts Centres| community arts and media centre]] based in Cape Town, which provides access for under-resourced individuals and community organisations to training and production opportunities in the media and arts disciplines.  
  
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Founded in 2002 as a joint project by the [[Community Arts Project]] ([[CAP]]) and  [[MediaWorks]] (which had derived from CAP in 1996), when the two organisations made a decision to join forces to form a Media and Arts Access Centre, based in Cape Town’s inner-city central improvement district. It unfortunagtely had to close down in 2008 due to lack of funding.  
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Founded in 2002 as a joint project by the [[Community Arts Project]] ([[CAP]]) and  [[Media Works]] (which had derived from [[CAP]] in 1996), when the two organisations made a decision to join forces to form an access centre for arts and media, based in Cape Town’s inner-city central improvement district. [[AMAC]] unfortunately had to close down in 2008 due to lack of funding.  
  
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[[Mediaworks]] and [[CAP]] had emerged out of the oppositional arts and media movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and hence share a common vision to empower marginalized communities through art, drama and the media. The joint centre aims at serving marginalized communities by offering a range of services cutting across the related arts and media disciplines. These include: Education and training, including hands-on production experience and media literacy/cultural studies; access to facilities and ongoing mentorship in order to facilitate media and arts production and income generation for graduates; support services, including technical and organizational development; job and internship placements and career development counseling; professional communications services to NGO’s, Government and the private sector,  including, graphic design, copywriting and editing, web page development, print management and communications consultancy services.
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[[Media Works]] and [[CAP]] had emerged out of the oppositional arts and media movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and hence share a common vision to empower marginalized communities through art, drama and the media. The joint centre aims at serving marginalized communities by offering a range of services cutting across the related arts and media disciplines. These include: Education and training, including hands-on production experience and media literacy/cultural studies; access to facilities and ongoing mentorship in order to facilitate media and arts production and income generation for graduates; support services, including technical and organizational development; job and internship placements and career development counseling; professional communications services to NGO’s, Government and the private sector,  including, graphic design, copywriting and editing, web page development, print management and communications consultancy services.
  
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A full description of AMAC and its activities still appears on the the It utilises the ARTfactories website [http://www.artfactories.net/Arts-and-Media-Access-Centre-Cape.html]
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The physical address was 16 Harrington Street, Cape Town 8001. and the co-directors were [[Graham Falken]] and  [[Karen Thorne]] (E-Mail : karen@mediawks.co.za; graham.cap@mediawks.co.za)
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The physical address is 16 Harrington Street, Cape Town 8001. Tel : +27 21 461 0891; Fax : +27 21 461 0385 or  +27 21 465 2008
 
  
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The co-directors are [[Graham Falken]] and [[Karen Thorne]] (E-Mail : karen@mediawks.co.za; graham.cap@mediawks.co.za)
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A full description of [[AMAC]] and its activities still appears on the website of [[ARTfactories/Autre(s)pARTs]]   [http://www.artfactories.net/Arts-and-Media-Access-Centre-Cape.html], though their own website has apparently closed down.
  
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Community Arts Centres provide important hubs of creative activity focused on pulling together people through art based workshops, training programs and outreach projects, often getting into spaces where more official educational structures fail. One such example was the Community Arts Project (CAP) – an Arts Centre based in Cape Town and started in 1977, where many non-white artists found a voice against Apartheid through art. Against an atmosphere where white arts were favoured, the Centre provided a space where artists marginalized under Apartheid could develop their artworks; meet other politically minded artists and network with international curators. The influence that CAP had on such artists is immeasurable, with a legacy of work now housed in the CAP collection at the University of the Western Cape. With the passing of Apartheid however, the change in political environments was also followed by a change in the arts funding scene, with many community art centres such as CAP, (renamed the Arts and Media Access Centre in 2002), closing down in 2008 due to lack of funding opportunities. Arguably, this is also in a period where such places are needed more than ever. In comparison to the apparently clear cut role that CAP played during Apartheid, what do communities need from local Community Arts Centres, and why are they struggling to obtain the necessary funds for survival?It closed down in 2008. ??**
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 06:14, 21 November 2012

Acronym: AMAC. A non-governmental and non-profit community arts and media centre based in Cape Town, which provides access for under-resourced individuals and community organisations to training and production opportunities in the media and arts disciplines.

Founded in 2002 as a joint project by the Community Arts Project (CAP) and Media Works (which had derived from CAP in 1996), when the two organisations made a decision to join forces to form an access centre for arts and media, based in Cape Town’s inner-city central improvement district. AMAC unfortunately had to close down in 2008 due to lack of funding.

Media Works and CAP had emerged out of the oppositional arts and media movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and hence share a common vision to empower marginalized communities through art, drama and the media. The joint centre aims at serving marginalized communities by offering a range of services cutting across the related arts and media disciplines. These include: Education and training, including hands-on production experience and media literacy/cultural studies; access to facilities and ongoing mentorship in order to facilitate media and arts production and income generation for graduates; support services, including technical and organizational development; job and internship placements and career development counseling; professional communications services to NGO’s, Government and the private sector, including, graphic design, copywriting and editing, web page development, print management and communications consultancy services.

The physical address was 16 Harrington Street, Cape Town 8001. and the co-directors were Graham Falken and Karen Thorne (E-Mail : karen@mediawks.co.za; graham.cap@mediawks.co.za)


A full description of AMAC and its activities still appears on the website of ARTfactories/Autre(s)pARTs [1], though their own website has apparently closed down.


Sources

http://www.amac.org.za

http://www.artfactories.net/Arts-and-Media-Access-Centre-Cape.html

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