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Date: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Time: 17h30 for 18h00 Fee: Free
Venue: Whale Well, Iziko SA Museum
About Zayd Minty
Zayd Minty is a cultural producer and researcher based in Cape
Town, South Africa. He was a Rockerfeller research fellow at Emory
University, Atlanta, in the Center for the Study of Public
Scholarship and is currently an AW Mellon Fellow reading for a PhD
in Human Geography at the University of Cape Town. His thesis
focuses on culture led urban regeneration and the "Just" city. His
interest in public urban space, and in Cape Town especially, has
seen him most recently consulting in the development of Creative
Cape Town, an initiative of the Cape Town Partnership aimed at using
culture for urban regeneration in the central city. His recent work
as a research associate of the Isandla Institute - an urban studies
think tank - will shortly result in the release of a report on
Diversity in the Cultural Ecology of Cape Town.
Before he began a journey as a researcher, he curated a number of
significant contemporary art projects, festivals, dialogic forums
and conferences including, amongst others: A Place Called Home
(2004), BLAC (1998-2003), Returning the Gaze (2000),
Liberating Zones (2003) and the VANSA Conference on visual
arts: Transformation | Growth | Opportunity (2006). He has
served at a senior level in a range of cultural institutions
including the District 6 Museum (2003-2005) and Robben Island Museum
(1997-98) as well as a number of high level boards. |
