Community Arts Centre Audit Report: High Level Summary

1. Community Arts Centre Audit Report: High Level Summary Audit Report & Progress on implementation Presented by ADG: Mr. Vusithemba Ndima Date: 16 February 2016

2. Community Arts Audit: 2013 • A detailed survey of a sample of 87 community art centres, drawing on the perspectives of Centre managers • Focus of the research was: • The core functions of the centre • Institutional arrangements and governance • Management and staffing • Finance • Service delivery and programming • Infrastructure • Networks and partnerships • Strategic issues for the centre • A shorter perception survey of 405 users and ancillary/contract staff at selected centres

3. Key Indicators • Approximately 250 Community Art Centres across the country employ more than 3 300 people, 58% of these in full-time positions • The Centres involve more than an estimated 115 000 people on a monthly basis in active participation in the development and making/staging of arts and cultural work • The Centres collectively engage audiences of approximately 3,8 million annually for arts and cultural work, the majority of which is locally produced • The Centres account for an annual turnover of approximately R390 million, obtained principally from provincial and local government in the case of government Centres, and public funding agencies and self-generated income in the case of independently managed Centres

4. Provincial Breakdown of Survey Respondents

5. Spatial Location

6. Available Infrastructure

7. Programming & Audiences

8. Institutional Arrangements

9. Annual Budgets

10. Most important sources of finance

11. Networks & Partnerships

12. Key Issues • Inadequate interface between government investment in infrastructure and a sustainable and resilient approach to the needs, resources and aspirations of local communities • The constraints and difficulties that flow from the institutional arrangements that attach to Centres that are managed by local or provincial government, primarily with regard to: • effective management • building community ownership • generating locally relevant programming • effectively and proactively addressing the development and maintenance of infrastructure • and raising resources to address all of the above • Weak intergovernmental coordination • The continued disjuncture between government centres and those run by independent entities

13. Recommendations • The Role Of Government • Clarification of roles, models and support systems between all spheres of government • A Vision For Community Art Centres • Development of a central vision and policy framework • A Funding Framework For Community Art Centres • produce a new revenue stream for the stimulation of local arts and cultural programming in the first instance, and infrastructure that would meaningfully wrap around such activity in the second instance • maximise the ability of the sector to access dedicated and longer term funding through the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, whose strategic orientation is largely congruent with the goals and objectives of community arts organizations • ensure that the entity overseeing the resourcing and technical support of Community arts centres is sufficiently capacitated and resourced to fulfill its task without compromising the fulfillment of its wider mandate.

14. Recommendations (cont.) • A National Programme for Community Arts Centres Development • Formalising a system for ongoing monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment • Network development • Management Training • Programme enhancement • Infrastructure Development • Critical Success Factors identified • M&E Framework identified • Monitoring mechanisms implemented • Inclusion in national, provincial and planning frameworks • Regular reporting

15. DAC Community Arts Centre Programme • In terms of the MTSF, community arts will receive significant attention over the next five years with the aim of: • Activating 500 of community arts programmes • Building15 Community Arts Centers • Refurbishing 80 Community Arts Centres • To this end, the DAC has substantially increased its budget for community arts over the next 3 years for programming and CAPEX in order to: • Support programming • Support refurbishment • Develop new infrastructure

16. Supporting Programming • The DAC will continue to support the 9 community arts networks that have been established and will work with the structures to develop policy for community arts • The focus will be on rural and township areas • To widen the scope of programming, an open call was made to existing non profit community arts centres to: • Create annual community programmes that activate existing spaces • Create training and development opportunity for young South Africans • Support programming that facilitates nation building and social cohesion • To upgrade facilities • An open call was made on 6 of October and it closed on 6 November and after a panel review of all received applications; grant awards were made

17. Community Arts Programmes Supported in 2015/16

18. Community Arts Programmes Supported in 2015/16

19. Key issues emanating from the Proposals: Programming The process provided first hand information on the reality of programming in Community Arts Centres, for example: • Costs of operating a community arts centre, • Costs of programming an arts centre, • Costs of maintenance and upgrading, • Lack of capacity in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, North West, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape that needs to be followed up and fixed, • Pure thumb sucking of budgeting and costs for programmes in certain centres, • Lack of organizational systems to run centres as proper institutions that will account for funds

20. Supporting Refurbishment • A call was made to provincial departments to identify existing government run or owned centres that require refurbishment in the next 5 years. • The expectation is that: • These are centres that are already utilised and require upgrades to better utilise the space • That there are existing programmes in place to ensure that the infrastructure is effective utilised • An open call was made on 6 of October and it closed on 6 November and after a panel review of all received applications; provisional grant awards were made pending the submissions of detailed quotations supporting the grant amounts

21. Community Arts Centre Refurbishment Projects Supported in 2015/16

22. Community Arts Centre Refurbishment Projects Supported in 2015/16

23. Community Arts Centre Refurbishment Projects Supported in 2015/16

24. Community Arts Centre Refurbishment Projects Supported in 2015/16

25. Key issues emanating from the proposals: Refurbishment • No government applications were received for refurbishment from the following provinces: • Mpumalanga • Kwazulu Natal • North West • Western Cape A total of 26 applications were received from the other provinces. • Most budget were thumb sucked and unrealistic. These provinces will be visited for further engagements and assistance. • Provinces have been request to continue submitting their proposals. • The Department will do its own assessment to finalise the budget submitted by the Arts Centres

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