The document describes the Muizenberg Festival in South Africa, which is a community celebration that brings together various projects focused on sustainability, urban design, and building connections between community members; it provides examples of current projects and calls for volunteers and investments to help organize the festival and further develop the community.

1. Muizenberg Festival is calling for investment to support this exceptional example of a community
working together.
Muizenberg is a creative, collaborative, transformative and resourceful community.
We live in a complex world where we need to engage with challenges with inter-related social,
ecological and economical dimensions. Added to this complexity is the speed of change that
we experience in our everyday lives. Unless we start doing things differently, the solutions that we
develop today may become our challenges in the future.
This pushes us to look for a new way of engaging with the problem at hand and the people affected,
to collectively design and implement sustainable solutions and create more resilient systems.
Muizenberg has its own culture, its own rhythm, and a dynamic way of looking at its challenges as
opportunities to evolve and grow.
The Muizenberg Festival is a community created celebration to showcase our achievements, and
collective aspirations as a community. It celebrates the people, businesses, organizations, projects
and perspectives working together towards sustainability through our diversity.
The concept for this festival has grown out of four previous festivals in 2009 and 2010 where
the community was invited to collaborate with the themes of creativity, community and eco-
awareness. These festivals were so well supported; it has given us the confidence to upscale the
concept for 2014. This year the festival has been recognized as one of the official Cape Town
World Design Capital projects (#WDC244).
The festival values the individual contribution that community members offer and the importance
of creating an inclusive environment. We believe this builds mutual understanding and respect
between residents, stakeholders, business, research institutes and the municipality. This leads
to building strong multi-disciplinary and multi-sectorial collaborations, which in turn creates an
empowering environment to co-design the future urban setting of Muizenberg. This will stimulate
the local tourism industry as Muizenberg becomes an international focal point of innovation,
culture and ecological design.
10 - 12 OCTOBER
2014

2. One of the ways we do this is by creating opportunities for the community to engage. Since May
2013 we have hosted 5 large community meetings, 5 workshops, 2 presentations, 1 project open
day at the Muizenberg Pavilion, two celebration parties and the launch of our new hub space in
Muizenberg Village in Palmer Road.
These gatherings were facilitated to create a participatory platform for the co-design of the
festival concept and its organizational structure. It also assisted the community to connect,
collaborate and develop individual/group ideas and projects in alignment with the spirit of the
festival.
PROJECTS
The projects have a focus on long-term sustainability and urban design that the festival will
celebrate during its big event on the 11th and 12th October. Anyone from the community can
register a project to the festival website.
Muizenberg has always been a community full of creatives, go-getters thinkers, and doers; people
who make things happen for themselves. The Muizenberg Festival provides a platform for the
community to build stronger networks and support systems in order to create a more effective
way of working together.
PRODUCTS | PRODUCE | CONCEPTS
conceived, created, grown &
produced in Muizenberg.
PARTIES | CONCERTS |
EXHIBITIONS | EVENTS | STREET
PARADES | PERFORMANCES etc
All projects contributing to the
transformation of Muizenberg:
SUSTAINABILITY | GARDENING
BUILDING | PUBLIC ART
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOLUTIONS
FOOD FOREST | MUIZENBERG MAPS
RECYCLING SYSTEM etc
PROJECTS
CELEBRATE
MUIZENBERG
MADE IN
MUIZENBERG
CREATE
MUIZENBERG

3. Community collaboration has lead to many innovative projects, below are a few examples:
CELEBRATE
MUIZENBERG
CREATE
MUIZENBERG
MADE IN
MUIZENBERG
Community Food Collaborative Made in Muizenberg Shop
Muizenberg Postcard Project
Open Streets in Muizenberg
A non-profit food shop run
by it’s members and selling
organic and locally grown
food to the community
operating under co-
operative principles.
Collaborating as artists;
teaching theatre, music and
art to local children and
the surrounding townships.
They are also organizing a
music concert featuring local
musicians and performers for
the October event.
An inter-cultural school
holiday programme for
learners incorporating the
communities of Muizenberg,
Vrygrond and Lavender Hill.
Jungle Theatre Company
invites participation
in a multidisciplinary
workshop programme,
which will culminate in the
performance and carnival
parade celebrating the
natural environment of
Muizenberg.
Parallel Lives is a graphic
storytelling project that
incorporates participating
youth from disparate suburbs
and communities into a
series of workshops and
collaborative creativity that
culminates in an exhibition
for the October festival. The
project will bring distinct youths
into contact; and express a
collective story that melds
the participating youths’
experiences of Cape Town.
The ‘Made in Muizenberg’ co-
op shop is where our creative
community are encouraged
to use the space to showcase
their products and skills -
a space where we can
connect, market, promote,
encourage, collaborate and
guide. ‘Made in Muizenberg’
is an initiative that was born
out of the festival process and
shares a base with the festival
office at 36 Palmer Road.
There are also market events
happening through the year.
This project showcases the
rich and diverse heartbeat
of Muizenberg. It invites the
community to get involved
by contributing words,
photographs, illustrations,
paintings, history... anything
really. These are then
collaged into a series of
postcards with the intention
of celebrating the many
positive aspects of living,
visiting and being in
Muizenberg. [This is a Festival
Fundraiser project.]
Open Streets seeks to build
shared places that embody
respect for all and help
bridge the social and spatial
divides. They aim to raise
citizen awareness, foster
public debate about public
streets and engage everyone
in redesigning and re-working
streets.
Hand in Hand Creatives
Jungle Theatre Company
Parallel Lives with Andy Mason
In addition to projects, there are many conversations taking
place between individuals, organisations, businesses and the
municipality looking at conservation, urban gardening, solar
energy, recycling and general collaborations to develop
Muizenberg’s combined potential and sustainability.

4. DOCUMENTATION
The Festival aims to document and research the entire festival process so that it can be applied to
other areas of Cape Town or other cities in the world. We currently have interest from the academy
of Leisure at the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, who will be sending interns
to conduct their field assignments, and are expecting more interest from other global contacts.
MOBILISATION
Thus far, thanks to the amazing contributions and enthusiasm for the festival, the community has
managed to mobilize the equivalent of more than R415 000 in time, skills and investment. This has
allowed the Muizenberg Festival to become a recognized project of the World Design Capital 2014,
we have set up an interactive website and timeline for the festival projects to map their events, we
have developed a growing community database, and designed an interactive structure for the
festivals organization and we have opened a festival hub space for community members to share,
discuss and plan ideas.
The next stage of our journey is to further support community projects and
co-ordinate a fabulous festival for the month of October.
Let’s work together for a bold shared vision that honours Muizenberg for all that it has been and
imagineers sustainable home grown possibilities for the future.
Below are areas that both the festival organization and each project will need to engage with. This
is an invitation is for people to sign up and be part of making the festival happen. These different
areas offer a holding structure for all the exciting projects being developed and logged onto the
website. Representatives from task teams form a festival working group who meet regularly to move
things forward.
communications resources
finance
logistics
communityengagement
project support pavilion
merchandise
TASK
TEAMS

5. TASK TEAMS
LOGISTICS for finances, communications, projects, community engagement and the pavilion process.
The following tasks will kick off closer to the festival, but in the lead up, maximum community
participation is encouraged:
PERMITS | MEDICAL | SECURITY | WASTE MANAGEMENT | RECYCLING
COMMUNICATIONS develops creative ways to keep the community informed and ensure that we
are up to date with the latest festival developments. This is done through community notice boards,
the festival hub space, painting of murals, website, social media and guerilla marketing.
PRESS RELEASES | MEDIA PR CO-ORDINATION | SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK, TWITTER
VIDEOS: WWW.MUIZENBERGFESTIVAL.TV | MURALS | NOTICEBOARDS: PAVILION/ LIBRARY
FESTIVAL BASE INFO BOARDS | GRAPHIC DESIGN – ILLUSTRATION, PRINTING, DISTRIBUTION OF POSTERS & FLYERS
| FESTIVAL WEBSITE: MAINTENANCE/ UPGRADING | EMAIL LIST | DATABASE MANAGEMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT focuses on facilitation of a deeper reflection through our workshops and
equally important, celebration and social gatherings. It also looks at how to engage with a broader
diversity of the community.
REGULAR EVENTS | WORKSHOPS | PRO-ACTION CAFÉS | SKILLS KNOWLEDGE SHARING | SOCIAL
GATHERINGS | INTERVENTIONS | DOCUMENTATION | CELEBRATION OF PROCESS
PROJECT SUPPORT offers practical support on logging into the website and timeline as well as
networking and collaborative opportunities.
HELP WITH LOGGING IN | PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORSHIP OF PROJECTS | CONNECT PROJECTS TO
THE FESTIVAL’S THUNDERFUND CAMPAIGN | PROJECT SUPPORT PROVIDES THE LINK BETWEEN PROJECTS AND
THE FESTIVAL TASK TEAMS eg FEEDING INFO TO COMMUNICATIONS etc.
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION develops a local trading economy, maps our existing assets and works
together with fundraising and financial management towards self-sustainability.
FINANCE - a team made up of representatives from the Task Teams and local organisations making
decisions on financial direction and budget overview.
FUNDRAISING STRATEGIES | CASE STATEMENTS | THUNDAFUND | FUNDRAISING EVENTS
BUDGETS | ADMIN | ACCOUNTING | AUDITING
MUIZENBERG PAVILION - developing a plan for the urban renewal and future sustainability of the
Muizenberg Civic as a community hub. Working with Hand in Hand Creatives who will be curating
the 2 day music concert (11th 12th October) at the Pavilion.
MERCHANDISE - an avenue to both promote Muizenberg showcase it’s talents and attractions, as
well as to raise funds for the festival.
FESTIVAL T SHIRTS | SHOPPING BAGS | BUNTING FLAGS | HATS | BANNERS | GATHERING
DESIGNING CONCEPTS | DESIGNS | GRAPHIC DESIGN/ LAYOUT | PRODUCTION
ADMIN | RETAIL

6. MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTION
ONCE OFF
CONTRIBUTION
CONTRIBUTE
ARTWORKS
SUPPORT
MUIZENBERG
POSTCARD
PROJECT
CONTRIBUTE
PRIZES
PLEDGE ON
THUNDAFUND
(coming soon)
TIME
SKILLS
KNOWLEDGE
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

7. #WDC244
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Email: muizenbergfestival2014@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/MuizenbergFestival2014
www.muizenbergfestival.co.za
Co-ordinator: Fergus Turner
+27 723 654440
Administrator: Sandi Voges
+27 764 573577
BANK DETAILS:
FNB Cheque Account
Muizenberg Festival
Acc no: 62459944221
Branch Code: 250655
PAVILION
SUNRISE CIRCLE
INDIAN OCEAN
MOUNTAIN
BEACHFRONT
ST JAMES
VILLAGE
VLEI
PARK
MARINA DA GAMA
CAPRICORN PARK
VRYGRONDLAKESIDE
THANKS FOR YOUR
TIME