Posted on February 2, 2009
The Encyclopaedia of South African Arts and Culture is a major multi-year project of national significance that aims to produce multi-volume, multi-media work of encyclopaedic scope that will encompass the verbal, performing and visual arts as well as many expressions of South African cultural heritage. Cultural literacy in our plural society, cultural industry and cultural diplomacy will benefit from the availability of user-friendly information the Encyclopaedia will supply, in its electronic and print forms.
The gestation period for the project will be five years to produce the first editions in all arts/culture/heritage areas under consideration; thereafter, the project will have galvanised sufficient resources from grants and endowments to become institutionalised and to set itself on a self-sustaining path.