storytelling contributors

 
 

Zayd Minty

Zayd Minty is a cultural management professional and researcher. He has a special interest in understanding how culture could be better mobilised for social and spatial transformation, and the implications thereof for governance and the fostering of cultural leadership. He runs Creative City South. He is a research associate at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) at the Cultural Policy and Management Department of the Wits School of Arts. He is also an expert with the UCLG Culture Committe.

 

Graham Falken

Graham is a Director of ZAG Consultants. He was previously Director of the Community Arts Project/The Arts and Media Access Centre, and a Co-Director for Cape Town TV. He edits articles on Creative City South.

 

Claudia Seldin

Claudia Seldin is a Brazilian architect and urban planner with a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Urbanism from the Graduate Program in Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focus on the existing relationships between cities and culture, and in contributions of social movements to alternative ways of thinking urban space. She is also the author of “Urban Images and Resistances: From Capitals of Culture to Creative Cities” (2017) and the co-editor of “Cultures and Resistances in the City” (2018).

 
 

Matt Maralack

Matt Maralack is a South African, but truly identifies as a global citizen. He is a BA (Hons) Music and Musicology graduate from Rhodes University and has completed an MA in Cultural Policy and Management from Wits University. He is passionate about culture but more particularly within urban policy development and governance discourse. In addition, he considers himself a fun uncle having worked in youth development spaces as a program director for a US based summer camp company for two years respectively. Along with being a musician, he loves having deep and meaningful conversations but hates inevitable stomach cramps from laughing too hard at witty puns. Matt serves as Global Programs Associate at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg.