The NADC desires to assist local community members to establish and formalize their arts, craft and related businesses, by providing training, mentorship, networking opportunities and resource projects and initiatives which are viable. We are consistently striving to ensure that this organization has the correct level and mix of competencies to ensure that we are able to comfortably tackle and deliver large scale and complex projects.

In addition to these, the operation wishes to provide individuals with the opportunity to acquire new set of skills, both artistic and entrepreneurial, which will form a basic for their further training and development, which will enable them to unlock variant resources to ensure sustainable growth of their businesses and Arts careers.

• Audience development and to develop new markets
• Stimulate demand for artist productions
• Support local economic development
• Localise the arts and artist development
• Arts Education for the broader community
• Creation of employment for local beneficiaries
• Create jobs in the township tourism industry and its components

• A more socially united and cohesive community of artists
• An audience receptive to new productions and new markets for artist
• Positive contributions to local GDP’s
• Creation of Job opportunities in the creative industry and entertainment
• Arts education and Training to beneficiaries
• Audience Development
• Artist training and Capacity Building

Currently the Nyanga Arts Development Centre (NADC), continues to successfully present the Artists in Schools Project in its venture of audience development and advocate an important role as an Arts and Culture Centre, to engage various public schools, in different districts on the importance of Arts & Culture in the Western Cape. 

The Department of Arts & Culture (DAC) has also continued to entrust the Nyanga Arts Development Centre with a commitment to the Western Cape Chapter of the Artists in Schools Project, operating in its premises located in Nyanga. The capacity we have has enabled the NADC to reach an enormous task that cover an allocation of 40 art practitioners in 40 schools respectively.

The role and purpose of the Artists in Schools, has vitally expressed impact in assisting creative arts educators at schools, and has opened a demand from schools, who desperately requests the assistance of our Art Practitioners with expertise on the overall teaching and training of the Arts & Culture subject in schools.