Streetwires
Streetwires is a Cape Town-based company that works with formerly unemployed men and women to create fun and functional pieces out of raw materials. Using wire, tin, beads and metal as their medium, the artists are able to shape and create anything from tiny beaded items to giant wire sculptures.
Streetwires design, create and market contemporary African wire and bead craft art, blending contemporary design with traditional craft skills. The store and production studio are in Bo-Kaap, located next to Monkeybiz & Carrol Boyes.
Camera & Editing by Rorz
Streetwires - South Africa
Artist-founded Streetwires promotes a distinctly South African art forms wide-ranging appeal to fight poverty locally while taking its wares to a welcoming international market, Streetwires has helped more than 100 formerly unemployed men and women to learn a marketable creative skill, providing both capacity building and economic benefits to previously untrained employees and their families through sustainable, meaningful long term employment.
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Produced by GLP Films
Director: Rob Holmes
Videographer & Editor: Matt Weatherly
Associate Producer: Jenny Ersbak
Marketing Strategy: Laura Knudson
StreetWires - Shop Tour
A guided tour through our shop in 77 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town. Why don't you pay us a visit?
GreenheartShop.org visits Streetwires
GreenheartShop.Org visits the Streetwires fair trade artisan group in Capetown, South Africa.
Music by Conductive Alliance
South Africa Scrap Art: Two artists in Cape Town turn trash into beautiful sculptures
Two Zimbabwean artists in Cape Town are bringing junk back to life. They do this by using old car parts, wire and stone - mostly collected from the scrapyard - to build beautiful and imaginative sculptures. CGTN's Yolisa Njamela has more.
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Streetwires funky wire art at Design Indaba
Streetwires funky art at Design Indaba trade show, Cape Town in 2009.
Interview with Kathy from Streetwires.
Internship with Magister in Cape Town
Are you looking for an internship or volunteer experience in Cape Town? Then look no further, for further information visit magister.co.za
Streetwires - Artist-Studio Tour
A short tour through the artist studio of Streetwires, located at 77 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Destination Art - Cape Town
Take a visit to Cape Town to meet artists who are working in post-Apartheid
South Africa. Sculptor and painter, Willie Bester, reveals why he trawls the city's
junkyards for inspiration and materials and sound artist James Webb takes us on
a tour of Cape Town.
Bead and wire art in action at African Allsorts studio, Cape Town, South Africa.
African Allsorts is a job-creation, social upliftment enterprise. We operate in the spirit of fair trade and fair wage; many of our artists are the sole breadwinners of their families. African Allsorts specializes in handmade, finely sculpted bead and wire art collectibles with a focus on animal figurines. Each piece is handmade and the culmination of several hours of highly skilled work, patience and dedication. Our art can be presented as gifts that beautifully reflect South Africas rich natural heritage and home and corporate décor can also be strikingly enhanced. Unsurpassed quality and exceptional craftsmanship are our standards, passion, innovation and integrity our values and exemplary service to our clients, our promise. We look forward to your support that would contribute to our sustainability and growth.
Cape Leopard Trust - South Africa
An apex predator in the rugged Western Cape region of South Africa, the little researched and undeservedly vilified Cape leopard is an umbrella species whose conservation effectively helps to preserve smaller, lower profile predators.
GLP Films
Founded in 2008, GLP Films is an award-winning content marketing agency dedicated to authentic storytelling within the travel industry (e.g. adventure, outdoor, food, culture, wildlife, sustainability). To date, GLP has produced and distributed 200+ videos from 30+ countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America. In addition, GLP provides a unique set of value-add services for global partners — content strategy, brand development, destination storytelling, stakeholder development, content marketing campaigns, and more.
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Credits
Produced by GLP Films
Director: Rob Holmes
Videographer & Editor: Matt Weatherly
Associate Producer: Jenny Ersbak
Marketing Strategy: Laura Knudson
DEKATv - Cape Town Art Fair
What an immense honour it was to be invited to film the first Cape Town Art Fair. It was an incredibly popular event filled with fashion and art.
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South African artists breath life to innovative wire art
Wire art is being taken to a whole new dimension in South Africa, thanks to the availability of some cheap electronic components and circuit boards. A goup of artists have managed to create an entire collection of wire that quite literally walks,chirps and even sings.
Watch this Artisan Make Someone Very Happy!
Entrepreneurial Up-cycling in Africa. Check out Streetwires profile on GlobeIn:
Wire art is as unique a South African cultural icon as is boerewors, kwaito and Nelson Mandela. Across the country street vendors sell anything from Christmas decorations and wine racks to fruit bowls and representations of popular characters from animated films. These creations are works of art in their own right, delicately formed, colourfully decorated with beads and pieces of tin can, and lovingly finished off - plainly the work of talented hands.
This art form has been given a boost by the Streetwires wire art project. With a small team of two artists and two marketing coordinators, the three founders - Winston Rangwani, Patrick Schofield and Anton Ressel – set out in 2000 to establish a formal business structure to support wire artists in Cape Town, and to tackle the ever-present problem of unemployment in South Africa by building on traditional skills that were already in place. Today Streetwires provides a creative outlet for more than 100 men and women, all of whom were previously unemployed. The project supplies skills training, raw materials and support, and encourages individual expression and an attitude of responsibility in taking control of the future.
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Verkope van handvrye toestelle het die afgelope twee weke merkbaar toegeneem. Dít volg nadat 'n nuwe verordening, wat verkeersbeamptes toelaat om motoriste wat klets en bestuur se selfone af te vat, bekragtig is.
Woolworths Streetwires – Love Local on Expresso
Woolworths creative studio recently commissioned small enterprise Streetwires to produce beaded food items to be photographed on Woolworths’ new ‘love local’ food range. Check it out!
Tawanda Masvosva(Stone Sculptor) at Bryanston African Arts Market
A creative stone sculptor needs enough exposure for his business to to grow from strength to strength. His vision is to own his own gallery.
Roger at work
This is Roger at work at the side of the road in Joburg where we found him and were recommended by friends who described him as a very talented worker.
Roger came from Zambia with his wife and 3 children, and this is his only source of income. He is currently trying to get permanent residency in South Africa. We have selected Roger to be our only supplier of beaded animals because of the quality of his work and to help him support his family.
Day Two - Christmas Decorations
You'll see amazing wire art all through South Africa, often sold on the side of the road by street vendors.These gorgeous wire and bead Christmas decorations are made by a group of artist from Streetwires in Cape Town. Streetwires was set up to tackle unemployment of wire artists and today they have over 60 employees.
Something special for your Christmas tree this year?