About Us
City at Peace – Cape Town is a youth development organisation that uses the performing arts to teach a diverse group of young people about cross-cultural understanding, non-violent conflict resolution and leadership for social change.
Through workshops and training, opportunities are presented for youths to have a chance for honest and open dialogue with others from extremely different backgrounds. The focus is not simply on "making friends" with people from other cultures, but on building working relationships with a focus on creating integrated leadership for community based social change.
Over the course of a year, participants are trained in leadership for social change as well as artistic training in drama, dance and music. They are required to create an original production based on the stories of their lives, which will tour around the city, and they will have to use the material of that production to initiate community change projects in their homes, schools and communities.
