
The Craft Route
The Creative Community
Crafters, Makers, Artists, Poets, Foodies, Storytellers, Musicians & more on the Cape Flats of Cape Town and across South Africa yearn to create opportunity and the access to opportunity.
The Craft Route is developed as a channel to support residents to find and create more accessible and reflective opportunities. To stimulate a sense of creative purpose. To begin with what you have. To pursue self-expression, self-reliance and self-sustainability within a supportive community.
To offer creative alternatives for neigbours to utilize their local spending power within local street communities
To build Community Spirit
Create
Homemade by creatives in your Street Community. Find Crafter Youth, Adults & Elders in your neigbourhood. Let your homemade creativity sustain you. Let your creative passion instill pride, creativity and community spirit within your own street community. Join The Craft Route and start your creative journey.
Workshops
Attend introductory level, basic level and advanced level Craft Workshops for All. Woman, Youth, Kids, Men and the Elderly all welcome to a variety of craft workshops hosted by, endorsed, by and promoted by The Craft Route. Contact us if you would like to attend a craft workshop or to facilitate a craft workshop.
Discover something interesting
Welcome to a crafting, gifting, browsing & shopping experience which is borne from an urge, a niggle, a whisper that reminds us that there is more to life, more to our expression of self and the lives we live and project. Welcome to a space that reminds us that we are human, that we have an inherent impulse to create, to beautify, to share, to slow down, to find meaning and live authentically – closer to life and the highest expression of who we are.