The Creative Skills Exchange & Industry Development Program
The Creative Skills Exchange is five days of hands-on training with people who’ve built creative businesses themselves. You’ll learn how to price your work properly, protect it legally, build a funding pitch, and turn what you make into steady income.
The highest-potential businesses to come out of the week continue into an incubation phase, which includes advisory support, mentoring, and access to CcHUB Namibia’s facilities and network.
The program caters to all nine creative sectors — music, film, fashion, gaming, visual arts, tourism, and more.
- Dates: 23–28 August 2026
- Opening Fair: 23 August 2026
- Location: Windhoek
- Free to attend
- Applications close 16 August 2026
Apply for the Creative Skills Exchange & Industry Development Program training week: bit.ly/NamibiaCreativeSkillsExchange
Come to the Opening Fair & Creatives Mixer
Sunday 23 August · CcHUB Namibia, Windhoek
The program opens with a public fair: for creatives, families, friends, and anyone who wants to see what’s happening in Namibia’s creative space and support the vendors and performers on show. Walk through an exhibition of work from Namibian creatives across art, fashion, and craft, meet people building in the same industry as you, and be there when the week kicks off.
RSVP for the Opening Fair: https://luma.com/m4x18rz7
Exhibit your work at the Fair
Sunday 23 August · CcHUB Namibia, Windhoek
Selling or showing your creative work? Put it in front of the people who come through on day one.
Apply to exhibit: bit.ly/CSEvendor Free stall · Applications close 16 August
Want a slot at the open mic?
Sunday 23 August · CcHUB Namibia, Windhoek
The Creative Skills Exchange Opening Fair open mic is for spoken word artists, poets, and acoustic acts, or anyone with a performance to share.
Apply here: bit.ly/CSE-openmic
Slots are limited. Applications close 19 August.
Join the training week
Monday 24 – 28 August · Windhoek · Free
Five days of training for creative entrepreneurs and MSMEs. You don’t need a formal business yet to join.
Apply for the training week: bit.ly/NamibiaCreativeSkillsExchange Free · Closes 16 August
Closing Policy Mixer
Friday 28 August · Evening · Windhoek
The training week closes with a policy mixer, by invitation, for government, industry, development partners, and program participants.
Questions? Contact namibia@cchub.africa.
Powered by: Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture
Supported by: NIPDB, UNESCO, NIFA, MTC, Basecamp Incubation Hub, FNCC, Scaleup Namibia
