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Hello and welcome to the official BAT Centre Website. . The BAT Centre is an arts and culture community centre found in the small craft harbour, off Durban's Victoria Embankment.Our Mission is to celebrate the arts and culture of Durban, KwaZulu Natal and South Africa by promoting local talent and skills. Celebrating our unique cultures and encouraging cross-fertilisation to create jobs for the artists by sourcing talent, imparting skills and developing markets. Also to act as a community cultural center for the city of Durban, the people of the harbour and the Esplanade and to become a resource to outlying arts and cultural centers and creative people.
Since its inception in 1995 the BAT has grown older 
but from observing the quality of the arts and performances displayed on this day and on a regular daily basis, it is definite the BAT is now a wiser entity. Short courses, workshops & seminars take place at the BAT Centre on a continuous basis. Topics of discussion vary from the field of the visual arts, music, acting, writing and literature, to discussions on health, politics, business skills and entrepreneurship.
Various venues are used, through booking, at the centre such as the Functions 
Room, Mission Control Room, The Studio Coastal Room, the MBL (Music Business Learnership) Room, the Resource Centre and the Sipho Gumede Hall and the Visual Art Studio (not for booking).
The BAT Centre’s Visual Art Studio, galleries & BAT shops allows the BAT patron the value of being part of the art world by offering exhibition space where tourists and art lovers can select and purchase artworks. Through the whole process the curator will choose two students that get mentored for an exhibition at Centre’s Menzi Mchunu or Democratic Gallery.
- To celebrate the arts and culture of Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and South Africa by promoting local talent and skills, celebrate our unique cultures and encouraging cross-fertilization.
- To create jobs for the artists by sourcing talent, imparting skills and developing markets
- To act as a community cultural center for the city of Durban, the people of the harbour and the Esplanade.
- To become a resource to outlaying art and cultural centers and creative people
The BAT Centre Trust is a private trust dedicated to impacting on the cultural life of South Africa by nurturing and promoting the vibrant music, arts, theatre, craft, film and literature of Kwa-Zulu Natal. In so doing, the BAT Centre aims to generate work for artists, to build new markets for the arts and their support industries and to contribute to the local economy by attracting domestic and international tourists to Durban Metro and its innovative and exciting facility situated in the Durban harbour