Woensdag, 26 Oktober 2016
NEWS
What’s up | Wat’s Waar V The Cape Town Flower Show takes place at The Castle of Good Hope from Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 October where 20 di verse and creative show gardens designed by the country’s top landscape architects and de signers will be on display. This annual lifestyle show will also in clude gardening and planting trends along with celebrating lo cal food, culture and communi ty. Tickets are available at Com puticket. Visit www.capetown flowershow.co.za for more. V Sneaker Exchange is on at GrandWest’s Sun Exhibits on Friday (29 October) with a flurry of sneaker buying, selling and trading action. This year’s event, from 11:00 to 19:00, will include entertainment by local DJs and artists including DJs Easy, Reddy D, Switch, Miss Celaneous, Sha ne Eagle, Aewon Wolf, Young ster, Da L.E.S, Speedsta and more. Tickets cost R60 at Com puticket or R80 at the door. V The 23rd Annual Japanese Film Festival will be on at Cine ma Nouveau V&A Waterfront this weekend (28 to 30 October) with free screenings of Be Sure to Share at 20:00 on Friday, Jinx!! at 14:00, It All Began When I Met You at 17:00 on Saturday, Beyond The Memories at 12:00 and My Pretend Girlfriend at 14:30 on Sunday. All movies are in Japanese with English subti tles and tickets will be available at the box office from one hour before the screening. V The Market at the Barn, an indoor and outdoor food, fun and craft market on the Kli pheuwel Road (R302) outside Durbanville, will be open on Sat urdays and Sundays 10:00 to 15:30. For enquiries call 072 168 1716. V The Malmesbury Outdoor Cinema will be presenting blockbuster favourites along with treats from local food ven dors at the “Ou Bloues” Rugby Sports Field in Malmesbury from Saturday 29 October. Tickets cost R85 or R165 for couples. Students and scholars pay R45 while children under 12 pay R35. A limited amount of “love nest” tickets, which include a bottle of wine, a WhatsApp waiter, and a comfy double bed complete with blankets and pillows in the best position of the silver screen, are available at R300. Send a WhatsApp message to 082 865 9513 or email tickets @swartlandcinema.co.za for bookings or more information. V The Oude Libertas Gallery will host the opening of a retro spective exhibition and book launch by Kaffie Pretorius on Sunday 30 October from 11:00 with guest speaker Dr Christo Wiese. Pretorius will lead a walk about on Thursday 10 November at 11:00. Visit oudelibertas.co.za for more. V The Gallery at Grande Provence in Franschhoek will host an exhibition entitled Being Here (and there), a rare body of works by Andries Botha, from Sunday 30 October until Friday 25 No vember. The gallery is open from 10:00 to 18:00 daily. Call 021 876 8630 or email gallery @grandeprovence.co.za for more information. V The TOPS at SPAR Bierfest 2016 will be celebrating Bavari an beer culture at the Newlands Brewery, Village Green from Fri day 4 to Sunday 6 November with live music and plenty of tra ditional Bavarian beerfest activ
ities on offer. Visit www.bierfest .co.za for tickets and more. V The Book Lounge in Cape Town will be hosting awardwin ning author Lauren Beukes who’ll be reading from and intro ducing her new children’s book The Bostik Book of Unbelievable Beasties on Saturday 5 Novem ber from 11:00 to 12:30. The book features 20 rhymes describing 20 of the weirdest and wildest creatures which have been illus trated by children. The launch is free. Visit www.bostik.co.za for more. V Perdeberg Winery will host their annual Family Festival on Saturday 5 November from 10:00 to 17:00 where visitors can enjoy gourmet fast foods, arts, crafts, a supervised children’s area and, of course, wines to taste with selected ranges on at special prices. Tickets cost R80 from iTickets or at the door. Chil dren under 18 enter free. The day will also include a family fun run. Visit www.runthevines.co.za for more about the run or to regis ter. V The God’s Karoo Women’s Conference will take place at Willowmore on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November with guest speakers Danie Botha and Lyn ette Beer. Registration costs R200. Visit www.godskaroo women.co.za, call Sonja on 083 658 4000 or email info @godskaroowomen.co.za for bookings and more information. V Vergenoegd Wine Estate will be hosting their first summer music concert series, Live@Ver genoegd, featuring Goodluck, Ard Matthews, Monark, Jimmy Nevis, and Arno Carstens on the first Sunday of every month from Sunday 6 November until March 2017. Tickets are available at webtickets.co.za. Visit ver genoegd.co.za for more. V Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville will be hosting Art Exchange: Mexico, a Mexican Print Group Show and a solo ex hibition by Varenka Paschke from Tuesday 8 November until Thursday 8 December. The exhi bition will be opened at 19:00 on Tuesday 8 November and guests are invited to dress up and enjoy tequila sponsored by Don Julio. Visit www.rusten vrede.com for more. V Dusty Rebels and the Bombshells will present Rockin’ & Rid ing, their fourth annual lifestyle festival at the Cape Town Os trich Farm on Saturday 12 No vember from 12:00 until mid night. Visitors can look forward to classic cars, custom bikes, fun fare rides, fashion, food, live mu sic, Hot Rods agitating the grav el at the oval DRTB Dirt Track and the Miss Bombshell Betty 2016 pageant. Tickets are avail able at Webtickets. Visit www.dustyrebelsandthebomb shells for more. V Xela College of Design will be hosting a free basic fashion sto ryboard workshop on Saturday 19 November at ETA Campus, 19 Harold Street in Stellenbosch with an early session between 09:00 and 12:00 and another from 13:00 to 16:00. This free workshop is open to all Grade 12s or any candidate that is availa ble to study full time next year. Parents will be invited during the last 30 minutes of the workshop to join the Xela team for coffee and cake, to meet the lecturers and discuss registration for 2017. Visit xela.co.za for more infor mation.
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