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The festive season may be over, but its still summer holidays on the Cape West Coast! Here are our top events for January 2016!
I Love Weskus Market – New Years Market
Come and enjoy local West Coast products, food, crafts and wine tasting from local wineries. Products will be creative, hand made and affordable and we will be trying our utmost to get fresh farm produce from surrounding farmers on a regular basis.
Date: 3 January 2016
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Location: Vygevallei Farmstall
Contact: Nadine at [email protected]
Tannie Evita praat kaktus
Revisionist look at the history of white South Africa, from the arrival in 1652 of the Cactus of Separate Development on the Drommedaris, through the Great Trek, Blood River, the 1948 Election and arrival of the National Party and official apartheid, through the birth of democracy and the reality of today. Tannie Evita, in English, takes you on a journey, a hilarious roller- coaster ride to freedom of expression.
Date: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
An audience with Pieter Dirk Eish!
Meet those in our Rainbow Nation who will help us laugh at our fear of an unchartered future. Pieter-Dirk Uys presents a celebration of free speech, an orgy of laughing at sacred cows, an embrace of being in a relatively healthy young democracy. Come and enjoy it all while it lasts. Every box holds a familiar secret! Every laugh truly South African! A different show each night, depending on the choices of the audience, might force future thought-police to buy tickets for each show, just in case a State Secret is let out of a box!
Date: 9 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 28
2016 Langebaan Downwind Dash
The Downwind Dash is a one day challenge to be held in Langebaan over a weekend during the window period of 16 – 31 January 2016. Reputed to be the biggest kite and windsurfer event in Africa, over 300 entries are expected, including a large contingent of international participants.
Date: 16 January
Location: Langebaan
Contact: [email protected] | 082 449 5033 | www.langebaandash.co.za
Part of the Foodie Route | Langebaan
And then there was Madiba
Pieter-Dirk Uys pays tribute to Nelson Mandela in a show filled with characters close to the former President – his prison warder, his wife Winnie, Desmond Tutu, PW Botha, FW de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, as well as stories of his friendship with Evita Bezuidenhout.
Date: 16 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
PDU Unpowdered
Pieter-Dirk Uys looks back on a life fully-lived and peers ahead at the next challenge of making the impossible even more extraordinary.
Date: 23 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
The Darling Music Experience – Opening Concert
Date: 29 January
Time: 19:00
Location: NG Kerk Darling, Church Street
Contact: Peter +27 (0)22 492 2009 | [email protected]
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description:
- The Darling Chamber Choir
- Students of the DMA (the Darling Music for All music education initiative)
- Aureona Wagenstroom, Soprano with Lieder by Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss
- Sakhile Humbane, flute, winner of the National Youth Music Competition 2015
Cost: Free – Donations in favour of the DMA welcome
Darling Music Experience: A morning with James Grace
Date: 30 January
Time: 11:30
Location: Darling Sweet, 7 Long Street
Contact: Peter +27 (0)22 492 2009 | [email protected]
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Description: One of South Africa’s leading classical guitarists with a programme of his most popular tunes.
Cost: R120 per person
Adapt or fly
“It is 30 years since Pieter-Dirk Uys started his total onslaught on politics with ‘Adapt or Dye’. Everything has changed so radically that some issues have become the same! Julius Malema’s recent outbursts have led to some citizens enquiring about emigration. An ANC spokeman added fuel to the fire by suggesting that ‘all cowards can go if they can’t take the future here’. Adapt or Fly! 1981 and 2011 rolick hand-in-hand through the ups and downs of South African politics. It’s even funnier now, while still chills to the bone.”
Date: 30 January
Time: 14:00
Location: Evita se Perron, Darling
Contact: Book your Evita se Perron show +27 (0)22 492 2851
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Darling Music Experience: A musical sunset dinner
Beautiful classical music followed by dinner (optional) at one of the most scenic settings on the West Coast.
The amazing Cavatina Trio ( Bridget Rennie Salonen, flute, Petri Salonen, violin and Tertia Visser, piano) play music by Bach, Bizet, Mozart, Piazolla and more.
Cost: R120 per person
Bookings: http://www.darlingmusic.org/programme.php
Date: 30 January
Time: 16:00
Location: !Khwa ttu San Culture and Education Centre, off R 27 before Yzerfontein
Contact: Peter +27 (0)22 492 2009 | [email protected]
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Groote Post Country Market – January 2016
Local is lekker with locals presenting a divine selection of Darling gourmet produce including mushrooms, burgers, breads, cheese, cured meats, olive oils, preserves and much more – to enjoy at the market or take home.
Date: 31 January 2016
Time: 10h00 – 15h00
Location: Groote Post, Darling
Contact: Eldré Strydom: +27.828776677 or Email: [email protected]
Event type: Market
Culture Route Route, Darling
Darling Music Experience: Matinee in the barrel shed
From America Cape Town born violinist Sarita Uranovski and Andrew Campbell, piano.
This accomplished duo will perform works by Debussy, Babajanyan, Saygun and Ravel
Cost: R120 per person
Bookings: http://www.darlingmusic.org/programme.php
Date: 31 January
Time: 11:30
Location: Ormonde Wine Estate Darling, Langfontein Street
Contact: Peter +27 (0)22 492 2009 | [email protected]
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Darling Music Experience: The piano battle
The duel, as performed in previous years in Darling, turns into a battle.
Two international piano champions, Andreas Kern and Paul Cibis head-to-head on stage. The two artists with distinctly different performance styles compete, shine and enchant, taking turns playing music by Chopin, Liszt and Debussy.
And the winner is? You, the audience, decide
Cost: R150 per person
Bookings: http://www.darlingmusic.org/programme.php
Date: 31 January
Time: 17:00
Location: Darling Brewery, 48 Caledon Street
Contact: Peter +27 (0)22 492 2009 | [email protected]
Part of the Culture Route | Darling
Kids Holiday Fun at !Khwa ttu
Join in on daily fun-filled kid’s activities these school holidays. Make and shoot your own traditional bow & Arrow. Follow animal tracks. Flay nature games and so much more! Boys and girls between 6 and 12 years old. Bring your own bike or use one of theirs.
Dates: 9 December – 12 January (closed on 25 December and 1 January 2016)
Time: 09h00 – 10h30
Location: !Khwa ttu
Contact: +27 (0)22 2998 or [email protected]
Cost: R75 per child including a drink & refreshments
Part of the Culture Route | !Khwa ttu
The Simply Bee Observation Centre
This educational, interactive experience teaches everything you ever wanted to know about bees.
A hive has been opened on one side to reveal the intricate workings of the colony. It is observed from behind glass for the safety and happiness of both visitors and the bees. The back door to the observation room is open so the bees are free to come and go as they please.
Honey tasting is offered after the talk.
Packages are available for schools, study groups or tourists and picnic snacks and drinks are included.
Part of the Foodie Route | Hopefield
Open: (Booking is essential) Open Mon – Fri 9:00 to 17:00 and on Saturday’s until 16:00.
Where: 31A Kerk Street, Hopefield
Contact: +27 (0)22 723 0569 | [email protected] | www.simplybee.co.za
Thali Thali Game Lodge Sunday Buffet, Langebaan
Join Thys and Amalia on their exquisite game lodge for a buffet with fresh salads, “home grown” venison options, traditional chicken pies and beautiful desserts with fresh seasonal fruit.
R200 p/adult | R100 p/child for a 90 min Game Drive where you will have an excellent chance of spotting all their featured species. Booking Essential.
R100 for Archery Lessons with an accredited coach for something quite exhilarating. If you are an old timer to the sport, come and enjoy a 3D archery course. Use your own bow or rent one from the shop. Booking Essential.
Entry is free to the Game Lodge and the un-guided fynbos walk is a must for all nature enthusiasts, this affords you a chance to focus on the smaller inhabitants and fynbos. Please report to the front desk before embarking on your journey on foot.
Stay over or enjoy the stunning restaurant that boasts with a cosy interior with a large deck from which the sunsets are spectacular.
Location: Thali Thali Game Lodge, R27, opposite Langebaan turnoff
Time: Everyday
Contact: +27 (0)82 372 8637 | [email protected] | www.thalithali.co.za
Part of the Foodie Route | Thali Thali
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