Ndihamba Nawe, Mas’thokoze, Emlanjeni, Love Potion, do we need to say more? Book your tickets to see Mafikizolo perform live at the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: From R150 for youth (6 – 21 with ID), R190 for adults, children under 6 enter for FREE.
The South African Society of Artists (SASA) is holding their 2019 Merit Exhibition. The Merit Exhibition is a prestigious exhibition for members who achieved excellent results at the previous year’s Annual Exhibition Selection. Entry to the exhibition is free but entry fees to the gardens apply. The exhibition will be opened by Portrait Artist and Winner of Sanlam Portrait Award 2015 John Pace at 6pm on Friday 25 January.
For more information or invitation to the opening please call
Tel: 021 671 8941
or e-mail: secretary@sasa-artists.co.za
| DATE | MOVIE | DOORS OPEN | MOVIE STARTS |
| 24 October 2018 | Doctor Strange | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 31 October 2018 | It | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 07 November 2018 | Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 14 November 2018 | Coyote Ugly | 6pm | 8pm |
| 21 November 2018 | Lady Bird | 6pm | 8pm |
| 28 November 2018 | The Vow | 6pm | 8pm |
| 05 December 2018 | A Good Year | 6pm | 8:15pm |
| 12 December 2018 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 6pm | 8:15pm |
| 19 December 2018 | Mrs. Doubtfire | 6pm | 8:30pm |
| 26 December 2018 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 6pm | 8:30pm |
| 02 January 2019 | Peter Rabbit | 6pm | 8:30pm |
| 09 January 2019 | The Beatles: Eight Days A Week | 6pm | 8:30pm |
| 16 January 2019 | A Few Good Men | 6pm | 8:30pm |
| 23 January 2019 | A Walk In The Clouds | 6pm | 8:15pm |
| 30 January 2019 | Ready Player One | 6pm | 8:15pm |
| 06 February 2019 | He Named Me Malala | 6pm | 8pm |
| 13 February 2019 | Sweet Home Alabama | 6pm | 8pm |
| 20 February 2019 | Downsizing | 6pm | 8pm |
| 27 February 2019 | Get Out | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 06 March 2019 | Reel Rock 13 | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 13 March 2019 | Daddy’s Home | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 20 March 2019 | Rio | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 27 March 2019 | Hanna | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 03 April 2019 | Three Identical Strangers | 6pm | 7:45pm |
| 10 April 2019 | The Greatest Showman | 6pm | 7:30pm |
| 17 April 2019 | Wanderlust | 6pm | 7:30pm |
BOOK YOUR TICKETS AT http://thegalileo.co.za/buy-tickets/
Contact The Galileo Open Air Cinema for more information: hello@thegalileo.co.za | 071 471 8728 | www.thegalileo.co.za
Formed in Cape Town, the multi-award winning band Freshlyground are back to set the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts stage alight with their infectious kwela style and musical traditions from Zimbabwe and Mozambique with elements of pop, jazz, blues, and indie rock.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: From R150 for youth (6 – 21 with ID), R190 for adults, children under 6 enter for FREE.
The Constantiaberg Art Society’s Summer Exhibition includes work of more than 70 local artists.
The Parlotones have just released a new single Can You Feel It. If you want to hear this single performed live and many more other songs from the band, get your tickets for the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: From R170 for youth (6 – 21 with ID), R220 for adults, children under 6 enter for FREE.
Do you want to end of your weekend with a searing live performance, groovy house beats, and trip-hop infused vocals? Goldfish will be performing at the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts to give you just that.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: From R170 for youth (6 – 21 with ID), R220 for adults, children under 6 enter for FREE.
Countdown to the New Year at the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts with Jeremy Loops and Crimson House.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: R415
Platinum-selling singer and songwriter, LIRA, will set the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts stage with her dynamic voice.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: From R150 for youth (6 – 21 with ID), R190 for adults, children under 6 enter for FREE.
Performer: Emo Adams
Ticket price: Adults – R100
Youth 6 – 18 R50
Under 6 – free
Tickets can be purchased from the 1st December 2018 at Harold Porter National Botanical Garden entrance.
Please note you don’t have to book tickets upfront.
Contact details:
Harold Porter National Botanical Garden,
Tel: 028 272 9311
2018 Programme of Wednesday Talks at Kirstenbosch
Artists/Speakers: Various artists
Contact: Cathy Abbott: 021 465 6440 or Email: cathya@wol.co.za.
Entrance charge: The Wednesday talks are free, but Garden entry fees apply.
How to book: Booking is not necessary
Event venue: Richard Crowie Hall (gate 2).
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 24
Jan |
EDWIN RYE
BBC award winning gardener |
Spectacular National Trust gardens and others |
| 07 Feb | MARIJKE HONIG Landscape designer |
Waterwise gardening where are we ? What is the future of the garden
|
| 21
Feb |
PAUL PAARMAN
Landscape/ ecologist |
Grey Water |
| 07
Mar |
ROSALIND SPEARS The English Swallow |
Darlington Hall, Devon
|
| 04
Apr |
Carol Poole Manager: Biodiversity Research Projects, SANBI |
The KAROO BIOGAPS Project |
| 18
Apr |
MIKE BRUTON
Author |
The Annotated Old Fourlrgs: The story of the coelacanth
|
| 2
May |
BETH HUNT AND PHOTOGRAPHERS Author |
Hermanus |
| 16
May |
CHERISE VILJOEN Horticulturist, Kirstenbosch |
Edible indiginious plants |
| 30
May |
RICHARD PEIRSE Author/ Wildlife Campaigner |
Nicole – the shark |
| 13
Jun |
DR EUGENE MOLL
Environmentalist |
TOKAI – the other perspective |
| 27
Jun |
DAVID DAVIDSON
Designer |
Chelsea Glimpses from 1994 – 2017 |
| 11
Jul |
RICHARD ARM Horticulturist / Curator – Manager, Vergelen Garden |
Vergelegen Garden |
| 25
Jul |
KLAUS Curator, George Botanical Garden |
Garden Route Botanical Garden
|
| 08
Aug |
EVE DUNNELL Chaiman, U3A – Cape Town |
The tea route to China |
| 22
Aug |
SUE BUCHNAN
Author/environmentalist |
Robert Jacob Gordon 1743 – 1795: Soldier, Explorer and ‘Man of Science’ |
| 05
Sep |
Mary van Blommestein Curator Irma Stern Musuem and UCT Collection |
The world of Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th century artist and naturalist |
| 19
Sep |
ROD SAUDERS Silverhill Seeds |
Elsie Esterhuysen -her life and some of the plants she collected |
| 03
Oct |
JAMES FISK
Owner Fisk Horticuture |
California Dreaming: The garden and plants of California
|
| 17
Oct |
TBA |
|
| 31
Oct |
WERNER VOIGT Curator Karoo Desert Garden |
Succulents,Vol2 |
| 01
Nov |
CLARE BURGESS
Landscape Architect |
Travels with a landscape architect – Art in the Landscape |
| 14
Nov |
PETER STEYN Birdlover/Author |
Memories of a Birdwatcher
|
| 28
Dec |
MARIANNE ALEXANDER
Journalist / Author |
Garden in the Western Cape
|
Boney M. Featuring Liz Mitchell usher us into Christmas Day at the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts. Fans will be very happy to know that Liz Mitchell, the original lead singer of Boney M, will be performing the songs that we all know and love.
Info: 021 799 8783
Cost: From R290 for youth (6 – 21 with ID), R350 for adults, children under 6 enter for FREE.
THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT
Carols By Candlelight – Performerance by the Gugulethu Tenors
Tickets can be purchased from the 1st December 2018 at the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden entrance.
Please note you don’t have to book tickets upfront.
Ticket price:
Adults: R80
Youth 6-18: R40
Under 6: free
Contact details: Harold Porter National Botanical Garden, 028 272 9311
Dos and Don’ts
- Please enjoy the concert and abide by the following:
- Do take all your litter home, the concert venue is bin-free.
- Do respect the peace and cleanliness of adjacent residential areas when leaving.
- Do bring low chairs only.
- Don’t smoke in the audience.
- Don’t bring high deckchairs that obstruct the view of the stage.
- Don’t climb on the stage or enter flower beds.
- Don’t leave litter in our World Heritage Site.
Performer: Andrew Young
Ticket price: Adults – R80
Youth 6 – 18 R40
Under 6 – free
Tickets can be purchased from the 1st December 2018 at Harold Porter National Botanical Garden entrance.
Please note, you don’t have to book tickets upfront.
Contact details:
Harold Porter National Botanical Garden
Tel: 028 272 9311
The plant sale has a range of indigenous plants suited to coastal and fynbos gardens.
Find plants adapted to the conditions in your garden, be they steep mountain slopes, wetlands, shady spots or wind-ravaged dunes.
Entry fee: free entry only for plant sale