This year, the town is buzzing with exciting exhibitions, performances, and cultural events. Here’s a preview of what’s coming up in the Stellenbosch art and culture scene.

Climate change needs no introduction, and with the murmurs of another Day Zero in the Western Cape, it has been thrust back into daily conversation. Global warming is leading to increased temperatures globally, and in 2019 the World Meteorological Organisation found that there was a 1.1℃ increase in temperature compared to preindustrial levels globally.

Daily Maverick's The Gathering: Earth Edition was a climate-focused conference that brought together scientists, economists, business leaders, policymakers and activists to discuss practical solutions to the environmental, energy and economic crises South Africa faces.

Overall, the week served as a reminder of the strength of Africa, honoured what Africa as a continent has achieved, and opened up a space for education about Africa by voices from Africa.

The diving industry is a community like any other and can therefore fall into similar patterns of discrimination. As Gafner explains, “most cases of queerphobia I have experienced and witnessed in the diving community have been as a result of lack of education and exposure to openly LGBTQIA+ people.”

A desire to put more art out into the world led to Hindle and Viljoen forming Soekfontein, a kopplek (Afrikaans for ‘a headspace’) where you can be more curious about the world and explore your endless creativity without being bound to any limitations.

It’s not difficult to run into lekker people when you’re in a place like Stellenbosch. Please enjoy these quick - sometimes blurry - photos of Stellenbosch on the street, all shot on film. Tell us if you see yourself, or someone you know!

Stellenbosch residents are in for a treat as the Stellenbosch University Choir prepares to take to the stage in the Endler Hall for two concerts over consecutive weeks. The first of these concerts took place on Thursday 4 May and left the raucous audience - with much more hometown familiarity than their usual audiences - in absolute awe, and in standing ovation.