Art, Music, and Culture: What’s Happening in Stellenbosch in 2024
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.
Stellenbosch Art Collective Soekfontein offers art, collaboration and friendship
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.
Picture: NARDUS ENGELBRECHT
Stellenbosch simply wants to hear its world-famous choir
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.
Fire Burn and Bong-water Bubble: Baked Shakespeare’s As You Like It in Review
The time has come again, and your favourite troop of stoned thespians, Baked Shakespeare, has returned to Stellenbosch’s Courtyard Café, performing the renowned comedy, As You Like It.
The Spier Light Art Festival in Review: Shedding a Light on the Colonial Past
Every year, Spier Wine Farm hosts its Light Art festival, which plays with light, sound and video. Each piece is thought-provoking, gut-punching and transcendental, and also promotes Spier’s artistic philosophy of highlighting history and how it affects the present, rather than brushing over it.
How to become a local in Stellenbosch
You don’t automatically become a local, so be sure to befriend those who are already. A waitress here, a bartender there, and anyone who’s willing to stop and talk under the oak trees. In the words of The White Lotus’s standout star Meghann Fahy, “you’ve got to make friends in the places you want to be a local at.”
GradEx review: How the climate crisis cannot escape the psyche
Sustainability is interdisciplinary, with manifestations within this year’s GradEx showing the diversity in approach needed to embed it within our society. Find here an exploration of students’ work related to the complexity and interconnectivity of the climate crisis.
Exciting film school for high school learners in Stellenbosch
At the Dorette Potgieter Film School, learners can meet like-minded people. The accredited film production course covers various aspects of filmmaking, including creative script writing, basic production, editing, and media design, in addition to camera performance.
A local’s top picks for date night dinner in Stellenbosch
Can’t decide where to eat for date night with your significant other? Skip the usual Maccy D’s delivery order and add some romance to your dinner plans. The following suggestions are guaranteed to add a variety of culinary options depending on your mood, and different atmospheres fit for an anniversary or even a first date!
A Stellenbosch Bucket List 2022
Whether you are going home for the holidays or getting ready to say goodbye to Stellenbosch for the long haul, here is your daily reminder to make the most of your time here in Stellenbosch with these bucket-list-cannot-miss activities!