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.
Africa Week in Stellenbosch: Celebrating African diversity and success
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.
Trans-cending the scuba diving status quo
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.”
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.
Stellenbosch on the Street
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!
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.
Save the Planet During Your Study Break: Shop Local at the Market on the Plein
Slow fashion has experienced an increase in popularity in recent years, promoting sustainability and localised shopping. Students and tourists alike found their second-hand goods and locally-created artisanal goods at the Dorp Street Sunday Market, which has become a Stellenbosch bucket-list item.
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.
A taste of South Korea at Minari Stellenbosch
Minari Korean Kitchen Stellenbosch has virtually been fully booked since opening its doors in the quaint Simonsplein courtyard off Plein Street on Friday, 7 April. This family-owned Korean restaurant, which is the trendy, younger-brother company to the Minari in Simon’s Town, was brought to the Eikestad by the same team behind the popular Fool’s Gold Social Bar. The intimate, yet definitively elegant restaurant space puts a spotlight on quality, traditional Korean cuisine.
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.
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