11 – 19 Oct 2025
The Toyota SU Woordfees takes place from 10 to 16 October in Stellenbosch for the first time since 2020. The festival theme this year is “Wild”, and the Woordfees team is busy finalising a programme that will invite you to let your imagination run wild and free. On 24 August, the festival programme will be […]
It’s always Happy Hour at the SPAAR BAR At the SPAAR BAR, you can get half-price tickets for all shows within the next four hours. This is how it works: · The SPAAR BAR is open from 9 – 15 OCT between 09:00 and 16:00. · You can buy half-price tickets for any performance on […]
It is time for the ninth SU Woordfees Short Story Anthology. The previous anthologies were received very well by the reading public and critics alike. These publications will serve as testament to the zeitgeist which Afrikaans-speaking South Africans are currently experiencing. The author of the winning story will receive a prize of R30 000. The […]
The 2024 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees blossoms and blooms this spring with more than 400 unique productions presented in nearly 60 venues in and around Stellenbosch. The festival takes place this year from 28 September to 6 October in Stellenbosch. The 2024 programme offers festival goers the opportunity to express and embrace their own spontaneity through […]
Guns, roses, tilled soil and feathers. These are just some of the items to be found scattered throughout Olwagen’s production of Hedda Gabler, soon to be staged at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. This award-winning reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s play about one of the theatre’s most enduring femme fatales is brought into the 21st […]
We had such a great time at this years Woordfees, we’re still bubbling over with excitement. A heartfelt thank you to all our enthusiastic and friendly festival-goers, the artists who put their heart and soul into every performance, our trusts and donors (Het Jan Marais Nationale Fonds, NATi • National Afrikaans Theatre Initiative, Jannie Mouton […]