11 – 19 Oct 2025
The Toyota SU Woordfees is declaring 28 September 2022 Wild Wednesday when more than 1 000 tickets for this year’s festival will be available at discounts of between 20%-80%. All tickets available on the Wild Wednesday sale cost only R40 each. Several lucky draws and competitions will also take place during the day. “We want […]
The winner of the prestigious Nagtegaal Text Prize for 2025 is Namaqualand writer, actress and theatre-maker Dianne du Toit Albertze. The Nagtegaal Text Prize is the biggest scriptwriting competition in South Africa and was revived in 2024 in collaboration with the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees. For her winning script, Huis van sand (House of Sand), Du […]
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 […]