3 – 11 OCT 2026
Marinda Engelbrecht once struggled with her weight – until she cooked her way to a 53 kg weight loss. Join Marinda as she talks about her approach to food and wellbeing, and enjoy tasting delicious sample dishes from her scientifically grounded cookbook, No Thank You to Obesity, developed with the support of two dietitians and […]
The Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden is known and loved as a green lung, relaxation and plant spotting nexus in the town. Recently the garden won international acclaim for its conservation and plant advocacy work. Botanist Rupert Koopman will show you their innovative displays highlighting threatened fynbos ecosystems, the special botanical art and photography exhibition (running […]
2026 Notes From The Undergroundtraces the inter-generational Hip Hop movement of Cape Town, spanning four decades from the 1980s to the present day. At the heart of the movement is Knowledge of Self. In Cape Town, this becomes a means to reclaim culture, rewrite erased histories, and forge new identities in the aftermath of colonialism […]
Presented by Penguin Random HouseCarla Venter, better known as the internet’s money guru @moneywithcarla, is the author ofMoney With Carla – Your No BS Guide to Building Wealth, in which she gives practical advice to help you build wealth and achieve financial independence. Venter makes the basics of investing easy, so that anyone can invest […]
Presented by Booktown Richmond Press Doggone Days is Darryl David’s book about his travels with his dogs and his family. Together they have travelled to more than 100 small towns, recording their journeys through photographs, short stories, and anecdotes. Come and listen to his dog stories, and afterwards join us for a short dog walk. […]
Presented by Protea Boekhuis and Naledi Ahead of her 70th birthday in September, three books from Joan Hambidge‘s pen will be published: a collected volume of selected poems, her latest novel, Hart sonder hawe, and a tribute volume for her late friend Johann de Lange (co-authored with Johann Lodewyk Marais). Ronel Foster talks to Hambidge […]
Come have coffee with the festival poet. Marius Swart interviews Tom Dreyer about his latest collection, Brief op veertigduisend voet. Does coffee or any other substance play a role in his writing process? Does he prefer writing on planes or in vehicles? What are his greatest inspirations and irritations? Join us as we discover the […]
Presented by Pan Macmillan ‘You can’t win it all. But everything, and I mean everything, can be lost.’ Sven Axelrad returns to Vivo, the setting of his beloved novels Buried Treasure and God’s Pocket. In The Dogs of Vivo, we meet Art, Maggie and Felix, who spend all their time at the Mean Monsoon, drinking […]
Danie Marais describes Tom Dreyer’s latest collection as “a re-enchantment of the world”. Valda Jansen writes that Herman Wasserman’s poems become his lifeline. In this conversation, Dreyer and Wasserman ask whether poetry, which sees differently from science and knows differently than the easy certainties of theology, is perhaps uniquely positioned to see and say something […]
With Tammy Shefer, Aaniyah Martin, Confidence Joseph, Louise du Toit (discussion leader) High tide at high noon: reflections on and in water. We seem to always have either too much water or too little, or, indeed, often, both at the same time. Flooded homes and roads do not necessarily mean that we have sufficient clean […]
With Tema Maphosa, Charla Smith(discussion leader) Boys and men are struggling in education, family life and the labour market. They seem to lack ontological security, a stable social anchor that tells them a positive story about who they are or who they should strive to become. The “manosphere” fills this void by offering boys and […]
With Prof Mehita Iqani, Dr Gibson Ncube, Dr Riaan Oppelt, Prof Pieter Fourie, Prof Stella Viljoen(discussion leader) Manhood & the Media: A media theorist, gender theorist, literary expert and political scientist are interviewed by an art historian about the various masculinities on show on our multiple screens and how we might redeem them. What is […]
