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"Writers, educators and book lovers from all over the country got together from 18 to 20 June 2026, celebrating the power of storytelling. The setting was Die Tuishuise and Victoria Manor in the renowned 'story street', so lovingly restored by Sandra Antrobus."

3 to 12 July at SU Konservatorium, Stellenbosch: Performances, public master classes, lectures and more! With the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (SICMF) just around the corner, and the evening concerts selling well at Webtickets, patrons have been asking what else they can attend as day visitors to the festival. More information available here.

The Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (SICMF) takes place from 3 to 12 July at the Konservatorium Building on the campus of Stellenbosch University. For over two decades now, the SICMF has hosted South Africa’s largest collective of world-famous classical musicians from different continents each year in July.

"Our students come from a vast variety of backgrounds. DCYOP removes barriers so that students who yearn to contribute can do so."

From 21 to 23 August, the festival brings together leading South African and international musicians, performers and artists for a programme of concerts, collaboration and community celebration.

The Minnesota Boychoir will travel to South Africa this June for a multi-city tour featuring collaborative performances with leading South African choirs.

The Washington, DC Youth Orchestra Program (DCYOP) will embark on an international tour to South Africa this July, presenting a series of performances that highlight the power of music to connect young artists across cultures.

"Deaccessioned is a pristine and feral exhibition, currently on show at Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch. Its curators, Lizabé Lambrechts and Nicola Deane, have dared to break through a cultural resistance to decay and become more intimate with its many strange valences as an omnipresent social and existential force."

From the vineyards and farmlands to its growing creative community, Durbanville is a town with stories in its soil and culture at its heart. That is what Kultura-fees celebrates. Open in spirit, it brings together local artists, emerging talent and established names on one shared stage.

Starring Cape Town-based actor Anzio September, a UCT Theatre and Performance graduate, the play sees him seamlessly embody five distinct characters in a performance that is as emotionally raw as it is captivating.

"For almost a year, my daughter has been counting down the days to the Michael Jackson biopic. Unlike most people, I am not ashamed to admit that she inherited her love for Michael Jackson from her parents."

"If earlier films sought to explain Winnie, this one insists that explanation will always be inadequate when confronting a character of such magnitude, or a period of such intensity. As a work of rigorous, morally serious documentary filmmaking, it demands moral engagement rather than passive consumption. For anyone interested in South African history, political memory and the ethics of liberation, it is essential viewing."

The Suidoosterfees 2026 expands beyond the stage with a rich programme of cultural offerings at Iziko Museums, creating the opportunity for festivalgoers to explore art, history, science and storytelling between performances. From 29 April to 3 May, six Iziko venues across Cape Town open their doors with a diverse array of activities that deepen the festival’s theme Home by inviting audiences to discover where heritage, creativity and belonging intersect.

"All of our vendors are residents of Jamestown, and we are incredibly proud of our talent within the community – from Shirley September’s well-known tripe and trotters (pens en poot) curry, to Julian Meyer’s very delicious cakes and Lorraine Cupido’s gevlegde koesisters (braided doughnuts)."

Set on a remote hiking trail, Meeting Murphy follows a middle-aged man who comes face to face with his teenage bully. What unfolds is a gripping, darkly funny confrontation that interrogates masculinity, memory, and the lasting scars of schoolyard cruelty, while challenging easy narratives of victim and perpetrator, revenge and reconciliation and nature versus nurture.

"It is about perceiving the world from another perspective, about documenting war while dreaming about opera, about seeing someone’s tears and twirling in a stunning dress in front of them to make them smile, about knowing that all that matters is love. It is about not giving up."

Fresh from winning the prestigious award, Silver Lion, at the 2026 Venice Biennale Danza and being named a finalist for the 2026 Salavisa European Dance Award (SEDA), South Africa’s internationally celebrated dance icon and choreographer Mamela Nyamza is bringing her global triumph home in the most joyful way possible.

"The world is in a terrifying state right now, and it’s frankly depressing. I think Rocky Horror provides an escape from that and invites you into a completely different world, where anything goes and you can be as outrageous as you want. That’s what this show has represented to people since 1975: a safe haven to be different or queer – to let loose, to go against the grain. Not just to dream it, but to be it."

In a South Africa where citizens are permitted only 140 spoken words per day, two young lovers must learn to live with silence – and to fight with words.

Canticum Novum presents the South African premiere of Jubilate Deo by Dan Forrest.