Battle of the Best! Best bands, best muzos. This is a unique format where not only the bands do battle but the musicians as well. The judges and audience vote for the best band and also create a super band with all the best musicians. Kicks off at Mercury Live, on Tuesday 7 Nov, and every fortnight until the final on 19 Dec. There`s a TV Pilot being filmed! Be in it! www.banditshow.tv
Venue:
Mercury Live 43 De Villiers Road Zonnebloem Cape Town
Contact details:
Tony Brock 082 8420 354

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Time: 8:30pm
Entrance: R20
Type of Event: Music

Public Lecture. Yehuda Tagar, psychotherapist, counsellor and teacher, will introduce Psychophonetics as a new approach to facilitating personal and professional development through real and lasting inner change. Psychophonetics goes beyond the limitations of verbal expression, thus accessing deep feelings and emotions, releasing old reactive patterns and defences, and manifesting new potentials.
Venue:
Persephone Institute of Psychophonetics 25 Riverside Terrace Hout Bay
Contact details:
Lerato Monesi (021) 790 1760

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Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Entrance: R30
Type of Event: Other

The renowned British pianists David Nettle & Richard Markham rank among the world’s foremost piano duos. They perform a programme of works by Brahms, Bruch, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Grainger and Addinsell. The popular “Warsaw Concerto” as arranged by Nettle & Markham themselves, end this festival recital.
Venue:
City Hall
Contact details:
Book at Computicket or visit http://www.cpo.org.za

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Time: 20:00
Entrance: R90, R110, R120
Type of Event: Music

Join Elfrie in a nail-biting adventure as she faces up to the evil Dr. Bolical in a high-energy storytale of physical comedy, zany puppetry and a dash of Christmas cheer.
Venue:
New Africa Theatre, Rondebosch
Contact details:
082 6967 882 or 084 9193 206

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Time: 14:30
Entrance: R20 adults, R15 kids
Type of Event: Theatre

YES! by the Art of Living Foundation is an amazing course that tones the body, stretches the mind, sharpens the intellect, improves the memory and increases joy. In this fun-filled yet challenging program, we share some of the most essential skills and secrets in life – the power to deal with negative emotions and effectively eliminate stress, the art of effective communication, increasing your enthusiasm and confidence, improving mental focus and heightening your awareness.
Venue:
Camps Bay High School
Contact details:
Mukesh: 082 413 4500 or (021) 403 3342

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Time: Mo-Thur: 18:30-21:30 & Fri: 13:00-15:00
Entrance: R450
Type of Event: Other

(Until end May 2007) Free lectures by team of specialists (Renaissance Body Science Institute) in the field of ACTIVE AGING and the Total Wellness Lifestyle Package.
Venue:
Renaissance Body Science Institute 183 Bree street Cape Town
Contact details:
Benita on (021) 424 5788 or 082 2632 366

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Time: 18h00 - 19h00 thursdays 2nd floor RBSI
Entrance: Free
Type of Event: Other

Came and have tons of fun at Plumstead Methodist Church's annual Holiday Club from the 4th - 8th December for Grade 0 to Grades 6.
Venue:
Plumstead Methodist Church Hall, Brenda Road Plumstead
Contact details:
(021) 762 2787

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Time: 09:00 till 13:00
Entrance: -
Type of Event: Other

Die Kraaifonteinse Kuns- en Vlooimark hou 'n Kersmark.
Venue:
Kersmark in die kerksaal van die NG Kerk Die Parke, Kiplingstraat, Kraaifontein.
Contact details:
Vir meer besonderhede, kontak Annatjie Linde by (021) 988-0425 of 072 259 5915

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Time: 09:00 tot 20:00
Entrance: -
Type of Event: Other

Tygerberg Aquatics will be hosting a swimming clinic during the school holidays. Program includes: “Learn to Swim” lessons for children of 5 years and older, as well as stroke correction lessons for children who are water-borne. Lessons are one on one.
Venue:
Boston Primary School, Bellville
Contact details:
Jutine on (021) 9131173

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Time: BETWEEN 1300 - 1600
Entrance: R190 for 8 lessons
Type of Event: Sports

Craft Market with a lot of practical gifts at affordable prices. Go and do your Christmas shopping while you enjoy goods from the bakery.
Venue:
Kerkplein, Kerkstreet, Brackenfell
Contact details:
Aletta 082 7300 111 or (021) 982 4494

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Time: 10:00 - 21:00
Entrance: Free
Type of Event: Expo, Other

Summer School for creative people in Stellenbosch. Various one- and two-day workshops: Drawing, creative claywork, jewellery manufacturing, a mandala workshop, a labyrinth workshop, collage workshops and a full-day workshop in scrapmetal sculpture.
Venue:
Kayamandi Community Centre, Hofmeyr Hall, Sasol Art Museum, and the Botanical Garden, depending on the event.
Contact details:
Ms L. Harley: (021) 886 7384, 082 378 7055. Email: frh@iafrica.com

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Time: Mornings: 09:00 - 12:00, afternoons 14:00 - 16:00
Entrance: R5 - R450 depending on event
Type of Event: Other

Johannesburg-based Abangani Theatre’s cutting-edge women-power production Tapping Hearts will beat on the Baxter Sanlam Studio stage for a limited season from 4 to 9 December. Described as South African theatre at its best, Tapping Hearts incorporates drama, tap dance and music to create a compelling and spirited piece of theatre about the resolve and strength of South African women. With five performances only.
Venue:
Baxter Sanlam Studio
Contact details:
Computicket, or Baxter Box Office on (021) 680 3989

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Time: 8.15pm
Entrance: R80
Type of Event: Theatre

Swellendam's special Faerie and Angel Sanctuary , "The Continent of Sulina" , wishes to share their annual Christmas exhibition to raise funds for their local charities. You are invited to become 5 yrs old again and tip-toe thru their natural enchanted forest garden ... become positively lost amongst the magical world of mushroom rings and wishing wells and experience the childlike essence of true wonderment and joyful happiness. And yes...there's plenty for the boys to enjoy too ! So ... pack a picnic basket and come and relax next to the waterfalls for a while , allowing the Faeries to kiss you and the Angels to bless you .
Venue:
The Continent of Sulina, Swellendam
Contact details:
(028) 514 1786

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Time: 9 am - 4-30 pm
Entrance: R10
Type of Event: Charity, Other

The Adderley Street Night Market will be on from 16 - 30 Dec. Two highlights this year is the Karaoke Competition and the Voice Search Competition. Males and females of 18 years and older can enter the Karaoke Competition. No recorded artists to enter either competitions! The Voice Search Competition is reserved for 9 to 17 year olds. You are allowed to sing to backing tracks to any genre of music. On the night you’re expected to sing one song but come prepared to sing two. One semi-finalist will be chosen each night that will go through to the final round. Call (021) 447 9108 for your fax-back entry form and you’re on your way to stardom and winning great prizes! Deadline to enter - 10 December 2006!
Venue:
Adderley Street
Contact details:
(021) 447 9108 / 074 314 6884

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Time: 20:00 - 21:00
Entrance: Free
Type of Event: Music

Course offers practical tools to deal with the daily challenges of life, and includes interactive processes, stretching, meditation, energising breathing techniques, and a unique rhythmical breathing practice, the Sudarshan Kriya™ that releases stress, toxins & negative emotions. The course offers practical tools to eliminate stress and awaken our innate potential to heal ourselves thus bringing greater peace, energy, awareness, and joy to daily life.
Venue:
14 Hope Street, Gardens
Contact details:
Gerlinde: 083 3013 976 email: gerlinde@artofliving.org.za

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Time: Tue-Fri: 7-10pm, Sat: 4-9pm & Sun: 9am-4pm
Entrance: R650
Type of Event: Other

The Charity Christmas Card Kiosks are open! Running until the 17th of Dec, please support this worthwhile cause. 22 charities fundraise through the sale of Christmas cards, gift wrap, calendars and postcards.
Venue:
Claremont: (area between The Link and Cavendish), Somerset Mall: (Pick 'n Pay entrance), Bayside Centre: (Fountain Court, Lower Grnd Floor), Tygervalley: (Checkers entrance) and V&A Waterfront: (barrow outside Hallmark)
Contact details:
Convenor Clair Mc Kechnie 083 680 5677

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Time: 9 - 5
Entrance: Items from R1 - R25
Type of Event: Charity

Julio Acevedo. This show was nominated for Best Performance of the year for the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award and has performed to standing ovations at Grand West Casino and the Southern Sun International. It was mentioned as best line-up show at the Vodacom Sound of Summer, December 2005. Don’t miss this show that had the critics raving!
Venue:
Playhouse Theatre, Somerset West
Contact details:
Booking office (021) 852 5182 from 13th Nov Mo - Fr 10am - 3 pm

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Time: 20:15
Entrance: R60
Type of Event: Music, Theatre

The Home of Hope is selling wooden Christmas angels to raise funds - to help sustain the Home of Hope - Safe House, for abused, abandoned children - in the West Coast area. Please support - the cost of the angels are R20 each.
Venue:
Home of Hope, Table View
Contact details:
Eleanor Brook - (021) 556 3573

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Time: daytime
Entrance: R20
Type of Event: Charity

20 guys. 4 shows. Voices Like Honey. A variety feast of astonishing male musical talent. Every Sunday from 19 Nov - 10 Dec.
Venue:
Obz Cafe Theatre, Observatory
Contact details:
Bookings: (021) 448 5555 Info: 083 584 8804

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Time: 8pm
Entrance: R40
Type of Event: Music

An evening of karaoke, multimedia and an AIDS chat that lampoons South African celebrity culture. Donovan Graham directs Peter Spring (director of the acclaimed "Performers' Travel Guide") as Colin Atwood, star of the greatest TV adverts of the 1980's, in this irreverent spoof comedy.
Venue:
Obz Cafe Theatre Observatory
Contact details:
Obz Cafe Bookings: (021) 448 5555

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Time: 8pm
Entrance: R30 or R40
Type of Event: Theatre

The Milnerton Equestrian School will once again be hosting horse riding camps for all ages and experience levels. The camps will be held during the December school holidays on the following dates: Camp 1 = 5 to 8 December 2006. Camp 2 = 12 to 15 December 2006. Camp 3 = 9 to 12 January 2007. Please book early.
Venue:
The Milnerton Equestrian School
Contact details:
Office (021) 556 9990 Tania 084 580 4201 Michelle 082 372 5320

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Time: Everyday from 09h30 to 17h30
Entrance: R200 - R800
Type of Event: Outdoors, Sports

Sporting Chance starts our summer festive season holiday cricket coaching programme on Monday 4th December and runs right through until the end of the school holidays in January 2007. Sporting Chance, one of South Africa's largest sport coaching and outreach company's, will be running cricket coaching clinics starting on Monday 4th December for the duration of the holidays.
Venue:
Somerset West Constantia at the Constantia Sports Club Bellville at the PP Smit Stadium off Durban Rd Newlands at the magnificent Kelvin Grove Sports Club Fish Hoek at the Fish Hoek High School
Contact details:
Wayne or Justine on (021) 685 8051

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Time: 09h00 till 13h00
Entrance: R200 - R300/person
Type of Event: Sports

Magnet Theatre will be 20 years old in 2007. They're celebrating with their hit shows ONNEST’BO. Visitors to Cape Town will be rewarded with a fresh look at an important part of the history of this city as it reflects the displacement of communities that were affected by forced removals. The production relies on physical and visual images to tell the story. A musical soundtrack has been compiled from various musical styles relevant in District Six at the time of forced removals. Mark Fleishman directs and movement is by Jennie Reznek.
Venue:
The Little Theatre 31 - 37 Orange Street, Gardens.
Contact details:
Book at Computicket or the theatre. (021) 480 7129 Berniece Friedmann 082 892 5877

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Time: 8.15pm
Entrance: R40 - R75 students & pensioners R35
Type of Event: Theatre

‘n Vuurwarm NP van Wyk Louw show met die twee leading ladies van die TV reeks ORION: Erica Wessels en Tinarie van Wyk Loots en die nuwe musieksensasie: Frieda van den Heever in “NP van Wyk Louw en die meisies....” Regisseer deur Albert Maritz. Kom kyk nou ‘n vuurwarm show, met aan-die-brand musiek, oor Van Wyk Louw: sy lewe, sy omstredenheid oor politiek, sy lewe in Nederland, godsdiens, die broederbond, Verwoerd, en....die meisies...
Venue:
Die Durbanville Kunskafee
Contact details:
(021) 979 3131/ 084 446 3200

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Time: 07:00 for meals
Entrance: R70
Type of Event: Other

After eight, sold-out years in Rob Becker’s hit comedy "Defending the Caveman," Tim Plewman has ceremoniously handed over his spear, loin cloth and leopard skin to Alan Committie, who braves the chilly waters of disparity between the sexes to continue bringing you the phenomenon that is "Defending the Caveman!" But Tim is still lurking at the back of the cave as he, like Rex Garner before him, directs Alan in this wonderful “date comedy” that explains the reasons why okes refuse to ask for directions and why chicks need so much cupboard space!
Venue:
Theatre on the Bay Camps Bay
Contact details:
Box Office (021) 438 3300

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Time: 20:00
Entrance: R120
Type of Event: Theatre

If good, clean family entertainment is what you are looking for this Christmas, then look no further than the Muizenberg Masque Theatre. From the 5th – 17th December, the Waterfront Theatre Company will be producing Keith Galloway’s musical, “Scrooge” – an adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. The witty script and lyrics of Keith Galloway and catchy music of Ian von Memerty all help to deliver the true meaning of Christmas via the grouchy miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas but soon comes to see the pleasure and beauty of it.
Venue:
Masque Theatre Muizenberg
Contact details:
(021) 788 1898

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Time: Matinees 15h00; Evenings 19h30
Entrance: R40-R50
Type of Event: Music, Theatre

There seems to be no end to the appeal of Tannie Evita's blonde sussie! Because of public demand for the Sunday shows at the Intimate Theatre, Bambi in Kabaret has been extended till mid-December. The Kabaret is about her extraordinary story of survival told in song, her background echoed in familiar tunes, her inspirations gently mocked through canny impersonation. With Pieter-Dirk Uys as Bambi and with music arranged and played by Godfrey Johnson, the cabaret is performed in three languages. Bambi's story is told in English, while the songs also include some in German and some in Afrikaans. This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted.
Venue:
Intimate Theatre, 37 Orange Street, Gardens
Contact details:
(021) 480 7136

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Time: 20h00
Entrance: R60
Type of Event: Music, Theatre

Crafts, toys, wine sales. Funds from the wine sales will go to the SA Guide Dogs Association.
Venue:
Facets Lifestyle centre, Century City
Contact details:
www.facets.co.za (021) 528 2000

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Time: 11am - 7pm
Entrance: (no cover charge)
Type of Event: Expo

Mike Laatz (saxes) and Eddie Kirkwood (keyboards) play relaxing Jazz every Sunday from 12h30 to 15h30.
Venue:
The River Club, Observatory
Contact details:
(021) 448 6117

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Time: 12.30 to 3.30
Entrance: Free
Type of Event: Music

Team Spirit presents a fantastic drum circle every Thursday evening from 8 to 11pm with a difference! Grab a drum or bring your own. Learn rhythms from the top Master Drummers in the country from West, South and North Africa and see them play an array of different instruments! We are building up to break the Guinnes Book of Records for the longest duration of drumming over Easter! It's a fun way to find your rhythm and to tone your arms!
Venue:
Cool Runnings in Observatory
Contact details:
Thomene - 083 7001029 Patrick - 083 4570756 Anthony - 084 4667000

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Time: 20:00 - 23:00
Entrance: R50
Type of Event: Music

FANGS, the hilarious production which was one of the greatest South African rock musicals of all time is showing at the Baxter Theatre. Three of this country’s most loved performers – Bill Flynn, Tobie Cronje and Michael Richard will be supported by a 15-strong cast. Its directed by Defending the Caveman star Tim Plewman. The show revolves around a Jo'burg-based vampire who loses his fangs. Its has a brand-new musical score, comprising a cross-section of musical styles from the ‘40s to the present day.
Venue:
Baxter Main Theatre
Contact details:
083 915 8000

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Time: Various
Entrance: R150 - R240
Type of Event: Music, Theatre

A new indoor market in the old church with working crafters, flea market and coffee shop. All welcome, free entrance.
Venue:
42 Sawkins Road, Rosebank
Contact details:
Nazrene 082 569 0906 naz@goweb.co.za

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Time: 8:30am - 3:00pm
Entrance: Free entrance
Type of Event: Other

Every Friday night in January super smooth DJ Grant de Sousa plays from 22h00 till late at Forty Ate.
Venue:
Forty Ate 48 Hout Street Cape Town
Contact details:
(021) 422 2270

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Time: 22h00 till late
Entrance: -
Type of Event: Music

A half day sports camp for 5 days comprising 14 sports which all kids can take part in. The emphasis will be on fun with one coach leading each group of 10 kids. This camp is from 8 - 12 January.
Venue:
Schools in Durbanville
Contact details:
Pierre De Groote 082 321 3685

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Time: 08h00
Entrance: R600 for 5 days
Type of Event: Sports

During the school holidays, there will be daily edu-tainment for stargazers of all ages. Junior stargazers can join Sunshine Simon in his quest to find the "missing" sun while teens and adults can journey to the Great Pyramid of Khufu, largest of all pyramids whose elaborate system of shafts is ingeniously directed towards the most prominent stars in the night sky. "The Sky Tonight" is in its usual slot at 13:00 on weekends.
Venue:
Iziko Planetarium Queen Victoria Street Gardens
Contact details:
(021) 481 3900

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Time: between 12:00-14:00 weekdays; 12:00-14:30 weekends
Entrance: Prices on enquiry
Type of Event: Other

Ligte Afrikaanse musiek deur die opkomende nuweling. Gwendoline het bekenheid verwerf vir haar vertoning Cheers, en bekoor gehore met haar pragtige sangstem.
Venue:
Durbanville Kunskafee Durbanville
Contact details:
(021) 979 3131 / 084 463 200

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Time: 19h00
Entrance: R50
Type of Event: Music

Gert kom stel sy nuwe cd "In 'n blik gedruk" bekend.
Venue:
Durbanville Kunskafee Durbanville
Contact details:
(021) 979 3131 / 084 463 200

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Time: 19h00
Entrance: R50
Type of Event: Music

Knysna APD & Die Werkswinkel is having a dinner and dance, there will be a variety of music, for everyone to enjoy, nice food to enjoy, lots of prices to be won. Please come and support this fundraising event.
Venue:
Vermont Hall, Knysna
Contact details:
Letitia Pietersen 044-382 0146 Edwin 044 385 0145

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Time: 19h00 till 24h00
Entrance: R50.00
Type of Event: Charity

It’s time again for the highly acclaimed Tygerberg Children’s Choir’s very popular annual Christmas concerts.This world class choir celebrates its 37th year, and achieved 2nd place in the Children’s Choir division at the World Choir Games in Graz, Austria during July. The choir has, as usual, compiled a varied programme which will appeal to young and old. This year’s concert is entitled ‘Angels on Earth’ and promises to be a spectacle of sound and light. Favourites such as Laudate Dominum, Pie Jesu, O Holy Night, Agnus Dei, The Lord is my Shepherd and I Will Pray for You can be heard. The concerts will also feature the superb vocal group The Angels, all members of Tygerberg Children’s Choir and enjoying tremendous success with their debut album, The Voice of Angels, which was released earlier this year.
Venue:
ENDLER HALL, UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH
Contact details:
Yvonne Basson 021 948-4046

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Time: 20h00
Entrance: R60.00
Type of Event: Music