8 June 2025

Using cardboard as a primary resource for recycling and upcycling, this workshop allows participants to create affordable, accessible artworks. The focus will be on collage assembly, composition, and painting skills in a fun, creative, stress-free process.

The workshop will take the form of a working rehearsal focussing on an element of the CBA repertory by Artistic Director, Debbie Turner. An informal Q&A discussion will take place after the rehearsal.

Ngkopoleng, editor of ArtThrob, the contemporary visual arts publication, will engage in a compelling conversation with Mary about her life, artistic journey, and the inspirations that shape her work. Mary’s thought-provoking exhibition, I GOT UP AT..., will be on view in the FynArts Gallery, offering festival-goers an opportunity to experience her powerful and visionary storytelling.

Enjoy a rare behind-the-scenes experience, watching ballet dancers rehearse before their captivating performance on stage.

Israel’s devastation of Gaza and its mass killings of Palestinians after the Hamas attack have made the country an even more polarising subject.

Which raises the question: Are Jews safer today than on 6 October? In this scripted dialogue presented as a television panel discussion (the actors will have scripts in hand), representatives of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity offer their diverse perspectives on this
provocative question and related themes.Also with Jenny Stead, Royston Stoffels, Langley
Kirkwood and Brent Palmer.

Carol Cauldwell, Cecilia Wilmot Ballam, Haidee Nel, Hannelie

Coetzee, Jean Theron Louw, Katja Abbott, Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe, Maureen Quinn, Nanette Ranger, Wilma Cruise. Join Sandra for a stimulating conversation with the artists
behind this year’s Sculpture on the Cliffs exhibition.

The artists will also share their personal interpretations of this year’s theme. Echoes from the Edge, and how it influenced their sculptures, now showcased in this breathtaking coastal setting. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the minds behind
these thought-provoking pieces.

Morgenster’s wine maker Matthew Anderson and Chef Shane get together and present an Italian inspired five- course lunch showcasing award winning wines produced from South African-grown Italian cultivars. The wines will be paired with Chef Sauvage’s Italian- style fusion incorporating ingredients also grown on the Morgenster Estate. Guests will be treated to a food and wine journey celebrating culture, passion, ingredients & heritage all pillars of the culinary arts

In this fun workshop, children explore the techniques of creating with ink and charcoal through playful mark-making and ink flinging! They will also learn tricks to draw and create patterns. The process is fast and the young artists will unlock their creativity.

Songs of Praise in South Africa has been a phenomenon over the past 30 years, and featured in the very first FynArts festival in 2013.
This year we return, bigger and better, featuring a massed choir and the Cape Town Festival Brass Ensemble. As always there is plenty for you to join in ... your favourite hymns
and choruses and some glorious and inspiring choral music...

Enjoy a rare behind-the-scenes experience, watching ballet dancers rehearse before their captivating performance on stage.

Gail Gilbride talks to Joelle Searle A story of a woman’s coming of age in war-torn Paris. Odette is a young, highly intelligent, headstrong Parisian woman, from a bourgeois military background. Her story takes us through her work at the French Ministry of Defence, the German occupation, her meeting of an enigmatic man and her journey into a world of resistance fighters and espionage.

SALT is essential for life, an intrinsic part of each of our beings, a preservative; a healing, cleansing, invigorating mineral; a sacred covenant. A unifying symbol, of common use across societies, of significant potency, metaphorically symbolising new beginnings.

Presented in this programme is the work of three esteemed South African choreographers, Kirsten Isenberg, Mthuthuzeli November, and Michelle Reid, all with their distinctive voices. The artists and creatives who form the CBA community are imbued with ballet and dance the way that salt imbues and supports our human existence.