Cape Town Festival 2009

The fun-filled Cape Town Festival is back again in 2009, celebrating the diversity of the Mother City

The festival was initiated in 1999 as part of the One City Many Cultures project by the festival's chairperson, Ryland Fisher, when he was editor of the Cape Times.

“The team behind Cape Town Festival has come up with a truly remarkable line-up of unifying events for this year’s Cape Town Festival. It is hard to believe that ten years have flown by so fast,” says Cape Town Festival Chairperson, Ryland Fisher.

As a fitting tribute for a decade of endeavouring to bring Capetonians closer together in what is viewed by some as an "incomparable" cultural and heritage event, Cape Town Festival 2009's Main Festival weekend takes place between Friday 20 and Sunday 22 March at what has become a perennially popular Cape Town Festival venue of the Company's Gardens.

As usual, community festivals will also take place at Muizenberg (Wednesday 25 - Friday 27 February), Atlantis (Saturday 28 February) and Hanover Park (Saturday 7 March).

Communities are encouraged to partake in a Unity Parade and Community Vibrations Day, both set for Sunday 22 March, at which top performers from these three communities will once again strut their stuff.

A stimulating Youth Workshop Programme, which will seek to engage 2 000 learners from no less than 30 schools between Monday 16 to Friday 20 March.

The Cape Town Festival concert at Company Gardens features a line up of the best South African artists.

To find out more about the location as well as the artists performing at the Cape Town Festival be sure to visit their website on: www.capetownfestival.co.za

Cape Town Festival 2009:

Date: Main Festival: 20 – 22 March*
Venue: Company’s Gardens
Location: Cape Town

*please read above for other festival dates

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