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Special Events African Redux Festival, informal film festival dedicated to South African production talent (website: www.film-fix.com), fifth day of every month, The Armchair Theatre, Observatory Kaapse Klopse (Cape Minstrel's Carnival), parade through the city, 1-2 Jan 2003, city centre to Green Point Stadium Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year), informal public holiday, 2 Jan, throughout the city Maynardville Shakespeare Season, open-air theatre, Jan, Maynardville Park, Wynberg J&B Met, Western Cape’s premier horserace (website: www.jbmet.co.za), early Feb, Kenilworth Racecourse South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, late-Feb-early Mar, Cinema Nouveau Waterfront KFM Outdoor Adventure Africa Expo, late Feb, Canal Walk, Century City Proms Military Musical Extravaganza, late Feb, Castle of Good Hope Cape Town Marathon, late Feb, city centre Community Chest Carnival, fair and fête, late Feb-early Mar, Maynardville Park, Wynberg Human Rights Day, commemoration of the martyrs of apartheid, 21 Mar, throughout the city UCT Rag Show, university float procession, weekend in early Mar, city centre Cape Argus/Pick ’n’ Pay Cycle Tour, the world’s biggest bicycle race with over 40,000 amateur and professional participants, Sunday in early Mar, around the Cape Peninsula Cape Town One City Festival, cultural and religious festival, Mar, various venues Castle Surf Championships, surfing competition, Mar, Muizenberg African Harvest North Sea Jazz Festival, Africa’s biggest jazz festival, late Mar, Good Hope Centre in the city centre Two Oceans Marathon, 56km (35-mile) race (website: www.twooceansmarathon.org.za), late Mar/early Apr, around the peninsula from the Indoor Sports Centre, University of Cape Town Freedom Day, commemoration of South Africa’s first democratic elections, 27 Apr, throughout the city International Kite Festival, late Apr, Zandvlei, Muizenberg Cape Gourmet Festival (website: www.capegourmet.co.za), May, Good Hope Centre Youth Day, anniversary of the 1976 student uprising against apartheid, 16 Jun, throughout the city National Women’s Day, celebration of the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle, 9 Aug, throughout the cit Hout Bay Snoek Derby, Aug, Hout Bay Cape Times Watefront Wine Festival, late Aug, Waterfront FNB Vita Dance Indaba, mid-Sep, Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch Evita Art Festival, mid-Sep, Darling Smirnoff International Comedy Festival, mid-Sep-late Oct, Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch Hermanus Whale Festival (website: www.whalefestival.co.za), late Sep-early Oct, Hermanus Sithengi, international film festival and television market (website: www.sithengi.co.za), mid-Nov, Artscape Dragon Boat Festival, Nov, V&A Waterfront European Federation of Sea Angling Big Game Championships, Nov, Miller’s Point, False Bay SPCA Wiggle Waggle Walkathon, Nov, Constantia Spier Festival, jazz, opera, comedy, dance and classical concerts, Nov-Mar, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch Obs Festival, arts and crafts festival, Dec, Observatory Old Mutual Telkom Choir Festival, Dec, various venues Obs Festival, street festival, early Dec, Observatory Carols by Candlelight, Christmas carol singing led by a choir, mid-Dec, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens Mother City Queer Project, gay and lesbian theme party, mid-Dec, various venues Reconciliation Day, day of national unity across political divides, mid-Dec, throughout the city Jubilee Square New Year’s Eve Party, 31 Dec, Simon’s Town Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts, open-air concerts, Dec-Mar, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens |
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