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The prestigious international cycling conference "Vélo Mondial" will be on at the Cape Town International Concention Centre (5 - 10 March). Cyclists can join the Velo Mondial delegates at the Centre for an evening cycle ride through the city of Cape Town on Monday at 18h00. The evening cycle ride coincides with Bike to Work day (6th of March)
Venue:
Cape Town International Concention Centre
Contact details:
Jan Burger Marketing officer BEN T 671 46 55 C 076 16 98 750 E jan.burger@benbikes.org.za

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Time: 18h00 - 19h30
Entrance: -
Type of Event: Sports

You can catch the hot rock band Autopilot and 2 others live on stage this Monday at the Mercury Lounge in De Villiers Street, Cape Town. The doors will open at 9pm – and they say it’s the best way for party-lovers to start the week! Doors open 9pm. R10 entrance. First 50 ladies FREE.
Venue:
Mercury Lounge in De Villiers Street, Cape Town
Contact details:
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Time: 21h00
Entrance: R10
Type of Event: Music

The Cart Horse Protection Association is holding our annual street collection on the 18th of March 2006. We are also looking for volunteers to help us out for an hour to collect at our collection points.
Venue:
Northern and Southern suburbs
Contact details:
Megan White Cathy Spengler 021 535 3435

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Time: 9:00 - 14:00
Entrance: none
Type of Event: Charity

Singer Luna is currently on her “Somewhere Beautiful Summer Tour.” She will be performing old and new songs, including new Afrikaans material at the Dorpstreet Theatre in Stellenbosch on Monday from 8pm. Then on Wednesday evening she’ll be performing at the Armchair Theatre in Observatory from 9pm..
Venue:
Dorpstreet Theatre, Stellenbosch Armchair Theatre in Observatory
Contact details:
Dorpstreet: 88 66 107 Armchair: 447 1514

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Time: Dorpstr: 20h00. Armchair: 21h00
Entrance: Dorpstr: R50. Armchair: R30 at the door
Type of Event: Music

You can now go and harvest your own Hanepoot grapes at De Krans Winery in Calitzdorp. It's all in aid of Vygieshof Old Age Home. Grapes are sold at R3.00 a kilo and cardboard containers can be bought at R4.00 each, or bring your own containers. Scissors will be provided. On Wednesdays and Saturdays braaivleis will be served between 11 am and 2 pm. Meals include a good sized chop , boerewors, 3 salads, roosterkoek, freshly baked bread and home made jams for 'n meagre R35.00 per person. Light meals will also be available. The meals are part of Vygieshof Old Age Homes' fundraising effort. Bookings are essential and a deposit is payable for groups of more than ten.
Venue:
De Krans Winery in Calitzdorp
Contact details:
Call (044) 2133-314 or (044) 2133-364.

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Time: Daily between 08h00 and 16h00.
Entrance: R3.00 a kilo
Type of Event: Outdoors, Charity, Other

Groove fever, the very talented local trio will be performing in the New Rush restaurant at The Kimberley Hotel every Friday evening during the course of March 2006 . Come and see this great band performing in the recently refurbished Kimberley Hotel.
Venue:
Kimberley Hotel , Corner of Buitenkant and Roeland Streets
Contact details:
Dean 0823367850 or 0214612160

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Time: 19h00 to 23h00
Entrance: 00
Type of Event: Music

3, 4, 9, 10, 11 March 2006 David Kramer will headline the show Karoo Kitaar Blues at the Spier Amphitheatre from the 3rd to the 11th of March at 8pm. The show is the product of Kramer’s musical journey into the heart of the Karoo and Namaqualand where he encountered eccentric musicians with a unique variety of music. He now shares the stage with them and it promises to be an unique musical experience. Karoo Kitaar Blues is described as a wholly South African production, which will elicit laughter and tears simultaneously. The show is complemented with songs from David’s most recent CD Huistoe. Joining the band will be the Sonskyn Susters.
Venue:
Spier Amphitheatre
Contact details:
Bookings can be made through the Box Office at +27 021 809 1111, and for further information log onto www.spierarts.org.za .

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Time: 20h00
Entrance: Ticket prices from R80 to R120.
Type of Event: Music

Alan Committie's show "Titanic on Ice" will run at Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay from the 28th of February until the 11th of March. You will see the recreation of the sinking of the Titanic - as performed by one man. Alan also pays tribute to great movie scenes in his own inimitable physical comedic style
Venue:
Theatre on the Bay
Contact details:
(021) 438 3301.

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Time: Tues – Fri at 20h00, Sat at 17h30 and 20h30 Wed 8
Entrance: R100 - all seats or dinner/theatre package at R165.00
Type of Event: Theatre

The master of comedy & magic, Stuart Taylor will entertain with his brand new solo offering “Techni-Coloured” at On Broadway in Cape Town from the 21st of February until 11 March. The show is a blend of stand-up comedy, sketch comedy and Taylor’s signature magic. You can catch it from Tuesday till Saturday each week.
Venue:
On Broadway
Contact details:
(021) 424 1194.

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Time: Dinner is served from 18h30, the show begins at 20
Entrance: R65 per person
Type of Event: Theatre

Argentine Tango lessons and milongas are now offered at many venues in the Cape Metropole area. Also now in Sellenbosh at Rendezvous Resturant, Mondays, Tuesdays at Willowbridge Center Tygervalley, Wednesdays,Somerste West Amanda Peacefull Dance Studio, Thursday at Fogey's Railway House Muizenberg. At all venues: Biginers 7pm, group lesson 8pm and milonga from 9 to 10-30pm Other locations in Cape Town on request.
Venue:
Rendezvous Restaurant Stellenbosch & Fogey's Muizenberg
Contact details:
Calvin Enslin 082 933 0112 a/h ph/fax 021 883 9841

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Time: 19h00
Entrance: R30-R40
Type of Event: Other

Until Monday next week The Cape Town Festival will present South Africa’s first open air short film festival at the V & A Waterfront Amphitheatre. Movie-buffs can enjoy a nightly screening of the best of local and African short films, depicting the lives, hopes and dreams of people living in South Africa, Africa and the African Diaspora. Embark on an enthralling journey through the multi-faceted cultural tapestry that denotes our shared African heritage. Three to six 3 to 6 short films will be screened daily between 20h00 and 22h00 at the open-air amphitheatre. This is a free event.
Venue:
V & A Waterfront Amphitheatre.
Contact details:
The full Cape Town Festival programme will be available on www.capetownfestival.co.za. For more information contact: Penny Randall, V&A Waterfront. Tel: (021) 408-7500. Email: prandall@waterfront.co.za

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Time: 20h00 - 22h30
Entrance: FREE
Type of Event: Outdoors, Other

The QuadPara Association of South Africa’s (QASA) 2006 “Give a Helping Hand” campaign ends on March 31, 2006. During the fund-raising period, the public will be able to show their support for QASA by buying a “Quad Squad Helping Hand”. This funky brightly- coloured nickel pendant on a leather thong is available from all Pick ‘n Pay stores nationally for R10. The monies raised from this campaign will be used for building self help centers for independent living for quads and paras in South Africa especially in rural areas. So buy your Quad Squad Helping Hand and wear it where the fancy takes you – around your neck, on your key ring – what about buying quite a few and string them on a chain around your waist?
Venue:
All Pick 'n Pay stores
Contact details:
011 325 6006

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Time: All day
Entrance: Free
Type of Event: Charity

At the Kalk Bay Theatre in Main Road, Kalk Bay the comedy “Backwards in High Heels,” with comedienne Eve Szapira, is now on. It’s a feisty comedy about shopping, dieting and lonely nights and the audience will go into the deep dark world of the single woman's psyche. This is a play about expectations, confusion, keeping it real and getting back to the essentials of who we are and what we really want. South Africa's answer to Bridget Jones
Venue:
Kalk Bay Theatre in Main Road, Kalk Bay
Contact details:
Tel: 073 220 5430

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Time: Tue - Sat at 8:30pm
Entrance: -
Type of Event: Theatre

The Mother City’s official arts, culture and heritage festival is now on. This year the focus is on the Cape Town International Performing Arts Festival, a 19 day multi-cultural extravaganza of contemporary dance, theatre, comedy, poetry and music, held at 12 of Cape Town’s top music and theatre venues. Boasting a record number of 62 dance, music and theatre productions and totalling some 170 shows, locals and visitors can look forward to a feast of top class entertainment. From 6 to 25 March the city will pulsate with artistic energy, as creativity and culture in all its forms comes to life on stages in the Company’s Garden, Long Street and arts venues throughout the city. Setting the trend are exciting multinational collaborations of dance, music and theatre that will fuel your imagination.
Venue:
Artscape, Baxter, Intimate Theatre and many others.
Contact details:
The jam-packed festival programme will be available on the website www.capetownfestival.co.za. Watch the Press for details.

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Time: -
Entrance: -
Type of Event: Music, Theatre, Other

The Mince girls are back this summer with their brand new show “Mince and the City” – inspired by the hit television series as well as On Broadway’s location change to the heart of the Mother City.
Venue:
On Broadway, 88 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Contact details:
On Broadway Tel 021 424 1194 or book on our website www.onbroadway.co.za

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Time: Dinner 18h30, Show 20h30
Entrance: R70
Type of Event: Music, Theatre

Take a peek behind the scenes this harvest season with an evening cellar tour at Durbanville Hills. Join us for a wine tasting and cellar tour from 18:00 to 19:00 while load after load of grapes is delivered to the winery and conclude the evening at The Hills Restaurant on the premises. Tastings and tours are limited to 20 people at R20 per person. Booking for the tours, the restaurant and picnic platters are essential.
Venue:
Durbanville Hills Winery, Durbanville
Contact details:
Maritha du Toit, tel: (021) 558 1300,

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Time: Tasting and tour: 18:00 - 19:00; dinner till 22:00
Entrance: R20 per person for tasting and tour
Type of Event: Other

If you’re nostalgic about the era of swing and if the powerful sound of a big band sets your pulse racing, then don’t miss the Glen Miller tribute at GrandWest’s Roxy Revue Bar. Jonny Cooper and his orchestra are the official Glen Miller Orchestra in South Africa. Even now, 60 years since the band last played, songs such as “ In theMood”, “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “Moonlight Serenade” are far from forgotten.
Venue:
GrandWest’s Roxy Revue Bar.
Contact details:


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Time: Saturdays at 8.30pm
Entrance: R67 per person from Computicket.
Type of Event: Theatre

Are you Living with regrets ? … Angry with God ? … Unhappily married ? … Living in fear ? … Uncertain about your purpose in life ? Life is too short to live with these five common handicaps to happiness ! This is the focus of a series of video-based Bible messages delivered over the next five Sundays by evangelists, Justin Renton and Werner Vos, who lead the South and North regions of the Cape Town Church of Christ. The series will start with ‘Life is too short to live with regrets’.
Venue:
Groote Schuur Primary School in Campground Road, Rondebosch and Parow High School, corner of Voortrekker and Toner Roads, Parow.
Contact details:
Call Mike Renton on 083 449 7149

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Time: 9:30am
Entrance: Free
Type of Event: Other

Cape Town musician Mike McCullagh's show "Myths and Legends" will take centre stage at the V&A Waterfront's Theatre @ The Pavilion from Wednesday, 1 March until the end of May. It’s an African-inspired retro musical featuring reinvented music of the 60’s to 90’s, as well as the sounds of the Fezeka School Choir. You can also book for a buffet dinner before the show. Mike says: "The show weaves together a collection of myths such as the stories of Van Hunks, the Alibama and the modern-day tale of Aquarius, made prominent by legends in the music industry," he adds. "This show is a tribute to musical legends such as Freddie Mercury, John Lennon and Bob Marley and the myths that made them famous". (Wednesday to Saturday) .
Venue:
V&A Waterfront's Theatre @ The Pavilion
Contact details:
For bookings or more information contact the Theatre @ The Pavilion on (021) 419 7661 or send an email to lindsay@thepavilion.co.za or visit their website www.thepavilion.co.za

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Time: Dinner at 18h00 and the show starts at 20h00.
Entrance: The buffet dinner and theatre cost R140 per person, while a ticket exclusively to the theatre costs R95 per person.
Type of Event: Music

Come and enjoy the concert with Francois Hays
Venue:
The Arts Theatre
Contact details:
082 924 7046

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Time: 19:00
Entrance: R60
Type of Event: Music

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