An exhibition of oil paintings based on Richard Wagner’s poetic legend Lohengin. Artist: Billy Kennedy Opening hours: Free entry Friday and Saturday  08:30 – 20:00 Sunday 08:30 – 15:00 Venue: Temenos Gallery

a ceramic exhibition by Paul de Jongh, Nina Shand and Bruno de Robillard This year McGregor Festival of Poetry has as its theme "The Sound of Water". While this theme lends itself to the spoken word, it has been more difficult to achieve in a clay medium. We chose to interpret the theme through producing [...]

Exciting Schools Programme in the NG Kerk, you are welcome to come along between 9h00 and 12h00 on Friday 24th August.

An exhibition of Carey May’s paintings using oil as the medium and focusing on colour and light. I have painted in oils for twenty years from 1998 focusing mainly on colour and light. Working in community development work for fifteen years I left to study art. The development work afforded me the opportunity to have [...]

From the McGregor main road one steps into this ethereal, light-filled gallery. Here poems and paintings on the walls converse with each other, engaging the visitor in a richly layered experience. All art is by Edna Fourie and includes a Permanent Collection. Opening hours: Free entry Friday to Sunday 10:00 to 17:00 Venue: Edna Fourie [...]

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870~1966) was one of the 20th century’s most important writers and thinkers. During his long and extraordinarily fruitful life Suzuki became the first voice of Japanese Buddhism, especially Zen, to the Western World. He traveled and lectured around the world and has had a major impact on religious, artistic and philosophical thinking [...]

Workshop: WATER & US - CONSIDERING the WATERS entering US entering the WORDS - Marguerite (Osler) van der Merwe Book Here Exploring correspondences between attributes of WATER and our human life & psyche. Marguerite (Osler) van der Merwe leads as we generate a creative lexicon of words/images to enrich & expand our consciousness into our [...]

Oumense moettie mettie wate’ mossie… Book Here Willem Fransman jr, Edward Jenneke en Jeff Lakey Hierdie is ‘n woordkuns-aanbieding. Die aanbieding bied die gehoor vyf-en-veertig minute van woordpret! Gedigte handel óór en ván water wat natuurlik die deurlopende tema van die McGregor Poësiefees ook is. Maar gedigte wat ook op die gevolge van ‘n tekort [...]

WHEN RIVERS RUN DRY: A VOICE FOR WATER - Off the Wall Collective Book Here These poems will be presented by a collective of poets, all of them regular performers at Off the Wall, a poetry group that has been running in Observatory, Cape Town, since 2000. The poems will explore the loss or scarcity [...]

Writing green: can art (including poetry) save our planet? - Helen Moffett Book Here There is no doubt that we humans have done our planet serious, if not irreparable damage, and that the ongoing water crisis we face is a result, among other things, of catastrophic climate change. But what can we do with mere [...]

Improvisation workshop: Whose poem is it anyway? - Lisa van Zyl-Jones Book Here We will play special poetry themed improvisation games and make up extraordinary, unique and sometimes hilarious poems. The workshop will be conducted in English and can include Afrikaans if needed. It is suitable for anyone aged 12 and up who has an [...]

Haunted by water - Wendy Woodward and Christine Coates Book Here Wendy Woodward will read her poems in which water recurs as a shimmering, ritualised presence, sometimes perilous, occasionally healing. Crossing water, whether an apparently innocuous stream or a vast ocean, holds dangers as well as the lure of transformation. Christine Coates will read her [...]

An exhibition of paintings and sculpture. The theme explores ‘that exquisite moment between the choice and the action’, or that short space in time when a woman’s decision seems entirely hers, before she encounters the consequences of a world dominated by a certain masculinity. Artists: Hazel Woodward and Rachel Ferriman and poet Sue Woodward. Opening [...]