Your guide to the month’s most interesting events in SA and abroad
6 /6 POETRY CORNER OPEN MIC,
Outie Café, Newtown — Free event where youths can express themselves in a safe and open-minded space. Sign up to perform at the door.
5-8 /6 TREASURE BEACH CLEANUP , Bluff, Durban — The environmental education centre is driving a clean-up project. Go and do your bit.
3 /6 ANTIQUES FAIR, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton — This market, which focuses on unusual collectables, features over 40 antique dealers from across the country.
8-10 /6 DOWNLOAD, Derby — The UK’s premier rock festival, held at Donington Park, this year includes headliners Guns n’ Roses.
6 /6 SWEDISH NATIONAL DAY, Sweden — Swedes wave the flag across the nation, most notably in Skansen, where the royals take a carriage ride and do some waving too.
3 /6 EL COLACHO, Castrillo de Murcia, Spain — The “baby jumping festival“has been on since the 1620s, when once a year, live babies are leapt over by men dressed as devils.