Walking back to happiness

IF YOU don’t get into the city often enough, or if you work there and have no time to explore, today is the day to change that with the monthly City Walk between 10am and 2pm.

The event is partnering with Cape Town Free Walking Tours today, which is offering its usual three walking tours departing from Greenmarket Square. The District Six and Historic Tour sets off at 11am, Bo-Kaap and District Six Tour at 2pm and the Historic and BoKaap Tour leaves at 4.20pm. Donations are encouraged with all proceeds going to Khulisa Social Solutions.

Public art installation The Food (R)Evolution Exhibition displayed along Government Avenue in the Company’s Garden is a visual journey across the continent’s food system and represents the day-today diets of citizens from all walks of life. As part of City Walk, the team from the Sustainability Institute in Stellenbosch invites you to join in conversations about food, share your response to the exhibit and the global and local issues raised by the exhibit, as well as your own stories about food.

Children’s show, Pushmi Pullyu, is at 10.30am in the Paddocks area of the Company’s Garden; a dance workshop hosted by Mamela Nyamza (2011 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year for Dance), also in the Company’s Garden and starting at 11.30am until 1pm; chess tables and the opportunity to challenge a stranger to a game, facilitated by Khuphwathea Chess in Government Avenue between noon and 2pm; and a performance by the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement Band at St Andrew’s Square between 1 and 2pm, are all part of the day’s fun.

Pushmi Pullyu is a 40-minute non-verbal show about co-operation, performed by UKAO, a theatre company that specialises in physical theatre.

The Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement Band features South Africa’s slam champion and celebrated poet Koleka Putuma and recent Current State of Poetry slam champion Mbongeni Nomkonwana, to bring a fusion of music and poetry.

● For more information, go to www.capetownpartnership.co.za or check out the event on Facebook for updates.

WALK THIS WAY: Rapper Jitsvinger and violinist Anele Mhlahlo performing at last month’s City Walk Saturdays event.