As in the past, you’ll need a ticket to access all events (even the free ones) unless otherwise stated. You can book your place through webtickets. If you would rather book directly from the box office at the Book Lounge, please give Mervyn a call on 021 462 2425.
If you are planning to spend those five days going to as many events as possible, it may be worth purchasing either a day pass (R150) or a festival pass (R600). Both are available through webtickets. Please note that the passes allow you to book for almost all events, but free events as well as some workshops and food events we have planned are not available through the pass options.
There is a downloadable PDF available on our website. Our printed programme will be available in mid-August from the Book Lounge and various other locations including the Fugard Theatre, the District 6 Homecoming Centre and libraries.
Please also keep an eye on our website to stay up to date with the changes to the programme – the nature of running something like this is that you can be sure that there will be changes! We will make those to our site, but these will not reflect on the printed programme or on the downloadable PDF.
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Open Book Festival hosted by the Book Lounge and the Fugard Theatre is organised in partnership with the Fugard Theatre, the District 6 Museum, the A4 Arts Foundation, the Townhouse Hotel, Novus Holdings, the Embassy of Sweden, the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the HCI Foundation and is sponsored by Leopard’s Leap, #cocreateSANL, Open Society Foundation, City of Cape Town, Western Cape Government, Pan Macmillan, NB Publishers, Jonathan Ball, Penguin Random House, African Centre for Cities, UCT Creative Writing Department, University of Stellenbosch English Department, and Windham Campbell Prizes.