Join the Lenci family for a live pasta-making demonstration exploring traditional Italian techniques. Watch fresh pasta mixed, rolled, and shaped entirely by hand while learning time-honoured methods, practical tips, and insider insights – then sit back and enjoy a tasting in a relaxed, informative setting.

Written by Elizabeth Strout and adapted by Rona Munro, My Name Is Lucy Barton is the story of a writer reckoning with the legacy of a scarred family life who is coming to terms with the cost of her childhood and the rewards of her art. My Name Is Lucy Barton is a story for anyone who has questioned how family defines oneself. It is a powerful narrative of hope and triumph about a woman who finds her truth and reclaims her story. The production stars’ multiple award-nominated actor Julie-Anne McDowell (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Revlon Girl) and is directed by multiple-award winning Charmaine Weir-Smith (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Train Driver). Design is by Kieran McGregor (Expelled)

Three formidable industry insiders with big ideas around the economic future of this continent, bring breakthrough insights around the forces shifting the global financial landscape. TJ Strydom (Capitec, Stalking Giants), Phakamisa Ndzamela (Cape Flats to the JSE) and former CEO of MTN, Phuthuma Nhleko (The Invisible People), chat to Twanji Kalula about the game-changing South African innovations and trends that are breaking traditional banking and enabling a more inclusive economy.

The concerto opens with a Fanfare from Telemann’s Baroque Violin Sonata in F major, followed by the meditative Rheinberger Suite, Op. 166. The audience is then transported to heavenly heights with Vaughan Williams’s ‘’The Lark Ascending’’ and brought back to earth in Saint-Saëns’s charming Oboe Sonata (here adapted for Violin and Organ).

Join us for a book and a bottle – or two. It’s going to be a big wine night out. Starting with a glass of welcoming bubbly at 6pm and a panel discussion: News24 wine editor Daléne Fourie grills author Bridgid Hamilton-Russel (Red Tape), winemaker Craig Wessels (Restless River), and wine journalist Christian Eedes (Winemag) on the state of wine writing; is it ratings, is it critical journalism, is it cultural legacy, or is it just marketing masquerading as journalism? This will be followed by a delicious three-course food and wine pairing.