The festival, to be held over the Easter Weekend from Friday to Wednesday, April 22 to 27, is fully supported by Knysna Tourism CEO, Shaun van Eck. The official media launch takes place tomorrow (Friday, March 18) at Pine Lake Marina and then moves on to the Steam Whistle Stop in Sedgefield.
The festival will include something for everyone.
For those wanting a gastronomical feast there will a gourmet food and wine evening, a chocolate tasting workshop and a choice of the daily slow cocktails at sunset.
For the art and cultured, the talented artists of Sedgefield will be hosting an Art in the Park exhibition on the Village Green for two days and an entertaining day of playing boulles and backgammon can be enjoyed at Lake Pleasant Living.
For young families and little ones, the popular Beach Bunny Flip that last year had over 450 children running up and down the beach to collect marshmallow eggs dropped from a paraglider flown by the Easter Bunny, will be back, this time with plenty more eggs. The sand sculpture challenge that follows this should definitely not be missed.
For the teens and young adults, Sedgefield Primary will be hosting a ‘Build your own go cart competition and race and the very first Miss Slow Festival. Scarab will make sure that the fun and excitement continues into the evening with their Slow Fest Fiesta; tombola, fishing for prizes, old fashioned games and disco that follows.
For those wanting to celebrate, dance and party, Pine Lake Marina will be hosting a Back to the Future rocking and rolling 60’s and 70’s evening.
For fun loving sporty folk and families there will be a choice of the Wacky Pedalo Challenge, the Sedge Barefoot Bowls, Lagoon-edge Spinathon, a MTB cycle, trail run and kayak race to challenge, a 5km charity walk along the water’s edge, daily treasure hunts and an online photo competition on Flickr.
The scoop will no doubt be the Slow Festival Parade on Easter Sunday, a carnival-style event which will have animal puppets, the marching band of St James Church, winners of the go kart race and Miss Slow Festival pageant, the Festival Cryer and more, parading down the town centre toward the Village Green.
And there will even be something for the local shops and businesses, "Shops and businesses along the main street will be encouraged to enter the ‘Dress your shop window’ competition, banners and posters will be visible from the N2," said festival organiser Amanda Judson Dixon, "we’ll be doing a restaurant hotspot guide and we’ll even have our very own Festival cryer- the famous Eggyman with his Rio-style 2.4m high head-dress who’ll be announcing all events every day."
For more information, go to www.slowfestival.co.za
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