African Utility Week is the only African exhibition that covers the entire spectrum of the power, water and waste management utilities industry in all its many forms. It's designed for African utilities, large industrial end users in Africa and solution providers from across the globe.
Business opportunities and knowledge sharing is available to everyone, and the technical workshops on the exhibition floor are open to all visitors and delegates free of charge!
African Utility Week features:
• 11,000m2 indoors and outdoors exhibition space, accommodating over 300 solution providers presenting their latest technologies
• Over 20 free to attend technical workshops and seminars, discussing solutions to your daily challenges
• Opening session, featuring international thought leaders and local industry experts
• ESI Awards of Excellence, a prestigious annual award ceremony
• Networking function, where utility professionals, solution providers and large industrial end users come together to share experiences and make new contacts
• Multi-track conference, including 8 conference break-out sessions and over 200 industry-elite speakers
• More than 4000 visitors from over 60 countries
Conference break-out sessions include:
• Metering
• Renewable Energy
• Water
• Large Industry (energy/water efficiency)
• Infrastructure Investment
• Transmission and Distribution/Smart Grids
• Generation
• Waste Management
Venue: Expo Centre, Nasrec, Johannesburg
Contact: Spintelligent Events on +27 (0)21 700-3500 for more information.
Soweto Fashion Week
When: Thursday, 24 May 2012 to Saturday, 26 May 2012
Where: Soweto
The Soweto Fashion Week official inauguration will be held at the Soweto Hotel which will see a majority of young designers strut their designs, creating a fresh look of elegance and young luxurious wear.
This platform has been long awaited by the young fashionista's of South Africa where designers from different townships will be showcasing their labels in order to catch the eyes of clothing scouts. Print and TV media will also be present at the event.
Venue: The Soweto Hotel on Freedom SquareTime: 15h00
Tickets: Book at Computicket.
Good Food & Wine Show Cape Town
When: Thursday, 24 May 2012 to Sunday, 27 May 2012
Where: Foreshore, Cape Town
Categories: Entertainment / Exhibitions & Conferences / Food & Wine
All of Cape Town’s gourmets, gourmands and good-life devotees will be treated at South Africa’s finest food and beverage exhibition. There is an exciting line-up of some of the finest international celebrity and BBC chefs accompanied by South Africa’s first class chefs in nine state-of-the-art kitchen theatres as well as a number of unique speciality shows.
Not only will there be hands-on workshops conducted by world class chefs, big-name book signings and some supreme organic produce on offer, but you will be watching and learning from the grand masters of food, wine, gourmet travel and lifestyle. With the latest in global trends and tastes right on your doorstep you can come and shop, explore and ignite all of your senses with this extraordinary gastronomic experience.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or online. And your ticket includes free food and wine sampling, free live demonstration by your favourite BBC celebrity chef in the Chefs in Action Theatre, live demonstrations in no less than 9 additional theatres with top local and International Chefs and Wine Connoisseurs and there are hundreds of fabulous prize giveaways and special offers on the latest in food, wine, cookware and kitchen appliances.
Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre
Contact: Gourmet SA on +27 (0)21 702-2280.
Coming up:
Grahamstown National Arts Festival
When: Thursday, 28 June 2012 to Sunday, 08 July 2012
Where: Grahamstown
The Grahamstown National Arts Festival: Africa's largest and most colourful cultural event offers a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent. Every year for 11 days (June/July) Grahamstown's population almost doubles, as over 50 000 people flock to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape for a feast of arts, crafts and sheer entertainment.
Every hall or large room becomes a theatre, parks and sport fields become flea markets, normally quiet streets have to be managed by an army of temporary traffic wardens, and every available bed in the city is booked. The festival offers more than 500 shows from opera, cabaret, drama and jazz to stand-up comics and folk music.
From theatre to dance, opera to cabaret, fine art to craft art, classical music to jazz, poetry readings to lectures, every art form imaginable is represented in one of the most diverse festivals in the world. And there's something for every taste, with techno raves, mediaeval banquets, craft fairs, cyber cafes, carnivals, buskers and walking tours.
While many come to take in the arts, others simply want to be here for the spectacle or to market products ranging from tie-dyed T-shirts and woven rugs to handmade jewellery and customized telephones. The festival operates out of the 1820 Settlers National Monument and is organized by the Grahamstown Foundation.
