This year’s Wavescape Surf and Ocean Festival runs for a full month and includes 10 days of film screenings, interesting talks, the exhibition of 11 surfboards for the Artboard Project at Jack Black’s Taproom and the Artboard charity auction.
Even greater emphasis will be placed on conservation awareness, ocean activism and community upliftment in 2019. Wavescape will work with partners to host beach clean-ups, an ocean filmmaker’s master class, oceanic panel discussions and talks, themed conservation evenings and screenings of more than 30 surf and ocean films – that take place at 10 venues around Cape Town and False Bay.
Several blockbuster surfing documentaries, including Trouble: The Lisa Andersen Story; Andy Irons: Kissed by God and the Bethany Hamilton film, Unstoppable will be shown. Wavescape will also add a two-day film festival outreach at Scarborough, showing films at the Camel Rock restaurant, before the famous outdoor screening at Clifton 4th Beach on Saturday 30 November.
What is an ocean festival without huge waves? Wavescape will present White Rhino, featuring gigantic waves in Hawaii, Tahiti, and Fiji. Paige is the unheralded story of big wave surfing hero Paige Alms, while Shaka is the tale of a snowboarding champion who wants to tick off his bucket list item of surfing giant Jaws in Hawaii.
Films also include How to Learn How to Surf, a hilarious spoof of surf culture. Thank You Mother was shot in South Africa and Australia, and narrated by Australian filmmaker Albert Falzon, who made the seminal 1970 surf film Morning of the Earth.
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Wavescape lineup
Sat 9 Nov – Vans Opening Night (live bands, “The Tony Alva Story” premiere),Jack Black’s Tap Room, 18:00
Thu 14 Nov – Ocean Pledge Film Night, The Electric, District Six, 18:00
Sat 16 Nov – The Beach Co-op Seaside Scavenge, Strandfontein Beach, 09:00
Mon 18-27 Nov – Artboard Exhibition, Jack Black’s Tap Room, 09:00-17:00
Wed 20 Nov – Oceans Alive: evening of surf, ocean and activism, Two Oceans Aquarium, 19:00
Thu 21-22 Nov – Deep South Surf Films, Camel Rock, Scarborough, 19:30
Sat 23 Nov – Beneath the Surface with The Beach Co-op, Harvest Cafe, Muizenberg, 18:30
Wed 27 Nov – Artboard Charity Auction, Jack Black’s Tap Room, Diep River, 19:00
Sat 30 Nov – Clifton 4th Beach Screening, 20:00
Mon 2 Dec – Slide Night, Centre for the Book, 19:00
Wed 4 Dec – Changing Oceans Master Class, InvestSA One Stop Shop, 18:30
Thu 5-8 Dec – Film Festival, Labia Theatre, 18:15 and 20.30
Thu 5 Dec – Vans Night, 20:30
Fri 6 Dec – “Plastic China” screening with The Beach Co-op, 18:15
Fri 6 Dec – York Night, 20.30
Sat 7 Dec – All Africa Night, 20:30
Sun 8 Dec – Gone Night, 20:30
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