Known as Cape Town’s largest open-air free entertainment
event, the annual Festive Lights Switch-On returns this year following a two
year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking place on the Grand Parade and along Adderley Street
in Cape Town the event will kick off on Sunday, 27 November at 16:00 with the
official switch-on moment expected at around 20:30.
The theme for this year’s extravaganza is ‘Cape Town – City
of Hope’ and celebrates Capetonians’ resilience, and how, as a united force,
challenges can be overcome
Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis says: “’The Festive Lights
Switch-On is a wonderful Cape Town tradition and has always been a personal
favourite of ours. I am particularly excited this year to welcome back the
whole of Cape Town so we can celebrate as a ‘city family’ for the first time
since 2019.”
The mayor says in support of some of the city’s key
strategic pillars, this year’s Festive Lights event will also run parallel
awareness campaigns around the spring cleaning and clean energy missions, which
underpin how residents can live smart – all year round.
For the first time, the Festive Lights Switch-On event, will
be powered by renewable energy, thanks to the green credits banked by the city
by way of the Darling Wind Farm, with whom the city has a partnership.
Several schools in and around Cape Town will be
participating in a new waste-to-art challenge.
The aim is to highlight
not only how one person’s waste is another’s treasure, but to highlight how
much of what we throw away can indeed be recycled or upcycled, along with some
tips on how to minimise the waste generated over the festive season ahead.
The artworks will go on display at a mini expo housed on the
2nd Floor (Concourse Level) of the Cape Town Civic Centre at the end of
November.
The artist line-up will be announced soon.
