Tru-Cape Windgat Festival – Pringle Bay, September

The Tru-Cape Windgat Festival and Kogelberg Mountain Challenge are on the weekend of September 6, 2013 in Pringle Bay.

Starting with a Trash to Fash – Junk to Funk, recycling fashion show by local eco-school Pringle House on the Friday night and a Paint-a-Thon hosted by the Pringle Bay Art and Craft Route it will be followed by the Kogelberg and Tru-Cape packhouse Challenge timed race on Saturday. This is an event for the whole family.

Registration for the Kogelberg Mountain & Packhouse Challenge which takes runners through pristine parts of Pringle Bay not usually open to the public is from 6:30am on Saturday, September 7 while the 21.1km race begins at 7.30am. The 10km starting gun is fired at 10.00am and the 5km fun run/walk at 11.30. Prize giving is at 1pm.

Tru-Cape apples and pears will be used in the Best Bake and Potjie Kos competitions on Saturday while the expanded Village Market will feature home-made food, clothes and artisan chocolate. Craft and jewellery will also be available.

Artist Anna-Marie Breytenbach will be exhibiting sculpture and pottery and the Festival tent will have food and craft stalls. From early morning coffees, bacon and egg rolls to spit braais and potjies – there will be loads to eat while on the go and all Pringle Bay restaurants will be trading too.

There will be a live music programme from 1pm until late into the evening on Saturday.

For adults there’s a wine-tasting fair and for children a full programme managed by Pringle House Eco-School which will entertain and educate. Aside from old-fashioned apple and pear games there will be a recycling craft workshop to make puppets, beads and bangles as well as sun catchers. There will be an educational snake and reptile show for children as well as a guided mountain walk by reptile and fynbos specialist, zoologist Francois van Zyl.

On Sunday there will be art workshops for the family and a Sunday family lunch served in the tent.

For race information please contact Sandy Kei on 079 413-6610, email sandykei@sonicmail.co.za. For festival information please contact coordinator Morne Lloyd 082 894 3019, email mornelloyd@mweb.co.za and Jacques Ractliffe 079 038 3916 email jacqueswr@vodamail.co.za and see www.tru-cape.com