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SPORT & OUTDOOR
7th Annual Wavescape Surf Film Festival
Venue: Brass Bell, Kalk Bay & Labia Theatre in Cape
Town
Time: -
Price: R30
Performances: 12 - 19 Dec 2010
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The seventh annual Wavescape Surf Film
Festival kickstarts the 2010 summer season in Cape Town with a bumper crop
of adrenaline charged surf movies.
Presented by the Save Our Seas
Foundation, the festival (from December 1 to 19) focuses on the critical
plight of the world’s oceans, and surfing development in South Africa.
The festival begins with the Wavescape
Surfboard Art Exhibition from December 1 to 7 at the trendy Cape Town
restaurant Depasco Cafe. Twelve surfboards decorated by artists will go on
auction on December 8. Proceeds go to ocean charities, including the SOSF,
NSRI and Shark Spotters, with a special board decorated by township kids
to be auctioned on behalf of the Ticket to Ride Foundation’s surfing
development programme.
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Also to be auctioned will be a
mini-surfboard reshaped from a broken board, part of the My First
Surfboard Project. Every year, thousands of broken surfboards end up in
dumps and landfills, and are environmentally toxic. The project turns
broken boards into new boards for beginner surfers who can’t afford them,
transforming junk into transforming a kid’s life.
The film section of the festival begins
with the open-air free screening of Scratching the Surface on Clifton
Fourth Beach on Friday December 10 after the sun goes down. The film
includes cutting edge camera technology in use by pioneering surf
filmmakers.
Thousands of like-minded people gather on
the beach with picnics from early in the evening to enjoy a long, languid
summer evening. Indoor films will be screened at the Brass Bell in Kalk
Bay from December 12 to 15 and at the Labia Theatre on Orange from
December 16 to 19.
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