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VERNISSAGE II EXHIBITION has opened at The Old Post Office in Plettenberg Bay’s Upper Deck, is the annual display of a life drawing group run by the irrepressible Myfanwy Bekker.
Continue reading...Spectacular start to summer with Plett Street Carnival
04/12/09
Bitou Tourism in Plettenberg Bay is kicking off their annual Spectacular Summer campaign Love Plett Love Summer with a scintillating Switching on of the festive lights and Street Carnival on Wednesday, 16 December.
Continue reading...Plett Pioneers start off on a high note
12/10/09
The Plett Pioneers Field Band, established just two months ago, has returned victorious with a silver medal and a trophy from the national championships in Gauteng.
Continue reading...Big Plett band marches, blows, dances off to champs
30/09/09
The newly established Plett Pioneers Field Band leaves tonight to compete in national championships in Johannesburg at the weekend.
Continue reading...Time for jazz, whales, whisky and sport galore in Plett
18/09/09
The annual Whisky, Whales and Jazz festival kicks off in Plettenberg Bay today and some of the country’s greatest jazz talents will perform at various venues until next Saturday.
Continue reading...Love Plett, Love Life – 18 – 26 Sept
15/09/09
Plettenberg Bay is hosting the Plett Festival – Love Plett, Love Life – from 18 – 26 September.
Continue reading...Sculptor waxes lyrical over new foundry
10/09/09
Sculptor Robert Leggat, known for his signature bronze dolphin piece in Plettenberg Bay’s town centre, has opened his own foundry, the only “lost wax” casting facility in the area.
Continue reading...‘Devil’ work no pie in sky award
02/09/09
PLETTENBERG Bay artist Stephen Rosin has won this year’s Absa L’Atelier award for his visual adaptation of the English proverb, “the devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers”.
Continue reading...Wider range of music in Whales fest this year
21/08/09
A WIDER range of music, including popular English, Afrikaans and African numbers, will feature in this year’s Whisky, Whales and Jazz festival in Plettenberg Bay.
Continue reading...Wannabe artists set free of fear
14/08/09
Artist Charles Levin, who was a director of the Johannesburg Art Foundation for 11 years, has set up his studio in The Crags outside Plettenberg Bay, where he not only continues to produce works of art, but has instituted classes for students from beginner level to post-graduate.
Continue reading...The pie-maker from Plett: ABSA L’Atelier winner Stephen Rosin
28/07/09
The winner of this year’s ABSA L’Atelier competition is an unlikely suspect. Thirty-four year old Stephen Rosin runs a family pie-making business, and lives in a rural area near Plett, where, until last September, he had no electricity.
Continue reading...Artists, crafters join hands for Plett showcase
27/07/09
The Lunchbox Theatre and Bitou Tourism are launching a new initiative next month to explore the depth of talent in Plettenberg Bay.
The Bitou Arts and Crafts Showcase 2009 will then be incorporated in this year‘s Plett Festival, from September 23-27.
The organisers are calling on any performing arts practitioners in the genres of theatre, dance, music, [...]
Plettenberg Bay Eco Festival
30/06/09
Bitou Tourism was celebrating World Environment Day with week-long festivities during the Plettenberg Bay Eco Festival from 1-6 June. The festival aimed to promote environmental awareness in Plettenberg Bay and surrounds and hoped to foster an appreciation of the rich environmental diversity of the region.
Continue reading...Lunchbox theatre goes national
29/04/09
Lunchbox Theatre will proudly wave the Bitou flag as Arts and Culture ambassadors on a theatre tour to Johannesburg in May.
Continue reading...Extraordinary art works on display at Plettenberg Bay
17/04/09
EASTER EXHIBITION (Upper Deck Gallery in Plettenberg Bay until the end of May).
Continue reading...‘Mind The Gap’ Easter Fun Day
10/04/09
Easter Fun Day and your contribution might help close our deep divide
MIND the gap! No, not the one on the London Underground, but the one in South Africa. It is getting wider, and we must be more aware of this continuing danger.
“The gap is between the haves and the have-nots,” says Kurland Estate Community Responsibility [...]
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Server Maintenance – We will be performing several upgrades to our servers to enhance stability and performance. The maintenance is scheduled to last two (2) hours, beginning on the morning of March 6 at 08:00 AM and ending at 10:00 AM. Connectivity during this window will be intermittent and SoPlett might be offline for as long as 90 minutes.
As always, we will do everything we can to keep the interruptions to an absolute minimum.
We apologize for the short notice of this maintenance. It is critical, however, that the work be completed in as timely of a manner as possible to ensure increased stability.
Thanks – The SoPlett Team
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Some killer whales were spotted in the bay on 28 Feb 2010… first time in a year (apparently). Read more here
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Unnoficial measurements peg the total rainfall last night+this morning at 7mm. This is not enough to make a significant difference to the current crisis so please continue to use water as sparingly as possible.
04/02/10
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