Don’t Miss This: October 2 – 8

Johannesburg

• British rock band The Kooks will perform at the 2015 Vodacom In the City music festival, alongside German folk duo Milky Chance and Australian six-piece alternative band The Cat Empire. Local acts include P.H.Fat, Al Bairre and this year’s Open the City winner, Grassy Spark. Vodacom In the City is a day festival. You can bring your picnic blankets but there will also be gourmet food vendors on site. WHEN October 4. WHERE Emmarentia Dam. TIME 10am–6pm. COST R495. TICKETS and INFO inthecityjhb.co.za

• The Word N Sound International Youth Poetry Festival is back with the finest poets from around the world. California-based, Kenyan-born poet, writer and teacher Warsan Shire will headline the event. The line-up also includes Kabomo, Flex Boogie, Mandi Poefficient Vundla, Koleka Putuma, Neil Atlantis (formally known as Blindfold) and Chef & the Kitchen. In the programme is the 2015 Poetry League and Slam For Your Life finals. WHEN October 3. WHERE Soweto Theatre. COST R70 all day pass. TICKETS sowetotheatre.com INFO Visit wordnsoundlivelit.wordpress.com

Pretoria

• The 22nd annual Japanese Film Festival kicks off in Pretoria this weekend and then moves to Cape Town (October 9–10) and Johannesburg (October 16–18). This year’s schedule features Until the Break of Dawn, Tamako Love Story, The Kirishima Thing, Wood Job! and My Little Sweet Pea. All films are in Japanese with English subtitles. WHEN October 2–4. WHERE Cinema Nouveau, Brooklyn Mall. COST Free. Tickets will be available at the box office one hour before the screening. INFO Visit animated-meanderings.com

Cape Town

• The Cape Town Fringe Festival features more than 70 theatre, dance, performance art, physical theatre and music productions. It showcases works by independent artists and companies, with a mixture of new and well-known shows that performed at this year’s National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. WHEN Until October 4. WHERE Fugard Studio Theatre, Cape Town City Hall and venues in the city centre. TICKETS and INFO thefugard.com