The Alphen Antiques and Collectables Fairs will take place at the Alphen Centre (opposite Constantia Village), on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, between 10am and 4pm. A variety of items -- including jewellery, glass, ceramics, silver, toys,

Baxter Dance Film Festival 2010, in association with Cinedans (Amsterdam), is an exciting programme screening several international dance movies, including documentary feature films by top international choreographers, directors, dancers, dance companies. Screenings include the Forward Motion collection, three programmes of British screen dance works. Golden Arrow Studio Baxter Theatre

5th Cape Town Book Fair moving towards digital age. Plan your visit with Cape Town Book Fair website. Exhibitors invited to register titles on new Book Titles List before the fair, promoting products directly to their customers. Take advantage of book2look marketing tool to share reading samples and hook up with distributors and bookshops. Network with digital experts who present todays challenges and opportunities in seminars about digital publishing. Cape Town International Convention Centre.

‘Uplifting Mind and Body’ is the theme for 16th Cape Town International Kite Festival. Africa’s biggest kite festival attracts over 20,000 visitors, including biggest names in kiting in South Africa and the world who fly in to show off their magnificent kite creations. Kite-making, kite-flying, food stalls, kiddies’ rides, a full programme of entertainment, an eclectic craft market, this is family entertainment at its best. Open 10:00 to 18:00 each day. On lawns surrounding Zandvlei, Muizenberg. Entry R15 for adults and R5 for children.

SPRING Good Food & Wine Show®, South Africa’s finest food, beverage and lifestyle exhibition. A treat for gourmands and good-life devotees with a most sensational line-up of international celebrity chefs yet – joined by finest South African chefs and celebrities in nine state of the art kitchen theatres. Watch magic, taste heaven, and learn from the masters of food, wine, gourmet travel and lifestyle. Coca Cola Dome Johannesburg

16th World Travel Awards 16th, celebrating Travel Excellence, takes place at Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel in London. For the first time ever, this year's WTA final features ALL 120 Miss World 2009 contestants from the most prestigious international beauty pageant to present country winners with their trophies during the WTA gala ceremony.

Selection of quality, original cutting edge international and local productions in music, poetry, theatre.
• Serious Fun at Sun City 2010 Theatre for Incarcerated Women - An Urban Voices/Medea Project collaboration
• Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women - From San Francisco produced by Cultural Odyssey - Solo theatre performance by Rhodessa Jones
• Afropop from Cape Verde Islands - LURA
State Theatre Pretoria

Platforms for writers, publishers, agents, translators and press to engage, debate, discuss or plan new projects. It offers small progressive publishers a forum to showcase publications and activities, network, as well as opportunity to develop alternative approaches and strategies. Program includes roundtables on topical issues, conversations with authors, writing workshops, networking meetings of study circles and book clubs, publishers, authors, workshops on issues affecting authors and publishers, book launches, films, exhibitions. Dates: 7, 8, 9 Aug 2010. Museum Africa, Newtown, Joburg. R10 entrance. Ch u. 12 - Free entry.

Botanical Art Biennale has become a well loved and attended show, drawing diverse and enthusiastic crowds to the gardens bursting with promise of spring. Exhibition supported by Old Mutual and focus on rare, endangered and narrow endemic species indigenous to Southern Africa. SANBI intends to highlight and stimulate interest about the plight of these plants to the public through botanical art. Theme provides invigorating artistic challenge and encourages artists to build relationships with conservation organisations, scientists, artists and horticulturists. Kirstenbosch Gardens Cape Town

After 7yrs as a 3-day show, RMB WineX Cape Town opens its doors at CTICC on 19 Aug as a different event. Raising an already elevated bar, the 2-day show with over 100 exhibitors remains the most important premium consumer wine event in the Western Cape, with an aim to present quality rather than quantity. Annual Best Wines on Show ballot, with great prizes, adds to the fun of what is always a wonderful wine evening in the Mother City. shop@show is a convenient one-stop-shop alternative with delivery to your door. Early Bird R90 for all tickets bkd by Sun 15 Aug. w www.winex.co.za