After two years in the dark, the Festive Lights Switch is back as Cape Town gears up for a busy festive season.
Taking place on the Grand Parade and along Adderley Street in Cape Town, the city’s largest open-air free entertainment event, will take place on Sunday, 27 November.
Back in its original format after the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, this annual event highlight and entertainment delight is getting set to welcome families from all over the Cape Metropole.
The theme for this year’s extravaganza celebrates Capetonians’ resilience and how, as a united force, challenges can be overcome.
The entertainment program will kick off at 4pm with the official switch-on moment expected at around 8:30pm in the evening.
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The evening will wrap up at around 10pm, with a spectacular choreographed video mapping lights display across City Hall.
This year’s Festive Lights event will also run parallel awareness campaigns around the spring cleaning and clean energy missions, which underpin how residents can live smart – all year round.
For the first time, the Festive Lights Switch-On event in 2022, will be powered by renewable energy, thanks to the green credits banked by the City by way of the Darling Wind Farm, with whom the City has a partnership.
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“The Festive Lights Switch-On is a wonderful Cape Town tradition and has always been a personal favorite of ours,” said Executive Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis. “I am particularly excited this year to welcome back the whole of Cape Town so we can celebrate as a ‘city family’ for the first time since 2019.”
“Much has changed in all our worlds over this time, but one thing that remains is our collective enthusiasm to celebrate the good in life, and in our city. I’m really looking forward to sharing that with you all this year.”
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