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Cape Town’s Funny Festival Goes International

This year’s Vodacom Funny Festival in Cape Town will feature stand-up comedy by Asian and English stars as well as plethora of African comedians. The five-week festival begins on June 15, 2009 and runs through July 19th at the Baxter Theatre Complex in Cape Town.

The Funny Festival is building a reputation amongst comedy festivals across Africa. The event is sure to draw comedy fans from across the country and even international visitors. There are a number of five star Cape Town hotels near the theater that cater to international guests.

Gamarjobat, an award-winning physical comedy due from Japan will make their African debut as part of the festival. Their act is a combination of mime, magic and clowning. The due will perform during the first few weeks of the festival, between June 15th and July 1st.

The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue, a hit musical team from the UK, will also perform for the first time on the continent. The London duo mimes lyrics from a whirling montage of songs. Their ridiculously literal interpretations are wildly popular wherever they perform. They will perform between July 2nd – 19th.

US magician and “mind reader” John Lenahan is also a featured international act. South African acts will include top female comedian Tumi Morake, the multilingual Nik Rabinowitz, and South African comedy heavyweight Trevor Noah. Favorite son Marc Lottering returns as the MC for the event.

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Children and Greenheart

The reality is that the climate is changing all over the planet. This requires people who initially may have over-consumed, to shift their perspectives and their consciousness, to change habits that have become very ingrained in popular culture. The goal of the Greenheart organization on Ibiza is to help people alter their understanding, of the needs of our planet and our place in caring and preserving it. They focus on the cyclic nature of everything that creates life on the planet, that gives life to the planet and to the planet itself. The four elements of nature, fire, air, water and earth are elements that must be kept in balance. Marine life, plants, insects, fungus and bacteria all must remain on a self-regulating cycle. And once humans realize the role they play in the destruction of the balance and the role that they are capable of playing in the reconstruction of that balance, it provides hope and help for the future generations.

The base camp for Greenheart on Ibiza is called La Casita Verde. Here there is a garden, fine vegetarian Ibiza restaurants, and their educational center and school. For three hundred children each year, classes and seminars are provided free of charge. The classes stress the importance of caring for the environment and the Mediterranean sea that surrounds that environment. What they are hoping is that the children will take what they have learned and incorporate into their everyday lives. For those children will grow up, and they hold the future of Ibiza in their hands. Children are taught about water conservation, alternative energy forms and the effects of pollution on the ecosystems they are surrounded by. This knowledge is meant to empower them to take into their own hands these things that they can change. The are given the mission of figuring out how to carry out cleaner ways of living in their own homes. Simple things as turning off lights when leaving a room, or buying fruits and vegetables from local farmers. They are then given the assignment to paint pictures of their commitments, which are sent to the Kids Call Campaign in Japan, presented by the World Future Council. Their last mission and final assignments are to write letters to their local government and politicians, to state their concerns. This is one way in which this small island is making a difference, and the way in which the children are well informed to enter the future they are about to create.

Tags: Ibiza, restaurants