Melville 2024 Event

When?  2 March 2024
from 10am to 6pm

Where?  7th Street Melville

Come out and participate in the Hobby Horse Derby! Pick from among a selection of brilliant steeds and race, prance, or trot your way around a small course of jumps. Fun suitable for those of all ages! (meet at the bottom of 7th street, before the parade at 11:45)

… click below to see how YOU can participate 🙂

We have very limited parking at 27 Boxes in 4th Ave, and we cannot guarantee the safety of your vehicle parked in the streets … so please use e-hailing to attend the event. There will be an e-hailing drop-off point in 1st Ave close to 7th Street.

Parade

  • The Great Hobby Horse Derby
  • Mutant Vehicles (see above)

The Happening Stage @ Fractal Chill Lounge

  • Anne Steyn (Sincerely Anne – vocal, instrumental)
  • NJ Kunene (Afro music)
  • LunÆ Lane (Rock band)
  • Callum Felix Steenkamp (Solo rock)
  • Jeremy Lichtenstein (vocal)
  • Bad Suggestions (Experimental rock band)

Spilt Milk Social Café

  • Faswillah Nattabi (poetry)
  • Noxolo Desire (poetry)
  • Fernando khosa (poetry)
  • Babette Gallard (book reading, publishing)
  • Anna Stroud (book reading, publishing)
  • Tatjana’s Music Studio Pupils Performance
  • Tye-dyeing class with Anne

The Plug Restaurant & Bar

  • Red Tales (African Trap Music)
  • Kuele by Flamenkhoi (song and dance fusion of flamenco and African Khoi, Tswana and other traditions)
  • … more to come

TBC

  • Theo Pluto (DJ)

7th Street will be closed to traffic from 1st Avenue to 5th Avenue, allowing traffic flow in 1st Avenue & 5th Avenue. There will be traffic marshalls at the corners of 2nd, 3rd and 4h Avenues where they meet 5th, 6th & 8th Streets respectively, directing traffic away from these avenues, while allowing access for residents living in closed streets. 

Parking is available at 27 Boxes, as well as Melville Kruisgemeente church. We are encouraging participants to use e-hailing for the event.