{"id":8106,"date":"2014-10-03T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jda.dev.griam.co.za\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2018-08-24T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:24:27","slug":"joburg-fest-celebrates-revitalised-inner-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/joburg-fest-celebrates-revitalised-inner-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg Fest celebrates revitalised inner city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blurb\"><strong>Unique dining experiences, music and film happenings, sight-seeing opportunities &#8211; the Absa Joburg City Festival celebrates a re-energised inner city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Absa Joburg City Festival sees a feast of exciting events taking place across 11 inner-city locations from 2 to 5 October.<\/p>\n<p>All the events can be accessed by public transport in the form of a Rea Vaya bus or a festival shuttle. Apart from Rea Vaya&#8217;s normal operations, its buses will be running on City Festival routes from 7pm through midnight on Friday and Saturday. Pre-paid integrated transport passes can be bought online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joburgcityfest.co.za\/buy-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.joburgcityfest.co.za\/buy-tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Festival-goers will be able to catch buses from Milpark to the Library Gardens, passing Constitution Hill and Park Station. Other options include taking a connecting bus from the Library Gardens to the Carlton Station, near the Absa Campus, and on to Maboneng or Ellis Park.<\/p>\n<p>The return trip stops at Chancellor House, where festival-goers can take a shuttle to Newtown.<\/p>\n<p>From unique dining experiences to a science fiction night at Sci Bono, and from film festivals to music happenings and sight-seeing opportunities, the Joburg City Festival has something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the country&#8217;s best-known performers will be taking part, including Johnny Clegg, Jack Parow, Loyiso Gola and Amanda Strydom.<\/p>\n<p>The main programme covers 11 inner city hubs: Absa Campus, Braamfontein, Constitution Hill, the Fashion District, Ferreirastown, Fordsburg, Maboneng, Marshalltown, Milpark, Newtown and the Retail District.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the excitement, the Springboks will take on the All Blacks at Ellis Park on Saturday, and for those without tickets to the stadium there will be the ever-popular Boktown at Absa Campus and a Fan Mile stretching from the campus to Ellis Park via Maboneng.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full programme at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joburgcityfest.co.za\/programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.joburgcityfest.co.za\/programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unique dining experiences, music and film happenings, sight-seeing opportunities &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases-2014"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}