Toffie Festival :: All you need to know for this weekend!

As you know we’ve been pretty amped on the Toffie Festival for a few months now. We’ve been putting together a guide to some of the speakers so you’d be in the know when It came to this weekends festival. Seeing as it starts on Friday here is a final guide to what you ca expect to see this weekend. Also dont forget we’ll be posting daily round-ups from the Festival each day.

Check out the past posts here

Part 1 :: Hats off to the Toffie Popular Culture Festival
Part 2 :: All about Siggi Eggertsson :: Toffie Popular Culture Festival
Part 3 :: All about Jorge Alderete :: Toffie Popular Culture Festival
Part 4 :: All about :: Kim Jones & Richard Hart :: Toffie Festival Guide

All you need to know :: Toffie Popular Culture Festival

Now there’s a load of stuff happening this weekend so the list is pretty long, if you’re looking for an itinerary skip to the end or download a pretty comprehensie PDF here [Click]

Speakers

• Sean Taylor – Vice President of Creative for MTV International
• Shawn Carboy – Sneaker designer at Nike SB in Portland, USA
• Fly on the Wall – Director Bryan little and producer Filipa Domingues have produced numerous short films, music videos and recently the Fokofpolisiekar movie, “Forgive them for they know not what they do”
• Kim Jones – British menswear designer who has developed a cult following for his refined, casual clothing
• Siggi Eggertson – Siggi is an Illustrator. In 2006 Print magazine selected him as one of the 20 brightest design stars in the world under 30.
• Jorge Alderete – Has worked as an independent animator for MTV Latin America and Japan, Co -Owner of independent record label Isotonic Records, and a whole lot more..
• Richard Hart – Will be presenting his collaboration project “Them and Us’. Founder of Disturbance studio in Durban, and a whole lot more…
• Peet Pienaar – Peet is the Creative Director at The President, a South African design and pubishing agency with offices in Cape Town and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a whole lot more….
• Wynand Myburgh – Has been involved in the SA music industry since ‘99. His two main projects are Fokofpolisiekar and Van Coke Cartel, and whole lot more…

Workshops

Workshops needed to be booked in advance and are probably sold out if you havent yet booked, but maybe try anyway by contacting toffie@thepresident.co.za. Check the overview at the end of the post for more contact info

• Vinyl toy worshop by Kronk (R300 incl. a Munny)
• Circuit bending workshop by Manta Raya (R300 incl. an electronic instrument)
• Magazine Design workshop by Peet Pienaar (R50 incl. a magazine)
• T-Shirt silkscreen workshop (R200 incl. a t-shirt)

Exhibitions

• Nacho Gil
• The President
• Disturbance Studio
• The Curators
• Jorge Alderete
• Brandt Botes
• Kronk
• Them and US

Quick Break [MK Bruce Lee Issue 6 Sneak Peek]

Marklives.com had a sneak peak of the new MK Bruce Lee Issue 6 Launching at the Festival. Looks pretty sweet! – Check the original post here [click]

Shops

So bring some extra cash as there will be some pretty awesome stores at the festival, selling some limited edition merchandise you cant get your hands on anywhere else.

• Weekend Special Selling David West
• 2BOP
• Richard De Jager – PWHOA
• Familia Skateboards
• ToiToy
• Toffie pop-up store

Food shops:

• Dear Me
• Vida e caffe
• Raghmat Samoosa’s
• Spitbraai King
• Gatti Icecream
• Bake Nice
• & Union

Live Painting Saturday & Sunday

• senyol
• bison
• cashril
• michael tymbios
• faith47

And of course the Party dont forget the Party

As with all good festivals there is going to be one hell of a party and the theme is ‘Disease”. The idea is that everyone must show off their design skills and come as say ‘Yellow Fever’ or ‘chicken Pox’ and so on. The best dressed person/group will win a prize and a free ticket to next years festival. NO DRESS UP – NO ENTRY

Southern Comfort / Jack Daniel’s Dress-up Party line-up

21:00 – DJ George Manta
22:00 – Manta Raya
23:00 – Oorlog Frankenstein
23:30 – Van Coke Kartel
00:30 – Surprise act
01:30 – Haezer

Toffie Festival Overview

Well that took a while but there you have it the whole festival rolled into a single post, as you can see there is a shitload going down this weekend and its going to be awesome. We’ll make sure those of you who cant make it at least get a small taste of it through our daily roundups after the festival. If you want to come tickets are available at webtickets [click]

Dates: 26-28 March 2010
Cost: R680, bookings at toffie@thepresident.co.za
Venue: Rondebosch Boys High School, Cape Town
Registration for the event is on Friday 26 March 16:00 – 20:00, Rondebosch Boys High, Memorial Hall
Info: www.toffie.co.za or 021 462 6092/9

Here’s the daily itinerary taken from the Toffie Flyer Pack