Cape Town: V&A Waterfront set to host the inaugural Ocean Life Festival!

Cape Town's V&A Waterfront is set to host the very first Ocean Life Festival later this month. The new festival will see a curated programme of events and activations spread across the property between 24 November 2017 and 10 December 2017. The intention behind each of the Ocean Life Festival's events will be to engage and delight visitors' interest in ocean life, ocean sustainability, and the potential of maritime assets such as South Africa's vast oceans. The inaugural editon of the festival, which is supposed to become an annual event, will have a strong sustainability message, with many activities focusing on the harm that plastics and other foreign materials do to the world's maritime assets.

The programme of the V&A Waterfront's Ocean Life Festival 2017 will include:

• The arrival of the Volvo Ocean Race (24 - 28 November 2017)
• Innovation Station: Ocean Plastics (28 November - 03 December 2017)
• V&A Ocean Film Festival, curated by Wavescape (29 November - 01 December 2017)
• TEDxCapeTown Salon | Oceans (06 - 08 December 2017)
• Alex in Waterland, a V&A Waterfront's Ocean Life Festival Theatre Show (02 - 03 December 2017)
• CoCreateDESIGN – Making Waves for Change (27 November 2017 - 01 December 2017)
• V&A Ocean Life Festival Beach Cleanup (02 December 2017)
• Volvo Ocean Race Cape Town – Pro-Am Race (07 December 2017)
• Volvo Ocean Race Cape Town – In-port Race (08 December 2017)
• Volvo Ocean Race Cape Town – Race Restart / Closing Ceremony (10 December 2017)