But for now we want to get into the city winter school Holiday program. It's getting underway and the winter school holidays have just begun. You may already be tearing your hair out or trying to trying to find activities to keep your children busy over the next few weeks. We here to help you by telling you about the
City of Cape Town's annual winter school holiday program. It involves the city's libraries and also it's a Recreation and Parks department which are running a number of indoor activities. Besides all the books, your local library has lots of board game corners, chess tournaments, and arts and crafts stations. You can even learn the basics of coding or how to sketch an anime character. You'll need to check with them what they have on offer for that specific day
or week. The Recreation and Parks Department also has a range of activities. And now to tell us more, we joined on the line by Franklin Anthony, who's the head of Programs, Events and Partnerships. Franklin, thank you so much for joining us on Cape Talk.
Good and Jacob and good often to the listeners.
Now, this is an annual program which runs through the entire school holidays. Why is it so important for the city to arrange these activities every year, Jacob.
We provide opportunities for school growing learners to keep themselves busy. That's important obviously during school holidays, but there's also an opportunity to acquire new skills, to learn new sports and games. So it is important and obviously acquire knowledge during play, but also for new things that they are introduced to.
Now, Franklin, what type of events will be run by your departments during this time?
So, because it is an indoor it's winter, so it's our programs are indoors and space are limited. We try to do as many active games. Some of those would be sport like you would. We would do soccer, netball or the normal normal things that sport, volleyball or basketball, and then we would have board games, so we have
an arrangement of board games that we have. Then we will have like what we call table day games, so it's table tenders and pool, and then we'll all also have our arts and calcure, arts and crafts type of the programs. It is basically an opportunity to keep busy, to be active, but also be to be creative.
Now, how do the children join? Do they sign up for these activities or can they just arrive at the various points and enjoy the fun.
So our programs are presented at the community centers within communities, so you don't have to register, but you you can go to the local community center and take part in the program. We normally start at about nine o'clock and in the mornings and then at war Phinis around about four.
Now, in terms of the community centers, is it community centers all around in Cape Town? Is there specific areas? What what are the areas that are involved in which areas are not involved?
So so we tie and have programs that at most of the communities, So it's any that it's across the board in the city. In in on west coast, the furthest would be the Atlanta's Mamay area and then obviously in the in the southern suburbs, well will go as far as as Lotus River or Ocean View frand Kaylitza and yes River area is in the east. And obviously in an Auden's house we'll have Scott's d in f
Sante Caral those areas. So as far as possible in communities we we we have programs in each of those communities.
Any additional information that anyone might have, where can we go for that?
So on. So our program schedule is on the website. If you look for holiday programs similar to we will find the libraries schedule. Will also find the recreation and park schedule. But if you're in a very specific community coachure or community center, they will be a present that will be able to tell you which programs are coming up, what are the activities for the day, and what would be schedules for the next three weeks.
Franklin Anthony, thank you so much for joining us. He's the head of Programs Events at Partnership at the City of Cape Town. He's given us a a modus operande appla Moms and dads, that's what you can get up to over the next few weeks, specifically because it is the winter school holiday program which the city provides annually.
So that you don't have to rip your hair out, so you don't have to be shouting at your children when you come back from work because they ate all the bread, you can make them as cuffteine and then they can head to one of their nearest recreation centers. There's lots to learn and lots to do. Remember if you need any more information www dot Capetown dot gov
dot ZA forward Slash Holiday Programs. What a great initiative. Again, Thank you again to Franklin Anthony for joining us and giving us a plan of action for moms and dads out there who didn't know how to navigate the winter school holidays.