Catherine Henegan (Amsterdam-based South African performance maker and director of the recent musical ‘Afrikaaps’), and Jethro Louw (musician, poet and Khoisan activist), present a poetic exploration of the  Cape Town Station.

Jethro will lead you on an unusual and illuminating journey through the old and new parts of the Cape Town City Station, providing information dating back to the earliest recorded history of the site, whilst also reflecting on the modern day urban hustle and bustle of life in and around the Cape Town Station.

Particular focus will be given to the old 3rd Class part of the Station – which is now a more or less deserted empty shell. This section of the Station is a wonderful example of 1960ʼs South African public architecture, now replete with a gallery of commercial billboards and outdated rail timetables that span the last 3 decades.

It is also a living relic of South Africaʼs apartheid history, and Louw will illuminate the jewels and national Treasures that emerged from The Struggle and the continuing struggles of many people who live in and around Cape Town. In 1st Class Treasures the terminal’s deserted shops and stalls will function as mini exhibition spaces to present various aspects of the rich history of the station, its surrounds, its formal and informal economy, and the people who pass through it from different points of origin.Join Jethro and Catherine for a colourful, unconventional narration of facts and anecdotes.