Get out - Bittersweet 16: Time to mourn and to celebrate

15 June 2016 - 10:58 By Staff reporter

If you're planning to celebrate Youth Day by doing something more energetic than spending it wrapped up in your duvet fending off the cold weather, then gather the young 'uns and take them out on the town. GET HISTORICALPlan a day educating the kids about the events that resulted in huge historical changes in the country and gave rise to their getting a day off school. City Sightseeing offers a range of tours: The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum houses photographs, testimonies, and footage of the Soweto Uprising of 1976.A guide informs the walking tour from the museum to Mandela House in Vilakazi Street, explaining where the students came from, where they gathered and the exact spot where Hector Pieterson was shot and killed. Walter Sisulu Square is home to the Freedom Charter Monument. Constitution Hill is located at Stop 12 of the Red City Tour, where you can visit the architecturally striking Constitutional Court.For all tours see citysightseeing.co.zaGET ORGANICThe Bryanston Market will be open for kids to run around to their hearts' content while parents pick out wholesome foods for a celebratory June 16 dinner.For directions see bryanstonorganicmarket.co.zaGET FESTIVEAuthenticity and Vertex events is throwing a Youth Day celebration at Zone 8 in Diepkloof featuring the favourite artists of South African youth: Mdu, Thebe, Kwesta, Emtee, Okmalumkoolkat, Black Motion, Da L.E.S and many more from 2pm till late.For tickets see computicket.comGET OUT OF TOWNThe Silver Mountain Music Festival takes place from June 16 to 19 . Drink in the silvery glow of the Langeberg Mountains as you whirl by the light of the moon at this inaugural festival in the Grootvadersbosch Conservancy near Swellendam. Besides music, there is a guided dairy tour, forest walk, trail run and wine tasting.For booking and accommodation see silvermountainmusic.co.zaGET DRUNKIf you celebrate definitive moments with a beer, make it more interesting with beer pong or beer Jenga at the Beer Games Pub Crawl that starts tonight at the Copperlake Brewing Company in Fourways. Transport, food and drinks are sorted for the night.For the itinerary see whatson.co.za or e-mail jonathan@jozipubcrawl.co.za, tickets cost R450- Andrea Nagel, nagela@thetimes.co.za..

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