The Coffee Festival heads to Cape Town in June

The event will include over 65 innovative exhibitors. Taste your way through the vibrant Cape Town coffee scene with hundreds of different coffees to sample for free. Boost your coffee knowledge in workshops, be a part of interactive demos and meet the top African coffee companies, artisans and baristas one-to-one. To top it all off, enjoy delicious street food, coffee cocktails and live music.

The two-day festival – split into morning and afternoon sessions to help manage the flow of foot traffic – will boast some of the most popular features seen at previous international events, with an added African experience. The lineup includes Latte Art Live, The Small Business Lab, The African Coffee Experience, The Coffee Cocktail Bar, a Live Music stage, a Coffee Art Gallery and many more.

All profits will be donated to Project Waterfall, which partners with South African charities supporting local life-changing projects such as Woza. The Woza Coffee School is a charitable trust that trains the youth in South African townships to become baristas while connecting them to their first job. Since 2011, Project Waterfall has raised over $1.5m – bringing clean water to more than 37,000 people across seven countries.

Speaking about this year’s South African debut festival, Allegra Group CEO Jeffrey Young said: “We are delighted to be bringing the Coffee Festival to the African continent for the first time. Cape Town is a city of culture and creativity and coffee and food play a huge part in the fabric of the city life. The event is a celebration of the vibrant African coffee culture, the deep spirit of community that coffee fosters and the career opportunities that it generates.”

Tickets for The Cape Town Coffee Festival are now on sale at www.capetown-coffeefestival.com/tickets.