Hope picnic in aid for cancer
The Hope Picnic is a family picnic in the Lowveld Botanical Garden, taking place on March 8. It is the Lowveld CANSA Relay for Life in a new guise. It focuses on celebrating, remembering and fighting back.
MBOMBELA – Bring your picnic basket and your family and spend an evening under fairy lights and the stars in the botanical garden.
Picnicgoers will be ferried to the botanical gardens for free by Citybug. The shuttles will offer all ticketholders a convenient and free trip from their cars to the garden gates and back, as parking at the venue is limited and reserved for survivors.
This year the important candle-lighting ceremony will have a slightly different format. The luminaria bags will be set up along the walkway picnicgoers pass to get from the gate to the picnic site.
Each candle commemorates the lives of those who have died from cancer and represents hope that a cure will be found.
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The bags can be purchased beforehand at R20 each and will be collected at a central point before the picnic. Survivors will be invited to do a victory walk to the picnic area.
After a short ceremony, they will join the picnickers for a picnic under the stars. The Coffee Snobs will be performing and coffee and some eats will be on sale.
Picnic baskets are available from the organisers. A basket for two costs R250 and for four people, R350. They can be pre-ordered from the Innibos office on 013-741-5294.
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What to bring
Your picnic blanket, chairs and pillows. A picnic basket. Mosquito repellent. A positive mindset and a little bit of cash.
What to leave at home
Liquor and cigarettes, hubbly and vapes. Gazebos.
There are only 1 000 tickets available for the Hope Picnic. Tickets are R100 per person. Primary school children pay R50 and preschoolers enter free.
Tickets and Luminaria bags are available at Unigrad, Innibos’ offices, CANSA and J&M’s offices in White River. They will also be available at the gate on the evening.
Gates open at 17:00 and the celebration will start at 18:00.
Enquiries: Sandra Jacobs or Mariolise le Roux on 013-741-5294 and 082-853-7885, CANSA Lowveld on 013-741-5441 or email lana.nel@gmail.com.
