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Windows Of Our Culture Wakkerstroom Classical Music Festival 2026 For the second consecutive year, local artists, as well as artists from the wider area, will exhibit at the annual Classical Music Festival. We act as curators and with the help of friends and family from Wakkerstroom, the restored old trading house, Brown's, will be transformed into a gallery and music space in less than a week. We are also very proud that Matilda's daughter, potter Eylene Clifford, is this year's festival artist. Tired after the hard work, we let music, shapes and color wash over us.   With much love. George & Matilda 

Wakkerstroom Classical Music Festival 2025 20 - 23 March 2025 “He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;  he suspends the earth over nothing.  He wraps up the waters in his clouds,  yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.  He covers the face of the full moon,  spreading his clouds over it.  He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters  for a boundary between light and darkness.  The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.  By his power he churned up the sea;  by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.  By his breath the skies became fair;  his hand pierced the gliding serpent.  And these are but the outer fringe of his works;  how faint the whisper we hear of him!  Who then can understand the thunder of his power?” ‭‭Job ‭26‬:‭7‬-‭‭14‬ ‭NIV                              It is that time of year again! Autumn is...

  Art In Times Like These The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation Music  “I . . . ask the Lord  to give you every blessing and joy  and to keep ever fresh and young your ‘child’s mind’  which is the only one worth having.”                                                                                                                                 Thomas Merton George & Matilda

  Wakkerstroom Music Festival Preparations The Conversation Music  With our love and the desire that you may experience much beauty.  George & Matilda

Wakkerstroom Old Bioscope: Photograph by Owen Castleman Cet animal est tres mechant; Quand on l'attaque il se defend. (This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.)                                                 - La Menagerie (Traditional French song) ~ o  ~ Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.                                              - Rainer Maria Rilke ~ o  ~ When we can see the image o...