Tides
of Time
An annual music & arts festival held under the wide sky of the Pod Karoo, where the year turns and the desert keeps the time.
Tides of Time is a yearly gathering of music, art and people in the Pod Karoo — a quiet pocket of the Western Cape where the silence sits heavy and the stars come close. Each December, as the year tides toward its end, we mark the turn with a few days of sound, light and shared time under the open sky.
It is not a large festival. It does not try to be. The intention is small, considered, and built around the place — South African and international artists, visual installations woven into the landscape, communal meals, fires, and the slow rhythm of desert days.
Three days, three threads.
Music
An intentionally small line-up of South African and international artists across two stages. Live sets that begin in the late afternoon and run through the night, with the desert as the room.
Art
Site-responsive works and installations placed across the festival grounds. Sculpture, light, and performance — woven into the landscape rather than hung against it.
Gathering
Communal meals, slow mornings, fires after dark. The festival's quiet rhythm matters as much as the programme. People come for the desert and for each other.
In the Pod
Karoo.
"The Karoo is a country of vast, ancient stillness — a landscape that has kept its own time long before us, and will keep it long after."
Tickets & programme details to follow nearer the time.
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