The East Coast Radio House + Garden Show is KZN’s largest, most diverse home, garden and lifestyle expo. It’s an annual mid-year event which takes place at the Durban Exhibition Centre. Keenly anticipated by homeowners, the show is a lively, interactive family-friendly experience featuring over 350 exhibitors and a host of well-known personalities and professionals who showcase and demonstrate the latest products, skills and trends.
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Taking place from 29 June to 7 July, 2024, punters can enjoy nine full days perusing everything you need to create a happy home. The organisers hope that you’ll leave with “a headful of different ideas, hands full of goodies and gadgets, and a heart full of joyful spoils and inspiration.”
It’s a win-win!
There’ll be plenty of spoils this year, with over R300 000 worth of competition prizes in cash, product and experiences; plus, show discounts and specials. Join Plascon as they take you on a fun digital Treasure Hunt, and there’s a chance to step out with R10 000 cash in your pocket. Eye and try your luck at Hirsch’s Mysterious Big Blue Box, packed with appliances, little and large. Peer into the box’s peep holes, check out the contents, estimate the total value, and pop your golden guess into the Entry Box. Best Clue Ever … snoop around the Hirsch’s stand to discover the goods and their prices! Then, for all our budding creatives, Cricut are giving away a whopping R100 000 worth of awesome products when you design a custom shopping bag that everybody loves best. The Cricut experts will assist the making of your actual bag right then and there.
The East Coast Radio House + Garden Show caters for dreams too. One Stop Travel has five competition prizes to transport you to other worlds… from local to global, from land to sea, to three hot pairs of rugby tickets for the Castle Lager Rugby Match where SA take on Ireland in Durban on the 13 July, 2024. Sail away, travel north, south, east or west, or snap up two air tickets on Qatar Airways to Doha for four nights! R100 000 worth of dreams, and all prize winners will be announced at the show.
It’s a family and foodie fair
It will be the holidays, so bring the children along for the fun and games. There’ll be everything from an outdoor Jungle Gym, Bubble House and Sand Art to the magical indoor Play Space by Melissa and Doug.
Your kids can meet their favourite fairytale characters, play dress-up and make-believe and join other friends in a dozen different kids-only workshops – painting with Rapunzel, decorating take-home toadstools, or creating super cool snow globes. Let them listen in to story time, and escape to a fantasy storybook world where they can be whoever they’ve dreamt of being.
This year’s Foodie Fair will be a playground of flavours and fresh faces, from tasty newcomers to equally tasty old favourites – they’re pulling out the stops to ensure everybody’s tastebuds are catered for. With around 40 fabulous, hand-picked food stalls, you can enjoy grand gourmet burgers or delectable eisbein, go Mexican or Korean, choose sweet and sticky or something artisanal and curated.
And at the heart of it all will be the coolest Gin Garden , so bag your barstool for insane cocktails, craft beers, and mellow tunes. Think bright gin cocktails and beer on tap, all washed down with a line-up of musicians ready to entertain at scheduled times. Meet up with mates at the Gin Garden stage to listen to the cool sounds of Matt Gardiner, Freddy L and Tatum Holder.
Outdoor playground, décor delight
Stroll through outdoor lanes and plot, plan and shop for your next wild getaway. From rugged little off-roaders to adventure accessories, garden gadgets and 4×4 vehicles, this is where nature waves her wand.
What’s in, what’s out, what’s hot, what’s not – decor and design, quick fixes and slow burns, colours you can taste, they’ll all be at the 2024 East Coast Radio House + Garden Show. This year’s powerhouse of local and global design concepts will all be collated for you. Go and discover KZN design, where local is king with a hand-picked collective of artists, crafters and entrepreneurs, producing dynamic, world-class work right on our doorstep. Expect unique ceramic pieces and iconic artwork.
The show loves to showcase local, but global always gets a big look-in – whether it’s favourite demonstrators conjuring up international aromas, flavours and recipes in the madly popular Hirsch Test Kitchen, or the thrill of mind-blowing technology advances as Hirsch’s parades good-looking appliances and very cool gadgets.
Also look out for glorious colour and decor trends in Plascon’s Showrooms, where an up-and-coming interior design agency will be in the spotlight using two of the latest colour palettes; plus custom-made Barbet Interiors’ furniture.
The East Coast Radio House + Garden Show is sponsored by Plascon with Durban Tourism as destination partners.
