Seiler & Speer sell out Ernst Happel Stadium

South Africa’s September cultural calendar spotlights major arts events and screen-based storytelling, including FNB Art Joburg and Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, alongside the ongoing Cape Town Photography Festival, Jomba! contemporary dance programming, and a European Film Festival with multi-country coproductions shown across several cities. The film selections are framed as inherently transnational projects, with examples that mirror the continent-spanning nature of their production teams and settings, and with literary context drawn from South African and international authors. In Austria, the live music scene is also drawing large crowds, with Seiler & Speer becoming the first local act to sell out Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium, reflecting strong demand and stable industry conditions. Taken together, the coverage underscores how music and film continue to operate as global, cross-border cultural industries while still building local audiences.