Geeks of Cape Town unite! Today is Geek Pride Day and deserves a celebration. Cape Town offers a variety of ways you can celebrate this unique and wonderful day and let your geek run free!
Geek Pride Day is celebrated annually on 25 May since its origin in 2006 in Spain, and Cape Town offers numerous ways for Capetonians to join in on the celebration. It is believed Geek Pride Festival, organized by Tim McEachern from 1998 to 2000, lead to today’s Geek Pride Day. Spanish blogger Germán Martínez organized the first celebration in 2006, and it soon spread around the world.
‘Geek’ is a slang term, typically describing an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. The people who are called geeks are often kind of peculiar, and can be overly intellectual, unfashionable or socially awkward.
But why 25 May? This day was chosen as the date for Geek Pride Day to celebrate the 1977 release of one major pride and joy of geek culture, the first Star Wars film. But fans ofalso have their own way to celebrate Geek Pride Day with their own unique celebration on 25 May: Towel Day. Countries that have celebrated or observed Geek Pride Day are Spain, USA, Canada, Hungary, Israel, Romania and Sweden. Unfortunately, South Africa is not on that list, but Mzansi geeks can still celebrate amongst themselves. In honour of Geek Pride Day, we’ve compiled a shortlist of activities Capetonian geeks can do to let their geek run wild.First on our list is the widely-popular escape room.
And if the idea of being locked in a room puts you off, HintHunt now also offers online and mobile games that you can either enjoy at home or in an outdoor or indoor location of your choice.
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