Seatavern

We’re reaching out with full hearts and heavy shoulders.

Our 12-year-old son, Julian, is on the autism spectrum and lives with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and temporal lobe epilepsy — a rare and complex combination that causes terrifying, hallucinatory, and sometimes psychotic seizures and episodes.

Lately, things have become especially tough. For the past two months, Julian’s episodes have intensified — often hitting hardest at night — and we’ve been caring for him around the clock. During these episodes, he can become physical, which has made it especially difficult to protect our two younger children while keeping Julian safe and supported.

Our family has had to put everything else on hold — including our work and income — to be fully present for him. It’s been emotionally and financially overwhelming.

That’s why our incredible friends and fellow musicians have come together to organize this special evening: Jam for Julian — a benefit concert to raise funds that will help us:

Pay for a professional care helper so we can rest, recover, and regroup.

Cover the specialist support and costs related to Julian’s ongoing care.

Support our family through this incredibly difficult chapter.

It’s not easy to ask for help, but we know the power of community and music. If you can support by attending, donating, or simply sharing this event, we’d be deeply grateful.

Thank you for standing with Julian, and with us.With heartfelt thanks,The Kielczynski Family

Musicians on the night are: Sons of trout (all except Mike Rennie-violin) now known as “some of trout’, Wren Hinds, Hyena (Mike & Nick’s new project), Jonno Sweetman, Richard Brokensha (from ISO), Rob Nel and James Kielczynski

BOOKING NOTES:

If you can’t get the table configuration you want and end up booking seats on different tables as a result, please do so under the same email address and we’ll automatically put you together on one table. In fact, any seats booked under the same email address we will assume are together and arrange seating at one table. If this is not the case, however, or if you are booking with friends under different email addresses, just let us know and we’ll make a plan to seat you together. If the event appears sold-out, or you want to add to an existing booking, the same applies - just drop us an email to events@caferoux.co.za and we’ll do our best to make a plan!

If you struggle with the booking or online payment process, or want to swap tables, we can’t help with that - so please contact Quicket on support@quicket.co.za. And, if you can’t make the show and want to try to resell your tickets, please make use of Quicket’s secondary ticket sale option online - or let us know and we’ll try to sell your tickets on the door.

DOORS OPEN AT 6PM, SHOW STARTS AT 7:30PM