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Photographer: Jan Greshoff
Freedom Day 2018 Update
The District Six Museum will be open from 09h00 to 16h00 on Freedom Day – Friday 27 April – and it will be free of charge to all South African visitors. It is a good opportunity to bring your family to visit, to gain some understanding of the...
May Supper Club with Ilze Wolff
May 2018: Ilze Wolff ‘Conversations in and about our city’ This month’s Supper Club guest who will reflect on the 2018 theme, is Cape Town architect, Ilze Wolff. Ilze is currently an architecture fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC...
Human Rights Day 2018
In the leaflet prepared for the opening they describe their choice in this way: ‘The Giemba Collective is the name which was spontaneously chosen by the workshop participants after one lunch time. Over the course of the workshop, Gatsby’s were a...
Suitcase Project – Telling your story to a born free
Freedom Day at District Six Museum
27 April 2018 Join us as we mark this important milestone date in our country’s history. On this day a number of questions come to mind: What is the state of freedom in our country? To what extent do YOU feel free? What has helped YOU to express...
Good wishes to Museum staff member, Chrischené Julius!
Chris has been afforded a wonderful opportunity, having been invited by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel in Switzerland, to participate in a month-long fellowship programme. The fellowship extends from 3 April to 6...
Conversation with Blanche La Guma in partnership with FOCUS
It was wonderful to receive Blanche La Guma at the District Six Museum Homecoming Centre on Saturday 7 April. The Museum partnered with Friends of Cuba (FOCUS) to host this conversation. Blanche had been the deputy to the ANC Special Representative...
April Supper Club with Koketso Sachane
“Conversations in and about our City” with broadcaster, moderator and communicator, Koketso Sachane With the topic of land restitution and land expropriation without compensation once again brought to the fore, it is fitting that the District Six...
Human Rights Day 2018
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES #3 Images of Displacement Human Rights Day programme: EXHIBITION OPENING Exhibition opening includes: 10.30 - 12.30 Co-curators Artist, Scott E Williams and the Giemba Collective Meet the artists walk-about Music provided by...
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES #3 Images of Displacement
Human Rights Day programme: EXHIBITION OPENING Curated by D6M Young Curators 2018 – the Giemba Collective with Scott E Williams Wednesday, 21st March 2018 10.30am – 2.30pm District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, Gallery 15 Buitenkant Street, Cape...
Restitution Bioscope
17 February – 17 March 2018 The Collections, Research and Documentation Department hosted a Restitution Bioscope series in February and March. The movies chosen were themed around restitution / return and the loss of leaving District Six, as well...
February 2018 Seven Steps Members’ Club
February was a particularly busy time for members of the Seven Steps Club, which is an honorary membership club for former residents of District Six and friends of District Six. Most of the members are elderly. Sadly some are confined to their beds...