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Photographer: Jan Greshoff
February 2018 Supper Club
The 2018 Supper Club programme had a wonderful start with the legendary Fatima Dike taking the microphone on the storyteller’s easy chair at the District Six Museum’s Homecoming Centre. Playwright, performer, poet, cultural activist, educator and...
‘A Walk in the Night’ to celebrate EMANCIPATION DAY
On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. To commemorate this day, the annual Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night” will once again take place on the eve of this jubilant day with celebrations and a public picnic...
‘The stories we tell’: a District Six Museum symposium
19 - 21 October 2017 ‘’It is the storyteller who makes us who we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.’’ (Chinua Achebe) Storytelling has always...
‘Awakenings: the art of Lionel Davis’
‘We’re in it together!’, Heritage Day Walk through District Six, 23 September 2017
Artwork: Lionel Davis “In 1969, my mother and neighbours were all removed from District Six. I only saw the end of forced removals after my house arrest ended in 1976. Only after that was I allowed to go back to District Six, because I was not...
Supper Club with ZELDA BENJAMIN @ District Six Museum Homecoming Centre
Zelda Benjamin is this month's Supper Club guest at the Museum's Supper Club on Thursday 31 August. In an oral history interview conducted by the Museum's sound archive several years ago, Ms Benjamin recalls how she first became aware of her love...
phefumla! (breathe!)
phefumla (breathe!) is a travelling exhibition of the artwork produced during the inaugural Open Forum residency at Stellenbosch University in October 2016. The artwork included in the exhibition is a combination of sculpture, photography, sound installation and...
District Six Museum is recruiting
DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM JOB ADVERTISEMENTS Do you want to be part of a cutting edge heritage institution? Would you like to join a dynamic and creative staff team who are committed to telling the story of forced removals in Cape Town and South Africa, and exploring...
Jazz Jams @ District Six Museum
District Six Museum in partnership with the Alvin Dyers trio, invites you to the inaugural Jazz Jams session for 2017, on Monday 3 April at 18h30. Alvin Dyers needs very little introduction. He is an acclaimed guitarist, a teacher of music and a...
Film Screening: Mr Table Tennis
Thursday, 23rd March 2017 6pm - 8pm (5pm for meet and greet over snacks) District Six Museum Homecoming Centre 15 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town https://goo.gl/maps/ZBW9aEx5DTL2 SYNOPSIS Mr Table Tennis is the inter-generational story of Pedro and...
REMEMBERING 11 FEBRUARY 1966
Fifty-one years since the declaration of District Six a White Group Area ‘DISTRICT SIX: BIG SHAKE-UP IN PLANS FOR CITY. Proclamation a shock’ read the headlines of The Cape Argus City Late edition on Friday, February 11 in 1966. The article,...
LOOKING BACK ON 2016
Heritage Day 2016 in District Six: Harrington Square As we prepare to face the highs and lows that 2017 is likely to present us with, I would like to use this opportunity to thank everyone who continues to support the Museum year...