The Friends of Cuba Society (FOCUS) will be hosting this all-female choir on Sunday 15 July from 3 to 5pm at St George’s Cathedral. This little taste of Cuba is not to be missed! The choir is visiting South Africa to perform at the World Choir Games in Tshwane, for...
It was with great pride that we said farewell to curators Tina Smith and Ayesha Price as they made their way to the cold climes of Grahamstown to install Lionel Davis’ retrospective exhibition, ‘Gathering Strands’. It was a great honour for Lionel to have been...
The premiere screening of Anwar Omar’s ‘Salt River High: The Untold Story’ at the Homecoming Centre on 16 June – Youth Day – drew a full house! It was great to share in the viewing experience where the contribution of Cape Town schools in the 1976 uprisings, was...
On Saturday, 7 July participants and artists involved in the Peninsula Maternity Hospital Memory Project bade a final farewell to each other. At this last workshop we watched and provided feedback on the video artwork that is installed in the new District Six...
As part of our commitment to engaging with our own communities’ histories, District Six Museum staff and Seven Steps members visited Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum on Tuesday 26 June. For many people this was their visit to Lwandle, and for some it was their first...
In partnership with Joburg Theatre, the Museum was pleased to have hosted a public conversation with J Edward Chamberlin, a writer and land claims expert from the University of Toronto in Canada whose book, ‘If this is your land, where are your stories?’ has been much...
