Projects & Programmes
Donor: Anne Richards
Current Projects
Peninsula Maternity Hospital Memory Project
They created a series of artworks reflecting on the history of the hospital and its importance to the District Six community. It contributed towards building on the vision of the new community health centre. This has been an incredibly rewarding experience where participants have embraced the process and have become extremely confident in their ability to produce art as a form of storytelling.
The Peninsula Maternity Hospital (PMH) in District Six opened in 1921 and operated for 71 years before its closure. It provided a service to mothers all over the Cape Peninsula, and ‘survived’ forced removals until 1992, when it officially closed its doors. In 2015 the building was demolished to make way for a new District Six Community Day Centre and the Museum was approached to run a memorialisation project that spoke to the many layers of history associated with the site.
The project started in September 2016 with a facilitated memorialisation process involving a team of artists and a group of enthusiastic and dedicated District Sixers and former PMH staff. They created a series of artworks reflecting on the history of the hospital and its importance to the District Six community. It contributed towards building on the vision of the new community health centre. This has been an incredibly rewarding experience where participants have embraced the process and have become extremely confident in their ability to produce art as a form of storytelling.
Project facilitators: Ayesha Price, Donovan Ward, Gary Frier, Mo Hassan and Garth Warely, Terry-Jo Thorne, Paul Grendon, Quanita Adams
Participants: Lizel Abrahams, Harriet Arendse, Solly Ariefdien, Annie Bam, Georgina Blaauw, Amelia Brinkhuis, Marina Brinkhuis, Ravaughn Brinkhuis, Angeline Cloete, Joyce Cloete, Milly Davids, Riedewaan Eksteen, Farahnaaz Gilfelleon, Awatief Hassan-Parker, Walaa Hassan-Parker Belinda Jackson, Saadia Kamish, Jeffrey Keshwa, Mymoena Kreysler, Rachel Lakey, Susan Lewis, Nisa Mammon, Zaidah Mohamed, Karin Moore, Washiela Mosaval, Nadeema Oostendorp, Helene Sables, Jasmina Salie, Daphne Samba-Kabassidi, Ynes Samba-Kabassidi, Monica Sutherland, Sandra van der Merwe, Patience Watlington, Dr Mike Wright.
Partners/funders: Nisa Mammon and Associates, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, Lydia Williams Centre of Memory, Provincial Government of the Western Cape.
(All projects and programmes of the District Six Museum are structured inter-departmentally, with a lead department being assigned to each. The PMH Memory Project is a project of the Collections, Research and Documentation Department of the Museum and was co-ordinated by Chrischené Julius.)
