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DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM Annual Report 2016/17 Table of Contents DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM Annual Report 2016/17 Table of Contents Content Pg 1. From the Chairperson 3 2. Director’s Overview 4 3. Education Department 8 4. Exhibitions Department 12 5. Collections, Research and Documentation Department 16 6. Seven Steps Membership Club 19 7. Friends of the Museum 20 8. Make a Donation 20 9. Auditors’ Report 21 10. Statement of Comprehensive Income 22 11. Statement of Financial Position 23 12. Funders, Staff, Board of Trustees, Honorary Members, 24 Patrons, Volunteers and Storytellers 13. Visitor numbers 24 District Six Museum District Six Museum Homecoming Centre To support the declaration of District 25A Buitenkant Street 15A Buitenkant Street Six as a National Heritage Site visit Cape Town, 8001 Cape Town, 8001 change.org and search for District Six Museum. P.O. Box 10178 [email protected] Caledon Square www.districtsix.co.za Cover photograph: Jac De Villiers 7905 Blog: https://d6whatson.wordpress.com Design and Layout: Graeme Arendse ([email protected] / 0825370827) Tel: 021 466 7200 District Six Museum Fax: 021 466 7210 @District6Museum ©District Six Museum 2013 DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2016/17 April May June 7th - Supper Club with Mervyn Africa 27th - Ibrahim Khalil Shuhaib 16th - Youth Day. ‘Tell Your Story 19th - Seven Steps drama Quartet to Born Free’ and IHOM ‘God has and storytelling workshops many names’ exhibition launch 28th - Workshop with Chapel Street area youth 30th - Huis Kombuis Koe’siester tea, 23rd - ‘Tell Your Story to Born Free’ Albert Suidoosterfees 30th - Supper Club with Lionel Davis 2016 Johanneson Comic Book education programme. Interview with Quinton Fortune’s Parents From the Chairperson Judge Siraj Desai IT IS A PRIVILEGE to SUCCEED CIRAJ RASSOOL and his many illustrious predecessors as chair of this board. It is a tribute to their leadership that the institution has acquired a significant place amongst museums in the city and internationally. The museum remains not only a physical record of the decimation of an entire community but also seeks, and successfully so, to keep alive the values and ethos of District Six which apartheid sought to obliterate. The continuing success of the museum is also due to the effective leadership provided by Ms B Bennet and the rest of our staff. Working with them is an exciting prospect and I look forward to doing so in the coming months. The restitution process in District Six has been tortuously slow and if not speeded up it will be discredited. What concerns me greatly are the private developments which encroach upon District Six land. In order to avoid this we must continue to lobby the relevant authorities for the land to be declared a heritage site. I thank the rest of the board for their unstinting support. Photographer: Paul Grendon Photographer: Zainab Williams, 11 February 1966 commemoration, 2017 2 3 DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2016/17 July July 26th - Difficult Dialogues with CPUT, Transformation and Memorialisation in District Six 11th - ‘Tell Your Story to a Born Free’ Winter School 2016 9th - A Night at the Museum, ‘From Apartheid to Democracy’ 20th - Holy Cross Catholic Church 100th anniversary celebration Director’s Overview Bonita Bennett 2016 MARKED 50 YEARS since style’ from the Museum rafters have come at a more opportune District Six was declared a ‘whites adding contemporary voices to the time (at the end of 2015). Without only’ area in 1966. To be exact, 11 exhibition. In addition, an online this funding the Museum would have February 2016 marked 50 years to petition calls on people from remote had a much reduced version of its the day when the proclamation was places to add their names to the call commemorative programme and issued, and the commemoration for the declaration. subsequent public activities. linked to the day set the tone for the Museum’s programmes in the Linked to the luggage motif, suitcases Particularly in the past five years or months that followed. with personal memorabilia from so, we have been acutely aware of former residents have been added keeping the main exhibition – Digging The National Heritage Site (NHS) into the Museum space, providing Deeper – fresh and refreshed. The campaign was and continues to visitors with a glimpse into some of exhibition itself has, understandably, be a major focus. Having been the bits and pieces that might have been showing signs of fatigue, and provisionally declared as a NHS as been packed into family suitcases the Museum has also struggled far back as 2006, this provisional had they had the opportunity to to find a dynamic mechanism in declaration lapsed two years later do so in a more considered way as the space to provide updates as and for a number of reasons it has they were being forcibly evicted. As to what developments are taking been difficult to get the authorities part of an ongoing process, these place particularly with regards to back on board to reinstate the suitcases are meant to find their restitution and redevelopment. This Paul Grendon Photographer: declaration. The past period has way into different public places such is still a major challenge, but we have been one of recommitment to this as libraries, and are also used as been able to address some of the which was very well-received and Ahmed Timol had committed suicide important process, and if anything, storytelling apparatus in education information gaps with the support provoked much discussion. while imprisoned under apartheid. the 50 year commemoration programmes. of the Ministry for Federal Affairs of presented itself as a reaffirmation by North-Rhine Westphalia, facilitated As part of our Human Rights month Ten years ago the Cape Cultural many, that this was indeed a cause The Ogilvy Cape Town team have by Dennis Goldberg. The revamped programme in 2017, we were Collective started off as a small worth campaigning for with as much been instrumental in conceptualising exterior of the Museum is one of the pleased to receive the exhibition group of committed and enthusiastic energy as we could collectively this campaign together with Museum results flowing from this support, being travelled by the Timol Family cultural activists and artists muster. staff. We have been extremely and interior texts and video updates Foundation and the Steve Biko performing in the Museum space. grateful for their support which has have also been possible because of Foundation, titled A Quest for Justice. Ten years later they have become an Personal pledge forms designed come to at no cost. their contribution. By acting as the Cape Town host of important cultural institution in the as luggage tags presented at the this exhibition, the Museum expressed city, and the Museum was pleased Museum’s front of house desk invite Funding from the Department The Museum was proud to host its support for the truth-seeking to host their ten-year celebration visitors to sign their support for the of Rural Development and Land acclaimed young filmmaker Nadine campaign embarked on by the family event at its premises. NHS campaign. Once documented, Reform, and from the National Cloete at a screening of her first who are calling for the reopening of these have been strung up ‘strikkie- Lotteries Commission, could not documentary filmAction Kommandant, the inquest which concluded that continued on pg 6 4 5 DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2016/17 August September September 9th - Women’s Day 6th - Seven Steps 13th - Art in Public meeting with CPUT Places workshop 17th - Elsies River Library Deputy Vice Chancellor presentation 25th - Supper Club with Nadine Cloete 24th - Heritage Day 27th - AGM with speaker Elise Fernandez, screening of Action 3rd - Peninsula Maternity Hospital Kommandant 14th - Hard Ground / Print Exchange Memory Project workshops 29th - Supper Club with Marlene le Roux 27th - Diep River Heritage workshops 2016 Committee anniversary meeting Director’s Overview continued from pg 5 During the past year we experimented museum’s policy on human with introducing a weekly jazz remains hosted by Iziko Museums; programme at the Museum’s • Participated in a discussion with Homecoming Centre. Known as Constantia claimants to discuss ‘Monday Jazz Jams’ and the brainchild ways in which support could be of musician and staffer Joe Schaffers, given to the memory aspect of it provided a wonderful platform their work; for young and older musicians to • Participated in a strategic jam together. However, we need to discussion session with CDRA apply our minds to develop a more (Community Development sustainable model if it is to continue Resources Agency); and we have called it to a halt for • Gave input on a panel at a now. While it lasted it was wonderful conference on ‘Creating an - thanks to Joe and the Alvin Dyers inclusive and outreaching Trio made up of Alvin, Roy Davids migration museum’ in Malmö, and Valentino Europa. Sweden. As will be evident from the reports of One of the personal highlights of my the departmental managers, we have year was being granted sabbatical collectively put our energies into leave to take up a semester various knowledge-making processes fellowship at Columbia University and platforms, and into strengthening in New York. I will be forever collaborations and partnerships. grateful to the board of trustees In addition to what is reflected in who supported my application, various parts of this annual report, and to my colleagues who held the these are some of the forums that I fort so stoically, to fill the gap that have participated in: I left for just under four months. I • Delivered a lecture at UCT also need to express my gratitude Masters class on Conservation of to my sponsors, the Robert Bosch the Built Environment; Foundation and the Institute for the • Gave a talk at UCT’s African Study of Human Rights at Columbia Centre for Cities, ‘Study Space’ University.
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