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District Six Museum Annual Report 20 1 &1 8 91 DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 20 1 &1 8 91 ONTENTS C PG 1. DIRECTOR'S OVERVIEW 4 2. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 14 3. EXHIBITIONS DEPARTMENT 22 4. COLLECTIONS, RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION DEPARTMENT 36 5. AUDITORS' REPORT 40 6. STAFF, STORYTELLERS, VOLUNTEERS, BOARD, PATRONS 43 7. VISITOR NUMBERS 44 Front cover: Kewpie at the Marie Antoinette Ball at the Ambassador Club, 1967 (Kewpie Collection, GALA). IRECTOR’S disciplinary and multi-modal, many of which D continued to push the boundaries of what museum programmes should look like. They have VERVIEW included partnership dialogues with Cornerstone Institute, One City Many Cultures, Community BONITA BENNETT Chest, the Prestwich Place Project Committee, O the Institute for the Healing of Memories, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Friends As we approach our 25th year, can we claim of Cuba (FOCUS) and various other entities in to be at an age-appropriate place, based and around the city. It has included the monthly on 25 years of organisational life? How has Seven Steps club meetings, weekly Huiskombuis the Museum changed over the course of its sessions, the monthly Supper Clubs which have existence, and does it display the necessary become an entrenched part of the Museum level of maturity based on a life spanning a routine, and various youth engagements. The period starting in 1994 - the same year from range of educational encounters has expanded which we date the birth of our democracy? to include highly-customised programmes, the demand for which has increased substantially The past year has been a busy, action-packed during the year. one. We have felt variously energised, exhausted, exhilarated, inspired, overwhelmed, SOME MOMENTS OF FRUSTRATION together with a whole range of other emotions Restitution that could be expected from an organisation of In the midst of all the many positive outputs, our size and stature. We have also realised that we should not be blind to the ongoing troubles it is time for a deeper impact study to get a better which continue to beset a potentially restorative sense of where we are and how our presence and wonderful restitution process. Hundreds in the city is perceived and experienced on a of people cannot all be wrong in expressing larger scale. We will be looking towards finding their disappointment and even despair at the the resources to do that in the coming year. bad experiences that they have encountered on a number of levels. The Museum’s role over We have had a healthy mix of programmes time has changed in relation to ensuring that and activities that were intergenerational, inter- restitution is effected, but we need to reflect 4 11 February 1966 commemoration, lighting of candle of remembrance. Photographer: Paul Grendon 5 seriously on how we can support people more unclear. Despite that, we have continued to Robertson Trust and the Soudien-Hanmer family strongly in the process of rebuilding community, keep the community focus on the significance for their contributions. Marcel Golding has also winning back dignity as well as the declaration of the declaration, often having to quell the made an opportunity available to the Museum of District Six as a National Heritage Site dissatisfaction expressed about South African to be a beneficiary of a business opportunity (NHS) which is closely tied up in this. Claimants Heritage Resource Agency’s unresponsiveness through Geomer Investments, and we look continue to be frustrated at the lack of progress to this urgency. Newspaper articles, workshops forward to future income from this source and on their land claims. Several stakeholder groups and discussions particularly with Seven Steps we thank him for making this possible. have emerged in the community, with the aim members have been some of the ways in which of fast-tracking the process. In the midst of we have kept this alive. From time to time the challenges inherent in an different approaches, much confusion has been independent museum operating outside of the created amongst claimants, and the Museum SOME CONCERNS government heritage structures rears its head very has continued to be that contact point between Funding and long-term sustainability remain as strongly, and this challenge will be with us for a frustrated claimants and restitution processes. ongoing concerns. In addition to smaller project- long while, at least in the short- to medium-term. specific grants, our main funders for the past Several elderly claimants have died during the three years have been the Department of Rural The range of outputs that a small staff complement course of this year, making us even more aware Development and Land Reform and the National is called upon to perform, demands time and of the fragility of the returning community, and Lotteries Commission. As this comes to an end skills beyond the formal job descriptions which the possibility of embedding their memories of and with other funding proposals in the process were designed to promote core work. While the past becomes more and more distant. of being submitted, we find ourselves in a this can be enriching, and while it contributes similar position as many other non-governmental towards the day-to-day sustainability of the District Six as a National Heritage Site organisations in trying to navigate the timing gap Museum, its impact can be fatiguing in the For several years I have reported on the between grants. Fortunately the Museum has its long-term. A future version of the Museum delayed declaration of District Six as a National own income streams derived from rental income, should take into account the need to increase Heritage Site which continues to be high on entrance fees, venue hire as well as book and the human resource capacity which allows for our list of frustrations. This has been ongoing product sales. In addition, the Museum receives a clearer segregation of duties while still being for a number of years, and the way forward in small but regular donations from individuals. At permeable enough to foster inter-departmental terms of the required regulatory process remains this time we particularly acknowledge the Fred collaborations. April 2018 19.04.18 20.04.18 26.04.18 27.04.18 FOCUS meeting with Supper Club: Koketso Sachane Blanche la Guma Freedom Day (City of Cape Town Workshop) 6 Opening: One Week of Womxn Alex la Guma commemorative discussion. Clockwise l-r: Andile Moferefere, Bonita Bennett, Albie Sachs, Fatima Swartz, Blanche la Guma, Deirdré Jantjies, Fr. Michael Weeder; Albie Sachs; Marcus Solomons. Photographer: Paul Grendon May 2018 10.05.18 03.05.18 09.05.18 STIAS- Wall Colloquium, Stellenbosch Gatesville Seniors Club, Suitcase Stories 10.05.18 Seven Steps Focus Group Meeting Post-symposium writing sessions 05.05.18 with Anton Fisher Workshop with D6 Reunion of Hearts organisation 7 MOMENTS TO CELEBRATE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES Following on months of community conversations These include: 1. I was invited to facilitate one session at a five-day about the need to correct the official maps of the • The collaboration with FOCUS in workshop in Berlin in October 2018, organised city which indicate District Six as “Zonnebloem”, celebrating the life and contribution of Alex by CARMAH (Centre for the Anthropological the Museum submitted the formal application to La Guma, on what would have been his Study of Museums and Heritage) based the Committee on Geographical Place Names 94th birthday on 20 February 2019; at the University of Humboldt in Berlin and of the Provincial government, with overwhelming • Supporting the District Six Knitting Group TOPOI (a large research cluster on antiquity public responses in support of the campaign. An with their fundraising karaoke, hosted at and archaeology). The workshop was titled outcome is pending but it is highly unlikely that the the Homecoming Centre in July; On Common Grounds? Researching Public decision of the committee will not be a positive • Providing a supportive backdrop to the Engagements of Museums and Heritage Sites. one, given their understanding of the tangible as launch of a book produced by the writing 2. I presented a workshop provocation on the well as symbolic value of this move in the context collective, Disrupting Denial, at the issue of research and knowledge production of holistic restitution. The public support unlocked Homecoming Centre; for the “public good” at a Global Summit of during this time beyond that of District Sixers, was • Hosting focus group sessions with filmmaker Research Museums that took place in Berlin noteworthy. Anton Fisher, as he works towards in November 2018. It was jointly organised producing a short fiction film based on life by the Natural History Museum in Berlin, the Many of the positive project outcomes will be in District Six, as well as a full-length film at Leibniz Association, the Smithsonian Institute in detailed in the departmental reports. These a later stage; Washington, the Natural History Museum in include the conclusion of the Peninsula Maternity • Seven Steps members were hosted by London and the British Museum. Hospital Project, completion of the Kewpie Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum on a 3. I participated in an information tour to Berlin and exhibition, a newly designed website, Seven visit to the area which included a guided Hamburg, organised by the Goethe Institute, Steps writing and poetry workshops, and a walking tour of Lwandle as well as of the aimed at strengthening the connections between number of dialogues on contemporary issues. Museum; German museums and museums in Sub-Saharan • The annual Emancipation Day Africa. This took place in November 2018. A number of collaborative events took place commemoration in partnership with 4. I made a presentation on Museums as during the course of the year and these will be Prestwich Place Project Committee, which places for social transformation at the Jewish reflected on the timeline.
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