Events & Programs
Workshops and lectures are open to all. Members’ viewings are limited in number and booked through My Si Hene.
Foundational training in ethical preservation for five fellows: documenting, digitising and caring for at-risk cultural materials, with community consent placed before access. Includes field visits to the J.H. Nketia Archives, the George Padmore Research Library, PRAAD and Nkyinkyim Museum.
Four days with works by Paul Strand, James Barnor, Willis Bell, and Basil Davidson. A guided conversation — led by Rita Mawuena Benissan, curator Damarice Amao, and Cécile Nedelec from Les Rencontres d'Arles — where participants brought their own eye and memory to images made, for a long time, without us in the room.
A three-day community archiving programme at Jamestown Café, High Street, Accra, bringing together participants from across the city to document at-risk cultural materials, oral histories, and neighbourhood memory. The Vanishing Past was Si Hene's first large-scale public archiving workshop and laid the groundwork for the Custodians of Culture Fellowship.
Rita Mawuena Benissan directed the Open Society Foundations' Global Convening for the Restitution of African Heritage — a landmark gathering bringing together institutions, governments, and cultural practitioners from across Africa and the diaspora to address the return of African cultural objects held in Western collections.
Si Hene contributed to the reopening of the National Museum of Ghana — a landmark moment in the country's cultural infrastructure. After years of closure due to underfunding, the museum's return marked a significant recognition of the role cultural institutions play in Ghana's national identity.
