The Michaelis School of Fine Art launched an exhibition this week that casts a light on the preservation of the historic events centred around Cape Towns gay and drag community.
Among featured works are the archived collections of Salon Kewpie, a collective whose work centres on the Kewpie Collection.
The collection is an important archival resource that documented life under apartheid for the gays and girls of District Six, held at the GALA Queer Archive, as reported by IOL .
In another section of the exhibition, the famous Miss Gay Cape Town, now known as Miss Sovereign Western Cape, showcases all the years of the pageantry, dating back to Enigma Von Hamburg being the first queen that was crowned in 2009.
The Sequins, Self, and Struggle archive, held at the University of Cape Towns (UCT) Centre for Curating the Archive, researches, documents, and disseminates archives of the Spring Queen and Miss Gay Western Cape pageants that are performed by coloured communities in Cape Town.
