Breathing Through Orature
w/ Glenpherd
Breathing Room
Join us for a Breathing Room, hosted by researcher and storyteller Glenpherd.
Glenpherd presents a living mosaic of intergenerational Afro-Caribbean (hi)stories, drawing from the spirit of oral tradition that sustains cultural transmission in the Caribbean, we invite you as witnesses and co-authors in a live performance of ‘tellings’ that blend poetics, archival speculation, and embodied memory. Inspired by Nanzi stories, Glenpherd unsettles colonial narratives that shape accepted ‘truths’ about the Caribbean.
🔥Date: Saturday 14th November
🔥Time: 15:00–17:00
🔥Location: Westerdoksdijk 597
🔥On Donation, Please RSVP here
Bio:
Glenpherd (Curaçao, 1997) is a researcher and maker working at the intersection of scientific inquiry, visual culture, and archival praxis. His work examines how histories are constructed and transmitted, particularly through the lens of Caribbean oral histories and Dutch colonial legacies. Through film and text, he animates underrepresented stories and builds a future-oriented archive—combining critical cultural analysis with reflexive knowledge production. Glenpherd counterposes the written colonial archive with new performances of orature as acts of repair.