The Shared Power of 50 Caribbean Foremothers

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• Location: Atrium Den Haag

From March 5th to 25th, the exhibition "The Shared Power of 50 Caribbean Foremothers" will be on display in the Atrium in The Hague.

Our HERitage: 50 Caribbean Foremothers is a two-year interdisciplinary heritage project that focuses on the lives and legacies of Caribbean foremothers. The exhibition removes women who lived within slavery, indentured labor, and colonial hierarchies from the footnotes and creates space for their voices.

The portraits are the result of archival research, oral history, and close collaboration with communities and descendants by an interdisciplinary team, many of whom also feature a foremother in the exhibition. By bringing together fragmented traces, powerful stories emerge that demonstrate the diversity of Caribbean history and how these women each shaped family, care, labor, and resistance in their own unique way.

"This is not a new story. This is HERstory, finally told." — Our HERitage

Our HERitage challenges stereotypical portrayals by presenting Caribbean women not as a single story, but as a multi-voiced collection of backgrounds, positions, and experiences. Simultaneously, the exhibition connects the past with the present by also revealing the strength, reflections, and impact on the lives of descendants today.

The exhibition will be further explored with a public program at The Hague Central Library on March 14th, featuring talks, workshops, and guided tours of the exhibition. Visitors are invited to reflect on shared heritage, listen to voices that have long been neglected, and consider how history resonates in the present.

Our HERitage invites us to look, listen, and reflect. It demonstrates that heritage is not only something to preserve, but also something to re-understand and develop together.

For more information, visit www.ourheritage.nl.

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