Dans van de Vrijheid 2025 Nosagenda X Janilda Bartolomeu

Celebrate the 50th Independence Day of Cape Verde! Enjoy stories, music, workshops and a pop-up expo. Nosagenda, the platform for Cape Verdean culture, and researcher Janilda Bartolomeu will take you on a journey through 50 years of history and look ahead to the future. Come and celebrate with us!

The program includes a conversation with the versatile Pan-Africanist Jane Ortet, an exhibition by photographer João Paulo Tavares about centenarian Cape Verdeans, and a Batuku workshop by Sima NOS é só Nos where you will learn about the oldest music and dance style of Cape Verde.

There will also be a workshop led by researcher and filmmaker Janilda Bartolomeu. In her project Another Island: As We Surrender to the Tides, she investigates the undocumented history of Cape Verdean communities in Rotterdam and Dakar, Senegal. The project looks at the migration history of the diaspora and maps the global network of Cabo Verde. The research was made possible by RAW Material Company and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Dutch Embassy in Dakar.