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Finissage of the exhibition Not My Knowledge

With food, drinks and lots of food for thought

During the finissage of Not My Knowledge you are invited to experience the exhibition one last time and to engage with different forms of embodied knowledge: spiritual, ritual, physical and collective. Alongside revisiting the works in the exhibition, you can take part in a Winti ritual with the Kabra mask, a live dance performance, and we close the evening with music, food and dancing.
Date
2 July 2026
Time
17:00 -20:00
Location
BG 3
Room
VOX-POP
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The evening starts at 17:00. At 17:15, Winti priestess Marian Markelo (Okomfo Nana Efua) opens the closing of the exhibition with a Winti ritual and the Kabra mask. This moment invites reflection on spirituality as a form of knowledge and meaning.

At 18:00, artists and dancers Lana Renfrum and Yanira Gefferie bring their video work Kibri Memre to life in a live choreography. Through movement, they explore the relationship between body, memory and heritage.

From 18:15 onwards, there is space for an informal closing with a DJ set (to be announced), food, and the opportunity to move through the exhibition once more, meet others and come together.

Practical information

The event will be from 17.00 until 20.00. There will be (vegetarian) food and drinks. Entrance to the event is free, but because food will be served, we kindly ask you to sign up through the registration link.  
Location: VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9 (BG3 - ground floor).   

Marian Markelo

Marian Markelo was born in Moengo, Suriname, and is a mother, teacher and Winti priestess. She is a board member of several Afro-Surinamese organisations and founder of NIRASE, the Dutch Winti Institute for the rehabilitation and profiling of Winti. As a board member of NiNsee, she performs the libation ritual during the annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Suriname and the Caribbean Netherlands on 1 July in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam. As an expert on Afro-Surinamese historical, spiritual and social heritage, she is active in cities across the Netherlands, gives monthly educational sessions in Amsterdam, collaborates with various museums, and organises heritage journeys to West Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Since 2021 she has been retired from her work as a nursing teacher and continues her practice as Okomfo, Winti priestess Nana Efua.

Lana Renfrum & Yanira Gefferie

Lana Renfrum started training in ballet at the age of four and later studied at ArtEZ Dance Academy and École Atelier Rudra Béjart, where she focused on classical ballet and the Graham technique. She danced with Ballet Preljocaj Junior in Aix-en-Provence and now works as a freelance dancer, including with Reframing HERstory Art Foundation, and as a curator at the National Slavery Museum (in development). In her practice she explores how body, history and representation intersect, and how performance can help to recentre marginalised stories and experiences.

Yanira Gefferie graduated from the Dance Teacher programme at the Academy of Theatre and Dance (Amsterdam University of the Arts) in 2019 and works as a dancer, theatre maker and choreographer. She creates work with and for young people around social issues such as peer pressure, domestic violence and hierarchy. Her cultural background, and especially Winti traditions within Surinamese culture, plays a central role in her artistic practice. Through dance and performance, Yanira investigates how personal and collective histories are held in the body and passed on, and how art can open space for healing, reflection and encounter.