Glory Days Storytelling Residency
A storytelling residency and immersive event series for Black women and femmes– rooted in the belief that personal narrative is a radical act of liberation.
Black women have always told stories.
In kitchens and church pews, in beauty shops and journals, on street corners and in long phone calls after midnight — our narratives have sustained entire communities. But care passed quietly between us is not the same as being witnessed. It is not the same as a room built for you, an audience gathered for you.
Glory Days exists because those stories deserve more. They deserve a stage. They deserve to be told with the full weight of their meaning, received by people who are ready to be changed by them. Rooted in Black feminist theory and cultural memory, Glory Days offers a sacred stage for Black women to tell their stories in their own voices, centered on themes of personal transformation, communal healing, and ancestral legacy.
The truth will set you free if you let it.
We believe that when Black women are given the conditions to tell the truth, something sacred happens. Not just for the teller. For everyone in the room.
2024 Recap | Adjourn Teahouse | Lanham MD
Won’t You Celebrate with Me?
Our first Glory Days took its name from Lucille Clifton’s luminous poem that asks, simply and defiantly: what did i see to be except myself? It was exactly the right question for the room.
Five storytellers took the stage at Adjourn Teahouse in Lanham, Maryland. They came with stories they had been carrying — some for years. Stories of surviving hysterectomies and the grief and reclamation that comes after. Of stepping past the small, certain shape that family had drawn around them. Of discovering, sometimes late, sometimes slowly, the radical pleasure of their own individuality and freedom.
2024 Glory Days
The 2024 edition was intimate by design — storytelling only. A beautiful culmination to the liberation work our storytellers had been doing all year. The audience leaned in. The women were held. We were all changed.
2026 Edition
Glory Days: Sacred Rage
This year’s theme invites us into the generative fire of Black women’s anger. Sacred Rage, explores rage not as something to be suppressed but as a powerful and sacred response to injustice and a catalyst for creative expression and collective action. The kind of rage that has always fueled healing, justice, and transformation.
Glory Days: Sacred Rage is also an expansion. For the first time, we are opening the stage to visual artists, choreographers and movement artists alongside our storytellers — because the fire we are exploring this year asks for every form it can take.
We are seeking:
Storytellers
Visual Artists
Choreographers & Movement Artists
All selected artists will be given an honorarium for their contributions.