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Honolulu Performance
RECLAIM, a performance art action led by Monica Jahan Bose as part of Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center‘s Ae Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence.  Performed on: July 8, 2017, 4:00 pm. Location: Ala Moana Center, former Foodland site, Honolulu, Hawaii, and then out to the Pacific...
Sierra Club Gender & Climate Workshop
Approximately 25 youth activists (age 16-26) from around the country gathered in Washington, DC for Sierra Club’s annual Youth Activist Weekend to discuss Gender and Climate Change. Â They were such a lively and inspiring group to work with for my Sari Pledge Workshop, which was...
VisionDC at the Arena Stage
As a socially-engaged DC artist, Monica Jahan Bose was asked to create an installation for the VisionDC Arts & Innovation Summit, a convergence of DC art makers to discuss the state of the arts in DC today. Installations are always a somewhat harrowing adventure, but...
Smithsonian’s Ae Kai
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presents “Ae Kai,” a culture lab on convergence Dates: July 7-9, 2017, 11 am to 9 pm Location: Site of former Foodland, Ala Moana Shopping Center, Honololu, Hawai’i I will be presenting RECLAIM, an installation and interactive language and climate...
Climate Empowerment in Anacostia
On March 1, we launched a new series of empowerment workshops for women in a shelter in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The workshop was led by Monica Jahan Bose with help from interns Juliet Hutchings and Jaclyn Merida. Approximately 10 residents of the...
Floating/Drowning at Superfine! Downtown Miami
Floating/Drowning Part 2 @ Superfine! The Fairest Fair, 56 NE 29th Street, Miami, FL, Saturday, December 3, 2016, 4 to 6 pm by Monica Jahan Bose with One Billion Rising Miami and others. The performance took place in the astroturf garden and then continued onto...
1.5 Degrees Installation
1.5 • C Site specific video installation with woodblock printed saris, used lightbulbs, snowglobes, coconuts, rice, turmeric, sea shells, and solar lights. Video made in collaboration with Leena Jayaswal. Edited by Shefali Akhter Shetu and Monica Jahan Bose. Location: Halcyon House, as part of Ward...
Floating/Drowning installation
FLOATING/DROWNING an installation by Monica Jahan Bose coconuts, banana and coconut fronds, handprinted cotton sari; dimensions variable Location: Satellite Art Show, outside front patio of Parisian Hotel, 1510 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida Dates: December 1-4, 2016 The coconuts symbolize climate resilience. More than 100...
Floating/Drowning
Floating/Drowning, a performance, installation, and art action by Monica Jahan Bose, is a a collective response to climate change. Bose collaborates with women from her ancestral village in Bangladesh as well as residents of Miami to create a transborder physical and emotional link between coastal...
Day of the Girl Celebration in DC!
Did you know that October 11 is International Day of the Girl? The day was announced by the United Nations a few years ago, around the same time that Malala Yusuf was shot by the Taliban for daring to go to school. I was lucky...
