Events
My artwork will be featured at this Sierra Club event, which is affiliated with the Global Climate Action Summit.
Please Join Sierra Club’s Gender Program & WEDO
Women Leaders in Global Climate Action
A reception, panel, and art showcase
September 13, 2018
5:00pm-9:00pm
111Minna Gallery
San Francisco, CA
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Please join the Sierra Club and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) for an evening celebrating the climate action of women leaders at the local, national, and international level. As an affiliate event with the Global Climate Action Summit, hosted by California Governor Jerry Brown, Women Leaders in Global Climate Action will mainstream the stories and words of those at the forefront and at the front-lines of both climate impacts and climate solutions. With an emphasis on women leaders, both at the local level and in international policy spaces such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), real, lasting, and community-oriented solutions can be implemented with an eye to collaboration. With women and femmes at the center of climate action, Sierra Club and WEDO know that climate solutions will be just and lead to a safe and healthy environment for all. The Women Leaders in Global Climate Action reception is centered around a panel of climate leaders. Attendees will be treated to inspiring feminist climate action art displayed throughout the venue. The Reception will be a dynamic space for feminists to gather, mingle, and explore the leadership of women through policy, art, direct activism and more. |
Event information
This event is free and open to the public at 111Minna Gallery, just a short 5 minute walk from the GCAS venue. Doors open at 5:00pm; the hour-long panel will commence at 6:00pm; and the reception will run until 9:00pm.
Our 6pm panel of local and international climate leaders moderated by Leila Salazar Lopez, (Executive Director of Amazon Watch) including Majandra Rodriguez-Acha, (founder of TierrActiva Peru), Bridget Burns (Co-Director of WEDO), and more.
Art will be on display from artists Monica Jahan Bose and the Young Feminist Fund(FRIDA), global storytelling project.
Light refreshments and drinks will be provided. The 111Minna Gallery is a 21+ venue. Please ensure that you have your identification handy.
Please join Napa Bookmine for a special book discussion, film screening, and sari art with artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose, author of Rising Up to Climate Change: Storytelling with Saris. In celebration of Latino Heritage Month, the event will be bilingual with Spanish/English Translation and Monica will be in conversation with Napa Valley artivist Xulio Soriano, who will share climate stories from Mexico and California. Napa Sierra Club, Healing Walk Napa Valley, and Napa Climate NOW also endorse and are c0-sponsoring this event.
Napa Bookmine
964 Pearl St.
Napa, CA 94559
Saturday, September 15, 2018, 5 – 7 pm
Refreshments served. All ages welcome.
Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist, lawyer, and activist whose practice includes painting, performance, photography, film, and writing. She works in collaboration with rural and urban communities to address issues around gender and climate change. Monica is presenting her work for the first time in the Bay Area, as part of the Sierra Club’s Women Leaders in Global Climate Action, an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit hosted by Governor Jerry Brown.
Monica’s ongoing feminist collaborative project Storytelling with Saris has traveled to nine states and several countries and been featured in numerous publications and TV and radio programs. She has collaborated with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development and the Sierra Club on empowerment workshops that highlight the disparate gender impacts of climate change and encourage people to make promises to reduce their individual carbon footprint. She recently returned from a large-scale public art project in Athens, Greece, supported by the City of Athens and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (through the NEA). Her first art book Her Words: Storytelling with Saris was featured in book events in Bangladesh, the US, and France.
Her new art book Rising Up to Climate Change: Storytelling with Saris features 95 stunning images from her climate art actions along with writings and Bengali songs (with Bose’s own translations). She has a BA in the practice of art (painting) and mathematics from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law. She lives in Washington, DC.
Xulio Soriano:
Xulio Soriano is a grassroots community organizer and poet from Napa, California born and raised in Oaxaca, Mexico. A descendant of the Mixteca Indigenous people, he has focused on assisting marginalized groups within the Indigenous and Latino communities. His work is centered around the intersection of education, art, and socio-ecological impact. He is currently Executive Director 2 of the Movimiento Cultural de la Unión Indígena – MCUI, a non-profit that advocates for and serves indigenous farm workers in the North Bay Area. Soriano is a co-founder of multiple grassroots organizations, including Napa Valley Dream Team, Napa Valley Rapid Response, and Healing Walk Napa Valley. In early 2018 he co-presented at a panel at the United Nations in New York City with the Women’s Intercultural Network on the topic of Indigenous farm worker women in rural agricultural areas of California and the effects that climate change has had on them.
TRADUCCIÓN EN ESPAÑOL:
La librería Napa Bookmine les invita a una plática literaria y una presentación de una película. También se presentará el arte interactivo sari de la artista y activista climática Monica Jahan Bose, autora del libro “Levantándose por el cambio climático: historias por medio de saris.” En celebración de El Mes de Herencia Latina, el evento será bilingüe con traducción en español-inglés. Monica estará en conversación con Xulio Soriano, un poeta y activista socio-ecológico con raíces indígenas mixtecas. Soriano compartirá historias de cambio climático en México y California. Monica compartirá una parte de su película y dará autógrafos para su nuevo libro. Dibujaremos y escribiremos compromisos por el clima en sari de Bangladesh.
Se servirán bebidas. Todas edades bienvenidas.
Biografías:
Monica Jahan Bose es una artista, licenciada en derecho, y activista cuya práctica incluye pintura, obras, cine, y escritura. Trabaja en colaboración con comunidades rurales y urbanas en su pueblo natal de Bangladesh en India para concientizar y encontrar soluciones entre el género y el cambio climático. Monica radica en Washington, DC y por primera vez presenta sus obras y trabajo en el Área de la Bahía como parte de Mujeres Líderes en Cambio Climático por parte de la organización Sierra Club. Mónica estudió en la Universidad Wesleyan y la Universidad Berkeley. Estudió leyes en la Universidad Columbia donde recibió su título en leyes.
Xulio es un poeta y organizador de movimientos de base radicado en el Valle de Napa. Nació en Oaxaca, México y es de la comunidad indígena Mixteca. Su trabajo se enfoca en impacto socio-ecológico y en comunidades indígenas e hispanohablantes marginadas. Es un director ejecutivo de la asociación civil Movimiento Cultural De la Unión Indígena. Es cofundador de Napa Valley Dream Team, Red de Respuesta Rápida del Valle de Napa, y la Caminata de Sanación del Valle de Napa. A principios del 2018 co-presentó en un panel en Las Naciones Unidas en la ciudad de Nueva York con la asociación civil Women’s Intercultural Network ( Red Intercultural de Mujeres) sobre el tema de cómo el cambio climática afecta a mujeres campesinas e las áreas rurales y agrícolas de California.
Storytelling with Saris collaborates with the women of Samhati in Katakhali Village, Barobaishdia Island. Please support the important work of Samhati by attending the 2018 Benefit Dinner.
September 1, 2018
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to invite you to Samhati’s Annual Dinner and Auction, which will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018, 6:00 to 9:00 pm, at the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20817. Dinner will be served at approximately 6:30 pm.
Founded in 1984, Samhati is the longest-running organization of Bangladeshi women in the United States. We design and support small projects – focused on education, health, and environmental sustainability – to improve the lives of impoverished women and families in Bangladesh. Samhati is tax exempt (IRS ID Number 52-1390261). As an all-volunteer organization with negligible overhead, Samhati can direct approximately 90% of your contributions to needy families.
- If you donate $75, it will provide a one-year scholarship to ensure that a middle or high school child stays in school and does not have to work.
- A donation of $100 will provide adult literacy or vocational classes for a village woman, who in turn will be able to better care for her family.
- A donation of $500 will fund our health clinic in Katakhali village for one month, providing care for the entire Barobaishdia Island of 27,000 people.
- Your gift of $1000 will fund climate adaptation training for 10 villagers in Katakhali.
Hundreds of women, children, and families – and entire communities- have been transformed by Samhati’s work. Our focus on literacy has created leadership from within to maintain and grow our projects. Samhati has provided cyclone relief and climate adaptation training, established the first women’s shelter in Bangladesh, and developed eco-empowerment projects in villages. We are providing educational scholarships to discourage child marriage. Your support makes a huge difference. Please send in your donations and join us on October 6. Feel free to contact us: 703-618-4618 (Jhinuk Hasan-Fulton) or info@samhati.org.
With gratitude,
The Samhati Board
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference, Washington DC @ Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
October 9 panel Powerful Public Engagement through Art
Moderator: Kirsi Jansa, documentary filmmaker of Sustainability Pioneers, lead organizer of the Creatives for Climate collaborative, affiliated with CMU The Institute for Green Sciences
Panelists: • Arlene Birt, visual and public artist at Background Stories, associate professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• Monica Jahan Bose – artist and environmental activist, Storytelling with Saris
• Rachel Guardiola, Hamiltonian Fellow at the Hamiltonian Gallery in DC – interdisciplinary artist and naturalist
• Aaluk Edwardson – Iñupiaq writer, performing artist and teacher, affiliated with Iḷisaġvik College and the University of Alaska Fairbanks
We are so excited to launch WRAPTURE, a public art project supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which is supported by the NEA. The public launch event is on November 13 @ 6 pm at the Anacostia Arts Center. We will be making saris with the community for several months and then sari-wrapping five Anacostia buildings in the spring. Stay tuned and join us on November 13! The project team includes Monica Jahan Bose, Amy Lokoff, Karen Baker, Camille Kashaka, Kymone Tecumseh Freeman and our partners include Anacostia Arts Center, We Act Radio, and Calvary Women’s Services. We are grateful to have this opportunity from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities to create a temporary public art installation with DC residents.
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art project and needs your help to create it! This November, Monica and her team are starting work on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Over the next 6 months Monica will be collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* to sign up for the workshops as well as student interns who will receive community service credit. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12 people each time. RSVP to confirm your participation. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. THIS IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT.
This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker, 7Concepts
RISING UP is a collective response to climate change, using saris from Bangladesh, wind, sand, water, and materials found in Miami Beach. Bose collaborates with women from Miami and her ancestral island village in Bangladesh to create a transborder link between coastal peoples. Women’s leadership is key to addressing climate change and reducing our use of fossil fuels. A massive sea colored sari with handwritten climate pledges will move from the fair to the rising sea. RISING UP will include singing, writing, movement, and references to women’s leadership in art and governance.
The performance is part of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a collaborative art and advocacy project highlighting gender and climate change. People of all ages and genders and invited to join, but the art action will be lead by women.
One Billion Rising – Miami will be joining and co-sponsoring the performance.
Lead artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Participants: Marya Meyer, Kathryn Villano, Diane Adkins, Leah Stoddard, Meredith Mia, Juanita-Marie Franklin, Farhana Akhter, and more.
After the performance, join us at Superfine! for a panel discussion on art and climate change at 5 pm, followed by a screening of short performance art films by Monica Jahan Bose at 6 pm.
Image: Floating/Drowning, 2016, at Superfine! and Satellite Art Fairs, photo credit: Ben Droz, copyright 2016 Monica Jahan Bose, all rights reserved
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art project and needs your help to create it! This November, Monica and her team are starting work on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Over the next 6 months Monica will be collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* to sign up for the workshops as well as student interns who will receive community service credit. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12 people each time. RSVP to confirm your participation. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker, 7Concepts
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art project and needs your help to create it! This November, Monica and her team are starting work on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Over the next 6 months Monica will be collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* to sign up for the workshops as well as student interns who will receive community service credit. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12 people each time. RSVP to confirm your participation. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation or have any questions.
This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker, 7Concepts
Please come make art and learn about climate change! This is a special workshop during the shutdown with priority for federal workers. It is in Adams Morgan at the new community center in the Line Hotel (enter to the right of the main hotel entrance — do not go up the stairs, instead follow pathway down to community center).
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art display and needs your help to create it! Monica and her team are working on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Monica is collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* (over age 14) to sign up for the workshops. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change. All ages and genders welcome. All spaces and accessible by wheelchair/walker. We will provide sign language interpreters and other interpreters whenever possible.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12-15 people each time. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. Please must arrive on time and fully participate.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker.
