2.0-//74.208.236.71//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9//GREGORIANPUBLISHhttps://storytellingwithsaris.comAmerica/New_YorkAmerica/New_YorkAmerica/New_York2025-11-02T02:00:002026-11-01T02:00:00EST-04:00-05:002026-03-08T02:00:002027-03-14T02:00:00EDT-05:00-04:00ai1ec-4155@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSari Installation at Hope House Dubai<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-240x300.png" width="240" height="300" /></div><p>Monica Jahan Bose will create a sari installation called “Sari Resilience” during the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.  It will be part of Hope House in the arts district and accessible to all (no blue or green badge needed).</p> <p>Dates:  November 30-December 11, ,2023.</p> <p>Address:  Jossa, Warehouse 45 Alserkal Avenue – 17th St – Dubai – United Arab Emirates</p> <p>Interactive Climate Sari workshop:  November 30 from 7-10 pm at Open House (RSVP at link below)</p> <p>Hope House is a “canvas for hope,” a place of rest, resilience, culture and inspiration set in a warehouse space in the vibrant Alserkal arts district in Dubai.  All visitors to COP28 are invited to come and join us.  More details about <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.timeforbetter.org/cop28hopehouse">Hope House at this link.</a></strong></span></p> <p>Workshop details:  Join artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose for interactive storytelling and art-making on a six-meter-long Bangladeshi sari.  We will be composing short <span class="il">poems</span> and making art together about climate hope in solidarity with coastal women farmers on Barobaishdia Island in Bangladesh.   This hands-on art workshop builds cross-border community and climate resilience as part of the decade-long Storytelling with Saris art and advocacy project.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, installations and performances. Monica uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 11 US states, engaging thousands of people. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a <i>JD</i> from Columbia Law School.</p>2023-11-302023-12-08en-USart,climate,gender,poetry'Sierra Quitiquit; sierra@timeforbetter.org; https://www.timeforbetter.org/cop28hopehouseHope House (at Jossa) @ Warehouse 45 Alserkal Avenue - 17th St - Dubai - United Arab Emirates0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/sari-installation-at-cop28-dubai/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-240x300.png;240;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-819x1024.png;819;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1.png;1080;1350;ai1ec-4033@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZNourish: Earth Day Planting & Poetry Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg" width="200" height="300" /></div><div class="event-details event-details--has-hero-section" data-testid="event-details"> <div class="event-details__wrapper"> <div class="event-details__main"> <div class="event-details__main-inner"> <div class="eds-l-mar-bot-8 structured-content"> <div class="has-user-generated-content"> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">It’s time to celebrate Earth Day all month long! Join us for a planting, poetry, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Kendra Hazel, the new Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and art inspired by the garden. We will have more workshops in the summer with Monica followed by an exhibition and poetry slam at The Nicholson Project in September.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs. ASL will be provided.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, performance, film, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Kendra Hazel is the 2023 Garden Manager at The Nicholson Project. She is an herb enthusiast, urban garden educator, and a plant based chef. She studied Health Science at Florida A&M University, has worked with neighborhood community gardens independently and as the Community Garden Spaces manager with City Blossoms, and recently founded Green Things Work where she shares her holistic approach to wellness.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</span></strong></p> <p>Image: Planting workshop for Sustain, © 2022 Monica Jahan Bose, photo credit: Paris Preston.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="eds-show-up-md eds-layout eds-layout--has-large-max-width eds-layout--has-horizontal-gutters marketing-hub-trial-banner-wrap"></div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607639986557">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607639986557</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-04-24T14:00:00America/New_York2023-04-24T16:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose or Allison Nance; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington, DC 200200https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-earth-day-planting-poetry-workshop/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg;200;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-683x1024.jpeg;683;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-scaled.jpeg;1707;2560;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607639986557ai1ec-4051@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZNourish: Planting & Poetry Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg" width="200" height="300" /></div><div class="event-details event-details--has-hero-section" data-testid="event-details"> <div class="event-details__wrapper"> <div class="event-details__main"> <div class="event-details__main-inner"> <div class="eds-l-mar-bot-8 structured-content"> <div class="has-user-generated-content"> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;"> Join us for a planting, poetry, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Kendra Hazel, the new Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and art inspired by the garden. We will have more workshops in the summer with Monica followed by an exhibition and poetry slam at The Nicholson Project in September.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs. ASL will be provided.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, performance, film, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Kendra Hazel is the 2023 Garden Manager at The Nicholson Project. She is an herb enthusiast, urban garden educator, and a plant based chef. She studied Health Science at Florida A&M University, has worked with neighborhood community gardens independently and as the Community Garden Spaces manager with City Blossoms, and recently founded Green Things Work where she shares her holistic approach to wellness.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</span></strong></p> <p>Image: Planting workshop for Sustain, © 2022 Monica Jahan Bose, photo credit: Paris Preston.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="eds-show-up-md eds-layout eds-layout--has-large-max-width eds-layout--has-horizontal-gutters marketing-hub-trial-banner-wrap"></div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-06-12T11:00:00America/New_York2023-06-12T13:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose or Allison Nance; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington, DC 200200https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-earth-day-planting-poetry-workshop-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg;200;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-683x1024.jpeg;683;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-scaled.jpeg;1707;2560;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407ai1ec-4370@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSari workshop with students<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-300x225.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></div><p>Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a hands-on sari  workshop with high school students at Georgetown Day School addressing environmental and gender justice.  Participants will discuss strategies for climate action and gender justice and draw, paint, and write on a hand-woven cotton sari from Bangladesh.  For over ten years, Bose has been co-creating saris with communities as part of her Storytelling with Saris art and advocacy project. The sari will be used in installations and performances and worn by Bangladeshi women. This is a private workshop for students at the school.</p>America/New_York2023-07-07T13:00:00America/New_York2023-07-07T15:00:00en-USart,climate,workshop0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/sari-workshop-with-students-2/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-300x225.jpeg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-1024x768.jpeg;960;720;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-scaled.jpeg;2560;1920;ai1ec-4082@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZElectric Bangladesh: Fossil Free Futures Exhibition<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Electric-Bangladesh-Facebook-Post-Landscape-2-300x251.jpg" width="300" height="251" /></div><p>Please join me at this exhibition, for which two of my works have been commissioned. Five leading Bangladeshi artists are sending a message to GE and demanding a fossil fuel free future, with a new Boston-based art exhibition titled ‘Electric Bangladesh: Fossil Free Futures’.  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://climarte.org/project/electric-bangladesh/">DETAILS HERE</a></span></p> <p>Through our artwork, we are calling on GE to end its greenwashing – claiming to be green while backing massive fossil gas projects – and instead back clean renewable energy in Bangladesh.</p> <p>Presented by Climarte and commissioned by Market Forces, the exhibition will run from 1-4 August at the Point Gallery at @CambridgeFoundry in Boston – right around the corner from GE’s new headquarters.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/electric-bangladesh-fossil-free-futures-tickets-686861911467?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/electric-bangladesh-fossil-free-futures-tickets-686861911467?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-08-01T16:00:00America/New_York2023-08-04T20:00:00en-USart,climatehttps://climarte.org/project/electric-bangladesh/The Foundry @ 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/electric-bangladesh-fossil-free-futures-exhibition/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Electric-Bangladesh-Facebook-Post-Landscape-2-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Electric-Bangladesh-Facebook-Post-Landscape-2-300x251.jpg;300;251;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Electric-Bangladesh-Facebook-Post-Landscape-2.jpg;940;788;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/electric-bangladesh-fossil-free-futures-tickets-686861911467?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4087@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZFeminist Film Night<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5862-300x225.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-bot-8 structured-content"> <div class="has-user-generated-content"> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join us for a short film and a feature length film followed by Q&A with feminist filmmakers/artists Indrani Nayar-Gall and Monica Jahan Bose.</p> <p>Happy hour starts at 6:30 pm and films start at 7:15 pm</p> <p>There will be wine and snacks provided but outside food and drink is welcome.  Both films are fully captioned.</p> <p><strong>String of Stories</strong></p> <p>a film by Indrani Nayar-Gall (72 minutes) presents the ordeals of three women who have been victims of the Devadasi tradition. The nonlinear treatment of the film provides a glimpse into the insidious ways in which the system works, especially how it has ruined their lives. These women, who hail from the least privileged sections of society, have been sacrificed at the altar of this illegal practice. Scarred by their experiences, they find themselves stripped of the fundamental rights to safety and education. Will they be able to rise above it and turn their lives around?</p> <p><strong>Dreaming In Green</strong></p> <p>a film by Leena Jayaswal (in collaboration with Monica Jahan Bose) about the Storytelling with Saris</p> <p>ecofeminist art project. Commissioned by the Smithsonian for the Futures exhibition (3:43 minutes)</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <section aria-labelledby="tags-heading"> <div class="eds-l-mar-bot-12"> <div class="event-details__section-title"></div> </div> </section> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-film-night-and-happy-hour-tickets-686187775107?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-film-night-and-happy-hour-tickets-686187775107?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-08-08T18:30:00America/New_York2023-08-08T21:30:00en-USart,climatemonicajahanbose@gmail.comThe Reach @ 1023 15th St NW suite 400 , Washington, DC 200050https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/feminist-film-night/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5862-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5862-300x225.jpeg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5862-1024x768.jpeg;960;720;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5862-scaled.jpeg;2560;1920;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-film-night-and-happy-hour-tickets-686187775107?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4070@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSmithsonian Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-30-at-7.08.20-PM-300x104.png" width="300" height="104" /></div><p>Monica Jahan Bose will be participating in the the third annual Women’s Environmental Leadership (WEL) summit taking place from Thursday September 14 through Sunday September 17, 2023, in Washington D.C. The summit is a signature program of The Center for Environmental Justice at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum (CEJ). Launched this past Earth Day, the Center builds on the work of the Urban Waterways Project, which for twelve years explored and documented the relationship between urban waterways and their surrounding communities. WEL was launched in 2018 to build capacity for future women environmental leadership. Through summits, community forums, lectures, and oral histories, a national network of environmental leaders and young women have explored the importance of mentorship, various educational and career opportunities, and the multitude of ways in which leadership is enacted. The launch of the Center and the WEL summit are part of our museum’s focus on Our Environment,</p> <p>Our Future, a year-long celebration of programming which includes the exhibition To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington D.C., and the first cohort of our Environmental Justice Academy. Over the course of the summit, we will welcome attendees for an opening Dinner & Discussion, two days of panels and workshops, and a day of field trips, all designed to empower the next generation with the knowledge, skillsets, and inspiration they need to take the next steps in their personal and professional pathways.</p> <p>Monica will be a panelist on September 16, for the session, The Arts, Environmental Advocacy, and Activism. Discussion will explore the role of the Arts in environmental advocacy and activism through an exploration of how the environmental experiences of artists inform media and messaging, the various spaces such work can inhabit, and how such engagement serves to make environmental practice more accessible.</p> <p>Image:  This digital artwork by Amir Khadar has been commissioned as a mural by the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum for the exhibit <em>To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.</em></p>America/New_York2023-09-15T09:00:00America/New_York2023-09-16T13:00:00en-USart,climateACMWELSummit@si.edu; https://anacostia.si.edu/welsummitThe Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel @ 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 200010https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/smithsonian-womens-environmental-leadership-summit/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-30-at-7.08.20-PM-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-30-at-7.08.20-PM-300x104.png;300;104;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-30-at-7.08.20-PM.png;924;319;ai1ec-4072@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZTo Live and to Breathe Sari Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DSC_0138-300x199.jpg" width="300" height="199" /></div><p>Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a hands-on sari climate pledge workshop as part of the exhibition <em>To Live and to Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C</em>.  Participants will discuss strategies for climate action and draw, paint, and write climate pledges and climate injustice stories on a hand-woven cotton sari in solidarity with women farmers of coastal Bangladesh, who are on the frontlines of climate change. For over ten years, Bose has been co-creating saris with communities as part of her Storytelling with Saris art and advocacy project. The sari will be used in installations and performances and worn by Bangladeshi women, creating a direct physical and emotional connection that links communities together to fight climate injustice.</p> <p><a href="http://storytellingwithsaris.com/warming-waters-eaton/dsc_0093-copy-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-3191"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3191" src="http://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0093-copy-1-1024x681.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="638" srcset="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0093-copy-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0093-copy-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0093-copy-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0093-copy-1-550x366.jpg 550w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sari-climate-workshop-tickets-715665263067?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sari-climate-workshop-tickets-715665263067?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-09-24T14:00:00America/New_York2023-09-24T16:00:00en-USart,climate,workshopSmithsonian Anacostia Community Museum @ 1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/fragile-beauty-sari-workshop-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DSC_0138-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DSC_0138-300x199.jpg;300;199;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DSC_0138-1024x681.jpg;960;638;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DSC_0138.jpg;2560;1702;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sari-climate-workshop-tickets-715665263067?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4128@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZGDS Assembly Talk<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2Lucian_Sustain008-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></div><p>Excited to be back at GDS for an assembly for the entire high school.  I will give an interactive talk and poetry performance!</p> <p>Thank to the students for inviting me.</p> <p>-MJB</p> <p> </p>America/New_York2023-10-13T10:00:00America/New_York2023-10-13T10:45:00en-USart,climate,gender0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/gds-assembly-talk/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2Lucian_Sustain008-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2Lucian_Sustain008-300x225.jpg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2Lucian_Sustain008-1024x768.jpg;960;720;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2Lucian_Sustain008-scaled.jpg;2560;1920;ai1ec-4131@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZDaughter of the Agunmukha book launch<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1-194x300.jpg" width="194" height="300" /></div><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs">Join us for the book launch of Noorjahan Bose’s “Daughter of the Agunmukha” at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC, on Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3 pm. Noorjahan Bose will be joined by local activists Sunu Chandy and Krittika Ghosh along with the book’s editor Monica Jahan Bose. Books will be available for purchase and signing. We hope you will come and celebrate this major accomplishment with Noorjahan, who turned 85 earlier this year.<br /> Also please support our wonderful local bookstore, which is hosting this official event.<br /> <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" tabindex="0" role="link" href="https://www.politics-prose.com/noorjahan-bose?fbclid=IwAR3QqbXFiCCDXtbLgwnN7g038uE-pry8EXh9giyINh7Phs7vp2x5nHybICg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.politics-prose.com/noorjahan-bose</a></div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">How does a girl from a tiny Bangladeshi island end up reading Tagore, Marx, and de Beauvoir and become a leading feminist campaigner?</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">This is the riveting personal story of Noorjahan Bose, born in 1938 in present-day Bangladesh to a farming family, near the mouth of the ferocious River Agunmukha—Fire Mouth River. Abused by male relatives and raised by a mother who was herself a child bride, Noorjahan struggled for her education and autonomy. Nurtured joyfully and creatively by her mother, and mentored by local activists, she found her way into the progressive movements that would one day take her around the world. From the pain of partition to her husband’s death when she was only 18 and pregnant, to the devastating cyclones threatening her family’s home and livelihood, Noorjahan’s life has not been easy. Yet her courage shines through the pages of her memoir, whether she is promoting Bangla language rights, enduring Bangladesh’s liberation war, or marrying outside her family’s faith. This moving, gripping book tells a powerful story of trauma, loss, resilience and empowerment.</div> <div>Translated by Rebecca Whittington and edited by Monica Jahan Bose.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s"></div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">Bios:<br /> NOORJAHAN BOSE – Noorjahan Bose (she/her) is a feminist writer, social worker, and activist, living between the US and Bangladesh. She is the founder of two US-based organizations to empower South Asian women, ASHA (now Ashiyanaa) and Samhati. She has a BA (Honors) in Bangla literature from Dhaka University and a Masters in Social Work from Catholic University in Washington DC. She worked for many years as a social worker with refugees and the elderly at Catholic Charities, with foster children for Prince Georges Country, MD, and with ICU patients at DC General Hospital. She also founded the first Bangla School in the DC area, running it out of her home for more than 10 years.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">Her first book, the autobiography Agunmukhar Meye, was published in 2009 in Bangladesh, after coming out in serial form in the Janakantha newspaper. The book became a bestseller, and in 2009 was named one of the top 10 books in Bangladesh. In 2010, Noorjahan received the Anannya Prize for the book, given to one woman writer every year in Bangladesh. The book has been the subject of numerous reviews and panel discussions in Bangladesh and India. In 2011, Ananda Publishers brought out a new edition of the book in India. In 2016, the book won Bangladesh’s highest honor, the Bangla Academy Literary Award (autobiography). Noorjahan has also published several travelogues and other books. The translation “Daughter of the Agunmukha” was published in 2023 by Hurst Publishers in the U.K. with distribution in the US by Oxford University Press.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">SUNU P. CHANDY- Sunu P. Chandy (she/her) is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward, supporting work across the teams to defend and build measures towards a more inclusive democracy and to disrupt the policies that oppose this goal. Sunu is also the author of an award-winning collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, published by Regal House in 2023, and has created a wide-ranging book tour alongside other authors, artists, and activists. Sunu is also a proud member of the board of directors for the Transgender Law Center, and was honored to be included as one the 2021 Queer Women of Washington.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">Before joining Democracy Forward in September 2023, she served as the Legal Director of the National Women’s Law Center for six years. She led the Center’s litigation efforts by expanding both the Center’s direct litigation and amicus brief program, and there she coauthored several briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sunu provided guidance for the Center’s policy positions towards greater workplace justice, and often led the Center’s LGBTQ+ rights policy work including through testifying before the U.S. Congress. Before NWLC, Sunu led civil rights work through a range of government positions including as the Deputy Director for the Civil Rights Division with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as the General Counsel of the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR), and for 15 years as a federal litigator with the U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the New York District Office. Sunu began her legal career as a law firm associate representing unions and individual workers in New York City at Gladstein, Reif and Megginniss, LLP. Sunu is cited as a legal expert on workplace civil rights laws, gender justice and LGBTQ+ rights including by The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Times, Ms. Magazine, the Advocate, CSPAN, NBC, ABC and NPR.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">Sunu earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and later, her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Queens College/The City University of New York in 2013. Sunu’s creative work can also be found in publications including Asian American Literary Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Poets on Adoption, Split this Rock’s online social justice database, The Quarry, and in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">KRITTIKA GHOSH – Krittika Ghosh (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). She has extensive experience working on gender-based violencein the US and Canada for the past 21 years. Krittika’s experience includes developing innovative programming on prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) in immigrant and refugee communities through transformative education and outreach campaigns such as the development of graphic novels and photo novels highlighting sexual violence, development of trauma art therapy workshops and peer engagement in responding to GBV. She has deep experience in community engagement, policy development and program management. Krittika was a founding member of Ontario’s Provincial Violence against Women’s round-table and provided feedback to policies on the government’s GBV related policies. Krittika is also a co-founder of the Shakti Peer group, a peer-based group responding to gender-based violence in New York City.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">Krittika has been recognized for her work by the City of New York, The Filipino Women’s Network, was one of Mother Board Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2017 for her work in ending gender-based violence and is the recipient of the 2021 Imagene Stewart Surviving Sprit Award. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies from Simmons University, Boston, and with a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics & Political Science.</div> <div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s">MONICA JAHAN BOSE- Monica Jahan Bose(she/her) is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, public art, and writing. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her mother’s ancestral village has travelled to 11 US states and seven countries and engaged thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She is a board member of Samhati and currently manages the Katakhali eco-empowerment project. She was the editor of Daughter of the Agunmukha. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</div>America/New_York2023-10-29T15:00:00America/New_York2023-10-29T16:00:00en-USbook,genderPolitics and Prose @ 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/daughter-of-the-agunmukha-book-launch/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1-194x300.jpg;194;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1-664x1024.jpg;664;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1.jpg;972;1500;ai1ec-4273@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06Z“Nourish” Exhibition Closing<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-300x223.png" width="300" height="223" /></div><p>Please stop by for the final day of “Nourish: Storytelling with Saris”!  Monica Jahan Bose will be there during gallery hours from noon to 4 pm and will be happy to give you a tour of the exhibition.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nourish: Storytelling with Saris</span></p> <p>Location:  The Nicholson Project, 2310 Nicholson Project SE, Washington DC, Bus B2 and many others</p> <p>Exhibition Dates: September 10-November 4, 2023</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 2-6pm + Saturdays 12 noon – 4pm</span></p> <p><a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/washington-post-review-nourish-October-26-2023.pdf">Link to Washington Post Review.</a></p> <p>Nourish: Storytelling with Saris is an installation of video, drawings, poems, saris, and <em>kanthas</em> inspired by plants and herbs. Touching the soil and growing food are grounding and nourishing. For the last two years, Bangladeshi-American artist Monica Jahan Bose and DC participants in her Storytelling with Saris project have been connecting with the soil and Earth and food justice issues by nurturing plants on windowsills and planting neighborhood vegetable gardens. This year they planted and harvested in the garden at The Nicholson Project. Bose led a series of planting workshops that included poetry and art inspired by soil and plants. Using performance, sari art, writing, and film, Storytelling with Saris, which commenced in 2012, links DC residents with Bangladeshi coastal women farmers in solidarity to address climate and food injustice.  There is a concurrent  exhibition by Stephanie J. Williams.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose bio: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (20 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 10 states and seven countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></p> <p>This project was supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.</p>America/New_York2023-11-04T12:00:00America/New_York2023-11-04T16:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-exhibition-closing-2/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-300x223.png;300;223;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-1024x761.png;960;713;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM.png;1984;1474;ai1ec-4150@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZWhen Will the Waters Come<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-1-300x300.jpeg" width="300" height="300" /></div><p>The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics in collaboration with the Earth Commons presents, When Will the Water Come – an evening of readings, short plays, monologues, poetry, and music about water and our environment, featuring students from Professor Derek Goldman’s TPST/ CULP 2036 Global Performance and Politics course, as well as professional guest artists, curated and directed by Ashanee Kottage, Lab/Earth Commons Fellow.</p> <p>Location:  1801 35th St NW, Washington, DC 20007 (the old Fillmore School, in Glover Park)</p> <p>Date/Time:  Monday November 6, 2023, 4:30 to 6:30 pm.  Monica Jahan Bose’s short performance is in the very beginning.</p> <p>The performance brings together an expansive range of cultural perspectives, theatrical forms, and narratives to explore the scientific, political, elemental, and intimately personal dimensions of water. This multi-disciplinary performance and roundtable event features material from the recently launched <a href="https://aclimatearchive.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="44">We Hear You–A Climate Archive</a>, a global performance project exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency and the 2023 <a href="https://www.climatechangetheatreaction.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="45">Climate Change Theater Action</a> a worldwide festival of short plays about the climate crisis presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. This event is also part of an ongoing suite of activities featuring student and professional performances curated by The Lab leading up to COP 28, including the forthcoming conference Sustaining the Oasis: Envisioning the Future of Water Security in the Gulf, to be held at the Georgetown campus in Qatar.</p> <p>We are honored that the following guest artists and students will share their work with us and join us for a roundtable discussion (moderated by Prof. Derek Goldman and Ashanee Kottage) and reception with some light refreshments at the end of the performance.</p> <p><a href="https://monicajahanbose.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="46">Monica Jahan Bose</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.realballersread.com/55-watering-whole-with-jan-ellis-menafee/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="47">Jan Ellis Menafee</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/nadia-nazar/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="48">Nadia Nazar</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.cbilodeau.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="49">Chantal Bilodeau</a> – Founder of CCTA</p> <p><a href="http://www.lubdubtheatre.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="50">LubDub Theater</a> (<a href="http://www.mirandarosehall.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="51">Miranda Rose Hall</a>, <a href="https://www.caitlinnasemacassidy.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="52">Caitlin Nasema Cassidy</a> (We Hear You Project Director), <a href="https://www.robertduffley.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="53">Robert Duffley</a> (We Hear You Project Dramaturg), <a href="http://www.geoffkanick.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-airgap-id="54">Geoff Kanick)</a></p> <p><strong>We Hear You Stories:</strong></p> <p>Nadia’s story, THE HORIZON</p> <p>Michael’s story, COME BACK ANOTHER DAY</p> <p>Rebecca’s story, MANTA MAGIC</p> <p>Swedian’s story, WHEN WILL THE WATER COME?</p> <p><strong>CCTA Plays:</strong></p> <p>Wild Parsnips by Tira Palmquist</p> <p>la jiao pang xie, shao la (“chilli crab, less spicy”) by Dia Hakim K</p> <p>Undertow by Keith Barker</p> <p>A Hummingbird’s Ululation by Aleya Kassam</p> <p>(up)rooted by Caity Shea-Violette</p> <p>To request an accommodation, inquiries about accessibility, or if you have any questions/ issues getting to the space please email us at globallab@georgetown.edu.</p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-will-the-water-come-tickets-735991358967?utm_experiment=control_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-will-the-water-come-tickets-735991358967?utm_experiment=control_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-11-06T16:30:00America/New_York2023-11-06T18:30:00en-USart,climate,poetry'Georgetown Univ. Lab for Global Performance & Politics; 202-687-0799; globallab@georgetown.edu; https://globallab.georgetown.edu/Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (old Fillmore School) @ 1801 35th Street NW Washington, DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/when-will-the-waters-come/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-1-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-1-300x300.jpeg;300;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1-1.jpeg;540;540;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-will-the-water-come-tickets-735991358967?utm_experiment=control_share_listing&aff=ebdsshiosai1ec-4164@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSari Installation at COP28 Blue Zone<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ww-close-up-mother-earth-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><p> </p> <p>Location: Entertainment + Culture Pavilion, Expo City, Blue Zone B7, Building 90 (same building as Women & Gender and Youth Pavilion), Ground Floor.</p> <p>If you are going to COP28 in Dubai and have a Blue Zone pass, please join us at The Entertainment + Culture Pavilion (Blue Zone) and check out my sari installation and all the amazing programming.  I will also be doing a performance for the opening ceremony of the E+C Pavilion at around 10:30 am on November 30th and a multimedia storytelling and interactive sari workshop on December 2 at 4:30 to 5:30 pm.<b><i></i></b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, installations and performances. Monica</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 11 US states, engaging thousands of people. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">JD</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from Columbia Law School.</span></p>America/New_York2023-11-30T09:00:00America/New_York2023-12-11T17:00:00en-USart,climate,workshopinfo@entertainmentculturepavilion.org; https://www.cop28.com/en/blue-zoneEntertainment + Culture Pavilion, Expo City, Blue Zone B7, Building 90 @ Expo City, Dubai, UAE0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/rising-up-to-climate-change-storytelling-workshop-3/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ww-close-up-mother-earth-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ww-close-up-mother-earth-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ww-close-up-mother-earth-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ww-close-up-mother-earth.jpg;2560;1707;ai1ec-4166@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSari workshop at Hope House Dubai<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-240x300.png" width="240" height="300" /></div><p>Join Monica Jahan Bose  for an interactive sari workshop during the open house for Hope House in the Arts District.  The event and Monica’s sari installation will take place during the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.  It will be part of Hope House in the arts district and accessible to all (no blue or green badge needed).</p> <p>Address:  Jossa, Warehouse 45 Alserkal Avenue – 17th St – Dubai – United Arab Emirates</p> <p>Interactive Climate Sari workshop:  November 30 from 7-10 pm at Open House (<a href="https://www.timeforbetter.org/cop28hopehouse">RSVP at link here)</a></p> <p>Hope House is a “canvas for hope,” a place of rest, resilience, culture and inspiration set in a warehouse space in the vibrant Alserkal arts district in Dubai.  All visitors to COP28 are invited to come and join us.  More details about <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.timeforbetter.org/cop28hopehouse">Hope House at this link.</a></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr">7:00 pm – 10:00 pm: OPEN (HOPE) HOUSE – A warm welcome to COP28 UAE from Time for Better and celebration of Earth featuring an interactive media opportunity to share your climate story with Imagine5. Women’s Environmental and Climate Action (WECAN) will provide an Earth Dedication to inspire optimistic outcomes at COP28 UAE. *Hope House guests are welcome to bring rocks, soil, and water from their homelands to combine into vessels which will symbolize our collective efforts to make a positive difference.</p> <p dir="ltr">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, installations and performances. Monica uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 11 US states, engaging thousands of people. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a <i>JD</i> from Columbia Law School.</p>America/New_York2023-11-30T19:00:00America/New_York2023-11-30T22:00:00en-USart,climate,gender,poetry'Sierra Quitiquit; sierra@timeforbetter.org; https://www.timeforbetter.org/cop28hopehouseHope House (at Jossa) @ Warehouse 45 Alserkal Avenue - 17th St - Dubai - United Arab Emirates0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/sari-installation-at-cop28-dubai-2/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-240x300.png;240;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-819x1024.png;819;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2.png;1080;1350;ai1ec-4170@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZRising Up to Climate Change at BD Pavilion<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_1811-225x300.jpg" width="225" height="300" /></div><p>Monica Jahan Bose will be presenting at the Bangladesh Pavilion on December 1 at 3:30 to 5 pm.</p> <p>The Pavilion is in Blue Zone B2, Building 21, ground floor.</p> <p><b><i>Join internationally-acclaimed artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose </i></b><b><i>for multimedia storytelling and art-making on a six-meter-long Bangladeshi sari</i></b></p> <p><a href="http://storytellingwithsaris.com/"><b>Storytelling with Saris</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> connects people around the world through art with action steps to address climate change in solidarity with women farmers from artist Monica Jahan Bose’s ancestral village on Barobaishdia Island, Patuakhali District, Bangladesh. Monica is working to preserve the intangible heritage of these women’s folk dances and oral tradition Bangla songs, which may be lost due to climate change.  She </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">will show images and video and share stories about climate impacts in coastal Bangladesh and the resilience of these communities even in the face of losing crops, land, and intangible heritage.  Everyone will join in drawing and writing on a sari. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This hands-on art workshop builds cross-border community and climate resilience.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, installations and performances. Monica</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 11 US states, engaging thousands of people. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">JD</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from Columbia Law School.</span></p>America/New_York2023-12-01T16:00:00America/New_York2023-12-01T17:00:00en-USart,climate,gender,workshopchrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://doe.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/doe.portal.gov.bd/npfblock//2023-11-27-04-38-a0a09c27fba4b0a150bb3e69b420d2a3.pdfBangladesh Pavilion, Expo City, Blue Zone B2, Building 21 @ Expo City, Dubai, UAE0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/rising-up-to-climate-change-storytelling-workshop-2-2/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_1811-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_1811-225x300.jpg;225;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_1811-768x1024.jpg;768;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_1811-scaled.jpg;1920;2560;ai1ec-4214@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZLaunch Workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg" width="300" height="207" /></div><p>Please join us for the online launch of SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings.  During the launch, artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will introduce the project and then lead a poetry and art workshop where we will create poetry and art inspired by the. healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in access. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s. art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris.  Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.</p> <p>To learn more and become part of this exciting venture, please register using <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-project-launch-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-752365444297?aff=oddtdtcreator">the Eventbrite link. </a></strong></span></p> <p>Here is the Zoom link for the workshop on December 13 at 4:30 PM (Eastern time):  <span style="color: #0000ff;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85156753263?pwd=RlRlY0Y1a25HVDR3eTIzUC9TN2xnUT09</span></p> <p>If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please have with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. In the spring we will be having in person workshops to finish the saris. Looking forward to seeing you!  Here is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100001009034989/videos/360534439857158/.">a link to our workshop. </a></p> <p>ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.</p> <p>Curator:  Sarah Tanguy.  Film/livestream: Paris Preston   Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.</p> <p>Community partners:  Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services.</p> <p>This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-project-launch-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-752365444297?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-project-launch-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-752365444297?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-12-13T16:30:00America/New_York2023-12-13T18:00:00en-USart,climate,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comZoom0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/launch-workshop-for-swimming-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg;300;207;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-1024x707.jpg;960;663;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg.jpg;1092;754;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-project-launch-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-752365444297?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4145@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZCommunity Workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg" width="300" height="207" /></div><p>Please join us for a community workshop to create SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings.  Artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will introduce the project and then lead a poetry and art workshop where we will create poetry and art inspired by the healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in access. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris.  Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.</p> <p>To learn more and become part of this exciting project, please register using <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-795620070047?aff=oddtdtcreator">the Eventbrite link. </a></strong></span></p> <p>ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.</p> <p>Curator:  Sarah Tanguy.  Film/livestream: Paris Preston   Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.</p> <p>Community partners:  Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services.</p> <p>This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">internationally (22 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her paintings, saris, and archival materials for its collection.  Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School. </span></p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/795620070047?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/795620070047?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-01-31T16:30:00America/New_York2024-01-31T18:00:00en-USart,climate,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comMarie Reed Elementary School @ 2201 18th St NW, Washington, DC 200090https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/launch-workshop-for-swimming/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg;300;207;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-1024x707.jpg;960;663;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg.jpg;1092;754;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/795620070047?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4130@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZWorkshops in Bangladesh<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856-300x225.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></div><p>We will be doing workshops and talks and an exhibition in Dhaka and Patuakhali, Bangladesh.  Stay tuned for details.</p>America/New_York2024-02-12T17:47:00America/New_York2024-03-11T18:47:00en-USart,climate,gender,plants,poetry',workshop0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/workshops-in-bangladesh-2/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856-300x225.jpeg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856-1024x768.jpeg;960;720;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856.jpeg;1210;907;ai1ec-4216@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06Z“চলমান/ Ongoing” Exhibition<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1270818-1-300x225.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></div><p><b>চলমান  Ongoing</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“চলমান” প্রদর্শনী</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">তে</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> শিল্পী মনিকা জাহান বোস তুলে ধরেছেন শাড়ি, চলচিত্র এবং কৃতকলার মাধ্যমে তাঁর দীর্ঘমেয়াদী প্রকল্প “শাড়ীর </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> মধ্যে </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> জীবনগাথা”। এই চলমান প্রকল্পে তিনি কাজ করছেন জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন এবং নারী, খাদ্য ও পরিবেশের উপরে এর বিরূপ প্রভাব নিয়ে। </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">তিনি </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">এক দশক ধরে </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">তার মায়ের গ্রাম (কাটাখালী গ্রাম, বড়বাইশদিয়া দ্বীপ, পটুয়াখালী জেলা), আমেরিকা এবং ইউরোপে বসবাসরত নারীদের যৌথ সহযোগিতায় জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কিত চিত্র, লেখা, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">এবং </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">আলোচনা </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">দিয়ে শিল্প করেছেন|</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “চলমান” শব্দটির বাংলা প্রচলিত সমার্থক অর্থ হল, অগ্রসরমান, অনবরত, অবিরাম, নিরন্তর ইত্যাদি, বিশেষ করে যা ব্যবহৃত হয় চলমান চলচিত্রের ক্ষেত্রে।  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span data-color=""cmyk(0,0,0,100)"" data-size="{"value":8}">তত্ত্বাবধায়ক: রুক্সমিনি চৌধুরী </span></span></p> <p><b>স্থান; শালা, আলোকি, ২১১ গুলশান-তেজগাঁও লিঙ্ক রোড, ঢাকা – ১২০৮</b></p> <p><b>১-৯ মার্চ, ২০২৪, বিকাল ৩টা থেকে ৯টা</b></p> <p><b>‘চলমান’ প্রদর্শনীর উদ্বোধনী অনুষ্ঠানে আপনাকে সাদর আমন্ত্রণ। সময় বিকাল চারটা, ১লা মার্চ, ২০২৪। </b></p> <p><em>Choloman</em> presents an in progress snapshot of Monica Jahan Bose’s ongoing Storytelling with Saris collaborative art project, addressing climate change and its impact on women, food, and our environment through saris, film, and performance. The word “choloman” in Bangla means ongoing, moving, or continuous and is especially used to refer to films that are running. Monica has worked for more than a decade with women farmers from her ancestral village in Katakhali, Barobaishdia Island, Patuakhali District along with residents of her home in Washington DC and others around the world.</p> <p>Curator: Ruxmini Choudhury.</p> <p>The exhibition will run from 3pm to 9pm everyday from 1-9 March, 2024.</p> <p><b>Venue: Shala, Aloki, 211 Gulshan – Tejgaon Link Road, Dhaka -1208</b></p> <p><strong>You are cordially invited to the inauguration of the exhibition চলমান on 1st March, 2024 at 4pm.</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/choloman-brochure.pdf">Link to bilingual brochure.</a></strong></span></p> <p class="p1">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (26 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project Storytelling with Saris with women farmers from her ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum is acquiring a collection of her paintings, saris, and archival materials. Monica was an artist delegate to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, presenting sari installations, workshops, and film screenings. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan,India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> <p>Image: © 2018, Monica Jahan Bose, <em>Rising Up</em>, performance still, Miami Beach, Florida; photo credit: Ben Droz.</p>America/New_York2024-03-01T15:00:00America/New_York2024-03-09T21:00:00en-USart,climate,genderAloki, Shala Gallery @ 211 Tejgaon Link Road, Dhaka 12080https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/%e0%a6%9a%e0%a6%b2%e0%a6%ae%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%a8-ongoing-exbibition/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1270818-1-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1270818-1-300x225.jpeg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1270818-1-1024x769.jpeg;960;721;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1270818-1-scaled.jpeg;2560;1922;ai1ec-4221@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZCommunity Workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg" width="300" height="207" /></div><p>Please join us for a community workshop to create SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings.  Artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a poetry and art workshop where we will create poetry and art inspired by the healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in access. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris.  Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.</p> <p>ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.  Register for the event<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreator"><strong> on Eventbrite. </strong></a></p> <p>Curator:  Sarah Tanguy.  Film/livestream: Paris Preston   Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.</p> <p>Community partners:  Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services.</p> <p>This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">internationally (22 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her paintings, saris, and archival materials for its collection.  Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School. </span></p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-03-26T16:00:00America/New_York2024-03-26T17:30:00en-USart,climate,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comMarie Reed Elementary School @ 2201 18th St NW, Washington, DC 200090https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/launch-workshop-for-swimming-3/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg;300;207;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-1024x707.jpg;960;663;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg.jpg;1092;754;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4295@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZCommunity Workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg" width="300" height="207" /></div><p>Please join us for a community workshop to create SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings.  Artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a poetry and art workshop where we will create poetry and art inspired by the healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in access. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris.  Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.</p> <p>ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.  Register for the event<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreator"><strong> on Eventbrite. </strong></a></p> <p>Curator:  Sarah Tanguy.  Film/livestream: Paris Preston   Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.</p> <p>Community partners:  Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services.</p> <p>This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">internationally (22 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her paintings, saris, and archival materials for its collection.  Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School. </span></p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-03-26T16:00:00America/New_York2024-03-26T17:30:00en-USart,climate,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comMarie Reed Elementary School @ 2201 18th St NW, Washington, DC 200090https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/launch-workshop-for-swimming-3-3/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg;300;207;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-1024x707.jpg;960;663;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg.jpg;1092;754;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-823843186147?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4229@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZClimate Hope in Arlington<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.55.01-PM-300x199.jpeg" width="300" height="199" /></div><p>We are excited to announce the Climate Hope project by Monica Jahan Bose presented by the Arlington Art Truck of Arlington County Government.  Curated by Cynthia Connolly, eight activations will occur at various locations across Arlington, Virginia.  Contribute to a community created art project by writing a poem, pledge, or an illustration directly onto an 18-foot-long cotton sari that is adorned by woodblocks from the artist’s ancestral village in Bangladesh. The poems and pledges will complete the sari which already includes climate themed wood block prints. On the last day, the public is invited to join a procession with over 70 feet of saris through an Arlington neighborhood to a waterway.  Here is <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Arlington-Art-Truck_Climate-Hope_Press-Release_FINAL_003.pdf">the PRESS RELEASE.</a></strong></span></p> <p>Activation dates:</p> <p class="p1"><b>Wednesday, April 3 – Barcroft School, not open to public </b></p> <p class="p1"><b>Sunday, April 7 – 9 am -1 pm – Columbia Pike Farmers Market, </b><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZNavYMP7uN1RRSQ67"><b>2820 Columbia Pike</b></a></p> <p class="p1"><b>Saturday, April 20 – 8 an -noon – Lubber Run Farmers Market opening day, </b><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nk59nGXoE975RZTA7"><b>4401 N Henderson Road</b></a></p> <p class="p1"><b>Sunday, April 21 – 11 am -5 pm – Earth Day, Every Day, </b><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/qd17bybBbsyKYhfr7"><b>4500-4550 Cherry Hill Road</b></a></p> <p class="p1"><b>Sunday, May 5 – 9 am -1 pm – Fairlington Farmers Market opening day, </b><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/7tz4Fwz92T1ZMet37"><b>3308 S Stafford Street</b></a><b> Special guest: Arlington Poet Laureate Courtney LeBlanc will be with us 9-11am </b></p> <p class="p1"><b>Thursday, May 16 – 3-7 pm – MoCA on the Move with MoCA Arlington at MET Park, </b><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/m1sJXhtGUg1NUjkWA"><b>South Elm Street between South 13</b><span class="s1">th</span><b> and South 14</b><span class="s1">th</span><b> Streets  </b></a></p> <p class="p1"><b>CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN Saturday, May 18 – 10 am -1 pm – Family Fun Day in the Park, Alcova Heights Park, </b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alcova+Heights+Park/@38.8612872,-77.1019904,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1dd1bc05c452f0e5?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjO5rGU4vGDAxUZFFkFHQOGDe4Q_BJ6BAgPEAA"><b>901 S George Mason Drive.  </b></a></p> <p class="p1"><b>Saturday, May 25 – 11 am-2:30 pm – Shirlington Library, </b><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/wGKyqY3XFwWptgxh7"><b>4200 Campbell Avenue</b></a><b> ;  11-1: activation outside-(drop by anytime), 1-2:30: artist talk in library and community performance/procession from library to Jennie Dean park. There is limited space for the artist talk indoors. Free. </b><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/12063852">Sign up here. </a> </span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Arts/Programs/Arlington-Art-Truck.">Check here for latest information  </a></strong></span></p> <p>Image:  Monica Jahan Bose in Water Resistance performance, Paris, France, 2019, photo credit: Amirul Arham</p>America/New_York2024-04-03T09:00:00America/New_York2024-05-25T14:30:00en-USart,climate,earth day,poetry',workshop703-228-1850; https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Arts/Programs/Arlington-Art-TruckArlington Art Truck- various locations @ Arlington, VA0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/climate-hope-in-arlington/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.55.01-PM-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.55.01-PM-300x199.jpeg;300;199;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.55.01-PM-1024x678.jpeg;960;636;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.55.01-PM.jpeg;1057;700;ai1ec-4251@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZCommunity Workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg" width="300" height="207" /></div><p>Please join us for a community workshop to create SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. If weather permits, the workshop wil be outdoors on the sidewalk.  When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings.  Artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a poetry and art workshop where we will create poetry and art inspired by the healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in access. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris.  Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.</p> <p>ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.  Register for the event<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/872963757097?aff=oddtdtcreator"><strong> on Eventbrite. </strong></a></p> <p>Curator:  Sarah Tanguy.  Photography/livestream: Paris Preston  Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.</p> <p>Community partners:  Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services.</p> <p>This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">internationally (22 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her paintings, saris, and archival materials for its collection.  Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School. </span></p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/872963757097?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/872963757097?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-04-10T16:00:00America/New_York2024-04-10T18:00:00en-USart,climate,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comDC Arts Center @ 2438 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 200090https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/launch-workshop-for-swimming-3-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-300x207.jpg;300;207;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg-1024x707.jpg;960;663;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/swimming-jpg.jpg;1092;754;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/872963757097?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4292@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZDarchira River film screening<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-300x167.jpeg" width="300" height="167" /></div><p class="p1"><b>Join artist/filmmaker Monica Jahan Bose for the DC premiere of “Darchira River,” a new performance film. </b>The film is based on a performance about cimate change let by Monica in Katakhali Village, Bangladesh, on the banks of the Darchira River, which has been destroyed by climate change. The stunning footage shows women farmers of the village engage in singing, writing, and rituals towards healing climate change. In this ecofeminist work, the women reframe a Muslim ritual of writing wishes, into a feminist ritual of hope and renewal, using writing, turmeric and water. The film features village women’s oral tradition songs along with an original score by DC musician and sound designer Sonia Herrero. Cinematography: Shefali Akhter Shetu. Editing: Shefali Akhter Shetu and Monica Jahan Bose.</p> <p class="p1">Join us at lunchtime on Friday for the DC premiere at Artomatic.</p> <p class="p1">Running time 20 minutes, followed by Q&A with artist</p> <p class="p1">Artomatic, Friday, April 19 at 12:15 pm, 6th floor</p> <p class="p1">2100 M St NW, Washington, DC (metro; Dupont Circle)</p>America/New_York2024-04-19T12:15:00America/New_York2024-04-19T13:15:00en-USart,climate,earth day,film,genderMonica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.comArtomatic @ 2100 M St NW, Washington DC 200370https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/darchira-river-film-screening/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-300x167.jpeg;300;167;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-1024x571.jpeg;960;535;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-scaled.jpeg;2560;1428;ai1ec-4141@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZEarth Day Gardening & Art Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join us for a planting, poetry, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Peter Lewis, the Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and sari art.</p> <p>If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!  Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, performance, film, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose bio: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (20 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 10 states and seven countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></p> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>This project is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-04-22T10:00:00America/New_York2024-04-22T12:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/gardeningworkshop/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4304@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZCommunity Workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/workshop-marie-reed-225x300.jpg" width="225" height="300" /></div><p>Please join us for an an art and poetry workshop to cocreate work for SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. Our host is Moms Clean Air Force. In honor of Mental Health Month, we will be focusing on healing, poetry, and hands on art to increase mindfulness, reduce climate anxiety, and improve mental health. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings. Artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will discuss the project and then lead a poetry and art workshop where we will create poetry and art on saris inspired by the healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in access. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris. Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.</p> <p>ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.  <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-884545418157?aff=oddtdtcreator">Register for the event on Eventbrite.</a></p> <p>Curator:  Sarah Tanguy.  Photography/livestream: Paris Preston  Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.</p> <p>Community partners:  Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services.</p> <p>This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">internationally (22 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her paintings, saris, and archival materials for its collection.  Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School. </span></p> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-884545418157">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-884545418157</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-05-08T16:00:00America/New_York2024-05-08T18:00:00en-USart,climate,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comMoms Clean Air Force @ 555 12th Street NW, Washington, DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/momsworkshop/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/workshop-marie-reed-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/workshop-marie-reed-225x300.jpg;225;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/workshop-marie-reed-768x1024.jpg;768;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/workshop-marie-reed-scaled.jpg;1920;2560;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swimming-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-public-art-project-tickets-884545418157ai1ec-4327@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSewing workshop for SWIMMING<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20PrestonSewing-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="css-188aeyp e9y8vn50"> <article id="AboutThisEventSection" class="css-cd870x em1van10" tabindex="0" data-testid="AboutThisEventSection"> <div id="AboutThisEventEdit" class="css-h4iyls ezg9ojv7" role="tabpanel" data-testid="AboutThisEventEdit" aria-labelledby="AboutThisEventPreview"> <p class="p1">Please join us for the final workshop to cocreate work for SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. We will be sewing together 22 saris for the project. You do not need to have sewing experince. We are happy to teach you how to hand sew or use a machine. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC, SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris, along with a sound walk, performances, film screenings, and poetry readings. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with Saris. Started over a decade ago, the project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral island in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world. The workshop is generously hosted by The Line DC.</p> <p class="p1">To learn more and become part of this exciting project, please register and add to your calendar. ASL will be provided.</p> <p class="p1">Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.</p> <p class="p1">Curator: Sarah Tanguy. Film/livestream: Paris Preston</p> <p class="p1">Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero.  Marketing Design & Social Media:  Jen Saavedra</p> <p class="p1">Community partners: Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center, Adams Morgan Partnership BID, DC Arts Center, Calvary Women’s Services, Moms Clean Air Force.</p> <p class="p1">This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> <div class="e1wtebx06 css-1iccxpj eto9j9u0" tabindex="0" role="button" data-testid="SortableItem" aria-disabled="false" aria-roledescription="sortable" aria-describedby="DndDescribedBy-1"> <div class="css-1rr4qq7 eto9j9u2"> <div class="css-8jm638 e1wtebx05"></div> </div> </div> <div class="e1wtebx06 css-1iccxpj eto9j9u0" tabindex="0" role="button" data-testid="SortableItem" aria-disabled="false" aria-roledescription="sortable" aria-describedby="DndDescribedBy-1"> <div class="css-j7qwjs eto9j9u1"> <div></div> </div> <div class="css-1rr4qq7 eto9j9u2"> <div class="css-8jm638 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200090https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/sewing-workshop-for-swimming/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20PrestonSewing-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20PrestonSewing-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20PrestonSewing-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20PrestonSewing.jpg;1800;1200;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/903620080987?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4284@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSWIMMING, a public art project<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/swimming-visualization-e1711214379350-300x232.jpg" width="300" height="232" /></div> <p>SWIMMING, a temporary public art project by Monica Jahan Bose, explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding, drought, and rising sea levels due to climate change. Participants in DC and Bangladesh join workshops to co-create poetry and art inspired by the healing properties of water and swimming and by inequities in access. Featuring 22 blue Bangladeshi saris arranged to evoke a swimming pool and a massive wave, the exhibit is augmented by a VideoSoundwalk with QR codes that interweave poetry with sounds of water, nature, and music and images of Bose and participants creating, wearing, and interacting with the saris.  The project is part of the ongoing climate justice collaboration Storytelling with Saris.</p> <p>Marie Reed is the former Morgan school, which was desegregated along with the Adams school, giving the name to the Adams Morgan neighborhood. The Marie Reed pool is now being used by DC to teach swimming to children from various schools, a project that aims to redress racial discrimination in access to swimming. SWIMMING is a visual representation of sustainability, inclusion, and resilience and is part of Bose’s ongoing climate justice collaboration Storytelling with Saris.</p> <p>Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose</p> <p>Curator: Sarah Tanguy</p> <p>DCPS Collaboration:  Valeria Monfrini, Art Teacher, Marie Reed Elementary School</p> <p>Photography/Livestream: Paris Preston</p> <p>Sound design & Music:  Sonia Herrero</p> <p>Marketing design/Social media: Jen Saavedra</p> <p>Installation support: Timotheo Murphy and Maps Glover</p> <p>Press/media inquiries: Kelly Davidson. Email: <a href="mailto:info@kellymavenmedia.com">info@kellymavenmedia.com</a>. Phone: 301-300-4011</p> <p>Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts are Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Program.</p> <p>Community partners: The Adams Morgan Partnership BID, Marie Reed Elementary School & Aquatic Center, The DC Arts Center, Calvary Womens Services, and Moms Clean Air Force.</p> <p>Exhibition Schedule [All dates weather dependent]:</p> <p>Location:  Marie Reed Plaza, 2201 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009</p> <p>Exhibition dates June 6-20, 2024, outdoor exhibition, open 24 hours.</p> <p>Friday, June 7, 2024 @ 5-8 PM: Opening Event. Dedication, poetry recital, and livestream starting at 6 pm. <strong> [We are going with our raindate: June 7]</strong></p> <p>Saturday, June 8, 2024 @ 3-5 pm: Artist/curator walkthrough talk at site</p> <p>Tuesday, June 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm: Walkthrough tour and screening “Swimming” short film as part of Adams Morgan Movie Night (film at dusk).</p> <p>Saturday, June 15, 2024 @ 5 pm: Performance</p> <p>Tuesday, June 18, 2024 @ 7:30 pm: Walkthrough tour and screening short film as part of Adams Morgan Movie Night</p> <p>June 20, 2022 Final Day – Monica will be there from 8-10 pm for photo shoot and dancing under the saris!</p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SWIMMING-press-release-final-1.pdf">PRESS RELEASE</a></strong></span>  </p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Swimming-brochure.pdf">BROCHURE/ESSAY</a></strong></span>  </p> <p><strong>Sari art, poetry, and fabrication Washington DC:  </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sonja Berry, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elizabeth Brandt, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sherri Gales, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lala Forbes, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rashika Johnson, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Philip Mecham, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lia Totty, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hasini Shyamshundar, Isaiah Washington, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kathryn Wichmann, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julia Rosenbaum, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marjorie Thomas, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashanee Kottage, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maria Crupi, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel Groomes, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Niquida Browne, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nyrabia, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Janet Gao, Sam Schmitz, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stephanie Reese, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reese Wilkerson, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rowin Wilkerson, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paris Burton, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hakim, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liam Toohey, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leo Toohey, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elena Sholomitskaya, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anne Simmons, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emilio Ramos, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manuel Ramos, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sofia Maria Ramos, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Herschel, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jenia, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Estephane Gomez, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexa Gomez, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thomas Belcher, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ava Belcher, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarah Christie, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isaac Martin, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">VEnessa Acham, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sara Akbar, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kayed Akbar, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Austin Ray, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ann Farley, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raine Jeff, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isabel Fowlkes, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eleshia Simms-Harris, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neko Harris, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and many others.</span></p> <p><strong>SWIMMING Bangladesh Team:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Project assistant:  Moumita Nabila</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Project support and song transcription: Sunetra</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sari artists/singers: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Noor Sehera, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nasima, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shahida, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zulekha, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zakia, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parveen, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hawa, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shima, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fatema, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarbanu, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aleya, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rekha, a</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">nd many others.</span></p> <p>Watch the Livestream of the Dedication:</p> <p><iframe title="SWIMMING Dedication & Poetry Slam Livestream" width="960" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S73k6bH5qOY?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p class="p1"><b>About Monica Jahan Bose: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and installation. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">internationally (23 solo shows, five public art projecs, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 30 performances) including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing decade-long collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging thousands of people. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the the Japan Times, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her paintings, saris, and archival materials for its collection.  Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School. </span></p> <p class="p1"><b>About Sarah Tanguy: </b>Washington, DC-based Sarah Tanguy is an independent curator and arts writer, who believes in hands-on, face-to-face collaboration with artists and the power of art to connect with the general public and our lived experience. Many of her projects have explored the intersection of art with such topics as science, food, tools, and books, inspiring new ways to engage the world around us. Recent exhibitions include At One with the Elements, Reveal: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery, and Traces, in Washington, DC; and Synergy Unbound, the last of an ongoing series at the American Center for Physics, College Park, MD. From 2004-2019, Sarah was a curator for Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, where she curated over 100 exhibitions and 12 permanent collections featuring U.S. and host country artists for U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas. The daughter of a U.S. diplomat, Tanguy holds a BA in Fine Arts from Georgetown University, and a MA in Art History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.</p> <p> </p>America/New_York2024-06-07T17:00:00America/New_York2024-06-21T08:00:00en-USart,climate,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comMarie Reed Plaza @ 2201 18th St NW, Washington, DC 200090https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/swimmingpublicartproject/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/swimming-visualization-e1711214379350-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/swimming-visualization-e1711214379350-300x232.jpg;300;232;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/swimming-visualization-e1711214379350-1024x791.jpg;960;742;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/swimming-visualization-e1711214379350.jpg;2200;1700;ai1ec-4400@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZHarvest Time!<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join the Storytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nicholson Project neighborhood garden.  We helped out in the garden in the spring and and are thrilled to go back to see what has been growing.  We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence, Peter Lewis.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in <i>the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</i>, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>Stortyelling with Saris is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-06-26T10:00:00America/New_York2024-06-26T11:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4079@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZSari workshop with students<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-300x225.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></div><p>Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a hands-on sari  workshop with high school students at Georgetown Day School’s Policy Institute addressing environmental and gender justice.  Participants will discuss strategies for climate action and gender justice and draw, paint, and write on a hand-woven cotton sari from Bangladesh.  For over ten years, Bose has been co-creating saris with communities as part of her Storytelling with Saris art and advocacy project. The sari will be used in installations and performances and worn by Bangladeshi women. This is a private workshop for students at the GDS Policy Institute.</p>America/New_York2024-07-08T10:00:00America/New_York2024-07-08T12:00:00en-USart,climate,workshop0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/sari-workshop-with-students/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-300x225.jpeg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-1024x768.jpeg;960;720;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1170-scaled.jpeg;2560;1920;ai1ec-4373@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZHarvest Time!<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join the Storytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nicholson Project neighborhood garden.  We helped out in the garden in the spring and and are thrilled to go back to see what has been growing.  We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence, Peter Lewis.  Location:  2310 Nicholson St, SE, Washington DC.  Buses B2, 32, 36.  Free street parking available.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in <i>the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</i>, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>Stortyelling with Saris is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-08-15T10:00:00America/New_York2024-08-15T11:30:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4435@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZHarvest Time!<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join the Storytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nicholson Project neighborhood garden.  We helped out in the garden in the spring and summer, and and are thrilled to go back to see what has been growing.  We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence, Peter Lewis.  Location:  2310 Nicholson St, SE, Washington DC.  Buses B2, 32, 36.  Free street parking available.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in <i>the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</i>, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>Stortyelling with Saris is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-10-23T10:30:00America/New_York2024-10-23T12:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time-3/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4390@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZWorkshops in Bangladesh<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3489-300x225.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></div><p>Storytelling with Saris workshops will take place in February 2025 in Bangladesh.  The workshops will include sari printing, new kantha creations from worn saris from Storytelling with Saris, new song creation, and performance.</p>America/New_York2025-02-15T15:31:00America/New_York2025-02-23T16:31:00en-USart,climate,gardening,workshopKatakhali @ Patuakhali District, Bangladesh0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/workshops-in-bangladesh-3/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3489-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3489-300x225.jpeg;300;225;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3489-1024x768.jpeg;960;720;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3489-scaled.jpeg;2560;1920;ai1ec-4551@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZUnveiling of Ceramic Sari Mural<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_2322-225x300.jpeg" width="225" height="300" /></div><p>Please come to the unveiling of Monica Jahan Bose’s first ceramic sari, called “Rising,” which will be installed in the Kalorama Triangle alley behind her studio. The ceramic tile mural will be mounted on the garage wall of the home of Mary Miller and Dennis Farley. We will have an unveiling celebration on March 9 from 3-5 pm in the alley behind 2015 and 2017 Belmont Rd, NW. Monica’s studio will also be open and there will be a film screening of the performances that inspired the “Rising” ceramic work.</p> <p>“Rising” speaks to our connection as humans with the outdoor environment, including the water, the trees, and other species.  It is designed with ceramic tiles using the same techniques and design concepts as the Storytelling with Saris saris.  As in the fabric saris, the border tiles feature woodblock patterns. The tiles were rolled out by hand out of reclaimed clay.  Monica pressed her sari woodblocks into the wet clay to create impressions. These border tiles were then handpainted using wax resist technique.  The middle tiles of the sari comprise a figurative painting that Monica painted by hand using glazes.</p> <p>Monica worked with ceramic artist and fabricator Elle Brande of Moonlight Studios in Beltsville, Maryland to create the work over the course of several months.   Monica and Elle were colleagues at Red Dirt Studio many years ago and Elle assisted Monica in some of her very first performances with saris.  We are thrilled to share this brand new work with the community. It serves as a small-scale prototype for future projects.</p>America/New_York2025-03-09T15:00:00America/New_York2025-03-09T17:00:00en-USart,climateMonica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; storytellingwithsaris.comAlley behind Belmont Rd & Allen Place @ 2017 Belmont Rd NW0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/unveiling-of-ceramic-sari-mural/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_2322-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_2322-225x300.jpeg;225;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_2322-768x1024.jpeg;768;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_2322-scaled.jpeg;1920;2560;ai1ec-4634@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZWeaving Resistance World Pride Events<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-3.53.04 PM-300x270.jpeg" width="300" height="270" /></div> <p>Storytelling with Saris is thrilled to announce our participation in World Pride DC 2025 and our receipt of a World Pride grant from the Capital Pride Alliance.</p> <p>. <strong><mark class="has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color"> <a href="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/WP25_CP_press-release-of-Community-Grant_Final-1.pdf">Link to press release from Capital Pride and World Pride DC 2025.</a></mark></strong></p> <p><strong>Weaving Resistance: Storytelling with Saris</strong></p> <p>In this moment of human rights crisis created by the current U.S. administration, it is imperative to build community and fight back for LGBTQ+ rights without apology or retreat. This year’s World Pride theme is The Fabric of Freedom. Textiles have served as modes of resistance for centuries, especially by women and other marginalized groups. Since 2012, the Storytelling with Saris collaborative art project has been using the cotton sari — a 19-foot-long unstitched garment— as a site of community expression of bodily autonomy and gender and climate justice. Cotton saris are covered in woodblock printing, stencils, painting, drawing, embroidery, appliqué, and poetry and then used for large scale installations and performances.</p> <p>Over the last decade, Storytelling with Saris workshops, performances, and installations have engaged thousands of people in 13 U.S. states and 8 countries, including Bangladesh, Canada, France, Greece, and Italy. Recent Storytelling with Saris projects, performances, workshops, and roundtables in the U.S. and Bangladesh have specifically focused on LGBTQ+ issues, gender roles and identity, bodily autonomy, and increasing understanding and acceptance of gender-nonconforming persons through discussion, education, and collaborative art and performance.</p> <p>For World Pride 2025, Storytelling with Saris will present five healing and empowering art and poetry workshops on gender/sexuality/identity to foster greater inclusion, empathy, and pride in this difficult political climate. The workshops will culminate in a community performance and march. We are partnering with Human Rights Campaign, Moms Clean Air Force, and Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Group.  ASL is available for all events.  All events in accessible spaces. Please contact storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com for any accommodation requests.</p> <p><strong>Weaving Resistance: Storytelling with Saris Events</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/monica-jahan-bosestorytelling-with-saris-14030164452"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Register for all events at this link on EVENTBRITE.</span></a></strong></p> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>1. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1355038309059?aff=oddtdtcreator">Workshop hosted by Moms Clean Air Force</a>, 555 12th Street NW, May 16 from 5:30 to 7 pm. ASL confirmed.</p> <p> </p> <p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39d48146690db86a0eb0917974ec00b8"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/weaving-resistance-world-pride-workshop/"><strong>Link to register and details.</strong></a></span></p> <p> </p> <p>2. Display of artwork Prokash/Reveal Sari Scroll on gender/sexuality/identity at World Pride Welcome Center, 737 7th Street NW (Gallery Place Metro). Washington, DC 20021, from May 17-June 8, Open Saturday, May 17th & Sunday, May 18th<br />12:00 PM – 8:00 PM; Saturday, May 24th & Sunday, May 25th 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM;  May 30th – June 8th, open daily from <br />12:00 PM – 8:00 PM</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://worldpridedc.org/events/welcome-center/#:~:text=Location%3A%20737%207th%20St,and%20H%20St.)">Link to World Pride Welcome and Visual Arts Center</a></strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>3. Workshop hosted by Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Group, May 29 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm; ASL requested.</p> <p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduLn5ZKEezoylVkJphBVcCiiCON2jsi1fjmPMuInxVT9mo0A/viewform">Link to register</a></span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>4. Drop in workshops at <a href="https://worldpridedc.org/events/welcome-center/#:~:text=Location%3A%20737%207th%20St,and%20H%20St.)">World Pride DC HQ</a> hosted by Human Rights Campaign, 737 7th St NW, May 31, 12:00pm to 3:00pm and June 1 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. Drop in and contribute to the World Pride saris with art and poetry.  ASL requested.</p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362248023509?aff=oddtdtcreator">Link to register for workshop on May 31</a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362252797789?aff=oddtdtcreator">Link to register for</a><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362252797789?aff=oddtdtcreator"> wor</a><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362252797789?aff=oddtdtcreator">kshop</a><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-art-and-poetry-workshop-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362252797789?aff=oddtdtcreator"> on June 1</a></strong></span></p> <p>5. Drop in workshop at the <a href="https://worldpridedc.org/events/human-rights-conference/">Human Rights Conference</a> at JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, June 5 from 10 am to 2 pm</p> <p><a href="https://worldpridedc.org/events/human-rights-conference/"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Link to register for the Conference</span></strong></a></p> <p> </p> <p>6. Outdoor “Weaving Resistance” community sewing performance, Marie Reed Plaza, 2201 18th St NW, June 6 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm</p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-participatory-performance-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362254553039?aff=oddtdtcreator">Link to Register for the June 6 Performance</a></strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>7. Culminating event: international march with massive “Weaving Resistance” sari from Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol on Sunday June 8, from 10 am to 12 noon. Meet at Foggy Bottom Metro between 9:30 am & 10 am. Step off at 10 am to go to Lincoln Memorial.</p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-resistance-rally-march-to-capitol-for-world-pride-dc-2025-tickets-1362259517889?aff=oddtdtcreator">Link to register to carry sari to the Capitol on June 8</a></strong></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="" data-testid="image-content"> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm undefined"> <div> <div class="eds-fx--fade-in">The project is sponsored by Capital Pride Alliance.  Community partners:  Human Rights Campaign, Moms Clean Air Force, and Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project.   The project is also supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</div> </div> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/monica-jahan-bosestorytelling-with-saris-14030164452">https://www.eventbrite.com/o/monica-jahan-bosestorytelling-with-saris-14030164452</a>.</p>America/New_York2025-05-16T05:30:00America/New_York2025-06-08T06:30:00en-USart,gender,poetry',workshopMonica Jahan Bose; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/world-pride-events/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-3.53.04 PM-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-3.53.04 PM-300x270.jpeg;300;270;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-3.53.04 PM-1024x921.jpeg;960;863;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-3.53.04 PM.jpeg;1216;1094;https://www.eventbrite.com/o/monica-jahan-bosestorytelling-with-saris-14030164452ai1ec-4713@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T14:45:06ZWorks on Water Triennial<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/darchira-6-small-300x199.jpg" width="300" height="199" /></div><p>Join me on Governors Island for the Works on Water Triennial.</p> <p>Opening Reception: Thursday, August 28, 5-9 pm (Remarks at 7pm)</p> <p>Exhibition dates: August 28-October 26, 2025</p> <p><strong>Open Fridays from 2-5:30 pm; Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5:30 pm</strong> | Additional hours by appointment<br /> LMCC’s The Arts Center at Governors Island, Upper & Lower Galleries, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/110+Andes+Rd,+New+York,+NY+10004?entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/maps/search/110%2BAndes%2BRd,%2BNew%2BYork,%2BNY%2B10004?entry%3Dgmail%26source%3Dg&source=gmail&ust=1756305307997000&usg=AOvVaw0kRnIOyDh6Wk-Hz5Wd8QST">110 Andes Rd, New York, NY 10004</a><br /> August 28* – October 26<br /> Opening Night: Thursday, August 28, 5-9pm (Remarks at 7pm).   It’s right when you get off the Governors Island ferry from Manhattan (seven minute ride from South Ferry and $5 fare).</p> <p>Artists roundtable on September 27 at 4-5 pm with Monica Jahan Bose and Dana Harper and the WoW team.</p> <p>Ride the ferry from South Ferry to Governors Island with Monica Jahan Bose on September 28 at 2 pm and join her for a walkthrough tour of her installation.</p> <div>LMCC’s The Arts Center at Governors Island will serve as the hub and central exhibition space for <b>The Works on Water 2025 Triennial, </b>a multi-site exhibition and series of public art interventions made on, in, and with bodies of water, created in response to the global climate crisis. The exhibition, curated by Emily Blumenfeld and Kendal Henry with the Works on Water team, frames the growing genre of Water Art as a defining environmental art form of the 21st century, exploring themes of access, exploitation, conservation, remediation, and care.  I’m excited to feature the “Darchira River” performance video installation in the exhibition; cinematography: Shefali Akter Shetu; music and sound design: Sonia Herrero.  I will be at the opening on Thursday, August 28, from 5-9 pm.</div> <div></div> <div>Works on Water 2025 Triennial artists: Nora Almeida / iki nakagawa, Frank Bloem, Monica Jahan Bose, Donald Hài Phú Daedalus, Jeremy Dennis, Sherese Francis, Jana Harper, Perrin Ireland, Art Jones, Marie Lorenz, sTo Len, Stacy Levy, Mare Liberum, Mary Mattingly, Wes Modes, Lize Mogel, Eve Mosher, Nancy Nowacek, Jean Shin, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Sunk Shore (Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low), Elizabeth Velazquez, and Marina Zurkow.</div>America/New_York2025-08-28T17:00:00America/New_York2025-10-26T18:00:00en-USart,climatehttps://lmcc.net/events/works-on-water-triennial-exhibition/LMCC Gallery @ 110 Andes Rd, New York, NY 100040https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/work-on-water-triennial/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/darchira-6-small-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/darchira-6-small-300x199.jpg;300;199;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/darchira-6-small-1024x681.jpg;960;638;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/darchira-6-small.jpg;1504;1000;