It’s time to celebr ate Earth Day all month long! Join us for a planting\, poetry\, and art wo rkshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Kendra Hazel\, the new Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artis t Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and art inspired by th e garden. We will have more workshops in the summer with Monica followed b y an exhibition and poetry slam at The Nicholson Project in September.

If you have jo ined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops\, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal\, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!

Please ema il storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation nee ds. ASL will be provided.

Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and clim ate 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 performan ces. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS\, a long-term art and a dvocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali\, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a Di ploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law School .

Kendra Ha zel is the 2023 Garden Manager at The Nicholson Project. She is an herb en thusiast\, urban garden educator\, and a plant based chef. She studied Hea lth Science at Florida A&M University\, has worked with neighborhood commu nity gardens independently and as the Community Garden Spaces manager with City Blossoms\, and recently founded Green Things Work where she shares h er holistic approach to wellness.

The Nicholson Project is an artist residency progra m and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission i s to support\, provide opportunities\, engage\, and amplify artists and cr eatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly art ists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors thr ough community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity\, while infu sing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use simi lar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway towa rd stronger\, more vibrant communities.

~~This project is supported in part by the DC C ommission on the Arts and Humanities.~~

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Tickets: htt ps://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607 639986557.
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Join us for a plan ting\, poetry\, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We wil l be cleaning and planting the garden with Kendra Hazel\, the new Garden M anager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poe try and art inspired by the garden. We will have more workshops in the sum mer with Monica followed by an exhibition and poetry slam at The Nicholson Project in September.
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If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops\, p lease bring with you your folder of materials — journal\, pencil etc. Look ing forward to seeing you!
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Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any ques tions or accommodation needs. ASL will be provided.
\n< p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladesh i-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, printma king\, performance\, film\, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social pra ctice work highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art i nstallations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SAR IS\, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Ka takhali\, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a J D from Columbia Law School.
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Kendra Hazel is the 2023 Garden Manager at The Nicholson Project. She is an herb enthusiast\, urban garden educator\, and a plant b ased chef. She studied Health Science at Florida A&M University\, has work ed with neighborhood community gardens independently and as the Community Garden Spaces manager with City Blossoms\, and recently founded Green Thin gs Work where she shares her holistic approach to wellness.
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The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn n eighborhood. 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 authe ntic 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.
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This project is sup ported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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Image: Planting workshop for Sustain\, © 2022 Monica Jahan B ose\, photo credit: Paris Preston.
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Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-p oetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230612T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230612T130000 LOCATION:The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE\, Washington\, DC 200 20 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nourish: Planting & Poetry Workshop URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-earth-day-planting-poet ry-workshop-2/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2023/04/DSC02213-150x150.jpeg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://storytell ingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg\;200\;30 0\;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\; X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-work shop-tickets-627930626407 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4131@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:book\,gender CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
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 Bos e will be joined by local activists Sunu Chandy and Krittika Ghosh along w ith the book’s editor Monica Jahan Bose. Books will be available for purch ase and signing. We hope you will come and celebrate this major accomplish ment with Noorjahan\, who turned 85 earlier this year.
\nAlso please support our wonderful local bookstore\, which is hosting this official eve nt.
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How does a girl from a tiny Bangladeshi island end up readin g Tagore\, Marx\, and de Beauvoir and become a leading feminist campaigner ?
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This is th e riveting personal story of Noorjahan Bose\, born in 1938 in present-day Bangladesh to a farming family\, near the mouth of the ferocious River Agu nmukha—Fire Mouth River. Abused by male relatives and raised by a mother w ho was herself a child bride\, Noorjahan struggled for her education and a utonomy. Nurtured joyfully and creatively by her mother\, and mentored by local activists\, she found her way into the progressive movements that wo uld one day take her around the world. From the pain of partition to her h usband’s death when she was only 18 and pregnant\, to the devastating cycl ones threatening her family’s home and livelihood\, Noorjahan’s life has n ot been easy. Yet her courage shines through the pages of her memoir\, whe ther she is promoting Bangla language rights\, enduring Bangladesh’s liber ation war\, or marrying outside her family’s faith. This moving\, gripping book tells a powerful story of trauma\, loss\, resilience and empowerment .
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Translated by Rebecca Whittington and edited by Monica Jahan Bose.
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\nNOO RJAHAN BOSE – Noorjahan Bose (she/her) is a feminist writer\, social worke r\, and activist\, living between the US and Bangladesh. She is the founde r of two US-based organizations to empower South Asian women\, ASHA (now A shiyanaa) and Samhati. She has a BA (Honors) in Bangla literature from Dha ka University and a Masters in Social Work from Catholic University in Was hington DC. She worked for many years as a social worker with refugees and the elderly at Catholic Charities\, with foster children for Prince Georg es Country\, MD\, and with ICU patients at DC General Hospital. She also f ounded the first Bangla School in the DC area\, running it out of her home for more than 10 years.
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Her first book\, the autobiography Agunmukhar Meye\, was publ ished in 2009 in Bangladesh\, after coming out in serial form in the Janak antha newspaper. The book became a bestseller\, and in 2009 was named one of the top 10 books in Bangladesh. In 2010\, Noorjahan received the Ananny a 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 i n Bangladesh and India. In 2011\, Ananda Publishers brought out a new edit ion of the book in India. In 2016\, the book won Bangladesh’s highest hono r\, the Bangla Academy Literary Award (autobiography). Noorjahan has also published several travelogues and other books. The translation “Daughter o f the Agunmukha” was published in 2023 by Hurst Publishers in the U.K. wit h distribution in the US by Oxford University Press.
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SUNU P. CHANDY- Sunu P. Chandy (s he/her) is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward\, supporting work across the teams to defend and build measures towards a more inclusiv e democracy and to disrupt the policies that oppose this goal. Sunu is als o 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 tou r 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.
\n< div class='x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s'>Before joining Democ racy Forward in September 2023\, she served as the Legal Director of the N ational 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 Cour t. Sunu provided guidance for the Center’s policy positions towards greate r 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 a s the Deputy Director for the Civil Rights Division with the U.S. Departme nt 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 Offi ce. Sunu began her legal career as a law firm associate representing union s and individual workers in New York City at Gladstein\, Reif and Megginni ss\, 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 Wa shington Post\, LA Times\, Ms. Magazine\, the Advocate\, CSPAN\, NBC\, ABC and NPR.
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Su nu earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies from Earlha m College in Richmond\, Indiana\, her law degree from Northeastern Univers ity School of Law in Boston and later\, her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetr y) from Queens College/The City University of New York in 2013. Sunu’s cre ative work can also be found in publications including Asian American Lite rary Review\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, Poets on Adoption\, Split this Ro ck’s online social justice database\, The Quarry\, and in anthologies incl uding The Penguin Book of Indian Poets\, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformatio n.
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KRITTIKA GHOSH – Krittika Ghosh (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Asian/Pa cific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). She has extensiv e experience working on gender-based violencein the US and Canada for the past 21 years. Krittika’s experience includes developing innovative progra mming on prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) in immigrant and refuge e 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 engagemen t 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 respondin g to gender-based violence in New York City.
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Krittika has been recognized for her work by the City of New York\, The Filipino Women’s Network\, was one of Mothe r Board Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2017 for her work in ending gen der-based violence and is the recipient of the 2021 Imagene Stewart Surviv ing 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.
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MONICA JAHAN BOSE- Monica Jahan Bose(she/her) is a Bangladeshi-Ame rican 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 ance stral village has travelled to 11 US states and seven countries and engage d thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald\, the Was hington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolulu St ar Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She is a board member of Samhati and currently manages the Katakhali eco-e mpowerment project. She was the editor of Daughter of the Agunmukha. She h as a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a pos t-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columb ia Law School.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T160000 LOCATION:Politics and Prose @ 5015 Connecticut Ave NW\, Washington\, DC SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Daughter of the Agunmukha book launch URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/daughter-of-the-agunmukha-book- launch/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1-150x150.jpg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://s torytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/agunmukha_cover-1-194x 300.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.j pg\;972\;1500\; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4273@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,climate\,earth day\,gardening\,gender\,plant s\,poetry' CONTACT:https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/ DESCRIPTION:
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 b e happy to give you a tour of the exhibition.
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Nourish: Storytelling with Saris
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Location: Th e Nicholson Project\, 2310 Nicholson Project SE\, Washington DC\, Bus B2 a nd many others
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Exhibition Dates: September 10-November 4\, 2023
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Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 2-6pm + S aturdays 12 noon – 4pm
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Link to Washington Post Review.
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Nourish: Storytelling with Saris i s an installation of video\, drawings\, poems\, saris\, and kanthas inspired by plants and herbs. Touching the soil and growing food are gr ounding and nourishing. For the last two years\, Bangladeshi-American arti st Monica Jahan Bose and DC participants in her Storytelling with Saris pr oject have been connecting with the soil and Earth and food justice issues by nurturing plants on windowsills and planting neighborhood vegetable ga rdens. 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 r esidents with Bangladeshi coastal women farmers in solidarity to address c limate and food injustice. There is a concurrent exhibition by Stephanie J. Williams.
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Monica Jahan Bose b io: Monica Jahan Bose is a Banglad eshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, prin tmaking\, film\, performance\, and public art. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic in justice through co-created workshops\, art actions\, and temporary instal lations and performances. Bose use s 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 tha n 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National M useum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS w ith women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 10 st ates and seven countries and engaged thousands of people. Her work has ap peared in the Miami Herald\, th e Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolu lu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Pract ice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-graduate Diploma i n Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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This project was supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Hu manities.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T160000 LOCATION:The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE\, Washington DC SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:“Nourish” Exhibition Closing URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-exhibition-closing-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/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/Scre enshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-300x223.png\;300\;223\;1\,large\;https://s torytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31- at-8.53.45 PM-1024x761.png\;960\;713\;1\,full\;https://storytellingwithsar is.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM.png\ ;1984\;1474\; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4130@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,climate\,gender\,plants\,poetry'\,workshop CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
We will be doing workshops and t alks and an exhibition in Dhaka and Patuakhali\, Bangladesh. Stay tuned f or details.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T174700 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240311T184700 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Workshops in Bangladesh URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/workshops-in-bangladesh-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2022/03/IMG_7856-150x150.jpeg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://storytell ingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856-300x225.jpeg\;300\;22 5\;1\,large\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ IMG_7856-1024x768.jpeg\;960\;720\;1\,full\;https://storytellingwithsaris.c om/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_7856.jpeg\;1210\;907\; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4292@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,climate\,earth day\,film\,gender CONTACT:Monica Jahan Bose\; 2025096282\; monicajahanbose@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:
Join artist/ filmmaker Monica Jahan Bose for the DC premiere of “Darchira River\,” a ne w performance film. The film is based on a performance about cimate ch ange 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 feature s 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.
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Join us at lunchtime on Friday for the DC premiere at Artomatic.
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Running time 20 minutes\, followed by Q&A with artist
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Artomatic\, Friday\, April 19 at 12:15 pm\, 6th floor
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2100 M St NW\, Washington\, DC (metro\; Dupont Circle)
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T131500 LOCATION:Artomatic @ 2100 M St NW\, Washington DC 20037 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Darchira River film screening URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/darchira-river-film-screening/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-150x150.jpeg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://sto rytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-300x167.j peg\;300\;167\;1\,large\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uplo ads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-1024x571.jpeg\;960\;535\;1\,full\;https://story tellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-scaled.jpeg \;2560\;1428\; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4761@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,climate\,earth day\,gardening\,gender\,plant s\,poetry' CONTACT:Monica Jahan Bose\; 2025096282\; monicajahanbose@gmail.com\; https: //www.thenicholsonproject.org/ DESCRIPTION:
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Join us for a planting\, poetry\, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden wi th Peter Lewis\, the Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and sari art.
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If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops\, please bring with you your folde r of materials — journal\, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you! Ple ase email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodat ion needs.
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Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, printmaking\, performance\, f ilm\, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic injustice thr ough co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and perfo rmances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS\, a long-term art a nd 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 Sc hool.
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Peter Lewis is an avid gardener\, artist\, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of co ntact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. P eter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program a t Koiner Farm in Silver Spring\, MD.
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Monica Jahan Bose bio: Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate ac tivist whose work spans painting\, printmaking\, film\, performance\, and public art. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of clim ate\, racial\, gender\, and economic injustice through co-created workshop s\, 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 r epresent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibi ted her work extensively in the US and internationally (20 solo shows\, nu merous group exhibitions\, and more than 25 performances) including solo e xhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contempor ary Art Rome. Her ongoing collabor ative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestra l island village has travelled to 10 states and seven countries and engage d thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald\, the Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacifi c\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolulu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Time s\, and all major newspapers i n Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, a nd a JD from Columbia Law School.
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The Nicholson Project is an artist residency progr am and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support\, provide opportunities\, engage\, and amplify artists and c reatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly ar tists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors th rough community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hu b and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity\, while inf using new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use sim ilar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway tow ard stronger\, more vibrant communities.
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This project is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-8777 06412507?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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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 ha s been growing. We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence\, Peter Lewis.
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Peter Lewi s is an avid gardener\, artist\, and chef. He has been working with Nichol son Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activit ies and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring\, MD.
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Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist an d climate activist whose work spans painting\, printmaking\, film\, perfor mance\, and public art. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersec tion of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic injustice through co-crea ted workshops\, art actions\, and temporary installations and performance s. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and t he cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows\, numerous group exhibitions\, a nd more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing co llaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her an cestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries a nd engaged thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Her ald\, the Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, th e Honolulu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newspaper s in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesle yan University\, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\ , and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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The Nicholson Project is an artist res idency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support\, provide opportunities\, engage\, and amplify a rtists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—par ticularly 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 other s to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger\, more vibrant communities.
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Stortyelling with Saris is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.\n
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Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetr y-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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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 ha s been growing. We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence\, Peter Lewis. Location: 2310 N icholson St\, SE\, Washington DC. Buses B2\, 32\, 36. Free street parkin g available.
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Peter Lewis is an avid gardener\, artist\, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main poin t of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing se ason. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Pr ogram at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring\, MD.
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Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans paintin g\, printmaking\, film\, performance\, and public art. Her socially engag ed work highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and eco nomic injustice through co-created workshops\, art actions\, and temporary installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-fo ot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — t o represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exh ibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows\, numerous group exhibitions\, and more than 25 performances) including sol o exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contem porary 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 h as appeared in the Miami Herald\, the Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacifi c\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolulu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Time s\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practi ce of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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The Nic holson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in W ard 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support\, provide opportu nities\, engage\, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from W ard 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programmi ng. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrat ing Ward 7’s authentic identity\, while infusing new vibrancy into Southea st DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and c ommunity-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger\, more vibrant com munities.
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Stortyelling with Saris is supported by the DC Commissio n on the Arts and Humanities.
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Tickets: https://www.event brite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtc reator.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T113000 LOCATION:The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE\, Washington DC SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Harvest Time! URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://storytelli ngwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg\;300\;200\ ;1\,large\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DS C08360-1024x683.jpg\;960\;640\;1\,full\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/ wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg\;2560\;1707\; X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-ti ckets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4435@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,climate\,earth day\,gardening\,gender\,plant s\,poetry' CONTACT:Monica Jahan Bose\; 2025096282\; monicajahanbose@gmail.com\; https: //www.thenicholsonproject.org/ DESCRIPTION:
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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 t o see what has been growing. We will do some earthing exercises with Moni ca Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence\, Peter Lewis. Loca tion: 2310 Nicholson St\, SE\, Washington DC. Buses B2\, 32\, 36. Free street parking available.
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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 pe ak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring\, MD.
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Monica Ja han Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, printmaking\, film\, performance\, and public art. Her s ocially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gen der\, and economic injustice through co-created workshops\, art actions\, and temporary installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a prec olonial 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 Mus eum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLI NG WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has tra velled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people . Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald\, the Washington Post\, Ar t Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolulu Star Advertiser\, t he Japan Times\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-gradua te Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law S chool.
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The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhoo d garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support\, pr ovide 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-ba sed programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community an chor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity\, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-tradition al arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger\, mor e vibrant communities.
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Stortyelling with Saris is supported in par t by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877 706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T120000 LOCATION:The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE\, Washington DC SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Harvest Time! URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time-3/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://storytelli ngwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg\;300\;200\ ;1\,large\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DS C08360-1024x683.jpg\;960\;640\;1\,full\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/ wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg\;2560\;1707\; X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-ti ckets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-4141@storytellingwithsaris.com DTSTAMP:20260422T114957Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:art\,climate\,earth day\,gardening\,gender\,plant s\,poetry' CONTACT:Monica Jahan Bose\; 2025096282\; monicajahanbose@gmail.com\; https: //www.thenicholsonproject.org/ DESCRIPTION:
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Join us for a gardening\, poetry\, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be helping with setting up the soil b eds in the garden with Peter Lewis\, the Garden Manager at Nicholson. Arti st Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and art inspired by c are of the soil and Earth and each other.
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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! Sign up AT THIS LINK.
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Nicholson Project address:
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~~2310 Nicholso n St SE\, Washington\, DC 20020~~
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Many buses go there incl uding D10\, C15\, C31.
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Plea se email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodati on needs.
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If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris worksho ps\, 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.
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Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans pai nting\, 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 tempora ry public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYT ELLING WITH SARIS\, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestra l 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.
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Peter Lewis is an avid gardener\, artist\, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project s ince 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distr ibution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and ru ns the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring\, MD.< /p>\n
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Monica Jahan Bose bio: Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangl adeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, pr intmaking\, film\, performance\, and public art. Her socially engaged wor k highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic injustice through co-created workshops\, art actions\, and temporary inst allations and performances. Bose u ses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is alway s 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 an d internationally (20 solo shows\, numerous group exhibitions\, and more t han 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 10 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 Hono lulu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Pra ctice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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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 l ocal artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. It s vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Wa rd 7’s authentic identity\, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and communi ty-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger\, more vibrant communiti es.
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This project is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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Tickets: https:/ /www.eventbrite.com/e/care-earth-day-gardening-and-art-workshop-tickets-19 87193583502?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T123000 LOCATION:The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE\, Washington DC SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Care: Gardening & Art Workshop URL:https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/earthdaygardeningworkshop/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/upl oads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://storytelli ngwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg\;300\;200\ ;1\,large\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DS C08360-1024x683.jpg\;960\;640\;1\,full\;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/ wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg\;2560\;1707\; X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/care-earth-day-gardening-and-art -workshop-tickets-1987193583502?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR