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-4370@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Sari 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-4072@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

To 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-4164@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Sari 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-4170@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Rising 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Launch 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Community 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Workshops 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-4221@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Community 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Community 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Climate 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Community 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-4304@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Community 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.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Sewing 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-4079@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Sari 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-4390@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Workshops 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-4634@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-16T15:13:16Z

Weaving 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-14030164452