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-4033@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZNourish: Earth Day Planting & Poetry Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg" width="200" height="300" /></div><div class="event-details event-details--has-hero-section" data-testid="event-details"> <div class="event-details__wrapper"> <div class="event-details__main"> <div class="event-details__main-inner"> <div class="eds-l-mar-bot-8 structured-content"> <div class="has-user-generated-content"> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">It’s time to celebrate Earth Day all month long! Join us for a planting, poetry, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Kendra Hazel, the new Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and art inspired by the garden. We will have more workshops in the summer with Monica followed by an exhibition and poetry slam at The Nicholson Project in September.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs. ASL will be provided.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, performance, film, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Kendra Hazel is the 2023 Garden Manager at The Nicholson Project. She is an herb enthusiast, urban garden educator, and a plant based chef. She studied Health Science at Florida A&M University, has worked with neighborhood community gardens independently and as the Community Garden Spaces manager with City Blossoms, and recently founded Green Things Work where she shares her holistic approach to wellness.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</span></strong></p> <p>Image: Planting workshop for Sustain, © 2022 Monica Jahan Bose, photo credit: Paris Preston.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="eds-show-up-md eds-layout eds-layout--has-large-max-width eds-layout--has-horizontal-gutters marketing-hub-trial-banner-wrap"></div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607639986557">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607639986557</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-04-24T14:00:00America/New_York2023-04-24T16:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose or Allison Nance; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington, DC 200200https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-earth-day-planting-poetry-workshop/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg;200;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-683x1024.jpeg;683;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-scaled.jpeg;1707;2560;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-607639986557ai1ec-4051@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZNourish: Planting & Poetry Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg" width="200" height="300" /></div><div class="event-details event-details--has-hero-section" data-testid="event-details"> <div class="event-details__wrapper"> <div class="event-details__main"> <div class="event-details__main-inner"> <div class="eds-l-mar-bot-8 structured-content"> <div class="has-user-generated-content"> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;"> Join us for a planting, poetry, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Kendra Hazel, the new Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and art inspired by the garden. We will have more workshops in the summer with Monica followed by an exhibition and poetry slam at The Nicholson Project in September.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs. ASL will be provided.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, performance, film, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Kendra Hazel is the 2023 Garden Manager at The Nicholson Project. She is an herb enthusiast, urban garden educator, and a plant based chef. She studied Health Science at Florida A&M University, has worked with neighborhood community gardens independently and as the Community Garden Spaces manager with City Blossoms, and recently founded Green Things Work where she shares her holistic approach to wellness.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</span></strong></p> <p>Image: Planting workshop for Sustain, © 2022 Monica Jahan Bose, photo credit: Paris Preston.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="eds-show-up-md eds-layout eds-layout--has-large-max-width eds-layout--has-horizontal-gutters marketing-hub-trial-banner-wrap"></div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407</a>.</p>America/New_York2023-06-12T11:00:00America/New_York2023-06-12T13:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose or Allison Nance; storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington, DC 200200https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-earth-day-planting-poetry-workshop-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-200x300.jpeg;200;300;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-683x1024.jpeg;683;1024;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC02213-scaled.jpeg;1707;2560;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nourish-planting-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-627930626407ai1ec-4273@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37Z“Nourish” Exhibition Closing<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-300x223.png" width="300" height="223" /></div><p>Please stop by for the final day of “Nourish: Storytelling with Saris”!  Monica Jahan Bose will be there during gallery hours from noon to 4 pm and will be happy to give you a tour of the exhibition.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nourish: Storytelling with Saris</span></p> <p>Location:  The Nicholson Project, 2310 Nicholson Project SE, Washington DC, Bus B2 and many others</p> <p>Exhibition Dates: September 10-November 4, 2023</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 2-6pm + Saturdays 12 noon – 4pm</span></p> <p><a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/washington-post-review-nourish-October-26-2023.pdf">Link to Washington Post Review.</a></p> <p>Nourish: Storytelling with Saris is an installation of video, drawings, poems, saris, and <em>kanthas</em> inspired by plants and herbs. Touching the soil and growing food are grounding and nourishing. For the last two years, Bangladeshi-American artist Monica Jahan Bose and DC participants in her Storytelling with Saris project have been connecting with the soil and Earth and food justice issues by nurturing plants on windowsills and planting neighborhood vegetable gardens. This year they planted and harvested in the garden at The Nicholson Project. Bose led a series of planting workshops that included poetry and art inspired by soil and plants. Using performance, sari art, writing, and film, Storytelling with Saris, which commenced in 2012, links DC residents with Bangladeshi coastal women farmers in solidarity to address climate and food injustice.  There is a concurrent  exhibition by Stephanie J. Williams.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose bio: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (20 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 10 states and seven countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></p> <p>This project was supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.</p>America/New_York2023-11-04T12:00:00America/New_York2023-11-04T16:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/nourish-exhibition-closing-2/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-300x223.png;300;223;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM-1024x761.png;960;713;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-8.53.45 PM.png;1984;1474;ai1ec-4130@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZWorkshops 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-4292@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZDarchira River film screening<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-300x167.jpeg" width="300" height="167" /></div><p class="p1"><b>Join artist/filmmaker Monica Jahan Bose for the DC premiere of “Darchira River,” a new performance film. </b>The film is based on a performance about cimate change let by Monica in Katakhali Village, Bangladesh, on the banks of the Darchira River, which has been destroyed by climate change. The stunning footage shows women farmers of the village engage in singing, writing, and rituals towards healing climate change. In this ecofeminist work, the women reframe a Muslim ritual of writing wishes, into a feminist ritual of hope and renewal, using writing, turmeric and water. The film features village women’s oral tradition songs along with an original score by DC musician and sound designer Sonia Herrero. Cinematography: Shefali Akhter Shetu. Editing: Shefali Akhter Shetu and Monica Jahan Bose.</p> <p class="p1">Join us at lunchtime on Friday for the DC premiere at Artomatic.</p> <p class="p1">Running time 20 minutes, followed by Q&A with artist</p> <p class="p1">Artomatic, Friday, April 19 at 12:15 pm, 6th floor</p> <p class="p1">2100 M St NW, Washington, DC (metro; Dupont Circle)</p>America/New_York2024-04-19T12:15:00America/New_York2024-04-19T13:15:00en-USart,climate,earth day,film,genderMonica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.comArtomatic @ 2100 M St NW, Washington DC 200370https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/darchira-river-film-screening/freethumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-150x150.jpeg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-300x167.jpeg;300;167;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-1024x571.jpeg;960;535;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Imports-2-of-5-scaled.jpeg;2560;1428;ai1ec-4141@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZEarth Day Gardening & Art Workshop<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join us for a planting, poetry, and art workshop at The Nicholson Project’s garden. We will be cleaning and planting the garden with Peter Lewis, the Garden Manager at Nicholson. Artist Monica Jahan Bose will lead us in creating poetry and sari art.</p> <p>If you have joined prior Storytelling with Saris workshops, please bring with you your folder of materials — journal, pencil etc. Looking forward to seeing you!  Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, performance, film, and interdisciplinary projects. Her social practice work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops and temporary public art installations and performances. She is the creator of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a long-term art and advocacy project with her ancestral village of Katakhali, Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose bio: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (20 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 10 states and seven countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</span></p> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>This project is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-04-22T10:00:00America/New_York2024-04-22T12:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/gardeningworkshop/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4400@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZHarvest Time!<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join the Storytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nicholson Project neighborhood garden.  We helped out in the garden in the spring and and are thrilled to go back to see what has been growing.  We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence, Peter Lewis.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in <i>the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</i>, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>Stortyelling with Saris is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-06-26T10:00:00America/New_York2024-06-26T11:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time-2/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4373@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZHarvest Time!<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join the Storytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nicholson Project neighborhood garden.  We helped out in the garden in the spring and and are thrilled to go back to see what has been growing.  We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence, Peter Lewis.  Location:  2310 Nicholson St, SE, Washington DC.  Buses B2, 32, 36.  Free street parking available.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in <i>the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</i>, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>Stortyelling with Saris is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-08-15T10:00:00America/New_York2024-08-15T11:30:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4435@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZHarvest Time!<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>Join the Storytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nicholson Project neighborhood garden.  We helped out in the garden in the spring and summer, and and are thrilled to go back to see what has been growing.  We will do some earthing exercises with Monica Jahan Bose and work with the gardener in residence, Peter Lewis.  Location:  2310 Nicholson St, SE, Washington DC.  Buses B2, 32, 36.  Free street parking available.</p> <p>Peter Lewis is an avid gardener, artist, and chef. He has been working with Nicholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden activities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages seeds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring, MD.</p> <p>Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting, printmaking, film, performance, and public art.  Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary  installations and performances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (23 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countries and engaged thousands of people.  Her work has appeared in <i>the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, Art Asia Pacific, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Japan Times</i>, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan, India, and a JD from Columbia Law School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm structured-content-rich-text"> <div class="eds-text--left"> <p>The Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Its mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Its vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities.</p> <p>Stortyelling with Saris is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.</p> </div> </div> <p>Tickets: <a class="ai1ec-ticket-url-exported" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>.</p>America/New_York2024-10-23T10:30:00America/New_York2024-10-23T12:00:00en-USart,climate,earth day,gardening,gender,plants,poetry'Monica Jahan Bose; 2025096282; monicajahanbose@gmail.com; https://www.thenicholsonproject.org/The Nicholson Project @ 2310 Nicholson St SE, Washington DC0https://storytellingwithsaris.com/event/harvest-time-3/externalthumbnail;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-150x150.jpg;150;150;1,medium;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-300x200.jpg;300;200;1,large;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-1024x683.jpg;960;640;1,full;https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC08360-scaled.jpg;2560;1707;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-and-poetry-workshop-tickets-877706412507?aff=oddtdtcreatorai1ec-4390@storytellingwithsaris.com2026-03-12T22:11:37ZWorkshops 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;