Please join us for a communit y workshop to create SWIMMING\, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increa sed flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. When installed i n June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC\ , SWIMMING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris\, along with a s ound 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 inspir ed by the healing properties of water and swimming and inequities in acces s. SWIMMING is part of Bose’s art and advocacy project Storytelling with S aris. 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.
\nTo learn more and become part of this exciting project\, please register using the Eventbrite link.
\nASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwithsaris@g mail.com with any questions or accommodation needs.
\nCurator: Sara h Tanguy. Film/livestream: Paris Preston Music & Sound Design: Sonia He rrero.
\nCommunity partners: Marie Reed Elementary School and Commu nity & Aquatic Center\, Adams Morgan Partnership BID\, DC Arts Center\, Ca lvary Women’s Services.
\nThis project is funded by the DC Commissio n on the Arts and Humanities.
\nMon ica 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\, racia l\, gender\, and economic injustice through co-created workshops\, art act ions\, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and in ternationally (22 solo shows\, numerous group exhibitions\, and more than 25 performances) including solo ex hibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contempora ry Art Rome. Her ongoing decade-lo ng collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from h er ancestral island village has tr aveled to eight countries and 12 US states\, engaging thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miam i Herald\, the Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee < 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 p aintings\, saris\, and archival materials for its collection. Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-g raduate diploma in art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
\nTickets: https:/ /www.eventbrite.com/e/795620070047?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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