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. If weather permi ts\, the workshop wil be outdoors on the sidewalk. When installed in June 2024 at the Marie Reed Community & Aquatic Center in Washington DC\, SWIM MING will feature a “pool” of art-embellished saris\, along with a sound w alk\, performances\, film screenings\, and poetry readings. Artist and cl imate 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\, th e project has fostered collaboration with women from Bose’s ancestral isla nd in Bangladesh as well as residents of DC and people around the world.\n
ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email storytellingwiths aris@gmail.com with any questions or accommodation needs. Register for th e event on Eventbrite.
\nCurator: Sarah Tanguy. Photography/livestream: Paris Preston Music & Sound Design: Sonia Herrero .
\nCommunity partners: Marie Reed Elementary School and Community & Aquatic Center\, Adams Morgan Partnership BID\, DC Arts Center\, Calvary Women’s Services.
\nThis project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
\nMonica J ahan 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\, g ender\, and economic injustice through co-created workshops\, art actions\ , and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and interna tionally (22 solo shows\, numerous group exhibitions\, and more than 25 pe rformances) including solo exhibit ions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Ar t Rome. Her ongoing decade-long co llaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has travele d to eight countries and 12 US states\, engaging thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Her ald\, the Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolulu Star Advertiser\, the t he Japan Times\, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The S mithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired and group of her painti ngs\, saris\, and archival materials for its collection. Monica has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-gradua te diploma in art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law S chool.
\nTickets: https://www. eventbrite.com/e/872963757097?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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