Join the St orytelling with Saris team to help harvest the vegetables from the Nichols on 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\, Washingt on DC. Buses B2\, 32\, 36. Free street parking available.
\nPeter Lewis is an avid gardener\, artist\, and chef. He has been working with Ni cholson Project since 2022 and is the main point of contact for garden act ivities and distribution during peak growing season. Peter also manages se eds starts and runs the Community Composting Program at Koiner Farm in Sil ver Spring\, MD.
\nMonica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artis t and climate activist whose work spans painting\, printmaking\, film\, pe rformance\, and public art. Her socially engaged work highlights the inte rsection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic injustice through co- created workshops\, art actions\, and temporary installations and perform ances. Bose uses the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives a nd 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 Bangla desh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoin g collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from he r ancestral island village has travelled to 12 US states and eight countri es and engaged thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald\, the Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\ , the Honolulu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newsp apers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from W esleyan University\, a post-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, In dia\, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
\nThe Nicholson Project is an artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborho od. Its mission is to support\, provide opportunities\, engage\, and ampli fy 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 iden tity\, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire o thers to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger\, more vibrant communities.
\nStortyell ing with Saris is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanitie s.
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