Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

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Press in Berlin!

Monica Jahan Bose’s performance UNWRAPPED using the saris from this project was described in a review of (e)merge art fair in Berlin Art Link. Quoting from the review: “DC-based, Bangladeshi-American artist-activist, Monica Jahan Bose performed Unwrapped. With a 216-foot sari—covered with writing from the women...

by Monica Bose on October 20th, 2013
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Sublime Virtue coming to Dumbo…

Sublime Virtue coming to Dumbo Arts Festival! I am very excited to announce that I’ll be working with a team of empowered women on the performance/installation Sublime Virtue, part of the SAWCC presentation at the Dumbo Arts Festival this coming weekend, September 28 and 29....

by Monica Bose on September 25th, 2013
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NYC Party

Today we celebrated and shared the Storytelling with Saris project with our New York City funders and friends. Aside cocktails and small bites, Monica and Nandita presented the project to new individuals, as well as personally thanked our New York backers. A big thank you...

by Monica Bose on June 26th, 2013
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Final Bus Stop Bangladesh

June twentieth marked the end of three public installation performances known as Bus Stop Bangladesh. The saris of Roxana, Parveen, Zakia, and Zulekha were hung from Mt. Rainier City Hall. Reactions by the public to the performance ranged from local residents baffled by their surroundings...

by Monica Bose on June 20th, 2013
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DC Party

Today we held an event to celebrate and thank our Washington, D.C. Storytelling with Saris funders and friends, and introduce the project to local D.C. residents. Along with delicious snacks, drinks, and barbecue, Monica showed two detailed presentations about the Storytelling with Saris project. It...

by Monica Bose on June 17th, 2013
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Bus Stop Bangladesh Part II

On June 12th, 2013, the second performance of Bus Stop Bangladesh was held. Outside of Mt. Rainier City Hall, commuters poured off the bus, bleary-eyed and tired. Dazzling visions of red, pink, black, and white cloth blew around in the steamy summer air, filling their...

by Monica Bose on June 12th, 2013
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Bus Stop Bangladesh Part I

Bus Stop Bangladesh Part I Serves Diverse Audience We showed the Storytelling Saris to the public for the first time on June 4, 2013 with a performance at Mt. Rainier City Hall in front of a bus stop, just outside Washington DC. It was a...

by Monica Bose on June 7th, 2013
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Press Release for Bus Stop Bangladesh

For Immediate Release from Art Lives Here: BUS STOP BANGLADESH is a three-part public intervention held on June 4th, 12th, and 19th from 5 to 7:30 pm outside the bus stop at Mt. Rainier City Hall featuring the stories and art of 12 women from...

by Monica Bose on May 28th, 2013
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Spring Sari Party in DC!

Nandita and I have spent two days this week (first in New York and then in DC) working on a video for our Kickstarter campaign. Then we had a Spring Sari Party to Celebrate Storytelling with Saris on Saturday May 4 at my home in...

by Monica Bose on May 7th, 2013
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Talk in NYC

We had a full-house for the panel discussion organized by SAWCC at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop on April 29, 2013. The panel, “Illuminating Contemporary Feminisms in South Asia,” included a presentation by Monica Jahan Bose and Nandita Ahmed on “Storytelling with Saris” and a...

by Monica Bose on April 29th, 2013
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