Archive for the ‘Updates’ Category
-
Recent Posts
-
Bookmarks
-
Archives
- March 2024 (3)
- January 2024 (2)
- December 2023 (1)
- October 2023 (1)
- August 2023 (1)
- April 2023 (1)
- January 2023 (1)
- December 2022 (1)
- October 2022 (2)
- June 2022 (3)
- May 2022 (1)
- January 2022 (1)
-
Recent Comments
coffee beans
[...]Wonderful stor ...
Sublime Virtue in NY Press!!
This article came out about the performance at the DUMBO Arts Festival right after the fair! Epoch Times Article here.
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...
Exhibition Installation – Layer by Layer
Exhibition Installation – Layer by Layer: Storytelling With Saris Just a few “in progress” shots of the Layer by Layer: Storytelling With Saris exhibition at the Brentwood Arts Exchange Gallery, Gateway Arts Center. On view from September 9 – October 19, 2013.
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...
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...
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...
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...
New article in Anannya Magazine!
A three-page article about Storytelling with Saris has just come out in a leading women’s magazine in Bangladesh called Annanya. The article is in Bengali and describes the collaboration and the trip to Katakhali in great detail and includes several photos. The article starts with...
Launch of film trailer and Kickstarter!
Nandita and I have been working hard on the trailer for the film and an appeal video for Kickstarter. Here is the link to both videos and our Kickstarter page. Please watch it and pledge your support and tell your friends! Thanks so much! Monica...
Cyclone Mahasen causes storm damage
I just spoke with our friends in Katakhali. Cyclone Mahasen in coastal Bangladesh caused a big storm in Katakhali during the last 30 hours. Thankfully, all the villagers took shelter in the Samhati Health Center and no one was hurt. However, there was extensive damage...
