From River to River
Good Hope Road SE & Anacostia Drive SE (
Join the Phillips@THEARC and Monica Jahan Bose for a special event at the Anacostia River Festival
Anacostia River Festival 2025
Sankofa on the River: Bridging Legacies
Organized by 11th Street Bridge Park
Location:
Anacostia Park, Good Hope Road SE & Anacostia Drive SE . If you’re planning to take the Metro, get off at Anacostia Station on the Green/Yellow line. If you’re planning on driving, you can park at Anacostia Station.
From River to River in collaboration with Monica Jahan Bose
18-foot-long blue Bangladeshi saris are laid out on long tables, and the community joins together to make collaborative art work with painting, writing, and wood-block printing, expressing their intentions to protect and enjoy the Anacostia River and honor its history.
Bio: Monica 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, racial, gender, and economic injustice through co-created workshops, art actions, and temporary installations and performances. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US andinternationally (23 solo shows, five large-scale public art projects, and more than 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National Museum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome.
Her ongoing decade-long collaborative art and advocacy project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her ancestral island village has traveled to eight countries and 12 US states, engaging 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, Prothom Alo and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has acquired a collection of her paintings, saris, and archival materials. Monica was an artist delegate to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, presenting sari installations, workshops, and film screenings. She has a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University, a post-graduate diploma in art from Santiniketan, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
