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Talk for WPA Wherewithal Grant

When: September 22, 2022 @ 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Zoom

Please join us to hear about the amazing research projects by the 2022 Wherewithal grant recipients.  This regrant is given by the Washington Project for the Arts and is funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation.  Details HERE. Monica Jahan Bose will be talking about her...

by Monica Bose on September 20th, 2022
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Pink Power (Carbon Free)

When: August 12, 2022 @ 7:00 AM – September 10, 2022 @ 11:00 PM
Where: American University, Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW

Monica Jahan Bose “Pink Power (Carbon Free)” 2022 Wood block and painting on hand-woven cotton saris, dimensions variable (in collaboration with AU students, other DC residents, and Bangladeshi women farmers in the Bay of Bengal). Address: American University, Katzen Center for the Arts, 4400 Massachusetts...

by Monica Bose on August 15th, 2022
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Subsistance: Une Nuit Bengali

When: July 30, 2022 @ 8:00 PM – 10:45 PM
Where: The Window, 1 Rue Gustave Goublier, 75010 Paris, France

Monica Jahan Bose will present short films from her 2019 SUBSISTANCE project in Paris, which was in collaboration with many Parisians and people in Brittany.  Monica and Jahangir will provide a simple Bengali meal and adda, followed by the screening of short films, including the...

by Monica Bose on July 14th, 2022
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Athens Film Watch Party

When: July 18, 2022 @ 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Where: Youtube Live

Please join us for an online watch party premiering the film from the Athens performance in 2018. On the fourth anniversary of the Storytelling with Saris project in Athens, Greece, we present a 25-minute performance film of our epic two-hour performance that took to the...

by Monica Bose on July 11th, 2022
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Film Screening in Brittany

When: August 4, 2022 @ 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Where: Art au Bar, 22 Rue du Général de Gaulle, 35870 Le Minihic-sur-Rance, France

Join us for a film screening and Bengali meal at Art au Bar in Brittany, France on August 4, 2022 at 8 pm.  We will be showing “Water Resistance” and “Subsistance” addressing climate change and impacts on agriculture and food. The chef will be preparing...

by Monica Bose on July 5th, 2022
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Futures Exhibition

When: November 21, 2021 @ 10:00 AM – July 6, 2022 @ 11:00 PM
Where: Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, 900 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington DC

Arts and Industries Building 900 Jefferson Drive, SW Washington, DC Part exhibition, part festival, FUTURES presents nearly 32,000 square feet of new immersive site-specific art installations, interactives, working experiments, inventions, speculative designs, and “artifacts of the future,” as well as historic objects and discoveries from 23 of...

by Monica Bose on June 28th, 2022
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Fragile Beauty Exhibition

When: May 9, 2022 @ 9:00 AM – July 1, 2022 @ 6:00 PM

I St Gallery of DCCAH 200 I Street SE, Washington, DC Curator: Sarah Gordon Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm ET Masks are required May 9 – July 1, 2022 With social injustice a common theme around the world, we are also currently...

by Monica Bose on June 11th, 2022
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To Live and to Breathe Sari Workshop

When: September 24, 2023 @ 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Where: Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC

Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a hands-on sari climate pledge workshop as part of the exhibition To Live and to Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.  Participants will discuss strategies for climate action and draw, paint, and write...

by Monica Bose on June 11th, 2022
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Fragile Beauty Sari Workshop

When: June 27, 2022 @ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Where: DCCAH Gallery - park across the street, 200 I Street, SE, Washington DC

Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose will lead a hands-on sari climate pledge workshop as part of the closing of Fragile Beauty. The workshop will be outdoors (unless it rains), allowing us to connect with the Earth. Participants will discuss strategies for climate...

by Monica Bose on June 11th, 2022
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Light Your Fire

When: June 11, 2022 @ 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Where: Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, Independence Ave SW &, 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560

Join us for Light Your Fire, a project with teens from Coolidge High School in DC. They have  worked with  Monica Jahan Bose on poetry and a community scroll and will unveil their work and do a collective performance on Saturday, June 11 in the...

by Monica Bose on June 11th, 2022
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