WRAPture film in Canada
Fine Arts Building 3800 Ring Rd
Victoria, BC V8P 5C2
Canada
WRAPture: A Public Art Project will be screened as part of the conference“Gendered Threads of Globalization: 20th Century Textile Crossings in Asia Pacific” at the University of Victoria in Canada. Please join us for the 49 minute film and Q&A. The event is free and open to the public.
This documentary film follows a textile-based climate justice art project from Washington D.C.’s low-income Anacostia neighborhood to Barobaishdia, a remote Bangladeshi island on the frontiers of climate change. Bangladeshi-American artist Monica Jahan Bose leads a dozen women farmers and over 200 Washingtonians to co-create 65 climate-themed saris. The participants recite poetry, sing, and dance creating a trans-border community. The film includes rare footage and testimony of the impacts of climate change on coastal women farmers and the power of art to bring about change. It premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington at a joint event with the Smithsonian and was also screened at the Dhaka Art Summit in 2023.
