Please come join me for the One Billion Rising REVOLUTION 2015 event at and in front of the National Museum on V-day 2015. My performance will start in the National Museum and move out to the street.

Monica Jahan Bose has been invited to give the annual Women in America Lecture at Simpson College, Iowa in celebration of Women’s History Month. She will be presenting the Storytelling with Saris project and its implications for gender and climate change.

I will be giving a presentation about Storytelling with Saris and using art as a tool of social change at the SAALT Conference. This is part of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective’s interactive workshop with my co-presenters Aaliya Zaveri and Ambika Samarthya-Howard.

Please join us for Climate and Actions: Storytelling with Saris. Exhibition dates: May 8 to June 6, 2015. This cumulative exhibition of saris and prints on paper evolves as participants create art on saris pledging to reduce carbon footprint.

Opening reception and workshop: May 8, 6 -8 pm.

Participants will write and print on saris their personal stories and pledges to reduce carbon footprint. The saris will be added to the exhibition during the course of the show. The workshops will culminate in a public performance in fall 2015 using the pledge saris, which will later be returned to Bangladesh to be worn by coastal women.

Workshop dates: Thursdays May 14 and 21, 11 am to 1 pm and Saturdays May 23, May 30, and June 6 from 11 am to 2 pm.

The project and exhibition are funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities​, which is partially supported by the National Endowment on the Arts.

Photo: “Surge 2,” Woodblock and watercolor on paper, Monica Jahan Bose 2015.

Join artist/activist Monica Jahan Bose for an inspiring and empowering Sari Pledge Workshop. Dates: Saturdays May 23, 30, and June 6 from 11 am to 2 pm. The workshop includes an audio/visual learning session on climate change and its impacts in coastal Bangladesh followed by hands-on woodblock printing with Bangladeshi blocks and writing with paint on handwoven cotton saris. Learn how you can make a difference to global warming by pledging to reduce your own carbon footprint. Participants become part of Storytelling with Saris and can add their experiences to the project website and are also invited to join in a public performance in the fall using the saris. The saris will ultimately be returned to Bangladesh to be worn by coastal women. The workshop is 1 -1/2 hours and participants for Saturday workshops should plan to join at 11 am or 12:30 pm. The workshop is designed for adults and teens but children 10 and older may join with parent supervision.

Free workshop but please sign up with Eventbrite.

Monica Jahan Bose will screen a new performance video as well as a short excerpt from Her Words: Storytelling with Saris, followed by a talk about her project with audience talk back.

Join artist/activist Monica Jahan Bose for an inspiring and empowering Sari Pledge Workshop. The workshop includes an audio/visual learning session on climate change and its impacts in coastal Bangladesh followed by hands-on woodblock printing with Bangladeshi blocks and writing with paint on handwoven cotton saris. Learn how you can make a difference to global warming by pledging to reduce your own carbon footprint. Participants become part of Storytelling with Saris and can add their experiences to the project website and are also invited to join in a public performance in the fall using the saris. The saris will ultimately be returned to Bangladesh to be worn by coastal women. The workshop is 1 -1/2 hours and participants for Saturday workshops should plan to join at 11 am or 12:30 pm. The workshop is designed for adults and teens but children 10 and older may join with parent supervision.

Free workshop but please sign up with Eventbrite.

Join artist/activist Monica Jahan Bose for an inspiring and empowering Sari Pledge Workshop. The workshop includes an audio/visual learning session on climate change and its impacts in coastal Bangladesh followed by hands-on woodblock printing with Bangladeshi blocks and writing with paint on handwoven cotton saris. Learn how you can make a difference to global warming by pledging to reduce your own carbon footprint. Participants become part of Storytelling with Saris and can add their experiences to the project website and are also invited to join in a public performance in the fall using the saris. The saris will ultimately be returned to Bangladesh to be worn by coastal women. The workshop is 1 -1/2 hours and participants for Saturday workshops should plan to join at 11 am or 12:30 pm. The workshop is designed for adults and teens but children 10 and older may join with parent supervision.

Free workshop but please sign up with Eventbrite.

Join artist/activist Monica Jahan Bose for an inspiring and empowering Sari Pledge Workshop. The workshop includes an audio/visual learning session on climate change and its impacts in coastal Bangladesh followed by hands-on woodblock printing with Bangladeshi blocks and writing with paint on handwoven cotton saris. Learn how you can make a difference to global warming by pledging to reduce your own carbon footprint. Participants become part of Storytelling with Saris and can add their experiences to the project website and are also invited to join in a public performance in the fall using the saris. The saris will ultimately be returned to Bangladesh to be worn by coastal women. The workshop is 1 -1/2 hours and participants for Saturday workshops should plan to join at 11 am or 12:30 pm. The workshop is designed for adults and teens but children 10 and older may join with parent supervision.

Free workshop but please sign up with Eventbrite.

Join artist/activist Monica Jahan Bose for an inspiring and empowering Sari Pledge Workshop. The workshop includes an audio/visual learning session on climate change and its impacts in coastal Bangladesh followed by hands-on woodblock printing with Bangladeshi blocks and writing with paint on handwoven cotton saris. Learn how you can make a difference to global warming by pledging to reduce your own carbon footprint. Participants become part of Storytelling with Saris and can add their experiences to the project website and are also invited to join in a public performance in the fall using the saris. The saris will ultimately be returned to Bangladesh to be worn by coastal women. The workshop is 1 -1/2 hours and participants for Saturday workshops should plan to join at 11 am or 12:30 pm. The workshop is designed for adults and teens but children 10 and older may join with parent supervision.

Free workshop but please sign up with Eventbrite.