Saturday, July 13th and Sunday July 14th, 2013
SAWCC presents Process/Practice/Portfolio 2.0, an intensive seminar for South Asian women visual artists and academics to meet SAWCC artists, curators, and arts professionals; participate in panels; present and receive feedback on their work; and tour artists’ studios. … Continue readingProcess/Practice/Portfolio 2.0
Monday, April 29, 2013, 7-9pm
Given the recent media attention to gender-based violence in South Asia, SAWCC presents two projects that imagine and create feminist spaces in urban and rural South Asia: Shilpa Phadke’s novel, Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets, and Monica Jahan Bose and Nandita Ahmed’s collaborative printmaking and story project, “Storytelling with Saris.” … Continue readingIlluminating Contemporary Feminisms in South Asia
Friday, March 8, 2013, 10 am-12 pm
Take a stand against sexual violence globally and regionally: Call for just reform of India’s rape laws! … Continue readingFreedom. Safety. NOW! 2.0
Friday, March 1 – Saturday, April 13, 2013
SAWCC debuts in Washington, D.C., featuring ten South Asian women artists’ works that engage with the body, directly or metaphorically, whole or dismembered, to address the duality of female experience within the framework of a post-colonial, globalized world. … Continue readingBe/Longing
Saturday, January 26, 2013, noon to 1pm
Please join the women of SAWCC in front of the Indian Consulate in New York for a creative movement-based protest action in response to the horrific violence wrought upon Jyoti Singh Pandey in India in December 2012 and on women’s bodies everyday around the world. … Continue readingFreedom. Safety. NOW. Creative Action Against Gender-Based Violence
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 5:30-7pm
SAWCC is proud to co-sponsor Sakhi for South Asian Women’s candlelight vigil honoring the memory of Jyoti Singh Pandey, victim of the recent fatal rape in December 2012 in New Delhi. Please join us in honoring Jyoti’s life and reminding ourselves that the work to end gender-based violence is urgent, necessary, and ongoing. … Continue readingShine Jyoti
