After Moonrise: Film Screening and Community Showcase

​Join us for an intimate community evening celebrating South Asian storytelling and connection -- anchored by a special screening of the short film After Moonrise, in partnership with Welcome to Chinatown and myJyoti.

​Written and directed by Vinamrata Singal, After Moonrise explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, the loneliness of grief, and the healing that comes when we finally share our true selves. It stars Purva Bedi (American Desi, One of Us is Lying) and Isuri Wijesundara (Little America). Check out the trailer here.

​Whether you're a longtime friend or a new neighbor, come ready to connect! Doors open at 6:30, and programming starts at 7 PM sharp.

​AGENDA:

• ​6:30 to 7: Doors Open. Art installations, photo booth, and food & drink available!

• ​7 to 7:15: Group Icebreaker

• ​7:15 to 7:30: After Moonrise Film Screening

• ​7:30 to 7:45: Filmmaker Q&A

• ​7:45 to 8:00: Breakout Discussion Groups facilitated by MyJyoti

• ​8:00 to 8:30: Mingling & Wind Down

​Featured artists:

​Sharada Krishnamurthy is a Brooklyn-based painter working primarily in oils. Her paintings move between the figurative and the abstract, united by gestural brushwork and a palette that pushes color toward both moody and saturated.

​Vaidehi Kinkhabwala is a Painter and Printmaker who grew up in India, grounding her work in a rich bicultural perspective. Her current body of work explores the bicultural experiences, gender disparities, and the profound struggles inherent in the transition to American life, which have fundamentally shaped her recent artistic focus. Through a familiar modern visual language, her art navigates these complex personal and societal landscapes.Her work has been exhibited and collected in various places around the world, including The United States, India, London, France, and Spain.

​Andrew Tsao: Andrew is an artist and coach who works with ink, abstraction, and people to give form to what is often felt but unseen—the mystical, the ancestral, the inner landscape. His work centers on restoring relationships with self, with lineage, and with land, and on remembering desire and imagination as living seeds for building new worlds together.