Bonds of Bandhani: Community Gallery Event

​Come join Hamesha Project for the Bonds of Bandhani: Community Gallery Exhibition! We will be showcasing the capstone projects of the talented Queer South Asian artists that were a part of this textile residency program. The event runs from 4 to 7 pm. Artist presentations begin at 5:30pm, and the rest of the event will be reserved for refreshments and mingling. York Street Collective will begin drink service starting at 3pm before the gallery exhibition begins.

​This past October, Hamesha Project hosted the Bonds of Bandhani residency program, a stipended textile series for LGBTQIA+ South Asian artists. Over the course of four weeks, Pallavi Sarup (Hamesha Project) and Dilpreet Anand (@imli.ix) passed down the lessons of an ancestral craft tradition. The immensely talented artists selected for the residency represent the huge breadth and diversity of the South Asian diaspora and the queerness that exists within our community. Over the course of a month, we had the opportunity to co-create a beautiful container in which we explored our ancestry, nurtured our connection to nature, and invited each other into our personal creative processes.

​We invite you to celebrate this journey with us at our culminating gallery exhibition! This event will highlight the final capstone projects of all the artists and the organizers of this program. The projects feature textile pieces that incorporate Bandhani, natural dye, and foraging practices we learned through the series. They also capture each artists’ regional South Asian ancestry, queer identity, and unique artistic practices that each of us bring to our work. We will begin with a collective altar building offering, to help us ground into the space together. Each artist will then present their work and share their process with the community, with opportunities for Q&A. This event will be hosted at York Street Collective, an event space in the Mission District of San Francisco.