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Seeking historians, researchers, botanists, land-tenders, ecologists, policy makers, etc. who have a background in these spheres:     ⁃    The Green Revolution as it pertains to Mexico and Punjab and it’s timelines     ⁃    The timeline of The Opium War to current day use in Punjab     ⁃    Drug policy, trade and effects (specific to Mexico and Punjab)     ⁃    Land laws, farm laws and resistance movements in California specific to Mexican and Punjabi agricultural workers     ⁃    History and present-day knowledge of Mexican and/or Punjabi farm laborers in California please share, feel free to dm me or @amuatma with questions, and the interest form can also be found at the link in bio 🌻 s/o @m0ssey for this flier & form 💗

right before Mother’s Day! NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP in Oakland!! Foraged to Fabric Vol 9 Join us for a whimsical afternoon on Sunday May 3 on a foray & natural dye afternoon to explore local flora and fungi and how to use them as natural dyes, crafting together in nature, and making our own tea towels! You’ll walk away with a hand-made gift just in time for Mother’s Day, or better yet- bring your mom (or the mom of your friend group) to craft together! This is the perfect way to enjoy a beautiful Bay Area spring afternoon, gain fiber art skills, and craft in community outside. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to spot familiar natural dyes plants that grow abundantly in the Bay Area and dye to your hearts desire at home. <3 Pallavi @hameshaproject and Cindy @cindydoedee Sunday, May 3, 1-4pm 📍Oakland (outdoor location sent to registered participants) details & tickets linked on our pages or at the url here: /e/foraged-to-fabric-pre-mothers-day-edition-76d1e328cc12 #bayareaevents #artevents #naturaldye #oakland

Splish it! Thank you so very much Pallavi of @hameshaproject and Cindy of @uproot.teas for a super fun workshop of foraging and dyeing! I learned so much and now I can’t wait to try my own indigo vat of dye. It’s so magical, how it turns from green to blue with oxygen (air). Here you see a twisted piece of white silk jersey knit and an overdyed silk scarf that I initially dyed with avocado pits. It was so fun to dye with other dye enthusiasts, that in my next get-together, we’ll do some dyeing at my house in Miraloma Park, San Francisco. Want to join? . . . #dyeworkshop #naturaldye #indigodyed #indigodye #indigodyeing #jasminzorlu #shiboridyed #tiedyeing #dyeingsilk #naturallydyed

My hands have been busy this month! Every Sunday this month I sent the day learning new dye techniques with @cindydoedee and @hameshaproject . I had a great time meeting fellow nature enthusiasts and enjoyed learning more about east bay plants and mushrooms. 🍄

Wow what fun I had yesterday at the ‘Foraged to Fabric’ natural dyeing workshop on location in the Temescal Regional Rec area in Oakland. I was so impressed with @cindydoedee ‘s knowledge of fungi and mushrooms. She gave us some turkey tail tea from her company, @uproot.teas . We hiked for a while, identifying different fungi. Then we dyed pre-mordanted linen and cotton tea towels with blackberry stems & leaves and also madder root from @dharmatradingco . It was so fascinating seeing all the different results! There were iron and baking soda baths for after-dipping. @hameshaproject had so much knowledge about natural dyeing! My tea towel is last in this reel. And I unintentionally added a heart in my scrunched up piece! I can’t wait for the next 3 Sundays. . . . #naturaldyeing #naturaldyeworkshop #forageing #naturaldye

📣 We are so excited to announce this year’s USAAF artists 📣 The theme for this year’s festival is 💫 Common Ground 💫Our artists will explore ideas of solidarity through shared experiences and histories by underscoring how visibility in public spaces can cultivate belonging. Featured Artist: ✨Maya Fuji Festival Artists: ✨King LOTUS BOY, Piss E Sissy, & EUPHEMIA ✨Hamesha Project & Dilpreet Anand ✨Eddie Jen ✨Priyanka Suryaneni ✨Thao P. Nguyen ✨Sami See ✨Megan Lowe Dances ✨GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Outdoor Showcase Artists: ✨Alice Hur ✨Nu Tekno and DJ YUKA YU Stay tuned for information about event dates and times as we get closer to the festival this summer. Updates will be posted at APICC’s 💫 BRAND NEW WEBSITE 💫 /programs #USAAF2026 #USAAF2026COMMONGROUND #USAAF #AANHPI #AANHPIARTS #BAYAREA #SANFRANCISCO #SANFRANCISCOBAYAREA

Thank you 2025. While it’s been a crazy year - we are taking time to be grateful for what’s been awesome. We’ve had so much fun meeting new friends, snagging beautiful second-hand finds, repairing things we love, and keeping quality items in circulation. Sellers, visitors, partners, and event hosts — we are so grateful for you. We can’t wait to see you in 2026.

2 spots left!! FORAGED TO FABRIC 4-WEEK WORKSHOP SERIES! Join @hameshaproject and @cindydoedee to craft with local plants and fungi, exploring natural dyes, tie dye techniques, ecoprinting, and edible mushrooms in this 4-week series in the Bay Area. 🍄🌿 Our whimsical month of plants, mushrooms, and fiber artistry will take place in rotating locations in the Bay Area in the month of February. This is the perfect way to welcome winter, gain skills, and craft in community outside. By the end of this 4-week intensive, you will be able to spot familiar natural dyes plants and mushrooms that grow abundantly in the Bay Area and dye to your hearts desire at home. This course is limited to 15 spots only to keep the cohort intimate and personalized to you. Early bird registrations will receive $50 off, until December 25, 2025. Our schedule is as follows (subject to change): February 1: Basics of Natural Dye (3 hours) We will explore 2 local plant dyes, discuss mordanting and creating natural dye bath, iron baths, and baking soda modifiers. By the end of this, you will be able to naturally dye your own clothes at home to upcycle them! February 8: Bandhani & Resist Techniques (3 hours) We will explore Indigo as a dye and focus on traditional South Asian technique of Bandhani to make intricate patterns in our fabrics. February 15: Eco-printing (3 hours) Eco-printing, also known as botanical printing, is a natural dye technique that uses plants or mushrooms to create unique patterns and colors on fabric. We will explore techniques to transfer the plant’s dyes or imprints onto the fabric to create one-of a kind contact prints that capture the plant’s shape and colors. February 22: Mushroom foraging & dyeing (ALL DAY) We will take a class field trip to Point Reyes National Seashore to forage for mushrooms to eat and dye with in the forest. We can coordinate carpooling. Link on our pages for tickets 🎁 #naturaldye #foraging #bayarea #bayareaevents THANK YOU VICKY FOR THIS VIDEO!!! @viccha @vitheleaf

BONDS OF BANDHANI - i just completed my first residency! The last two months I got the privilege of learning natural dye techniques and bandhani with @hameshaproject Exhibiting art yesterday was lowkey terrifying given I just learned this skills. But I am hella excited to keep practicing and get better at this art form. Doing this residency was such an experience and I am so grateful for the community we are building. Everyone in the residency was fireeee and I rlly hope you check their work out. My piece is called “Supari/Kera Family Trees” These red and fuchsia tapestries/sarongs (reimagined sulus) bring together the betel palm, the banana tree, and family photographs to trace the intertwined lineages of Girmitiya and Indigenous Fijian peoples. These plants hold ceremonial and ecological significance for both communities, and by connecting them, I map how our shared relationship to these sacred plants existed long before they encountered one another and connect them. These plants are some of our earliest relatives, embedded in the fabric of daily life through foodways, rituals, and medicines. The family photographs serve as living archives, showing faces of people who carried knowledge across oceans, rebuilt homes in unfamiliar soil, and adapted under the pressures of colonization, displacement, and the violence of forced labor. Pairing these images with the banana and betel palm reveals how cultural memory is held not only in our bodies but in the plants that sustained us. These photographs are not simply documentation. They are evidence of continuities, showing how Girmitiya and Indigenous Fijians developed relationships with one another, with the vanua, and with the wider ecology that held us all. photos by siversproductions and @anandupender 🩷

FORAGED TO FABRIC IS BACK! Learn about local dye plants & fungi with @cindydoedee and @hameshaproject then craft with natural dyes in this workshop led by a forager & fiber artist duo! Join us for a whimsical and frolic-y afternoon of plants, mushrooms, and fiber artistry in East Bay(location will be sent to registered participants). This 3-hour collaborative workshop combines the magic of nature and creativity as we learn about natural materials around us to create stunning natural dyes and give your old clothes new life. Event Details 📍 Location: East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley - exact meeting spot shared with registered participants) 🕒 Time: 11 AM - 2PM 🗓️ Date: Sunday, December 14th, 2025 We will cover: 🍄 How to identify plants and fungi with natural dyeing potential common in our area. 🍄 Basic principles of natural dye extraction and application. 🍄 Techniques for upcycling garments in your closet or flipping a thrifted find using sustainable methods. This is the perfect way to welcome winter, gain skills, craft in community, and give your wardrobe an upgrade without buying new clothes. Come solo or with friends!  We will also have table linens and other pre-treated fabrics available for purchase - they make great gifts for the holidays! Link on our pages for tickets 🎁

Culture is how we come together — both in the past and present — and artists and creatives have always been central to culture making. See what inspires some of our featured artists for the Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy. Explore our interactive map to find more featured artists around the nation—and add your work to our map, too! Link in our bio #CWA25

🔖SAVE THESE TO YOUR CALENDAR! 🗓️✨ (curated for my #bayareacreatives) Oct 4: 🎨☕️“Cafecito & Crafts Club” 📍Cafe Con Cariño (11am - 2pm) Hosts: @that.art.party @cafeconcarino_oak ✍️“Sketch Diaries” 📍ARCH Supplies (1-3pm) Hosts: @archsupplies @kevcultureshaw Oct. 9: 🪩“(not so) Guilty Pleasures 2025 Litquake Opening Night” 📍 Hawthorn Lounge (7-10pm) Hosts: @litquake @hawthorn_sf Oct. 10: 👨🏿‍🍳“Daniel Aderaw Yeshiwas” 📍GroundFloor Oakland (8:30-10am) Hosts: @groundfloorclub @oakland_cm yeshiwas_ Oct 11: 🌷🖼️ “Natural Painting Workshop with Sarina Doe” 📍Fig Leaf Gardens (2-5pm) Hosts: @figleafgardens @saritadoe Oct 17: 🪡🌸“Risa Iwasaki Culbertson” 📍Frog Design SF (8:30-10am) Hosts: @sanfrancisco_cm @rachelnpaul @frog_design @risa_iwasaki_culbertson Oct 19: 👻”Needle Punch: Halloween Themed” 📍Planterday (6-8:30pm) Hosts: @piscola.mami @planter.day Oct 21: 📚”Comics & Conversations with New Yorker Cartoonist Tom Toro” 📍Mrs. Dalloway’s (7-8:30pm) Hosts: @mrsdalloways @tbtoro @litquake See y’all in this new creative season! 🍂 #creativeevents #bayareacreatives #events #indiemagazine #smallbusiness #literaryevents #comedyevents #sfevents #oaklandevents #berkeleyevents #octoberroundup #shopsmall #bayareaartists #art #workshops #creativeworkshops #octobercalendar #halloween