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 💗
We are so excited to be partnering with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center to put on Brown Thumbs: Exploring Punjabi x Mexican Land Solidarity! We need your help to bring this beautiful celebration of art to life! ✨
Brown Thumbs will be showcasing how connection to land & agriculture 👩🏾🌾 manifests in the artistic and sociocultural identities of Punjabi and Mexican communities– how this common ground has historically created solidarity between these cultures, and how this relationship manifests today. 🫱🏽🫲🏾 Through a panel, performances, and a community art activation we aim to honor these intersecting histories, and build collective power as a means to resist division and threats to safety in contemporary times.
We’re raising funds to bring this event to life while also directly supporting farmworkers impacted by ICE. The majority of the proceeds will go to @desolasol.colectiva , an Indigenous led collective supporting undocumented farmworkers mutual aid efforts. If you’re able, there are two meaningful ways to contribute: you can purchase a sliding-scale ticket to attend, or donate to our community fundraiser to help us meet our goal. Every contribution—big or small—goes toward sustaining this gathering and redistributing resources to those who need them most. If this resonates, we’d love your support! 💕
Event Details:
🌱Sunday, June 14th
🌱5-9PM
🌱Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
We are in the process of choosing panelists and performers whose work lies in the intersection of these two cultures and communities. Panelists and performers will be announced soon! 🎉
All are welcome to join in this space of solidarity, reflection, and collective expression.
This event is run by Pallavi Sarup (of @hameshaproject ) and Dilpreet Kaur (@imli.ix ) as part of APICC’s USAAF festival. It is funded by APICC, SFAC, and Grants for the Arts. The picture in our promotional materials features @kula.nursery , a South Asian farm and nursery in Petaluma owned by Zee Lilani. 📸: by Reema Kakaday @reemakakaday@apicc_sf #USAAF2026 #USAAF2026COMMONGROUND #USAAF #AANHPI #AANHPIARTS BAYAREA SANFRANCISCO SANFRANCISCOBAYAREA
Come join @hameshaproject 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 7pm. Artist presentations begin at 5pm, and the rest of the event will be reserved for refreshments and mingling. @yorkstreetsf will begin drink service starting at 3pm. Please check our linkinbio to RSVP for this event! #gallery #textile #residency #bayareaartist #southasianart
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.
Check out our linkinbio to RSVP for the event!
Meet the artists 👩🏽🎨 that are part of the first cohort of @hameshaproject ’s Bonds of Bandhani residency program!! ✨ Swipe through to see the makers that are shaping the future of bandhani and South Asian textile craft. So honored to be in community with these folks and to be creating amongst one another. 🌺 Come cheer them on as we enter our first week of the residency!! 🥂
The kick-off of the Bonds of Bandhani program is nearly here!🎉 A residency program for queer South Asian artists. Where the artists explore their unique South Asian backgrounds, queer identities, and dive into a world of ancestral textile art. Over the course of the next week we’ll be introducing our artists as we prepare to kick off the program, but before we do that we thought we’d take an opportunity to introduce our team!
Dilpreet (@imli.ix ) and Pallavi have been collaborating together on this project since the beginning of 2024! When we first met at a potluck. Since then, like our friendship and artistic practices, this project has evolved so much. We’re so excited for it to come to life and be in community with these incredible artists. Stay tuned for what create together through this experience, and future projects to come. 👩🏽🎨
We’re also honored to be hosting our indoor workshops at Eastside Arts Alliance. A beautiful community art space that will be such an incredible container for the art we create during our sessions. Took months of searching and contacting venues, but couldn’t imagine a more perfect space. ✨
Stay tuned as we share updates about journeying through this residency with one another! Thank you. 💕
Tres artistas internacionales, con linaje de Brazil, Cuba y Punjab se juntan para una colaboración interdisciplinaria. Combinan elementos de Jazz, música electrónica y experimental y proyecciones visuales artísticas en una exposición de improvisación y alta technologia.
Hagan sus reservaciones, el cupo es limitado! 5527367912, Pizza Jazz Cafe, Municipio libre 46, portales oriente
BABYLON - ‘Live from the belly of the beast’
An experience and theatrical live show
brought to you through the sounds, words and visuals of:
@a_r_o_m_a_@bored_lord@tugboyzz@h.e.l.i.x.h.a.l.o@gabriele.mov@nyfe_@billieOcean@imli.ix
“In such dissonant and grief filled times BABYLON has been the processing of: what is purpose, power and value of an artistic voice coming from within the colonial empire known as the USA? How do we make work that isn’t contrived or neglectful? How have we tried to escape, resist, love, laugh and mourn in the belly of the beast?
The beast enacts genocide, imprisons our people and seeks to consume our hearts along with the rest of the world. In the midst of the chaos, from love songs to shrill cries of rage, BABYLON will be more than just a concert, but an explorative experience.” — @a_r_o_m_a_
SEP 5. @rickshawstop | 8pm
$12 adv
$15 at the door
Hamesha Project is hosting its first Bonds of Bandhani residency program, a stipended textile series for LGBTQIA+ South Asian artists. Over the course of four weeks, the instructors (Pallavi Sarup of Hamesha Project and Dilpreet Anand @imli.ix ) will pass down the lessons of an ancestral craft tradition. Participants will learn about South Asian textile traditions, with a specific emphasis on the tie-and-dye art of Bandhani and natural dyes. In addition, the selected artists will be taught the basics of foraging and how to extract color from local California plants to use within their textile practices.
The selected artists will also be encouraged to do individual research on their own regional South Asian textile tradition, their queer ancestral lineage, and incorporate those influences into their capstone project. The capstone project will be a handmade piece of apparel that expresses their regional South Asian ancestry & personal queer fashion. This workshop will culminate in a community gallery exhibition, where the artists can showcase their capstone project work, and share their process.
Participation is by application. After reviewing submissions, we’ll invite a small group of artists to join the cohort and grow together through the series. We’re seeking beginner to intermediate queer South Asian visual artists who are curious and excited to learn more about the textile topics explored in this series. No prior textile experience is necessary—just a genuine interest in deepening your relationship to textile arts, community, and cultural memory.
We strongly encourage applications from caste-oppressed individuals, who have historically been excluded from both art and South Asian community spaces. We also welcome South Asian artists from all regions, religions, diasporas, and linguistic backgrounds, including those often left out of mainstream narratives. This opportunity is especially supportive of those who are hoping to nurture a professional art practice, but all levels of commitment are welcome.
More details in the application form which you can access in my linkinbio! Applications are due August 25th, decisions will be made that same week.
JOIN US on Tuesday, March 11 at Medicine for Nightmares for a screening of Trokas Duras, followed by a virtual Q&A with director Jazmin Garcia, hosted by navi kaur and dilpreet anand.
Trokas Duras is visual journey through the interior landscapes of a Jornalero’s dreams, his waking reality in L.A., and what it looks like when a group of people relegated to serving others labors for their own elevation of body and spirit. An homage to the unique, idiosyncratic, and customized old pick-up trucks driven by Latino day laborers and the intimacy that is cultivated in and around them.
“RENEWAL, INTERDEPENDENCE,
SELF-DETERMINATION, and PRIDE.
The cultural and aesthetic significance of these trucks and their journeys becomes a conduit to explore an imaginary cathartic and magical experience of celebrating life, Latin-American immigrant culture and Liberation in a multi-ethnic
city.
The aesthetic realm is an agent of change. I’ve come to realize that my imagination and vision can be a force for optimistic transcendence. This power comes with a sense of duty to break boundaries, and challenge preconceived notions of underrepresented folks, of beauty standards, and on the most basic level - humanity.
Besides fulfilling an obsession with old trucks, this film serves as a way to honor the labor and lives of a significant part of Los Angeles’ essential workforce, as well as one of the most iconic aspects of the visual identity of the city.” - Jazmin Garcia
