Yours, Tenderly Opening Reception and Walking Tour
Yours, Tenderly Walking Tour (SOLD OUT)
Thursday, September 26 | 6 - 7 p.m.
Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Space is limited. RSVP required.
Artist Reception
Thursday, September 26 | 7 – 9 p.m. (Remarks at 7:30 p.m.)
The Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Free and open to the public
Join the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), and the Tenderloin Museum, for the launch of a new video project by artist, dancer, and researcher Preethi Ramaprasad titled Yours, Tenderly,
In 2023, Ramaprasad was one of four artists-in-residence selected to participate in the San Francisco Arts Commission's Artist-in-Residence program at the San Francisco Public Library. Her culminating project, Yours, Tenderly traces the history of South Asians in the Tenderloin and the greater San Francisco Bay Area through the artistic form of Bharatanatyam dance. Conceptualized by Ramaprasad, each component draws on her experience as a resident artist at the SFPL of the local performing arts scene, residents, restaurants and other South Asian cultural markers of which there are only some remnants in the city.
The evening begins with a walking tour led by Anirvan Chatterjee and Barnali Ghosh of the South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, The tour will visit notable places connecting to the area’s radical South Asian history and homes and will include stops featuring librarian and author Mozzam Sheikh and performing artist Sanxe Loveji. The tour will begin and end at the Tenderloin Museum. Please wear comfortable shoes. Space is limited. Registration required.
Following the tour is an artist reception at the Tenderloin Museum where Ramaprasad will talk about her project followed by a screening of the film. Light refreshements provided.
About the Artist
Preethi Ramaprasad (she/her) is a multifaceted transnational dancer, musician, and researcher. Her research focuses on representation and the performance of myth among transnational Bharatanatyam practitioners. She has toured and taught Bharatanatyam, a form of South Indian dance, in India, Europe, and the United States. She co-curates the “Varnam Salon,” “When Eyes Speak Choreography Festival,” and “Performing Voices of Bhakti” which all aim to create safe spaces to share South Asian expressive arts in the diaspora. www.preethiramaprasad.com
About the South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee are long-time Bay Area activists and community-based historians. They’ve worked in over a dozen South Asian American social justice, feminist, LGBTQ+, climate, and arts groups and campaigns.The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour is based on years of archival research and oral history, and builds on the work of many other activists and historians. The tour brings these stories to a wider community, to inform and ground, but also to inspire new activism, in the tradition of radical historians like Zinn and Takaki. www.berkeleysouthasian.org
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