Yours, Tenderly Walking Tour 
Wednesday, October 30 | 6 - 7 p.m.  
Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94102 
Space is limited. RSVP required. Email sfac.galleries@sfgov.org [2] to sign up.

Back by popular demand! Led by Anirvan Chatterjee and Barnali Ghosh of the South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, this tour visits 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. 

The Yours, Tenderly walking tour is inspired by 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.

Yours, Tenderly is on view at the Tenderloin Museum [3] through November 2, 2024. The Tenderloin Museum is located at 398 Eddy St. San Francisco, CA94102. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm
 

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

Project Partners

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