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Yoga as Public Art/Protest: Exhibit Closing + Fundraiser, Penn Ave Arts District
Jan 31, SAAPYA Special Event: Exhibit Closing + Fundraiser
Come celebrate momentum!
Yoga Class/Asana (7-8); Ayurvedic good ass food (8-8:30), artist talk, short documentary screening and community discussion with anupama jain (8:30-9:30), music + dance (9:30-12am)
All month at BOOM Concepts, SAAPYA has been offering fun and revolutionary yoga classes, political prints/visual art, and music. We are excited to share that we will be continuing to offer revolutionary yoga, art, and culture, our grand opening for the new space is March 21, more on that to come!
Come to BOOM for asana class, art, for special events, Ayurvedic food justice, and to dialogue. Roopa is currently the Visiting Artist at the Neighborhood Print Shop, and was a summer Artist in Residence at the Children's Museum with partner and co-designer Reese Vex Brown. Roopa is the founder of South Asian American Perspectives on Yoga in America - Saapya an emerging platform on race and yoga.
Yoga is now synonymous with gentrification, exclusion, and even injury. SAAPYA acknowledges this displacement as linked to colonization. Quite simply, racism is built on constructs that hurt us all. We aim to heal.
Speaker Bio:
anupama (anu) jain, PhD, is the founder of Inclusant and specializes in diversity & inclusion education. Clients include the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the Ring of Hope campaign for domestic violence awareness. Her major scholarly publication is a book about race, immigration, and the American Dream, called How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging. anu's cross-sector engagements similarly focus on community building, negotiating cultural differences, the relationship between the local and the global, and social justice activism. She has taught English and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; previously, she held teaching appointments at Colby College (in Maine) and Union College (in New York).
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LocationBoom Concepts
5139 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States
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