"In 2021, Berkeley-based designer Barnali Ghosh started a new pandemic project: taking photographs of herself dressed as California native flowers, centering the brown body and using South Asian fabrics and dance forms. The images took the native plant world by storm. Ghosh will share the backstory of these viral images, and how the project helped her find belonging in the native plant community and beyond."
"Barnali Ghosh is an immigrant artist, landscape architect, and co-founder of the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. Her work attempts to bridge homes and homelands, and create spaces for belonging. A longtime transportation advocate, Ghosh was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors last year, representing District 3, which runs from Berkeley to Richmond, and beyond."
Golden Gate National Park staff will host an evening of storytelling and a panel at Tunnel Tops to amplify South Asian experts and leaders and raise awareness of their roles in social and environmental justice movements. Panelists will use metaphors of light and dark linked to Diwali, with candles symbolizing bringing light during darkness and the triumph of good over evil. Panelists will share their work and inspirations for creating spaces of curiosity, community, access, welcome, and belonging. Barnali Ghosh will recount her pandemic project centering Brown bodies as native flowers and how it fostered belonging; Vishal Subramanyan will present wildlife storytelling that connects people and nature.
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