Prema G. Bangera
pronounced: pray-ma g. ben-gay-ra
pronouns: she | her | they | them
Multidisciplinary Artist | Disruptor | Cultural Worker | Community Organizer | Somatic Arts & Yogic Practitioner | Educator | Editor | Nonprofit Leader | Entrepreneur | Work-in-Progress Ever-Evolving Human
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." ~ Audre Lorde
services provided: commissioned art, poetry, & prose | Arts-healing workshops | decolonized yoga sessions | speaker & panelist | nonprofit consultation | editorial support | arts-healing & wellness coaching sessions
Check out Prema Bangera’s upcoming exhibition:
“the art of becoming: Narratives of Transformative Love”
The exhibition runs from April 15th to May 21st and the celebratory reception on Thursday April 24th in Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossing Gallery (224 Western Avenue in Boston, MA) where there will be performances of dance, cultural music, rap, and poetry. For more information and to RSVP if you are in the area, please check out this link.
About the Exhibit:
“What stories have you been told about yourself? Which of those still shape your identity today? This exhibition invites you to rewrite negative self-talk and to express who you are if the world didn’t tell you who to be.
In this interactive arts-healing exhibition, Prema Bangera uses a variety of mixed media to explore internalized oppression, encourage reflection and inspire radical self-love. As an immigrant and survivor of physical, sexual, and domestic violence as well as police brutality, Bangera bares her vulnerabilities to help visitors release past wounds, create self-compassion, and reclaim their unique identity. Her story-driven sculptures, paintings, and installations blend magical realism and vivid colors to create a gallery space for transformation and empowerment.
For more information about the exhibition, visit hrvd.me/arts-prema
This exhibition also showcases struggles of lower caste and Dalit community members during April’s Dalit History Month, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Kashmir, and more. Please consider donating to the following organization to provide support for the people struggling under brutal genocide:
and Hope for Haiti
Arts-Healing Workshop on April 26th
together we rise: poetry & art of resistance for QTDBIPoC ancestors in times of joy & grief
We’re also hosting a BIPoC ancestral arts healing workshop on April 26th from 2-4pm at Beacon Hill Friend's House (6 Chestnut St, Boston, MA) for Dalit History Month and Poetry Month along with the Asian American Resource Workshop organization. This workshop will focus on using art and poetry to honor our own personal ancestors as well as works of Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Octavia Butler, Phoolan Devi, Dr. Ambedkar, Assata Shakur, Marsha P. Johnson, and more.
This workshop is tied to my Art Exhibition. To RSVP for this workshop, here is the link.
Poetry & Prose
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
~ June Jordan
My writing strives to be a vulnerable truth-teller, unraveling in the only way it knows how & lives to hold an authentic spaces for us in creating collective healing.
Visual Art
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
~Frida Kahlo
My art aims to capture the raw & gritty parts of my soul and offer it a home on paper, knowing that all of us strive to create radical imaginative worlds of our everyday realities for survival.
Theatre & Dance
“Dance means everything to me; it is like fresh air that rejuvenates my life.”
~ Sudha Chandran
My dance practice is rooted in my somatic healing journey of my body and soul, and theatre to better understand the perspectives of the world.
BALA: BIPoC Ancestral Love as Arts
Consulting Community Arts Organization
“We are the ones we are waiting for.”
~ June Jordan
BALA’s mission is to promote & uplift the inner-healing of current & generational wounds experienced by the under-resourced QTDBIPoC (Queer, Trans, Disabled, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community members and allies through innovative Arts practices rooted in ancestral traditions & radical divine love.
Interviews & Editorial Work
“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
~ Toni Morrison
I strive to bring my community along and build with the talented people I have been blessed to connect with.
