Meet the women behind a revolution born in India’s red-light areas, told through photography and stories of lives being rewritten.About this Event
This isn’t a story about saving girls. It’s about what happens when girls become the revolution.
KRANTI: REVOLUTION comes to Open House Chicago, bringing the story of Kranti from Mumbai to the Fine Arts Building and beyond.
Born in the heart of Mumbai’s red-light district, Kranti empowers the daughters of sex-workers to be agents of social change and happiness.
Throughout the day, step inside the world of photographer and Kranti alum Ashwini Mane, who returned to the brothels where she grew up but this time with a camera. Her photographs look beyond the red-light district we think we know, documenting sex workers after hours as mothers, daughters, sisters, and members of a community.
Then, at 5:00 PM, the story moves with us.
Join Kranti founder Robin Chaurasiya for an intimate talk about the movement these young women have built, the systems they are pushing against, and what it means to create change from within. Ashwini’s photography will travel with us to a second location in downtown Chicago, transforming the exhibition from something you see into a conversation you become part of.
DAYTIME
Photography Exhibition
Fine Arts Building during Open House Chicago
In partnership with the Center for Mad Culture
5:00 PM
Founder’s Talk + Photography Exhibition
Downtown Chicago
Location coming soon.
In partnership with Chicago Women in Architecture.
Come for the photographs. Follow the revolution.
Event venue
Exhibition: Fine Arts Building & Founders Talk: Location TBD, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States
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