ADHUNIKA’s 23rd Anniversary Benefit Event

Dear Friends,You are cordially invited to Adhunika’s Annual Fundraising Benefit as we celebrate 23 years of empowering women & children in Bangladesh! Your support through ticket purchases and donations will help sustain our mission and support impactful causes.

We are deeply honored to have our all time favorite ANILA CHOWDHURY, GAURAV GOLPO, RICHARD BOSE and ASIF, HAKIM part of the Komolapur Express musical project will be joining us!

The multitalented GARGI MUKHERJEE and GOLAM SARWAR HARUN, who recently completed the off-Broadway run of “Public Obscenities, will awe us again for an evening of powerhouse performances.

Your presence supports our parterships with the following organizations:

• Cartoon People's 'Girls Do Comics Project’ – a comics anthology initiative, mentoring women in publishing comics that tell stories of women by women.
• Dhaka DocLab – Providing grants and training for Bangladeshi women documentary filmmakers.
• Sajida Foundation – Connecting marginalized Dalit communities with women entrepreneurs and offering skills, training, and health services to Dalit women.
• Samhati – A U.S.-based non-profit supporting schoolchildren in Bangladesh through scholarships and providing bicycles for girls commuting to school
• UPL's Adopt-A-Library Project – Honoring Adhunika’s supporters’ loved ones by expanding access to knowledge, delivering books to thousands of children and young readers across Bangladesh

Prepare for an evening of powerhouse performances by esteemed artists featuring music, dance, poetry & more in Jersey City’s vibrant arts district!

Network with fellow supporters, hear from donors and volunteers, and enjoy a night of celebration. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

LIMITED SEATING – GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

General Admission: $95 ($100 at the door)

Children (15 & under) & Students (with ID): $25 ($30 at the door)


PERFORMER BIOS:

KOMOLAPUR EXPRESS musical project was united by a shared passion for crafting quality music, a Washington, DC-based group, delivering a sonic experience unlike any other. The innovative approach is bringing a breath of fresh air to the music lovers.ANILA CHOWDHURY - Vocal
GOURAV GOLPO - Vocal and Keys
RICHARD BOSE - Vocal and Guitar
ASIF HAKIM - Percussion

GARGI MUKHERJEE, has recently completed an off-Broadway run of, “Public Obscenities,” staged at the Soho Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the Theatre for a New Audience. Gargi won the Drama Desk Ensemble Award for Outstanding Performance and was nominated by Drama League for Distinguished Performance for her role in “Public Obscenities.” Lately, she has been working with Radical Evolution, a producing collective in an international theater exchange workshop with Jana Natya Manch from New Delhi. She has also been performing in Women on Fire: Stories from the Frontlines, written and directed by Chris Henry at Royal Family Productions in New York. She is seen on a regular basis at the South Asian Theater Festival as a member of Epic Actors’ Workshop, held every year at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center in New Brunswick. Gargi has also appeared in films, including, The Namesake, in which she had a featured role, and Karma Calling, in which she played one of the leads.

She has written/co-written and co-directed well-received plays like, Our Voices, Nirastra (Unarmed), Stories of Jackson Heights, I Shakuntala, and recently co-directed a Bangla adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gargi also translated and adapted one of Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories and performed it as a monologue, Mrinal’s Letter at the United Solo International Theatre Festival in New York and acted in The Breast Chronicle, also a one-woman show, at the Crossroads Theatre/New York International Fringe Theatre Festival. Gargi has performed in prestigious theater venues like Soho Rep, NJPAC, NBPAC, the Edison Valley Playhouse, Jamaica Performing Arts Center, and Queens Theatre in the Park (NY).

Gargi is also an SVP, Creative Director at Havas Gemini, a healthcare communications company in New York and seems to traverse between theater, films, and advertising effortlessly.

GOLAM SARWAR HARUN, is a singer, actor, playwright, and a director. He recently completed an off-Broadway run of, “Public Obscenities,” staged at the Soho Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the Theatre for a New Audience. Harun won the Drama Desk Ensemble Award for Outstanding Performance for his role in “Public Obscenities.” Lately, he has been working with Radical Evolution, a producing collective in an international theater exchange workshop with Jana Natya Manch from New Delhi.
Harun also directs films and television commercials. As an actor, he has played the lead in Three Penny Opera, Marat-Sade, and Mrichchakatikam, among others. He is the Artistic Director of Dhaka Drama, a theater group founded in Queens, New York, and has co-directed plays like I Shakuntala, No Man’s Land, Nirastra (Unarmed), and directed Dhaboman (The Run), among others. His works have featured in multiple South Asian Theatre Festivals over the years. Apart from the theatre world, Harun has acted in multiple films from Bangladesh, and most notably in Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in the US.

Harun has been the recipient of theater grants from Queens Council on the Arts, as the artistic director of Dhaka Drama for his co-written play, Stories of Jackson Heights, which was a major success in the prestigious Queens Theatre. Harun also received the Citizens Committee for New York City grant for his collaborative venture, I Shakuntala.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Art House Productions is easily accessible via two PATH Stations:

• Grove Street Station (1-min walk, 371 feet away) – located at the corner of Grove Street and Christopher Columbus Drive, served by Newark-World Trade Center and Journal Square-33rd Street lines.
• Exchange Place (0.5 miles away) – located at 68 Christopher Columbus Drive, served by Newark-World Trade Center and Hoboken-World Trade Center lines.

PARKING

Limited free and paid street parking is available throughout Jersey City. Metered street parking can be paid via exact change or the ParkMobile App. For full details, visit:

https://www.arthouseproductions.org/pages/directions

ABOUT ADHUNIKA FOUNDATION:

Adhunika is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable volunteer based organization dedicated to promoting and empowering Bangladeshi women worldwide. Since its founding in March 2002 in New York, USA, we have worked to create positive social change and advance gender equality in Bangladesh.

We look forward to celebrating with you and making a difference together! Please invite friends and family to join this meaningful cause.

With gratitude,

Adhunika Foundation