McColl Center: Closing Reception for The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness on June 28

Closing Reception for The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness
Saturday, June 28, 2025
4 to 6 p.m.
Free, with $10 suggested donation

Musical Offerings | 4:00 PM
Performed by Joyjit Ghosh, musician and sound healer, born in India. A soft opening into sound — Ghosh invites guests into an informal space of resonance, with guitar, gongs, and Himalayan singing bowls. This is a time for gentle conversation, curiosity, and shared vibrations.

Exhibition Walkthrough | 4:30 PM
Artist Indrani Nayar-Gall will guide a final passage through the exhibition — a contemplative walkthrough that illuminates the collective’s vision and voice, one last time.

Contemporary Dance Offerings | 4:50 PM
A stirring performance of contemporary Indian dance by Kaustavi Sarkar, PhD — a Dance faculty member at UNC Charlotte whose movement speaks across time and tradition. Kaustavi will present two contemporary pieces from The Epilogue, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project combining video and live performance, coordinated by Indrani Nayar-Gall.

Closing Meditation | 5:10
The evening deepens in stillness. Joyjit Ghosh returns with “Sonic Meditation: Healing Sounds of Gaia” — an immersive experience woven from gongs and the ancient tones of Himalayan singing bowls, carrying us gently toward the event’s close.

The Paglees is a feminist collective of artists of South Asian origin living across the United States. Paglee or pagli means crazy woman in a number of South Asian languages. The Paglees are: Shelly Bahl, Monica Jahan Bose, Fawzia Khan, Renluka Maharaj, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Nirmal Raja, and Pallavi Sharma.

The Paglees investigate – with fierceness, beauty, and wit – the impact on women of generations of patriarchy, religion, white supremacy, colonialism, violence, capitalism, and environmental plunder.