Opening Doorways for Healing and Belonging

FILM SCREENING and HEALING WORKSHOP

with filmmaker Kirthi Nath

In-Person Only @ 2929 24th St.

10-1 Program

Optional potluck 1-2 pm

Join us for an experiential workshop that invites you to slow down and experience what it means to belong—to oneself, one another, and the natural world. This workshop weaves together meditation, healing rituals, sacred reflection, community care circles, and a screening of the film .

Please bring a notebook and pen for a reflective journaling portion of the workshop. After the workshop, all are welcome to stay for an optional potluck—please bring something to share!

🌺 This is a fundraiser and tickets are required! Limited capacity - register to get your spot today.

This event is offered as a fundraiser in support of the filmmaker and the San Francisco Dharma Collective, helping sustain this work and future offerings. We are offering tickets with sliding scale tiers to honor different capacities. Please choose the tier that feels aligned with your ability to support this event. If additional scholarship support is needed, please contact us at [email protected]

🌺 ABOUT THE FILM:

PARAMITA is a 24-minute documentary by Kirthi Nath that explores the transformative power of mindfulness, acceptance and belonging. Blending poetry, memoir, and prayer, PARAMITA bears witness to Prajna Choudhury’s journey of coming out to her traditional Bangladeshi mother. Told with intimacy and tenderness, PARAMITA offers a meditative spiritual experience, as Prajna connects with Buddhist practices and nature as gateways for intergenerational healing.

https://paramitafilm.com

Watch a trailer of "Paramita" here: https://vimeo.com/998024099

🌺 ABOUT THE FILMMAKER & FACILITATOR:

Kirthi Nath is a queer South Asian American filmmaker, activist and healer whose work weaves together storytelling, spirituality, social justice and collective care. As founder of Cinemagical Media—a woman of color-led creative agency specializing in filmmaking, creative strategy and impact producing, Kirthi partners with organizations, communities and changemakers to produce films and workshops that uplift BIPOC voices, invite cultural transformation and reimagine liberation. Over the past two decades, Kirthi has established a body of work that fluidly straddles genres, occupying a fertile landscape of cultural poetics, intersectional storytelling and a deep commitment to healing and justice. Her award-winning films have screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival, CAAMFest, Frameline, DisOrient, 3rdi South Asian Film, Bengal International Short Film Festival, and Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, and in solo exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Artists’ Television Access. Commissioned projects include collaborations with V-Day, One Billion Rising, Off the Mat, Racial Equity Collaborative and Amazon Watch. Kirthi has received grants from Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) and V-Day, and has been selected for programs such as Re-Present Media’s Fellowship, A-Doc Allies (Asian American Documentary Network), Brown Girls Doc Mafia Mastermind and Looky Looky’s Impact Producer Guided Campaign Incubator.

Rooted in Buddhist and yogic traditions, Kirthi offers experiential workshops that blend meditation, storytelling, movement and ritual to cultivate presence, healing and sacred relationship—with ourselves, each other, and the natural world. On the practice side, Kirthi is a dedicated Buddhist and yoga practitioner and a graduate of Embrace Yoga’s Roots teacher training, Braided Wisdom, and multiple East Bay Meditation Center dharma training programs. Rooted in these traditions, she offers experiential workshops that blend meditation, storytelling, movement and ritual to cultivate presence, healing and sacred relationship—with ourselves, each other and the natural world.

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