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
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.
