East Meets Words / Payal Sharma

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Payal Sharma is a youth worker dancing crazy moves through the world, in truth love and light: REBEL WITH A CAUSE! She has been doing high school youth work, programming, and leadership development for over 7 years and has loved every minute of it.

Aside from her work, Payal is a 1st-generation South Asian-American, proud of her Indian/Desi roots. She thrives on dance and anything else the world offers her – give her a beat, and she’ll be moving. This is her first feature, but she’s been in a committed relationship with pen and paper for years.

Payal truly loves life, and her community is insanely important to her. She surrounds herself with people who look to change this world for the better and won’t settle for less. If you meet her, you’ll know that Payal moves through this world with love-dipped, love-tipped, love-stained fingers, touching everything in her path and leaving lasting marks.

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Title: East Meets Words / Payal Sharma

Published:: 12.02.10

Category:: Events

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Boston Progress Arts Collective is a community of API* artists that aims to create a supportive space and outlet for personal growth, creative expression, and artistic exploration. We strive to use art as an active means for mobilization and education within our communities locally, nationally, and beyond.

API* is a reappropriation of the term API, which was created by the US government to more easily categorize our communities. While API still stands for Asian/Pacific Islander, with the * we redefine and expand the term to include- but not limited to: South-, Southeast-, East-, Central-, or West-Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Pacific Islander, Oceanic, Americans of Asian decent, multiracial, adoptee, “other,” or however one chooses to represent their cultural/political/ethnic identity.

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East Meets Words / Payal Sharma

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