Join photographer and marine scientist Oriana Poindexter for an interactive cyanotype workshop. Learn this early alternative photographic process and use foraged seaweed and organic material to create your own photo prints using techniques first developed in the 1840s. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process used to create photographic prints in the distinctive shade of Prussian […]
Queer Ecology is an emerging and shapeshifting field, challenging long-held perspectives in the sciences. This course, hosted and curated by Dr. Patricia Kaishian, will explore biological systems through the lens of queer theory, blending ideas from ecofeminism, philosophy of science, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Central to this approach are liberatory principles for humans and non-humans […]
PRACTICE CULTIVATING RADICAL ATTENTION THROUGH A WALKING MEDITATION
In collaboration with Ethan Howard, the Repair Atelier will host a REPAIR WORKSHOP on April 13. Volunteers will help you repair your broken stuff. - This workshop is free and open to the public. - To participate, RSVP and come prepared to repair the object yourself with help/guidance from volunteers. The Repair Atelier looks forward […]
In parallel with this year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII 2024), CTHQ will accompany each other on a walk through ancestral Lenape territory focused on land protection and reclamation, with the historical dispossession and current gentrification of Harlem paralleling land invasions in the Amazon. Opening a narrow path through the trees by […]
Jaskrit Bhalla is an herbalist, naturalist, cook, and creator based in Southern California. She aims to help foster a connection between her community and the food that they eat, the land that they live on, and to each other through interactive workshops, classes, and digital offerings. She also cooks and produces culinary events inspired by […]
Ethan DeLorenzo is a permaculture farmer, wild forager and multi disciplinary artist. Ethan spent the last 7 years living in an intentional community on Vashon Island, WA. He spent his time learning to farm, forage and live in community with others. When the pandemic hit, much of his focus leaned on orchard rehabilitation and wild […]
Power up with a battery made from soil. ABOUT FACILITATOR Madeleine Young is a cross-disciplinary artist and designer whose practice muddies the boundaries between written, sculptural, and experiential modes of work. She investigates death and decay in natural systems and the subsequent possibilities for renewal by locating unintentional collaboration sites between humans and the […]
ABOUT FACILITATOR Eliza Axelson-Chidsey is a designer, artist, and curator based in New York City. Her interest in material culture is manifest in explorations of form, value, and ephemerality. Excited by research and concepts, and informed by her senses, she is regularly reminded how much learning is found through doing. OBJECTIVE The Time Being […]
Arbor Day tree walk along Nostrand Avenue. ABOUT FACILITATOR Michael Cafiero is an ecological landscape designer passionate about connecting people, plants, and place. Confronting a rapidly changing planet, he designs for climate adaptation and ecosystem diversity, fully embracing the complexity of the living world. OBJECTIVE Get to know your tree neighbors, with your […]
CONSIDER THE WORLD AS A FORAGING FIELD AS WE BUILD A PORTABLE ALTAR ABOUT FACILITATOR Alma (they/them) is a trans herbalist, landworker and poet who is from northern New Mexico. They have resided in NYC going on 9 years and are forever committed to making connections between land being, surviving and dreaming. Their practice […]
Spend a Saturday in spring arranging and sketching flowers. Participants will design a series of stem arrangements and capture them in sketches. Come learn more about flower names and sourcing as well as introductory principles of floral design & care. The closing exploration will be designing one continuous floral landscape together. Take time to observe […]