Upcoming
Observing the Land: A Plant Identification and Drawing Workshop
July 20th / 10 am / Elysian Park
Gather with us on the morning of July 20th as we reconnect to nature through illustration, led by artist and herbalist Paige Emery. We’ll begin with a short walk through Elysian Park, learning about the native plants of the trail to deepen our connection with our home. Paige will teach drawing plants from life, including drawing techniques, botanical drawing principles, and connecting with the essence of the plants to flow in creativity. Everyone will take home their drawings of plants at the end of the class & all experience levels are encouraged.
The Medicine of the Earth: A Plant Ritual to Build a New World on the Collapse of an Old World
July 27th / 6 pm / Philosophical Research Society
In this gathering, artist, herbalist, and medicine woman Paige Emery will guide us through building relationships with plant allies, plant communication, plant rituals, and healing with plants during this time when we need to do everything we can to heal ourselves, our communities and the Earth. Plants are some of our greatest allies in our resilience and resistance, and they can guide us in moving through the collapse of one world into a new way of worlding in harmony with the Earth. The gathering will include live medicine music, a collective plant ritual and tea ceremony, plant spirit cleanses, and ritual practices to take home. Please bring a sketchbook, journal, pen or pencil, and an open heart.
Past
6/28/25 Herbal First Aid for Community Resilience: Working With Plants In Times Of Crisis
6/20/25 Herbal Mutual Aid at The Coyotl + Macehualli Lending Library
6/1/25 Herbal Mutual Aid Community Gathering
5/10/25 Tea Ceremony opening for LA Arts & Culture Sound Commission
4/22/25 Earth Day with the Wisdom Tree
4/05/25 Soil Bioremediation: Native Plant and Seed Ball Workshop
3/22/25 Spring Equinox ritual and tea ceremony with Living Earth
9/22/24 The Banana Leaf is a Container Technology with Active Cultures and The Brick in conjunction with the Getty’s PST ART
8/07/24 Journey into the Unconscious Mind for Internal Worlding: Hypnosis & Dream Herbs at Tea at Shiloh
6/02/24 Guided Ecology Walk with Usal Project
4/20/24 “An Apothecary for Transitioning Between Worlds” performance lecture at Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles
3/24/24 Building Relationship with Land: Embodied Ecology Walk and Discussion on Decolonizing Relationships with Land with Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles
3/19/24 Spring Equinox tea ceremony and music performance at Kinship, Los Angeles
1/29/24 “The Art of Ecological Divination: Earthly Remembrance for Embodied Futurities” lecture at Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles
9/21/23 “On Divinatory Ecologies for More-Than-Human Time” lecture at California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
6/08/23 “A Love Letter to Earth-Time” Ecopoetic performance for Soup and Tart at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
6/05/23 “Ecological Memory, Nonlinear Plant time and Planetary Metabolism” lecture for Climate Calling Conference at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles
5/08/23 “On Divinatory Ecologies for More-Than-Human Time” lecture at Stanford University for Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
2/02/23 “Hypnosis for the Age of Air” ritual performance for Air Age Blueprint with K Allado-McDowell, Erik Davis and Sarah Shin at Gray Area, San Francisco
9/29/22 “Divination as Unpredicting the Future” lecture at Gray Area Festival, San Francisco
7/27/22 “How Can We Dream Outside of Someone Else’s Dream? Ritual as Poetics, Plasticity, Praxis” lecture for “Worldmaking Structures” with Kei Kreutler and Peli Grietzer at Trust, Berlin
8/09/22 “A Garden for Intercommunications” performance lecture and tea ceremony at ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin
7/09/22 “You are a Wave and I am a Wave” ritual performance at HKW, Berlin
5/21/22 “Memory Garden” ritual performance with Ignota at Biennale Gherdëina, Italy
3/16/22 “Ritual ecological and somatic healing practices” lecture at Culture Hub Festival, online
1/20/22 “Ritual as Conduit: Where the poetics of Worldbuilding Meets the Praxis of Renewing Reality” talk at Trust, online
12/17/21 “Ritual as Conduit: Where the Poetics of Worldbuilding Meets the Praxis of Renewing Reality” reading for the Are.na Annual book launch, online
11/12/20 “Radical Gardening: Seeds for Regenerative Futures” lecture at University of Southern California, Los Angeles