Workshops
& Events
“Mapping Plant Colors” led by artist Simona Winkler-Fishyan for Impermanent Earth
Connecting with the outside world through art.
“Seed Mapping: Urban Planting Through Digital Cartography” for UAAD’s festival, Jukebox of Dissonance
Imagining gardens of the future by planting seeds and cultivating urban plantlife.
To add your own seeds to the map, place pollinating seeds in empty spaces and document them here.
“Storytelling in Catastrophe,” a discussion panel with ethnobotanist Alex McAlvay, philosopher and writer Travis Holloway, and NY Farm School organizer Jazz Kerr at Printed Matter.
Our stories, new and old, shared through books and conversation.
Botanical Storytelling
9.29.25, New York
A writing and bookmaking workshop with Center For Book Arts
Inspired by sketchbooks and travel journals by artists like Margaret Mee and Dame Barbara Hepworth, we guided participants in the creation of personal field guides of important plants from their lives and memories in the form of illustrated, saddle stitched booklets.
Environmental Storytelling
5.8.25, New York
A writing workshop with Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group at Brooklyn Public Library
Our first hybrid in person and zoom workshop focused on speculative fiction through an environmental lens. We shared excerpts from mythology alongside contemporary science fiction and looked at the ways the climate and ecosystem play a role in the story’s unfolding in work by Kim Stanley Robinson and Phillip Pullman. The workshop included several short writing prompts with participants sharing their work at the end of the session.
Seed Mapping
10.20.24, New York
An urban planting workshop at UAAD’s art festival, Jukebox of Dissonance
A workshop dedicated to exploring a contemporary version of “guerilla gardening” planting native pollinator seeds using a geo-mapping component and referencing the work the Green Guerrillas began in New York City in the 1970’s. After making “seed marbles,” participants planted the seeds, marking them with a public map so they can be checked in the following year.
How Plants Shape Our Narratives
10.6.24, New York
A nonfiction writing workshop with Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group and sponsored by Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Drawing on texts from Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jemima Kincaid, this generative workshop looked at how writers use plants to build personal and cultural identities in the atmosphere of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
11.19.25, Zurich
Mapping Plant Colors
a creative botanical workshop with Simona Winkler-Fishyan for Impermanent Earth
An IE workshop hosted by the community garden Stadionbrache and led by Zurich based artist, Simona Winkler-Fishyan. Simona began a discussion on a topic close to her practice, plant blindness, which is when people are not aware of the plants they see around them daily, which led to a discussion on how plant colors are affected by climate change. Through a booklet she prepared, participants explored the garden and wrote and illustrated their observations.
Nonfiction Writing with Impermanent Earth
10.29.25, Pittsburgh
A generative workshop with local writer Averi Rose
IE’s first public workshop in the library of the small town of California, Pennsylvania (pop. 5,400) in the suburban Pittsburg neighborhood of assistant editor Anthony Cassarino. The conversation spanned local development in the community and in the Pittsburgh area at large, including small business, industry, and effects on the community such as homelessness, followed by a generative writing exercise.
Storytelling in Catastrophe
10.27.22, New York
A reading and discussion panel for the launch of Six Endings and Some Beginnings at Printed Matter
A discussion on the relationship between storytelling and climate action with writer and philosopher Travis Holloway, storyteller Jazz Kerr from Farm School NYC, and ethnobotanist Alex McAlvay from the New York Botanical Garden, accompanied by readings from Rachel TonThat, Irene Lee, Claire Donato, and Nik Slackman.
Six Endings and Some Beginnings
8.13.2022, New York
a reading at Artbook @ MoMA PS1
A reading to celebrate the publication of Six Endings and Some Beginnings in person and livestreamed on Instagram with Rachel TonThat, Irene Lee, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bria Strothers, and Amanda Monti.
