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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Tai chi chuan (“supreme ultimate force”) is a Chinese martial art that helps balance the yin and yang. Regular practice of tai chi chuan improves blood circulation, relaxes your mind and body, increases your chi (internal energy), and gives you a good night’s sleep. The instructor has been practicing tai chi for more than 50 years and is also certified to teach Tai Chi for Arthritis. The class is held outside on BBG grounds (except Tai Chi...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Bring late-season beauty and ecology into your garden this fall with the best choices of native perennials. Take home plants to start or enhance your own garden. Note: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your classroom
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Learn how to use your garden to support migrating and overwintering birds with the food sources and habitat they need, and take home bird-friendly plants to start or enhance your own garden. Note: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your classroom
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for a creative and informative workshop where we discuss what makes a healthy terrarium, the different types of terrariums, all about each layer, and how to miniscape it. Everyone leaves with their own Lucky Gardener terrarium, including an organic wood and glass vessel, all the necessary terrarium layers, and embellishments such as black lichen, reindeer moss, lichen branch, and cute terrarium dwellers.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Learn how to grow the many edible plants that thrive in the average Brooklyn garden, from food that grows on trees to root crops. Take a tour of BBG’s many edible plants, and then make a pack of seed bombs filled with easy-to-grow seeds to take home. Note: Please bring a confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your classroom.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Just like their non-aquatic botanical counterparts, marine species have diverse color properties. Discover the history and basics of dyeing with algae by using local seaweed. Each participant will receive one large silk scarf to dye during the workshop and a natural dyes zine. Please Note: You must bring your registration confirmation to the Garden for admittance to each class session.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Starting your own vegetables from seed can be joyful, exciting, and perhaps even life-changing! In this hands-on workshop, learn the basic steps of seed starting and seedling nurturing, practicing with vegetable and flower seeds. Explore seed-starting materials and structures, as well as seedling care, including fertilization, irrigation, and transitioning seedlings for planting out. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Arranging colorful flowers calms the mind and feeds the soul. Working with locally grown flowers helps us connect with time and place, and brings joy and beauty into the home. Join sustainable floral designer Molly Culver of Molly Oliver Flowers for a hands-on workshop. You’ll learn how to source locally grown flowers around NYC, basic flower care, and expert tips on how to make a beautiful centerpiece for your home table using sustainable techniques....
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Arranging colorful flowers calms the mind and feeds the soul. Working with locally grown flowers helps us connect with time and place, and brings joy and beauty into the home. Join sustainable floral designer Molly Culver of Molly Oliver Flowers for a hands-on workshop. You’ll learn how to source locally grown flowers around NYC, basic flower care, and expert tips on how to make a beautiful centerpiece for your home table using sustainable techniques. ...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Learn about how different plant groups evolved to look the way they do and how to distinguish between them. You'll engage in active observation through drawing and photographing plants. After learning about the major plant lineages, we'll examine living specimens to help improve plant identification skills. Expect to leave class with an improved ability to identify and ask useful questions about the plants you encounter. No drawing skill necessary....
Lotus Creations Academy @ 102 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Videoshoot Steady Video Shoot Steady is a video program built specifically for dancers/artists who wish to train, execute and film a solo performance video in a full production studio. Learn from some of the best choreographers that NYC has to offer and master being in front of the camera with this new creative program. In partnership, Lotus Creations Academy and Saxum Studios are equipped with an in-house video & production Studio ,...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Tai chi and qi gong exercises improve balance, increase blood circulation, relax your mind and body, and increase your internal energy. The instructor will demonstrate movements. Please come prepared in clothing that allows for movement.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Enhance your floral arranging skills with a unique twist! Join us at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for a class on compostable floral techniques, where you'll learn to create stunning arrangements using sustainable materials and inspiration from Japanese ikebana. Discover the art of precision and stability in floral design.
Fledgling Writing Workshops @ 417 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY
Always wanted to write a book, but unsure how or where to start? Stuck on chapter four and searching for support? In our weekly sessions we'll discuss the bones of creating a successful manuscript including lessons on plotting, character development, setting, and more. We'll turn to examples from master novelists to light our way and write together in class to hone our skills and develop ideas. During the height of fall migration, birds are on the...
Fledgling Writing Workshops @ 417 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY
Migration workshops combine traditional manuscript critique with Fledgling’s signature generative approach, meaning plenty of in class writing time and feedback. With a focus on short memoir, we’ll spend the first three sessions writing to prompts and learning how to choose what belongs in a piece about one’s self, what a three act structure is and how to make it work for any length piece, and what mixing “big and little voice” means, plus...
Piel Canela Dance School @ 154 Utica Ave , Brooklyn, NY
Learn "Cali Style" Salsa! Note: Students must bring their CourseHorse payment confirmation to class in order to participate. Piel Canela classes work in cycles. If you purchase an individual class, it will be the first lesson of the long term cycles. Should you take the first class and decide you'd like to purchase additional classes through CourseHorse, please contact us and we'd be happy to help you.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
The diverse landscapes of Brooklyn Botanic Garden provide a unique opportunity to hone outdoor drawing skills; its various settings from formal esplanades to native flora provide diverse challenges. My goal is to equip students to sketch successfully outside, whether in the city or remote wilderness. We will cover preparation, portable tools, location planning, and most importantly comfort and safety. Selection of subject matter and pictorial composition...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Join horticulturist Jim Russell in this monthly series examining all aspects of gardening-by example-within the various gardens of the school. Learn about garden design principles; discuss plant choices and maintenance needs; and learn about pruning techniques. This class explores the outdoors, so dress appropriately.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Explore tasty plant remedies that stimulate the senses, get the blood moving, calm the nervous system, and elevate the mood—all qualities we need for practicing the art of connection and expressions of desire. Delicious treats and elixirs will be shared and tasted in this heart-opening class. Note: Please bring a confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Learn how the indigenous peoples of the Northeast prepared food and remedies from dozens of native plants that we will identify in the newly expanded Native Flora Garden. Our region is rich in little-known edible and medicinal plants, from woodland spices such as wild ginger to wetland plants like pickerel weed and wapato.
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