Fee: $15/ $10 members
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

The full moon is a time for releasing and cleansing. The light of the full moon illuminates any obstacles or interferences in our lives. Once we recognize our blocks, it becomes easier to let go of what didn’t serve us in the most recent lunar phase. It is an amazing time to reevaluate and recollect. 

Join Milwaukee’s own sound healer, Catherine Soteira (Cat Ries), initiated by Akhilanka of the Temple of Singing Bowls in Mysore, India, to celebrate the full moon with a healing sound bath. Sound baths are an ancient form of deep meditation; they include various ambient sounds playing in a space where you can hear and feel their vibrations.

The sound bath lasts approximately 45-60 minutes.

The soundbath will be indoors; please bring a yoga mat, blanket, or towel to rest on for the duration. All are welcome to come early and walk the labyrinth while it is still light.

Fee: $65/ $55 members (all materials for making 12-20 incense pieces included)
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Learn the basics of making your own natural incense. This workshop introduces a Japanese style of incense-making using traditional materials. Mike Paré, drawing from the history of incense, introduces students to a variety of aromatic herbs, spices, tree resins, and powders; discusses the philosophy of fragrance formation; and teaches participants to roll cones or joss sticks. Each participant will finish the workshop with 12-20 pieces of incense. Additional incense materials will be available for purchase.

The workshop consists of three parts:
Part 1: Incense Burning
Participants are introduced to historical and cultural aspects of incense. They will get acquainted with incense materials by burning them with charcoal and a censer. Creative and interactive exercises will involve incense burning and sampling ingredients such as frankincense, sandalwood, myrrh, patchouli, sage, and a dozen others.
Part 2: Formulation
We discuss philosophies of fragrance formulation and combination. Participants choose from the selection of prepared incense materials to create their own blend. Only organic or wildcrafted materials are used.
Part 3: Hand Rolling Incense
Participants mix and shape their blend into a burnable form by hand rolling cones or joss sticks. Drying and storage of incense will be discussed.

NOTE: Rolled incense takes up to 48 hours to dry completely. Participants are encouraged to bring a small, airtight plastic container to transport the finished incense.

About the Artist
Mike Paré is the founder of Zouz Incense - a natural incense company. Paré has a background in visual art, education, and anthropology. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. Younger children should be accompanied by an adult.

Sue Pezanoski Browne and Katie Hobday, Lynden’s teachers-in-residence, invite you to participate in the Sound Tree Project, the focus of their collaborative artist residency. Working in a grove of trees on the Lynden grounds, Pezanoski Browne and Hobday are constructing an environment filled with clay chimes that they make and fill with personal narratives. This exploration of art, nature, memory, and materials is informed by their thinking about movement and migration—about life as movement interspersed with pauses of various lengths.

On two Sundays this fall, people of all ages can join the artists as they work on their installation. On October 20, participants will explore the tension between movement and stillness by creating a large weaving between the trees. On November 17, you will use clay to add sound to the installation, experimenting with various natural forms to create chimes.

Watch for more Sound Tree Project drop-in workshops in the spring.

More about our weekly Art Drop-in here.

Fee: $62/$57 members
Registration: Registration is closed. Sign up for our email newsletter for information on future sessions.

Discover the art of making handmade brooms with Wisconsin broom maker Little John Holzwart. Holzwart will lead you through the process of making a real broom for decorative or functional use. Choose between a round or flat hearth broom--handles of various woods have been gathered and cured for you to use, and all materials are provided. Discussion about decorative options will be included.

Participants should refrain from wearing open-toed shoes and should bring a sharp knife and scissors.

About "Little" John Holzwart
"Little"John Holzwart is the owner of Plant Based Services, LLC which is a community resource committed to sharing earth centered services and products. These services or products include handmade brooms, beekeeping, fruit tree grafting, and orchard maintenance. This one-man show is located in Sheboygan, WI with the majority of these services being offered in southeast Wisconsin. More info at www.plantbasedservices.com.

Fee: $85/ $75 members per session (all materials included). Two sessions available: Tuesday, November 5 & Saturday, November 9. Take one or both! Registration for the Tuesday session is now closed.
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

Artist-in-residence Kim Khaira spent part of the summer working alongside master dyer Arianne King Comer and walking the grounds with Native herbalist Angela Kingsawan. These interactions informed the next phase of her residency project at Lynden: harvesting plants from the grounds and developing the natural dyeing techniques used in this workshop. Her practical and artistic experiments with indigo, turmeric, goldenrod and other materials gathered at Lynden have elicited everything from poetic lamentations on natural fibers to a series of sample batik prints in a range of colors and a variety of saturations.

In this workshop, Khaira invites you to gather around the dye vat and create batik gifts for upcoming holidays unique to you, your family, and your culture.

Bring a lunch; complimentary herbal drinks provided.

About the Artist
Kim M Khaira is a community worker and artist based in Milwaukee from Penang, Malaysia, whose current work draws on the sense of home, creating home, and of making “sense” of the literal and abstract. She is exploring these themes in Pulang Balik: I Am Going Home Too, her residency project at Lynden.

A Movement Workshop in the Labyrinth with Jenna Knapp

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden. RSVP online or by phone at 414-446-8794.

Artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp, founder of the Labyrinth Society of Lynden Sculpture Garden, embarks on a seasonal, participatory video project in the labyrinth. She invites you to join her there for an informal pedestrian movement workshop that will get your body moving, creating, and experiencing the space in an entirely new way. You will participate in individual and group movement exercises, and follow simple prompts to create your own movement and dances. No previous movement or dance experience required. Dress Rehearsal is a recurring event: attend one session or attend them all.

Each Dress Rehearsal will be filmed and the footage will be used in Knapp’s video documenting the change of seasons in the labyrinth.

Please note that the labyrinth is on an incline and proper footwear, such as sneakers, is recommended.

Fee: $85/ $75 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration is closed. For info on future workshops, sign up for our e-list.

Gourds are believed to be the earliest plant cultivated by man and have been in use for thousands of years. Many cultures have used gourds for functional as well as decorative purposes. Gourds were used primarily as vessels for containing food and water, but have also been used as bowls, utensils, musical instruments, jewelry, toys, boats, rafts, hats, and body wear. In addition, gourds have been decorated with spiritual images and used in worship.

In this workshop, you will use a prepared hard-shelled gourd (when dried, these gourds take on the characteristics of wood and can last forever) to create your own work of gourd art by embellishing it with Danish cord and beads. Kate Shoemaker will take you through all the steps of the process and will provide the necessary tools and materials.

Please bring a bag lunch and beverages.

About Kate Shoemaker
After more than 30 years as an elementary teacher, Kate Shoemaker is now able to devote more time to creating gourd art. She continues to experiment with new forms, techniques, and finishes. For Shoemaker, the most exciting element of creating gourd art is the unique characteristics of each gourd: “I'm never quite sure what a piece will become, until it is complete. I love to use deep, rich colors to enhance the natural beauty of each gourd.”

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Fee: $20/ $15 members (all materials included)
Registration: Advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

This workshop is part of Lynden's Garden Series, a series of workshops that takes a broad view of what it means to garden. Whether you consider yourself a backyard gardener, a forager, a farmer, or a steward of the land, the Garden Series will have something for you. From formal garden design to identifying and learning to use wild growing plants, we span a range of techniques and philosophies. Because of the range of subjects covered, these classes can be enjoyed by new and experienced gardeners alike.

In recent years, it has become commonplace to view invasive plants—even the rhetoric is inflammatory—in wholly negative terms. Herbalist Angela Kingsawan suggests that we reframe our relationship to these plants by moving beyond an eradication approach to recognize their beneficial properties and uses. She invites us to open up to the possibilities of healthy living using plants that we come across every day. In this workshop you will learn how to properly identify, harvest, and make all-natural body care products using common weeds.

About Angela Kingsawan
Angela Kingsawan is an Indigenous person of Raramuri, Tigua, and Mexica descent. She was born and raised on the south side of Milwaukee and uses her unique perspective as an urban Native person to teach modern herbalism infused with Native tradition to impact and empower communities of color. By providing decolonized education, seed exchanges, and growing culturally significant plants in an urban setting, Kingsawan strives to help community members remember their cultural ways of being. She currently works as a garden manager at a local Milwaukee non-profit in the neighborhood she grew up in and has been an herbalist in her community for over 20 years.