Fee: $25/$20 members
Registration: Registration is closed. Registration is open for the September 17 and October 17 sessions.

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 as we celebrate the summer solstice with a healing sound bath followed by a candle-lit labyrinth walk. 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. Your sound healer for the evening will be Milwaukee’s own Sevan Arabajian-Lawson (Cat Ries), initiated by Akhilanka of the Temple of Singing Bowls in Mysore, India. The sound bath last approximately 45-60 minutes. Please bring your own yoga mat, blanket, or towel to rest on for the duration, and dress appropriately for the weather. Candles will be provided for the labyrinth walk, but feel free to bring your own.

Fee: $25/$20 members

Margy Stratton, founder and executive producer of Milwaukee Reads produces this series of events featuring writers of particular interest to women.

Lynden Sculpture Garden's Women's Speaker Series and Boswell Books welcome Renée Rosen, author of The Social Graces, back to Milwaukee for a virtual, BYOS (bring-your-own-snack) event on Monday, June 21, 2021 at 7 pm.

Watch a recording of the event below, and consider making a donation to Lynden.

Fee: Tickets are $5 plus sales tax and ticket fee or you can upgrade to admission-with book for $17. Books can be picked up at Boswell or for an additional fee, shipped out be USPS media mail. $5 from each ticket will be donated back to the Lynden Sculpture Garden.
Registration: Purchase tickets for the virtual event here.

For more information on upcoming Women's Speaker Series Events, click here.

About The Social Graces

The bestselling author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor’s notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age.

In the glittering world of Manhattan’s upper crust, where wives turn a blind eye to husbands’ infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence, society is everything. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor – the Mrs. Astor.

But times are changing. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America’s richest families. But what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything. Sweeping three decades and based on true events, this is a gripping novel about two fascinating, complicated women going head to head, behaving badly, and discovering what’s truly at stake.

About the Author

Renée Rosen is the bestselling author of historical fiction. Her novels include Park Avenue Summer, Windy City Blues, White Collar Girl, What the Lady Wants and Dollface, as well as the young adult novel, Every Crooked Pot. Her new novel, The Social Graces, a story about Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Vanderbilt vying for control of New York society during the Gilded Age, will be out April 20, 2021 from Penguin Random House/Berkley. Renee is a native of Akron, Ohio and a graduate of The American University in Washington DC. She now lives in Chicago where she is at work on a new novel.

Join us for more HOME 2021 events:
• HOME World Refugee Day, June 20
• HOME Music Day, July 10

Fee: $25/$20 members
Registration: Registration is closed. Registration is open for the July 23 and August 23 sessions.

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 artist-in-residence Jenna Knapp to celebrate the summer solstice with a healing sound bath followed by a candle-lit labyrinth walk. 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. Your sound healer for the evening will be Milwaukee’s own Sevan Arabajian-Lawson (Cat Ries), initiated by Akhilanka of the Temple of Singing Bowls in Mysore, India. The sound bath last approximately 45-60 minutes. Please bring your own yoga mat, blanket, or towel to rest on for the duration, and dress appropriately for the weather. Candles will be provided for the labyrinth walk, but feel free to bring your own.

Fee: $10/$5 members
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Register by phone at 414-446-8794.

The new moon carries a positive energy filled with intention and purpose. Celebrate the June new moon with an interactive intention-setting workshop with artist-in-residence and Hypnosis Practitioner Jenna Knapp. We will gather near the labyrinth for a guided hypnosis session to help you identify the opportunities that you're calling into your life. We’ll write our intentions on handmade seed paper, then we’ll take a (socially-distanced) labyrinth walk to plant our written intentions into the labyrinth walls. It is believed that intentions and goals can come full circle within one cycle of the moon; as the new moon grows, your intention will, too: from the new moon, to the full, to the new again. We will hold space for you to set your intentions for this next lunar cycle — first on paper, then in the physical.

About Jenna Knapp
Jenna Knapp is an empowerment & mindset life coach, artist, and author living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Knapp graduated from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Since graduating Knapp has received the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Emerging Artists, been a guest at international multidisciplinary residency programs in Amsterdam and London, and exhibited locally and nationally. She self-published her first book, I Kept Things I Did Not Need, in the summer of 2017. It is a collection of poetry, prose, photographs, and archived material addressing the subjects of grief, loss, survival, and the different evolutions of healing.

In 2019 she took her desire to hold space for people one step further and became certified in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Hypnosis, and Life & Success Coaching. She opened her own coaching practice, Mental Wealth & Wellness, where she helps clients from around the world embrace mentally wealthy (and healthy) mindsets. Strongly impacted and inspired by the effects of these modalities, Jenna has opened her own NLP & Life and Success Coaching Certification Experience, The Mental Wealth Method. For more information visit mentalwealthandwellness.com or follow Jenna on Instagram at @thementalwealthmethod.

Call & Response is a cumulative project that gathers a community of artists who share a commitment to the radical Black imagination as a means to re-examine the past and imagine a better future

Upcoming sessions:
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Fee: Free.
Registration: Registration is closed. To be added to the waitlist for a session, call 414-446-8794.

Native herbalist and artist-in-residence Angela Kingsawan of Yenepa Herbs leads a series of guided tours of Lynden's narrative gardens. There are several gardens at Lynden that tell stories of specific cultures and moments in history. Join us each month for a fun and informative outing to learn about the plants identified and cultivated by Kingsawan that hold significance as food, medicine, and tradition within the exchange and migration of refugee, immigrant, and Indigenous communities.

About Angela Kingsawan
Angela Kingsawan is an Indigenous person of Raramuri, Tigua, and Mexica descent. She has been a Community Health Worker for many years and draws on her experience as an herbalist, yogini, reiki practitioner, full-spectrum doula, writer, artist, and mother to help uplift Communities of Culture throughout Wisconsin. 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. 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. Angela’s residency project at Lynden, Materia Medica of the Ancients: Connecting to Beauty, Blessings, and Breath draws on her personal journey of decolonization and cross-cultural learning to honor Indigenous teachings from around the globe.

Fee: $20/$16 members
Registration: This workshop has been canceled. For information on future sessions, sign up for our email list.

Stroll Lynden’s grounds with herbalist Kyle Denton and discover the bounty of plants found in the wilds of southeast Wisconsin. Drawing on folklore, ancient wisdom, plant identification, and science, Denton will expand your understanding of our relationship to the natural world.

About Kyle Denton
Kyle Denton is an herbalist and owner of Tippecanoe Herbs and Apothecary, a local clinical herbal practice and medicine-making company.  Denton applies his knowledge of Ayurveda and traditional western herbalism by creating a variety of herbal medicine preparations from locally wildcrafted plants; teaching courses; and offering clinical consultations.

Fee: $20/$16 members