Herbroom: An Herbal Poetry Exploration

Her broom  

Herb room  

Shape a word, sharpen a word -  

For hopes, wishes, and dreams.  

Brooms are made for flying,  

Like seeds through air -  

Rooted in bloom,  

Wishing you well.  
- A.R.

Herbs have long served as anchors for wishes bound to rituals, whispers, and healing hands.  They blur the line between medicine and magic, between what soothes the body and what stirs  the soul.  

The history of wishes is deeply entwined with human imagination, ritual, and language. To wish  is an act of hope and survival. Across ages and cultures, we have wished on wells, on stars, on  smoke, on screens.  

The connection between wishes and herbs is both ancient and enduring, rooted in the belief that  plants are vessels of desire, carrying intention through root and leaf.  

At this event, we will turn to three magical herbs, tied to a wish, and framed through a  performative poetry reading. A small act of spell-making, a bloom of breath and word. 

You'll sip a special herbal elixir, explore the creative process of pulling inspiration from the plants around us, and enjoy a live, poetry reading from Anna as an example of how to synthesize your ideas into word.

Anna Victoria Regner, originally from Vienna, Austria, studied Fine Arts in Hamburg,  Germany, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her practice centers on storytelling, rooted in  personal observations, wishes, memories, and dreams. Often written in fragmented forms, her  work explores ambiguity by blending the everyday and the fantastic with alternative realities,  facts, and fiction. Within these narratives of parallel realities, the lines between the personal and  the universal, tragedy and comedy, are blurred or dissolve entirely.

The Alchemist's Kitchen flagship is a unique destination located at 119 Crosby Street, Soho, New York. Right next door at 117 Crosby is our Elixir Bar, a plant-focused space where we serve our community with herbal beverages, unique snacks, and botanical knowledge.

We are a botanical dispensary dedicated to connecting you with the power of plants.

Dedicated to education, The Alchemist's Kitchen offers a wide variety of events, workshops, classes, and other experiences to nourish the mind and body. We believe that taking care of ourselves is rooted in having the best possible relationship with ourselves that we can - physically, mentally, and spiritually. We honor the knowledge of the natural world, it's plants, and those who paved the way for us to come to the understandings we hold dear.

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