Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Botanical Fragrances for Place
Schedule
Wed May 27 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park | New York, NY
About this Event
Join us at the greenhouse for this hands-on fragrance crafting experience designed to connect you to the natural world through the art of scent creation using essential oils inspired by the spring season. Together, we'll craft our own custom aromatic room spray to take home to explore how plants can transform our everyday spaces through scent. Work with the power of aromatherapy to bring in the powers of your most beloved Spring florals into the spaces and places you make home in.
Your Facilitator: Evander (Evandros Amani)
Evander (Evandros Amani) is a multidisciplinary artist, herbalist, and scent maker whose work explores the intersection of art and nature - where form, fragrance, and ritual converge. Through his brand Essence Equilibrium, he creates handcrafted perfumes and sensory experiences that honor nature and celebrate the art of balance.
Find more of his work at: www.essenceequilibrium.com and on instragram @essenceequilibrium
Photo by Nile Scott Studios
Join us for Recipes and Rituals for Collective Care every Wednesday!
What does it mean to heal in community? What does it feel like when we extend care to ourselves and the collective? How do plants and our local ecologies care for us? How can we care for the plants and local ecologies in return?
Weave in rituals and recipes into your own self-care and community care practices through weekly explorations in herbal arts, somatic movement in the greenhouse and garden, folk remedies, and other wild-crafts and meditative activities that foster a deeper connection to plants to care for the body, mental health, and the people you move with.
Each week, be guided by a guest herbalist, healing artist, or wellness practitioner who will help you create your own toolkit and apothecary for self and communal care.
Workshops are rain or shine.
Accessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths, and the entrance is through a gate with a small, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use, and while we try to cook without peanuts, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers.
When inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.
Our closest bathrooms are a building away, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone, and because herbalism classes take place here, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here, please reach out to Mallory Craig at [email protected].
Where is it happening?
The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, New York, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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