Gardens for Healing

5:30-5:45pm intros and sharing Recipes for Healing

5:45-6:15pm writing own recipes + imagining gardens

6:15-6:45pm sketching + watercolour painting

6:45-7pm collective sharing + goodbyes

Many plants, herbs and flowers are used in traditional methods of healing across cultures, inherited from our elders, families and communities. The warm turmeric and milk, the nettle tea, the bone broth, the tastes and sensations we may have taken for granted, but whose value and capacity for physical, emotional and mental wellbeing, we now recognise. Piloted during the Nurturing Ecologies residency in 2023, Recipes for Healing is a zine project about the preservation of this knowledge as generations move and grow. 

In this follow-up workshop Gardens for Healing, we will consider how these recipes can be translated into physical spaces by asking what would your ideal garden or space for healing be like? And how can we nurture our imaginations to dream better for ourselves as collectives?

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Shaheen Kasmani is an artist, creative producer, curator and educator. With a MA in Visual Traditional & Islamic Arts, her interests lie in narratives around coloniality and heritage, art, architecture and patterns. Shaheen was the lead curator for the Ramadan Pavilion at the V&A Museum, and co-curated The Past is Now exhibition at Birmingham Museum, has exhibited her work in the UK and Europe, and guest lectures at universities in the US.