Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately from 9:30…
Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately from 9:30…
Details: Garden visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe a Tea Ceremony specially created for Winter. A demonstration is a formal, curated presentation for visitors about the art of Chanoyu. Sensei (an instructor) carefully selects the utensils to reflect the theme of the day. Â There is commentary and questions…
Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately from 9:30…
Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately from 9:30…
Details: Join us for a weekend of free winter-inspired arts and crafts activities using natural materials found around the Garden. Come each day for a different art or craft activity hosted by our Backcountry rangers. Mud Painting: Saturday, December 17th Come exercise your creativity using nature’s free art supplies! We invite you to join us in…
Details: The Garden’s Tucker Lichenologist & Curator of the Lichenarium, Rikke Resse Naesborg, will be giving a talk about her exciting work with tiny critters on giant tress. Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) supports rich communities of epiphytes growing high in their crowns, including a diversity of lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants. California Native Plant Societies…
Creators of new gallery exhibition, Interlopings: Colors in the Warp and Weft of Ecological Entanglements Details: Helén Svensson and Lisa Jevbratt use non-native plants that grow on Santa Cruz to dye yarn and wool from Santa Cruz Island Sheep (a breed endemic to, but now removed from the island). The plants they use have a…
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