Plant Medicine x Tea Ritual workshop
Plant Medicine x Tea Ritual workshop
Africana Archivist Tonika Berkely and Public Humanities Fellow Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown will lead a workshop about using plants to make medicinal cider and tisanes for the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center.
Location: Mason Hall Alumni Board Room, Room 102
Fire Cider for Winter Wellness, with Tonika Berkley
Learn how to make "Fire Cider" or "Master Tonic" to boost your immune system for cold and flu season. We will be using herbs such as rosemary, turmeric and cinnamon, with root vegetables and fruits, like horseradish, ginger, and lemon. Let’s prepare to stay well during the cold winter season with some ‘heat’ for the body. All herbs, vegetables, and materials will be provided.
Rituals of Tea, with Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown
An interactive workshop blended with sweet nostalgia reminiscent of a tea ceremony. Infuse memories of family tradition while brewing delicious tisane blends. Integrate inspiring ingredients and create a playful personal ritual. De la Brown loves sharing the practices she learned from her abuelita like “tonic"—a fresh cilantro (coriander) tea cold-steeped overnight. The session will boost your wellbeing and include a group ceremony to lock in the co-created magic.
About the Presenters
Nicoletta Darita de la Brown, pictured above, is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and curandero chamána (shamanic practitioner). Her artworks nourish others during and through her art practice, while healing herself in public space as a Black-Latin woman. She is the 2022-24 Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow. She is also the 2024 KODA Mental Health Resident Artist, 2024 Vermont Studio Center Marshall Frankel Fellowship Artist in Residence, a former sculpture professor at Towson University, and former adjunct faculty in the MFA in Community Arts Graduate Program at Maryland Institute College of Art. To learn more about de la Brown visit https://vidamagica.love/.
Tonika Berkley is Africana Archivist for Special Collections at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and co-director of the Inheritance Baltimore’s Community Archives Program. She has her MAA in Applied Anthropology/Heritage from University of Maryland-College Park and her BA in Sociology/Anthropology from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
To learn more about the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center, visit https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/.