Prose, Propagation & Prosecco

Prose and Propagation is a unique, hands-on workshop where literature and creativity bloom together. In each session, participants will craft a personalized propagation station—painting, planting, and tending to a small, living piece of nature—while collectively listening to and immersing ourselves in the prose of one selected artist, writer, or literary figure.

Each workshop focuses on prose written by various authors who give us a broader perspective. This workshop is designed to give space to exploring ideas, themes, concepts and stylistic nuances. As we set up our cuttings to grow and flourish, participants will engage in thoughtful discussion and reflection, connecting the life of words to the life of plants.

This session offers a meditative, creative space to nurture both your artistic and literary senses. By the end, you’ll leave inspired, with a beautiful propagation station in hand and a deeper connection to the art of prose across time.

This session we're listening to Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son is James Baldwin’s deeply personal and piercing exploration of race, identity, and belonging in mid-20th-century America. Through a collection of essays, Baldwin examines the intersections of love and rage, particularly in the fraught relationship between Black people and a society built to exclude them. The title essay centers on the death of Baldwin’s father — a man hardened by bitterness — and the Harlem riots that erupted the same day, using both events to unravel the generational and emotional cost of racial injustice.

Baldwin’s prose blends memoir, social critique, and prophetic truth-telling. He writes not only to confront racism, but to understand how pain can distort the human spirit — and how love, honesty, and art might redeem it. The work asks readers to consider what it means to inherit anger, and how to cultivate something new from the ruins of what’s been broken.