Ode to a Common Thread:
Join us this Earth Day for a day of grounding in nature and reveling in artistry. While we all lead different lives, we can always find similarities and ways to relate; whether it be writing by way of Poetry, handcrafting through Crochet or simply sitting for a silent cup of tea, find your way to connect to nature, self and community. Let’s find your our common thread and build connections though art in community!
The gathering features Odes to Common Things poetry writing led by Robin Lampman.
FREE event! All are welcome!
Meet Enmy Uribe:
Enmy believes in the WHOLE-istic approach to life, all of her work centers on supporting others in cultivating their connection to self. Working in community as a yoga instructor, gardener, tea practitioner and facilitator, she has found that the simplest of paths, while sometimes hardest to stay on, is the way to true connection and ultimately freedom.
About Maggie:
Maggie, founder of Maggie’s Magic Garden, immigrated from Bolivia to the United States over 35 years ago. Since then, she has cultivated a community in East Harlem around the premise of nature and health. A passionate advocate for green spaces across the city, Maggie continues her work with unwavering dedication—as a tribute to the earth she has been deeply connected to through her life.
Meet ML Kinnel:
ML Kinnel, also known as Mercurial Lore, is a New York-based teaching artist , crochet instructor, and fabric designer, and the founder of MLCrochetnyc. His work centers on textured crochet construction, wearable art, and intentional design rooted in craft tradition and contemporary expression. With experience leading hands-on workshops and community-based creative sessions, ML creates learning environments that balance technical precision with artistic freedom. His approach encourages students to build confidence through repetition, rhythm, and hands-on exploration. This spring he invites participants to experience crochet as both skill and meditation - a craft that connects hand, mind, and environment.
Meet Robin Lampman:
Robin is a published poet and an educator with 35 years of experience teaching in universities, high schools, and elementary schools. She has a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education and has taught literature in two languages in the public schools in New Mexico, Texas, and New York as well as at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and the American School of Madrid in Spain. She has also taught English as a Second Language to adults at the University of Texas in Austin and at the El Paso Community College in El Paso. Texas.
She produced a volume of poetry by eighth graders in East Harlem which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and published by the Big Read. For the last several years she has been teaching writing classes for The Noble Maritime Collection. She developed and taught an adult class on Poetic Forms and taught classes on the reading and writing of literature in two languages.
Robin is Editor in Chief of Unspoken Word, an online international literary magazine, and she is Director of Poetry and Tea for Tea Arts and Culture.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Private support is provided by City Parks Foundation and Partnerships for Parks through the NYC Green Fund.
Special thanks to:
