SYMBIOSIS: PLANTS, POETRY, TAROT with Carlos Mauricio Rojas

Symbiosis is a workshop intended to reconnect people with the earth through poetry, tarot and horticulture. Using the written word and tarot as conduits to explore our imaginations and emotions, and writing with intention to re-imagine a world based on mutual care and communion with all living beings. Our writings will be placed into seed bombs and soil to reach out to the earth and their communities and inspire the inner gardener in all of us.

About the workshop

“We will work with sustainable soil mixes in an embodied way through touch that can inspire poetry. Tarot will act as our visual guide for thinking about ways of cultivating care, biodiversity, food and friendship and as a writing prompt.”

Carlos Mauricio Rojas is a spoken word poet, performer, and gardener. Writing as a way to process and soothe, their poetry intersects grief, intergenerational trauma, climate change, suicide and love. Weaving multilingual, multicultural, mixed race, queer and trans identity with political observation, and imagining better futures.