An Adventure in celebrating the changing seasons through art and cocktails (costumes encouraged)
Join us to mark the end of the light half of the year and the beginning of the dark with a celebration of the cycles of the natural world. It’s another “Paint and Sip” but this time our artist, Nadine Allan, will guide you through an exploration of the significance of this seasonal transition to our ancestors with a story-telling history lesson about the rituals and art from around the world that marked the end of the harvest, the end of the summer and the earth’s movement from light to dark.
After Nadine inspires you with the lore of the global traditions surrounding this time of year, you’ll be painting and embellishing your own wearable art (a mask) to celebrate! And sipping and savoring while you create…as always!
No experience needed, all curious and brave humans welcomed as our talented, trail-blazing local natural artist and forager, Nadine Allan, guides you through a series of exercises to expand your artistic creativity. You will embrace the magic (and darkness) of The Cook’s Garden as we take you on a journey that will feed all your senses!
Get in the “spirit” of the holiday! We encourage you to dress in costume. It can be a simple hooded cloak (all the Pagans are wearing them) or the creation of your choice.
PLEASE READ: FULLY VACCINATED ATTENDEES ONLY. YOU MUST PRESENT YOUR VACCINE CARD (DIGITAL COPY OK) AT THE DOOR. NO EXCEPTIONS. Adults only (21 and over).
What your ticket provides:
your choice of paintable mask, paints, paint brushes and all you need to adorn your expression of your Samhain art
your choice of 1 adult beverage from our friends next door at Neighbor along with light appetizers
art lesson
entry to our after-party: dancing under the stars and a unique and other-worldly immersive Samhain art installation (LEARN MORE)
What you will experience:
welcome by Geri Miller, owner of The Cook’s Garden
cocktail Service
Nadine’s Pagan art lesson:
your time to paint and create
dance party 7:30-10:30
The Samhain Experience: immersive art installation 7-10:30
Want to make dinner reservations at Neighbor? Click HERE to book.
About the Instructor
Nadine Allan is a visual artist who focuses on themes of ethnobotany, migration and semiotics. Growing up with a multi-cultural background, she is inspired by the universal power of plants to be our aids in daily life. She experienced the healing powers of herbs through family members who practiced Chinese medicine and learned about self-reliance from her American family who tended edible gardens. At age ten, her grandfather, a botanist, gave her a flower press that he had built. This sparked her very first plant-based entrepreneurship, creating and selling artwork created out of pressed flowers. She has a degree in Fine Arts from UCLA and continues to combine her passions for art and nature. Visit her shop at Feral Botanics.