About this Event
Tree Talk is an outdoor meditation practice sparked by my pilgrimage to the ancient Sequoias. The core of this practice, however, stems from a lifetime of looking up at the crowns and down at the roots, posing all my questions to the trees, and learning how to listen for their wise and endless answers.
The sequoias have learned to live with the fire. They shed their branches to stave off the flames, and only release their seeds unto the fertile aftermath of a cleared forest floor. We often come to the forest when we’ve been burned, to plant new growth.
There are no sequoias in Brooklyn but there are powerful friends, allies and guardians here, with their own wisdom to share with you. We’ll gather in Prospect Park to be led through this hybrid movement, writing, and meditation practice designed to open a dialogue with the trees around us.
You'll take home a framework for establishing relationships with the trees in your own neighborhood, forging connections that will live on long beyond the container of our gathering.
Questions? Email [email protected]
About your facilitator:
Katya Borkov is a poet, multimedia artist and facilitator teaching interdisciplinary arts workshops as Everything Spills Studio. They have taught at The Foundry, Performance Space New York, Sapphic House and beyond, and have received support from Poets & Writers and NYSCA for their 2026 workshop series, "Written Women".
Borkov was an artist-in-residence with League of Stars (2025), and a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship Finalist (2023). She was recently granted a fellowship to the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing's 2026 Summer Writing Conference. Her poetry has been featured by Poet’s House, La Bouche, Discount Guillotine, Temptations Salon, Experimental Creations, Secret Pete’s, At The Well, and Auteurism. She has authored the photo-poetry chapbook Flamingo Heights (Tiny Cutlery Press, March 2025), which was featured in Poet’s House’s 30th Annual Showcase, as well as collage-poetry zine “V. The Vision”, and arts criticism in Impulse Magazine and AN Interior.
A professionally trained ballroom dancer, Borkov has performed as a movement artist at Spoke the Hub with BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance (2025) and in the cast of “You can hear footsteps” by Elliot Reed (2024). She has studied yoga and meditation for 7 years and brings these experiences to her treatment of writing and movement as divinatory processes.
Event venue & nearby stays
Prospect Park, Prospect Park, 11 East Dr, Brooklyn, NY, United States
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