Events & workshops
Celebrating the changing of seasons
Botanical programs run year-round — workshops, tastings, and seasonal celebrations at STORE EAST and off-site. Dates move with the seasons: the current calendar lives on Kinka’s events page.
Matcha 101 — Whisk & Sip
Sunday mornings with matcha: learn to whisk and drink, with Japanese dry sweets
most Sundays
Kokedama 苔玉
the Japanese floating garden — a ball of soil wrapped in moss, holding a live plant
monthly-ish
Chawan 茶碗
make your own matcha tea bowl
seasonal
Japanese tea ceremony
private seatings, two servings — 5 PM & 7 PM
by arrangement
Kimchi workshop
monthly, hands-in — jars go home with you
monthly
Papier-mâché with Tom Sebazco
masks and creatures with Kinka’s resident sculptor
seasonal
Tomeishi 止め石
a hands-on workshop exploring pause and intention — create your own stopping stone
occasional
Shimenawa weaving
a New Year’s rope-weaving workshop
new year
Wellness & slow food
skincare, tea, and slow-food preservation sessions, rotating
rotating
Most workshops are ticketed through Eventbrite; some travel off-site — Kinka has taught everywhere from tea rooms to Adobe’s New York office.
The pantry
A small, serious pantry
The food third of ART + FOOD + PLANTS: seasonal tastings pull from local growers and from one careful shelf of staples.
Ippodo matcha
Kyoto tea, for the Sunday whisk
Koshihikari rice
the good rice
Tomita Brewery
sake & sake-lees goods
Irving Farm coffee
roasted in New York
Rice is not an abstraction here: before Kinka, EunYoung grew New York City’s first rice paddies — on Randall’s Island, in 2010.