# Event Details - **Event Name**: LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 23 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 23 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: Weave together memoir and plant knowledge in this bilingual writing workshop and plant/seed exchange! Presented in English and Spanish.About this EventLiterNatura! is a writing workshop, seed and plant exchange that invites participants to explore the landscapes of memory and personal geography via the plants that have raised and and saved them.Workshop designed and facilitated by Alba Sereno for Homelands Festival.Participants in LiterNatura! will view writing examples at the nexus of literature, nature and memoir, enjoy writing exercises that help them express their own relationships with plantcestors across the geographies of their lifetime, and will be invited to be part of a joyous seed and plant exchange. In this way, we’ll forge stronger ties to each other, our more than human relatives and the lands we steward together here in Houston, TX!Optional: Participants may contribute their writing from the workshop or plant knowledge to a History Harvest, recording their contributions into a digital archive that is part of a greater project to preserve and disseminate plant knowledge, from across cultures and geographies, beyond the constraints of knowledge keeping about the natural world created by colonial constructs.Materials for this workshop will be available in English and Spanish.ABOUT THE FACILITATORAlba Sereno is a multigenerational Texas Mexican transnational, a fronteriza sin fronteras who aims to honor her ancestors and fortify our relationships with the natural world and each other through writing, oral history, and art involving plants, barro (ceramics) and other, often direct from nature elements. In recent years, she has had the honor to serve as a writing apprentice and oral history fellow with Texas Folklife, and to participate in the Artist Careers Program with Project Row Houses. She is one of twenty five local artists in the 2026 class of Artist Inc., a program of Fresh Arts and the Mid America Arts Alliance, and is currently embarking on writing a book on the themes of foodways-plantways, cosmovision and countercartographies with the Texas Indigenous Food Project.@StudioEntrePalmas on InstagramABOUT DREAMERS BOOKS + CULTUREDreamers Books + Culture is a Latina-owned curated bookstore in Houston specializing in Latiné & Latin American books, authors, & culture.Dreamers is located inside Ironworks in Houston's East End.ABOUT HOMELANDS FESTIVALHomelands is a week-long celebration of the many stories, traditions, and relationships that connect us to one another. Taking place across Houston October 17 - 24, 2026, the festival brings together artists, neighbors, and families to explore what we carry with us, what we inherit, and how we create a sense of home together.Homelands was created to honor these inheritances and to make space for the many ways people build connection. Through art, music, food, storytelling, workshops, and collective gatherings, the festival invites us to honor home not only as a place we come from, but something we build together. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/houston/liternatura-a-writing-workshop-and-seed-exchange/100002002252973543 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, Workshops, Festivals, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: 18+ - Duration: 3 hours - Location: Dreamers Books + Culture - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Houston - **state**: TX - **country**: United States - **location**: Dreamers Books + Culture - **lat**: 29.7446648 - **long**: -95.33906569999999 - **full address**: Dreamers Books + Culture, 711 Milby Street, Houston, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/ee60addf9b767c8b33c45122fd0ce7792f5e4844a6c210c67a75419f8b49c15b-rimg-w1200-h600-dc585898-gmir.jpg?v=1790925545 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange being held? - **A:** LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange takes place on Fri, 23 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 23 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Dreamers Books + Culture, 711 Milby Street, Houston, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange? - **A:** LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange is organized by Homelands Festival. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** LiterNatura! A Writing Workshop and Seed Exchange is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. 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