TeAda Productions is excited to announce CreAtive Healing Lab (CHL) which will take place from October 2025 through June 2026. As part of this series, all-star guest teaching artists will facilitate workshops that combine the arts, social justice, and collective healing. The goal of CHL is to be a sanctuary-third place for community to gather, process current events, imagine sustainable futures, community-build, and heal through sharing space and creating art.
The Final CreAtive Healing Lab workshop of the Spring is titled “Living Plants, Living Culture” and will be led by Noelani Mengel.
About the workshop: This hands-on workshop navigates the Hawaiian canoe plant, kī. Propagation to then exploring the creative and cultural uses of the plant. Through story telling and practice, the workshop highlights plants as connectors of culture, creativity, and community.
We will begin the workshop with hands in the soil, creating root bags for ki propagation.
We will move inside to make lei and talk story about Hawaiian cultural meanings and uses of ki until pau. Each participant will leave with a plant baby!
I ulu no ka lala i ke kumu. The branches grow because of the trunk ~ without our ancestors we would not be here. -ʻŌlelo Noʻeau #1261
About the facilitator: Noelani Mengel is a chef, permaculture designer, and cultural practitioner with experience in farm-to-table retreats, permaculture education, and community workshops. She leads creative plant-based sessions in culinary arts, ti leaf lei, and herbal remedies, blending Native Hawaiian traditions with sustainable practices.
What: CreAtive Healing Lab Workshop, Los Angeles
“Living Plants, Living Culture” | led by Noelani Mengel
When: Saturday, June 6th, 2026 — from 10am to 12pm PST
Where: West Los Angeles, CA (register for address information)
Register: Button to sign up for this workshop is below, or click here.
Prices: Suggested-Donation / Sliding-Scale based
TeAda Productions is a Los Angeles based non-profit theater of color rooted in the stories of immigrants and refugees. We are committed to healing and honoring the lives of the displaced, exploited and overlooked. Our artistic process starts and ends with conscious listening, community building, and creative courage. Through theater workshops and performances, TeAda offers acts of service that are transformative and impactful.
