We continued to be inspired by nature.

We gathered and shared a time to appreciate what another spring had offered. Our event featured Odes to Common Things artist engagements that connected us to explore our shared common ground deeply through the appreciation of tea, arts, and culture.

2:00 pm - Dawn/Tea - First Light, First Tea art making with Jeannine Bardo

*Email the artist to reserve your spot at the event.

Odes to Common Things Poetry Writing with Robin Lampman

4:00pm - Music by Ryan El-Solh and George Crotty

4:30 pm - Poetry Sharing

Tea will be prepared by our community friends and enjoyed throughout the whole event.

About Jeannine Bardo:

Jeannine Bardo is the founder and artistic director of Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Center. Bardo is a Brooklyn-born artist, curator, and art educator. She received her BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts and completed both a Masters in Art Education and a Masters in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. She is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on humanity’s connections to the natural world. From January 2018 through October 2018, Bardo collaborated on a DCLA NYC Public Artwork titled Ark for the Arts, a socially engaged artwork that focused on climate change and resiliency in the community of Red Hook, Brooklyn. 

More about Jeannine and the Dawn/Tea - First Light First Tea.

About Robin Lampman:

Robin Lampman is a published poet and an educator with 35 years of experience teaching in universities, high schools, and elementary schools. She has a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education and has taught literature in two languages in the public schools in New Mexico, Texas, and New York as well as at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and the American School of Madrid in Spain. She has also taught English as a Second Language to adults at the University of Texas in Austin and at the El Paso Community College in El Paso. Texas. She produced a volume of poetry by eighth graders in East Harlem which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and published by the Big Read. For the last several years she has been teaching writing classes for The Noble Maritime Collection. She developed and taught an adult class on Poetic Forms and taught classes on the reading and writing of literature in two languages. Robin is currently teaching a class on writing poetry at the Hill Street Community Garden as well as conducting the Shakespeare Reading Group at Art on the Terrace. She is Editor in Chief of Unspoken Word, an online international literary magazine, and she is Director of Poetry and Tea for Tea Arts and Culture.

About Ryan El-Solh:

Ryan El-Solh is a guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn. He leads the instrumental trio Scree (with bassist Carmen Quill and drummer Jason Burger). They released their first full-length record, Jasmine on a Night in July, last spring.

Photos @ Katie Gee Salisbury

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Designed by Dana Murtada