Summer Tea 2022

Name: Summer Tea 2022 — Tea Arts and Culture
Start: 2022-08-28T10:00:00-0400
End: 2022-08-28T16:00:00-0400
Location: Boathouse + Audubon Center at Prospect Park

Sunday, August 28, 2022
10:00 AM 4:00 PM

Boathouse + Audubon Center at Prospect Park 101 East Drive Brooklyn, NY, 11225 United States (map)

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Music by Fumi Tanakadate and Sumie Kaneko at Summer Tea 2022 (Photo @ Joyce Maio) IG_maiojoyce.jpg

Wearable Ikebana at Summer Tea 2022 (Photo @ Joyce Maio) _ IG_ maiojoyce.jpg

Chinese Tea Ceremony at Summer Tea 2022 (Photo @ Mengyan Gong) IG_gongmengyan.jpeg

Photos by Joyce Maio, Mengyan Gong, & Jennifer Cosenza

Join us with Prospect Park Alliance for a full-day gathering in the park outside to steep and sip tea together with arts and music and share our appreciation of nature.

Rain or shine. We will move the programs into the Boathouse if it rains.

Free admission. Limited Spots. Registration required.

10 am - 11 am

NATURE WALK

Led by the Prospect Park Alliance staff, we will start from the Boathouse to have a walk through the trails around and learn about the natural surroundings of the park.

11 am - 12 pm

INTRODUCTION TO CACAO WITH FAREZ HERNANDEZ

TEA MEDITATION

WEARABLE IKEBANA WITH KRISTINA BAJUNAISHVILI

Create ikebana to wear on yourself--as a headpiece, a necklace, an arm bracelet, or even a stick-on flower tattoo. Be adventurous and express yourself by becoming a walking, tea-drinking flower arrangement. more info

12 pm - 1 pm

LUNCH & TEA

Bring your own lunch or pre-order a vegan lunch from SYKO Restaurant in Brooklyn. Simply submit a form and pay $18 then let us when you check in at the Welcoming table.

1 pm - 4 pm

COMMUNITY TEA CIRCLES

An immersive tea experience for the participants to learn from various cultures around us. Green Tea tasting by New York Tea Society , Chinese Tea Ceremony, and Tea Circles created by our community tea members Benjamin Schultz, Gordon Arkenberg, Leigh Fanady, Sara Shacket, Cheryl Iliadi, Taka Kawajiri and Stephan Lance. Art and music will be incorporated into the whole experience.

PEACE PIECE WITH MOLLY HERMAN

Join the artist to create part of the Peace Piece with the recycled canvas. Everyone will ultimately shape the composition and content of the piece in response to their own individual (and then communally shared) experiences, feelings, hopes, prayers, wishes, etc. as well as encouraging responses to each other. more info

MUSIC

POEM COMPOSING TREE

Summer Tea 2022 in Prospect Park is part of the Nature Tea 2022 series of Tea Arts & Culture. Nature Tea 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Check out our Summer Tea in the past.