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
Fumi Tanakadate (Fue)
Sumie Kaneko (Koto)
Neel Murgai (Sitar)
Mir Naqibull Islam (Tabla)
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.
