All Souls 2009
A Night for All Souls was created by Paula Jardine the cemetery’s artist in residence. Find out more about Paula here.
It’s almost October, and preparations are underway once again for All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery. This year we will open on Friday, October 30, with opening prayers at sundown, and continuing until the closing ceremony at noon, November 3. Once again we will be inviting the public to remember their dead in an atmosphere of contemplative beauty, with candles, flowers, music and tea. The Helping Mex y Can Society will host an evening of Mexican cultural activities celebrating the Day of the Dead on Saturday, October 31, and there will be an afternoon to honour Vancouver Poets who have passed away this year on Sunday, November 1st.
Visit our website www.vancouver.ca/allsouls for complete listings of events, and public workshops, which begin October 17th.
Download a pdf poster (all souls poster09) to print.
Download a pdf (AllSoulsPostcards) to print.
Download a pdf (AllSoulsNativeTea) to print.
For those wishing to be more involved, we will host our annual Planning Tea Party, Thursday October 8 at 7pm. This is a casual gathering where you can find out what is being planned and opportunities for participation. For more information send an email to worldtea@shaw.ca
Oboro 25th Anniversary Teas
OBORO’s 25th Garden Salon
exhibition / event
Saturday, April 18, 2009 – Saturday, May 2, 2009
http://www.oboro.net/
opening banquet
Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 5pm
Special Closing Ceremony
Saturday, May 2, 2009, at 3pm
location to be confirmed
To mark its 25th anniversary and to celebrate the future, OBORO is organizing a major exhibition bringing together more than one hundred artists with their own interpretation of “OBORO.”
Come and celebrate with us at the opening banquet and throughout the exhibition during which all the artworks will be on sale. Proceeds will go towards OBORO’s endowment fund. Hot tea will be served by Trolley Bus, famous emcee of the World Tea Party, in a charming garden setting.
As a closing ceremony, you are invited to participate in a special event during which a tree will be planted to thank the community for its unfailing twenty-five year support and to make a gesture for future generations.
Until then, be on the look-out for the publication of our “manifestoboro” at oboro.net or on a bulletin board near you.
Wild Party Skype Tea with South Devon, England
February 13, 1400 PST / 2200 GMT
Part slumber party, part jungle party, WILD PARTY goes on 24/7 in a bedroom in an 18th c country house in South Devon, England. The kettle is always on in this wilderness of laptops, iPods, data projectors, bad puns, random theories, tea trivia, tea lights, throw pillows, paper cut-outs and painted plywood trees. Drop in on a fiction writer in stripy dressing gown, a teenager in a wolf suit, a butler in track pants, a stuffed cow in a plush coat and a panda in a bikini for a cup of Wild Berry Tea.
J. R. Carpenter, Aphra Kennedy Fletcher, Jerome Fletcher, Mooey and Panda, with guest appearances from Couch Potato (who is basically a potato) and The Zebra Socks, will broadcast one hour of their ongoing WILD PARTY live via Skype from Sharpham House, South Devon, England, to Centre A, 2 West Hastings St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, February 13, 1400 PST / 2200 GMT
Visit their website at http://luckysoap.com/lapsuslinguae/2010/02/wild-party-skype-tea-with-world-tea.html
Tea School
Hope your Chai was up to its usual standards. Come check out our future Tea School at http://www.worldteaparty.com/teaschool/