World Tea Party Special Event Schedule
| DATE | TIME | COST | EVENT | DESCRIPTION |
| Sun Jan 17 | 12 - 10pm | FREE | Arts Birthday | The 1,000,046th birthday of Art. Tea and Cake and live connection to the global Art's Birthday network. |
| Thu Jan 28 | 6 - 9pm |
| Women's Memorial Blanket | A fundraising event to support the memorial procession which will takes place along Hastings and Cordova streets every year on Feb 14. |
| Fri Feb 12 | 2 - 10pm | $5 after 6pm | Opening reception Bright Light | Watch the opening festivities in the comfort of the tea house
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| Sat Feb 13 | 2 - 3 pm | FREE | J. R. Carpenter, Aphra Kennedy Fletcher, Jerome Fletcher, Mooey and Panda Wild Party (Skype with UK) | Part slumber party, part jungle party, Wild Party goes on 24/7 in a bedroom in an 18th c country house in South Devon. 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.
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| Sun Feb 14 | 3 - 5 pm | $5 | Cease Wyss First Nations Welcome | In conjunction with the Women's Memorial March and the Year of the Tiger
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| Tue Feb 16 | 2 - 3 pm | FREE | Pigeon Park Tea Fire | Tea Serving in the park with fire |
| Wed Feb 17 | 2- 10 pm
| $5 after 6pm | Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa Beaners Culinary Secrets Revealed! An Elegant Guatemalan Bean Dinner | "In line with the global aspirations of the 2010 Olympics, Ramirez-Figueroa will teach Guatemalan recipes using beans as a main ingredient." Cooking Classes: 2-8pm Dinner 8:30pm
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| Wed Feb 17 | 4 - 6 pm | FREE | Sally Lee Tea with Sally Lee & Oboro (Skype with Montreal) Participants; Soren Brothers, Kathy Kennedy, Sally Lee, Marc Lemoine, Su Schnee, Mary Wong, and friends
| Skype tea with artist Sally Lee in Montreal in collaboration with Oboro Tea with Sally Lee is a small and intimate Skype event that connect the spirit of tea ceremony, friendship, music, Vancouver and Montreal. A more *‘' flavored tea will be served throughout the evening. The various pieces of music play during the evening are scheduled according to this particular flavor that tea possess and my approach to this flavor. * is the taste that used to describe a kind of flavor in tea. Without an exact translation from Chinese to English, ‘bitter' is a common word used instead. It tastes "bitter and astringent (€), but should also exhibit a pleasant mouthfeel and "sweet" aftertaste, referred to as gn () and húign(Þ).""distinct gn () and húign(Þ) on the tongue and cheeks, which together induces salivation and leaves a "feeling" in the back of the throat." |
| Fri Feb 19 | 7-10pm | $5 | Lois Klassen and Pierre-André Sonolet (Covering Up) Masque Tea
| A tea in disguise. See through the disruptions and interruptions of life in a mega-event city. Discover new cover ups over tea. Masks and images (projection) by Covering Up. Music by Rafael Tsuhida and the group Gyre with Ross Birdwise (click here for event details) |
| Fri Feb 19 | 2-5pm | FREE | Japanese Tea Ceremony with Sakaino Sensei | Traditional Japanese tea ceremony demonstration and tutorial. |
| Sat Feb 20 | 7 - 9 pm | $5 | Jun Oenoki Yokohama - Vancouver (Skype with Yokohama) | A live streaming with Nine key art organization, alternative space and live party in Yokohama by Skype. Including, "Sixsquarebridge","Yokohama Creativecity Center", "Noge Hana*Hana", "BankART NYK/KOJIMA RADIO", "KOTOLAB,LLC/YOKOHAMA HOSTEL VILLAGE", "KOTOBUKI CREATIVE ACTION", "Kanagawa University SOGABE-ken", "KOGANECHO AREA MANAGEMENT CENTER", and "YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011" talking about long term urban revitalizing projects initiated by the city of Yokohama in collaboration with artists and architects and the local community. Special Screening of "HEAVENHELL" by Chris Chong Chan Fui + Morinaga Yasuhiro (shorten version) and "KOTOBUKI_PROMOTION" by Ksuke Fukushima + Kohske Kawase, follows the streaming. |
| Sat Feb 20 | 4 - 6 pm | $5 | Music of the Whole World
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| Sun Feb 21 | 2 - 4 pm | FREE | Music of the Whole World | |
| Sun Feb 21 | 6 - 10 pm | $5 | Blue Tea with Project Rainbow | A launch of Project Rainbow's Blue, including live music and fine oolong "blue" tea. Blue is a commission from the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program as part of Mapping and Marking. |
| Mon Feb 22 | 6 - 8 pm | $5 | Music of the Whole World | |
| Mon Feb 22 | 2 - 5 pm | FREE | Urasenke in Vancouver | Traditional Japanese tea ceremony |
| Tue Feb 23
| 2 - 3 pm | FREE | Pigeon Park Tea Fire | Tea Serving in the park with fire |
Tue Feb 23
| 4 - 5pm
| FREE
| Chinese Tea Art
| Come and enjoy Chinese tea with TeaArt's Lam Wong and Susie Lin. They will also talk about the philosophy behind Chinese tea and art. |
| Fri Feb 25 | 6 - 8pm | $5 | Electronic music performance | Tim Gerwing performs selections from his recent album 'Chikatetsu' - this is ambient/electronic music exploring themes of personal and transpersonal psychology, inner space, and personal experience in the context of a constantly shifting 21st century world. |
| Fri Feb 26 | 7 - 10 pm | $5 | Tea and Bon-Bon's Minimalist Cabaret Ana Bon-Bon & Special Guest | Western Roots minimalist Cabaret with chanteuse Ana Bon-Bon;a bon-temps musical celebration in the spirit of old-style cabaret with a bon vivant and her blues accordion. Intermittent performances. |
| Sat Feb 27 | 3 - 4:30 pm | FREE | Kozuo Matsumoto | Koto Performance |
| Sat Feb 27 | 8 - 10 pm | $5 | Brady Marks High Tea | High T, is an ambient audio-visual performance, augmented with: rose petals & Chinese black tea, pine smoked Chinese black tea, paraguayan roasted yeba maté, & Seamist tea. Together these affectations touch the boundary between immersion and remediation. Call it liminal social media. |
| Sun Feb 28 | 3 - 5pm | FREE | Ray Hsu, Glen Lowry, Hank Bull, Joomi Seo and guests | Poetry and music jam |
| Fri March 12 | 12 - 10pm | $2 by donation | 221A artist run centre Pact 4 "Trade" | One day exhibition with the theme of "Trade" organized by 221A
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| Tue March 15 | 2 - 3 pm | FREE | Pigeon Park Tea Fire | Tea Serving in the park with fire |
| Fri March 19 | 2 - 4 pm | FREE | Oboro family and friends Le thé de l'amitié ( Skype Tea with Oboro, Montreal) | Tea parlour games and other surprises
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| Thu Mar 18 | 6-10 pm | $5 | Arty World Tea Party | Fundraising event for the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts
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