Sponsored by Puget Sound Tea Education Association, the fourth annual Northwest Tea Festival will be held this coming weekend in Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center. The event will include at least 16 vendors and a robust roster of speakers and presenters, including James Norwood Pratt, Michael J. Coffey, Becky Lee, Brett Boynton, and Jason Chen. [...]
My article on this year’s World Tea Expo has been published on the English Tea Store Blog. Here’s an excerpt: One highlight among the vast sea of exhibitors on the Expo floor was the Taiwan Pavilion, where Thomas Shu and his wife Josephine Pan [of ABC Tea] hosted tastings and demonstrations. They were aided by [...]
A little over a year ago I started a tea company called Phoenix Tea Shop. I worked on sourcing good teas and products during the subsequent months (along with branding and building the websites), and managed to find a lot of great connections and opportunities. But I never really wanted to tackle this project single-handedly. [...]
Opening this coming Saturday, March 26th, at SLAB Art in Ballard, Infusions will center around an exhibition of teaware by contemporary ceramic artists immersed in the vibrant and growing Pacific Northwest tea culture, and will also feature tea tables made by the woodworking artists at SLAB. On Sunday following the show opening there will be [...]
You have a little more than a day left to enter Steepster’s Ultimate Holiday Tea Gift Contest, which will end at 8:00pm EST Friday, December 18th, 2009. The combined prize package is quite a large quantity of desirable stuff, ranging from modern, shiny tea accessories to a traditional matcha kit, and including quite a wide [...]
photo by Corax of Cha Dao, used with permission This past August, I alerted readers to the “Steeped in History: The Art of Tea” exhibit that had just opened at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Beatrice Hohenegger, author of Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West, was guest curator for this wonderful [...]
A number of very generous and respectable tea companies, including Imperial Tea Court, Jaya Teas, Tea Classics/Hancha Tea, Rishi Tea, Eco-Prima Tea, The Meaning of Tea, Den’s Tea, and Teaism, have donated tea, tea-related products and other items to an auction and event to raise funds for the work that HandReach.org is doing with its [...]
Last Sunday a new exhibit opened at the Fowler Museum at UCLA called, Steeped in History: The Art of Tea. The show looks to be quite a fabulous display of all sorts of tea-related objects and information, spanning several centuries and countries. Sadly, I don’t think I’m going to be able to see it myself [...]
Last weekend the Northwest Tea Festival was a little sparse, but in its inaugural year it was about the size I expected it to be. Festival attendance looked pretty good on Saturday while I was there and most of the booths were getting a fair amount of attention. We paid the $5 donation to the [...]
This weekend, October 4th and 5th, is the first annual Northwest Tea Festival at Seattle Center. The event looks to be quite interesting, with vendors, exhibits, demonstrations and tastings. There will be showings of the films All In this Tea and The Meaning of Tea. Admission is free, but a donation of $5 per person [...]
