🌀 Perpetual Brew

TLDR: we're doing this to get people OUTSIDE and OFF THEIR PHONES and MEETING THEIR NEIGHBORS and LOOKING AT TREES AS THEY SLOWLY BLOOM.

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First, some context – this is nothing new for The Tea Stand. We serve free tea all around Brooklyn / Lenapehoking, often in public parks, often in Maria Hernandez Park in particular (it's my local park & our home base).

Serving free tea in a public park is a great way to meet your neighbors and enable them to meet each other, too. And it's more important (and more difficult) than ever before to know our neighbors. Being connected to the people around us is essential to our wellbeing and the starting point for any kind of social movement.

The new part is the every single day of April part, and the reasoning there boils down to because experiments are fun & generative. (Also, even this part isn't new – we also served free tea every single day of April 2025!)

Doing anything for 30 straight days is a reliable way to reveal insights, enable new experiences, and shift our understanding of what is possible. Who knows what will transpire? Will someone's life be saved with a cup of tea? Will the c*ps shut us down? Will the interconnectedness of all things be revealed!?!

For more about the why of The Tea Stand, check out our Manifesto here.

The Tea Stand is a community & creative project which bikes around Brooklyn / Lenapehoking serving free tea for all.

Over the past 3+ years, we've served over 9,000 cups of free tea at public parks, food distributions, community events, theater performances, protests, art markets, and wherever else people want free tea (which, it turns out, is most places.)

Our intention with all of this is to cultivate accessible spaces for people to slow down, sip some tea, and connect with themselves & their neighbors.

The Tea Stand is stewarded by Miles (it's his full-time work) and sustained by people who donate tea (which we serve back to the people), time (help us serve said tea), and $$$ (through our membership program here).

Learn more about The Tea Stand here.

Come and get some free tea! Especially on a rainy day, that's when things get really sad & lonely out there.

Here are some other ways to support Perpetual Brew / The Tea Stand:

1) Donate some tea! Just bring it with you when you visit, or email us if you're not local. All tea is welcome, so long as you know the ingredients.

2) Join our volunteer group chat here! We'd love your help bagging tea, providing relief to the tea servers, and/or running miscellaneous errands.

3) Sign up for our newsletter / membership program here! Help us move away from Instagram and toward a financially stable future.

We – the Brew Crew – will be documenting & celebrating the experience of Perpetual Brew by creating a collaborative zine. (A zine is just like a magazine, but usually smaller & with some DIY/counterculture energy).

The zine will be a special issue of bōcha, a biannual zine published by The Tea Stand. This special issue will be published on June 21 2026, the summer solstice.

If you'd like to receive a copy of the zine, you have three options:

1) Sign up as a Steeper here. All Steepers – folks who donate $9+ per month to support The Tea Stand – receive every issue of bōcha shipped to their door.

2) Sign up for our free newsletter (also here). We'll be hosting a launch event for the zine toward the end of June which we'll announce via the newsletter.

3) Show up to a Tea Stand event sometime after the summer solstice and pray there is an extra zine there, waiting for you.

The general concept? Yes, of course! (And this year we will actually have a "perpetual brew" tea on the menu. One serving per day, first come first serve.)

Or maybe you mean the 2023 cultural phenomenon cooked up by Annie Rauwerda? Yes, that inspired this, too! I'm still really bummed I never got to try the stew.

So true, I'm sorry about that. Maybe it's on our general FAQ?

If not, feel free to email us your question at theteastandnyc@gmail.com.