🌀 Perpetual Brew

🌀 Overview

Perpetual Brew is a community project organized by The Tea Stand and inspired by Perpetual Stew.

Every single day of April, we'll be serving free tea for all in Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick. You are invited to come for a free cup of tea (or many).

Check the calendar below to see when we'll be in the park:

Times are set a week in advance and are always subject to change!

📜 Brew Log

coming soon...

🎨 Artist Takeovers & Collaborative Zine

Most days of the month, Miles (the founder of The Tea Stand) will be the one sitting in the park and serving tea.

We're also inviting several local artists to "takeover" on select days:

April 5 – Sabina Sethi Unni – performer, organizer, urban planner
April 6 – Nick Deveau – photographer, curator
April 13 – Jayshawn Lee – poet, scholar
April 15 – John Grund – illustrator, ceramicist, organizer, gardener
April 25 – Zack Young – writer, director, performer

Each artist will create a work of art inspired by their takeover experience in whichever medium they choose.

In June, we'll feature all of their artwork in a special, collaborative issue of our zine, bōcha. This issue will be dedicated to Perpetual Brew and will be available in both English and Spanish.

**After our 30-day stint of serving free tea, all of the participating artists will contribute a work of art to a special issue of our zine,** **bōcha**.

Note: if you'd like to receive this special issue of bōcha, you can attend our Perpetual Brew culmination event on July 6th or sign up as a Steeper and we'll ship a copy to your door.

🔮 Intentions & Acknowledgements

Perpetual Brew is an extension of The Tea Stand's regular programming, which is grounded in our values of stillness, trust, and sustainability. We seek to create spaces which allow folks to connect with themselves, others, and the natural world. You can read our manifesto here.

By committing to a full month of daily service with Perpetual Brew, we seek to develop a deeper relationship with the people of Bushwick and Maria Hernandez Park. We want to meet all of our neighbors!

We're inviting local artists to takeover in order to bring in new identities and perspectives to The Tea Stand. We hope that this will enable interactions and conversations to take place which otherwise couldn't due to Miles' identity and experience.

These artists will contribute their works of art to a collaborative zine which will be published in both English and Spanish. In effort to connect more with the Hispanic population of Bushwick, the Spanish versions of the zine will be available for free.

**Jayshawn Lee, a local poet and scholar, and Miles of The Tea Stand offering free poems and tea in Tompkins Square Park in 2023.**

Perpetual Brew is a celebration of public spaces, community art and all those who visit Maria Hernandez Park.

It is also an experiment – we don't know how this will end up going!

We are forever indebted to all who are helping make Perpetual Brew happen – the artists named above, Sippers and Steepers, Bethania Viana of Mil Mundos for translating the zine, and friends Adin and Naqiya.

Please reach out with any ideas, questions, or concerns :)

Thanks for reading!

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