Continuing the 4 O'Clock Teas gatherings, artists and those interested in art in rural contexts are welcome to share tea with us in Monreal North this Friday.
Maeve Collins is the Durational Artist staying at Mrua and she will contribute a thought through text for this informal gathering.
Former members of Ground Up artists as well as the members of Ground Up Collective are especially welcome. Looking forward to hearing all thats been created in the past 10 years.
Background to 4 O'Clock Teas:
The concept of 4 O'Clock Teas comes from my childhood growing up on a farm in County Clare. The tradition was to have a working 4 O'Clock Tea out on the farm during the harvest or for any work that required help and support of often up to 20 men. This involved making very sweet milky tea poured into glass bottles and stuffed the opening with newspapers as corks. (We are a Lyons green tea drinkers). Mums homemade sponge cake or scones with Aunty Unas rasberry jam were wrapped up in newspaper and left with the bottles on the farm stone wall outside our gate for the passing tractors to collect or brought to the fields where the men were working.
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Concept:
I make the scones (Odlems package!) and offer different varieties of teas and coffee but the sharing and the support remains the same-just an opportunity to meet artists and talk amongst ourselves.
We are going through huge change and we need to talk about it all before we do something. So this is really research through listening and sharing ideas so that there is room for exploration and process before we come to the answers. I offer this based on the values of Friendship and grounded in Presence and Awareness. Its my personal effort to stop the pendulum that is reactionary in this country but instead open up to listening, allow imagination for new models and structures, consider options and respond with awareness.
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You are also invited to Movement Meditation at 10am followed by Open Drawing that starts at 11am to 3ish.
The next 4 O'Clock Teas will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on the 7th February and in East London hopefully on St. Patricks Day.
Maeve Collins is the Durational Artist staying at Mrua and she will contribute a thought through text for this informal gathering.
Former members of Ground Up artists as well as the members of Ground Up Collective are especially welcome. Looking forward to hearing all thats been created in the past 10 years.
Background to 4 O'Clock Teas:
The concept of 4 O'Clock Teas comes from my childhood growing up on a farm in County Clare. The tradition was to have a working 4 O'Clock Tea out on the farm during the harvest or for any work that required help and support of often up to 20 men. This involved making very sweet milky tea poured into glass bottles and stuffed the opening with newspapers as corks. (We are a Lyons green tea drinkers). Mums homemade sponge cake or scones with Aunty Unas rasberry jam were wrapped up in newspaper and left with the bottles on the farm stone wall outside our gate for the passing tractors to collect or brought to the fields where the men were working.
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Concept:
I make the scones (Odlems package!) and offer different varieties of teas and coffee but the sharing and the support remains the same-just an opportunity to meet artists and talk amongst ourselves.
We are going through huge change and we need to talk about it all before we do something. So this is really research through listening and sharing ideas so that there is room for exploration and process before we come to the answers. I offer this based on the values of Friendship and grounded in Presence and Awareness. Its my personal effort to stop the pendulum that is reactionary in this country but instead open up to listening, allow imagination for new models and structures, consider options and respond with awareness.
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You are also invited to Movement Meditation at 10am followed by Open Drawing that starts at 11am to 3ish.
The next 4 O'Clock Teas will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on the 7th February and in East London hopefully on St. Patricks Day.
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