Intergenerational Awareness Week Event
Event schedule
Josephine Carr from the RHUL Gender Institute will subvert the image of the English Tea Lady.
4.30-5.30 pm: Slow Sips with Earth
Equating her menopausal symptoms with the climate crisis on the worn-off planet, Youngsook Choi holds the gathering for transformative contamination and interspecies healing. She will instigate collective writing of an antioxidant anti-inflammatory prayer for broken earth in the poetic form of tea-mixing recipes.
6-7 pm: Spilling Tea!
Scholar-activists Luis Manuel Garcia (Birmingham) and Shzr Ee Tan will spill the tea on tea-spilling, gossip, whisper networks, and similar strategies of collective protection by marginalised people.
Event speakers
Youngsook Choi is an artist/researcher with a PhD in human geography. Under the umbrella theme of political spirituality, her performances and multi-faceted installations explore intimate aesthetics of solidarity actions and collective healing.
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research focuses on urban electronic dance music scenes, with a particular focus on affect, intimacy, stranger-sociability, embodiment, sexuality, creative industries and musical migration.
Further information
Admission is free, but space is limited - please register with your details in the link at the top of the page