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May 28, 2008

After Hospitality #5:: World Tea Party with Bryan Mulvihill

Event was Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Guest:: Bryan Mulvihill
Video In Video Out, 1965 Main St.
Submissions 7:30 pm and screenings 8:00 pm
Socializing and tea throughout
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World Tea Party

WTP, manifests as a constantly evolving site-specific
inter-active trans-cultural art tea salon that continually transforms itself into a
public environment around traditions of drinking tea. WTP has manifest over the last
twenty years in museums, art festivals and social environments around the simple act of
meeting over cups of tea.  WTP is an ongoing self-archiving event that evolves with the
developments of socially interactive communications technology while adhering to the many
cultural traditions associated with the now global habit of taking tea. Over the last
millennium tea has become the most common beverage in the human community, after water.
Almost every culture, community and family has a tea tradition. Tea represents the most
widely practiced human meeting ritual, which WTP fuses within a `living culture? art
context.

http://www.worldteaparty.com

With an intimate group gathered for this month's event Bryan Mulvihill was gratious enough to present his World Tea Party which has been seen and performed around the globe.  Bringing his own tea set the group gathered and sipped tea after Bryan gave his presentation and before the evenings screenings.  Listen to a sample of his lecture.



Tonight's producers include:
Stu Hughes, Pink Drugs Intro, 2 min. Mpeg2.
"This is the into for a DVD compilation of my animation collectives work of the past couple of years".
crystalbeard.com

Pierre A. Sonolet, Before Eating, 5 min. Still Shots from an ongoing project.
"I take pictures of what I will eat before cooking and after it's cooked."

Jeff Langille, Two Houses, 2008, 2 min., MiniDV  and Boulders, 2007, 8min., MiniDV.

The Cue Up Collective (Lois Klassen, Pierre Andre Sonolet, Jeff Langille, Lori Weidenhammer and Wynne Palmer) would like to thank our Hospitality guests and to remind all producers that we will be taking a short summer break until we start again in the Fall at 7:30 pm Tuesday, September 30, 2008.  Have a good summer and keep shooting!

May 03, 2008

Hospitality Event From April 29

It was a quiet night at April's event as many are now enjoying the fine weather we have been having.

Gregory Borowski, Design Principal at Merrick Architecture explored the concept of hospitality in architecture, through the medium of the Nordic Centre Daylodge project in the Callahan Valley in British Columbia.

Along with our guest, the following producers showed their work:

Pierre Andre Sonolet presented work from his new series of still photographs involving architecture.
"I take a picture through cheesecloth.  It makes me think of the Impressionists".

Lucas Meyer, We Don't Have to be the Same to be Equal, DVD, sampes from a 45 min. piece.

Join us next month at 7:30pm, May 27 with guest
Bryan Mulvihill and his 'WorldTeaParty'.  World Tea Party is an ongoing art event that brings together a constantly re-manifesting tea party of divers cultures, communities, and traditions, around the act of meeting for tea.  Tea is the perfect trans-cultural medium for convivial social interaction, `live art’ or as coined by Joseph Beuyes, `social sculpture’.

Join us for our last event before a summer break until September.  See you there at VIVO, 1965 Main St.