The Familiar Supper Club
Fundraiser for Abundance NC• Monday, August 10, 6:30 – 9:30 PM:
The Familiar Supper Club aims to give back to the community through the support of local farmers and by donating all proceeds from each event to a select North Carolina charity. Please join us at Top Of The Hill to benefit The Abundance Foundation!….
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • July 19, 6 PM – 8:30 PM:
Interspersing commentary with original music, sipping, and storytelling we’ll reenact one of the most hospitable conventions of the American mid-century. Vinyl and cocktails became almost inseparable by the mid-twentieth-century……
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • JUN 21, 6 PM – 8:30 PM:
We’ll delve into post-WW II Tiki Culture, an American design motif applied to stylized bars, backyards, and the elaborate drinks consumed there. Soldiers returning from the Pacific after WW II associated tiki culture with a freer, less repressed lifestyle…..
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • MAY 10, 6 PM – 8 PM:
This Fair Game Drink n’ Think session will delve into how the development of scientific ways of thinking coincide with the birth and blossoming of the cocktail in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Cocktail mixing rituals borrow from…..
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • OCT. 19, 4 PM – 6 PM:
This Fair Game Drink n’ Think session will enact a comparative religious history of the alchemical traditions implicit in the distilling of spirits and mixing of cocktails. The very word “cocktail” originated, in 1803, from descriptions in the Farmers Cabinet of a concoction of spirits, bitters, and sugar ostensibly consumed as a hangover remedy.
