Drink ‘n Thinks: Session Three – Vinyl & Cocktail

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……
Drink ‘n Thinks: Session Two – Tiki Picnic

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…..
Drink ‘n Thinks: Session One – The Apothecary’s Lab

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…..
Fall DIY Workshops set to make you more self-sufficient

Want to grow fish in your own garage or backyard? Have you secretly always wanted to raise your own rabbits for meat? Maybe you want to know more about mixology […]
Drink ‘n Think: Cocktail Alchemy Workshop

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.