A Quarterly Storytelling Event
SEP 11, 5 – 7:30 PM:
Pecha Kucha brings people together to present and discuss new ideas around sustainability topics. Presenters each have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to discuss. Slides are automatically timed to be exactly 20 seconds with the total time for each presenter is 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This keeps the pace fun & exciting…
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 COLBEY REID • SEPT. 7, 4-7 PM:
And another brilliant idea from ancient Greece: their drinking parties, called symposia, designed to encourage conversation among citizens. We tend to think of parties as private acts, and as opportunities for escaping thought. But the Hellenic symposium was once an important social institution, where the act of drinking- together acted simultaneously as a kind of religious and civil ritual designed to promote playful thinking and provide an opportunity to try out ideas on others….
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GRANT RUHLMAN • SEPT. 6, 9 AM – 12 PM:
We’ll go through a crash course detailing what Kombucha is, its history and interesting spread from China to the West, and the health benefits of this “remedy for immortality.” From there, we’ll discuss the ingredients, materials, and process…
And another brilliant idea from ancient Greece: their drinking parties, called symposia, designed to encourage conversation among citizens. We tend to think of parties as private acts, and as opportunities for escaping thought. But the Hellenic symposium was once an important social institution, where the act of drinking- together acted simultaneously as a kind of religious and civil ritual designed to promote playful thinking and provide an opportunity to try out ideas on others.
The Barbara Lorie is a variation of a creole with bitters (I’m not saying anything about you, Barbara), once famously known as the Barbara West, after one of the last […]
In Culturematic… (2012), the MIT marketer-anthropologist Grant McCracken advises companies to do more than respond to contemporary culture. He urges them to try their hands at making it. They can […]
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.
