Last chance for tea & cake

Tomorrow (27th August) I am leaving the studio so if you are around please pop in for goodbye tea & cake between 12 noon and 2pm.

11th – 16th August – more tea & chat between 12 and 2pm

The voting is over and now I have entered ‘prep the tours’ time. I will still keep the studio open for a couple of hours every day when I am in Walsall so please pop in for tea and chat if you wish to learn how things develop and share your ideas! Doors are open and tea is brewing!

All that tea, all that cake, all these chats

After weeks of indulging the gallery visitors and gallery staff (and myself!) in tea, cake & chat something started emerging. I had said (before I started the occupation of the artists' room) that i want to collect memories of the place and hope that these would inspire me to create tours around the building. Tours that would concentrate on intimate moments. This did not work out.

Instead I have gathered many ideas from very different people for tours around the building that propose to enrich the experience of the 'gallery visit' or on few occasions convert the gallery into a totally different space. Some of them a radical, some of them are very subtle. All are going to be considered. I would like to make at least few of these tours happen. I have my favourite but would like to use democratic tools to choose ideas and allow people to vote!

The voting is going to happen during one day only, on Tuesday 28th July. It will happen in real life - between 10am and 4pm everyone is welcome to visit Artists' Studio in Walsall and vote and have a tea & eat a piece of cake & chat a bit more. The voting will also take place on-line. On Tuesday all ideas for the tours will appear on this blog, and to vote for the one chosen tour it will be enough to post a comment under your favourite idea. Simple (although not as tasty as appear at the gallery in person).

Tea & Lost Accent

Fiona & Clive stopped over for tea on Friday. The blackberry & nettle tea took us to Lithuania where Clive's lost his English accent. We made an arrangement to catch up over a piece of lemon drizzle by the end of summer. Do you have any good lemon drizzle recipes you could share? If so send them over to me, please! I am tempted to use this one, but other options will be considered!

Tea donations welcome

Bronek saw my existing tea collection at the studio and same evening donated 10 other kinds of tea from his own cupboard! Bronek's donation includes:
Jade Rings
Bai Mu Tan
English Breakfast
Blackberry & Nettle
Creme Caramel Decaf Tea
Chocolate Decaf Tea
Rooibos
Ge Xian Weng
Lipton Lemon Tea
Lipton Pu-erh (citrus-guarana)

Pop in between 22nd and 25th June (10am - 5pm) to check them out!
Oh, and if you have tea you wish to get rid of, bring it with you!

Cakes (and recipes)

Short list, but all home made:
brownies
cinnamon buns
apple pie
carrot cake
and maybe maybe..... plum cake!

Want to bake it yourself? Click on cakes' to see the recipe!

Teas

I will serve:
green tea with jasmin,
yellow tea,
chai,
Chinese white tea,
sencha with mint,
green tea with Maroccan mint,
a mix of limeflower, hawthorn berries, yarrow, fennel and scullcap,
pu'er,
liquorice,
wild fennel,
lemongrass & camomile,
lapsang,
oolong,
batida de coco (with cola nuts)
rooibos chai,
lapacho matto grosso,
energy guarana,
earl grey
& round tea bags with black tea that can be converstad into nation's favourite: builder's tea

Food Glorious Food! Late night at the gallery

Thursday 4 June, 6pm-9pm

Cake, tea and memory feast is approaching! 4th of June is going to be my first day in the real studio. I will convert the space for this occassion into a tea and cake parlour. I will be serving tea & cake best for your mood. Pop in for a cup of oolong tea if you are slightly sad, or for a brownie if you are an optimists. There will be plenty of green tea with lemongrass for melancholic types! Conversation is optional:) Full list of tea & cake will appear shortly.

Pop in to the gallery! Click here for directions.