Join us for a moment of respite in the Duke Gardens teahouse, where you will experience the warmth of a traditional Japanese tea gathering. Tea guests meet at the Doris Duke Center to be escorted to the teahouse for these … Read more
Join Morgan Pitelka (Asian Studies), members of the Japanese Tea Practitioners of Durham, and renowned Pittsboro potter Mark Hewitt for a conversation about tea rituals in Japan and the American South. In the following Japanese Tea Gathering, partake in a … Read more
Join us for a moment of respite in the Duke Gardens teahouse, where you will experience the warmth of a traditional Japanese tea gathering. Tea guests meet at the Doris Duke Center to be escorted to the teahouse for these … Read more
Come to the Ackland Museum Store on Franklin Street on Friday, April 1, @3:45 p.m. for matcha lattes and a look at fellow Phillips Ambassador Juliana Powell’s tiny gallery, “Mireba Miruhodo.” Juliana Powell Mireba Miruhodo, a Polaroid Gallery at the … Read more
Turkish Lunch Didem Havlioğlu, Lecturer in Turkish Interested in polishing or refreshing your foreign language speaking skills? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Flyleaf Books for a lunch where participants are encouraged to speak only in a foreign language for the … Read more
Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, this talk will show … Read more
Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. In his new book, Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s … Read more
Join the students of JAPN 418 for a virtual event to learn about “Sadou” or the art of the Japanese tea ceremony from expert Emiko Suzuki. Currently President of the Ikebono Ikebana Blue Ridge Chapter, Suzuki has previously given … Read more
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