Invitation to Tea: Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book

RSVP here to join us on International Human Rights Day, Sat, Dec 10, 11am-1pm, to celebrate the launch of Invitation to Tea: Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book, featuring a conversation with activists and artists Aliya Hussain, Michael Rakowitz, and Mohamedou Ould Slahi, alongside editors Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes.

Ten years in the making, this book compiles 48 tea recipes, stories, and traditions, one for each of the countries that have had citizens extralegally held at the US military prison in Guantánamo. Highlighting the resistance of the people imprisoned there—780 since 2002—the recipes are paired with images of porcelain cast Styrofoam cups inscribed with flowers, inspired by stories of these men carving into Styrofoam cups as a form of expression, survival, and resistance. The tea recipes in this book, which vary from sweet and milky to astringent and spicy, are a celebration of this resistance and traditions passed down from generation to generation—traditions of comfort, medicine, generosity, and solidarity.

This program is co-hosted by Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Human Rights Watch, and the Center for Constitutional Rights.