Tea & Creativity: TAS @ 'One Planet' Trevarno

Monday, 8 June 2009

TAS @ 'One Planet' Trevarno

Tea Appreciation Society will be hanging loose with the leaf this weekend - 13th and 14th June at a new Cornish summer festival.

‘One Planet’, a fun new ‘mini-fest’ which is a collaboration between the Trevarno Estate and Gardens and CoaST (the Cornwall Sustainable Tourism Project).

‘One Planet’ will be the ultimate ‘discovery day out’ for people of all ages and interests, featuring a host of scintillating activities and entertainment and backed with an eco-message that will show people how to have a great time whilst helping protect the wonderful world around us.

Festival-goers are invited to bring their picnic rugs and deck chairs to Trevarno and set themselves up for a chilled day of free-rolling activities including a storytelling yurt, poetry-reading, food foraging workshops, a ‘Bear Bottoms Trail’ by Cornish Real Nappies Project and willow weaving.

‘Sustainable Style’ will see an eco-fashion and ‘swishing’ (clothes swapping) area and one of the highlights of the day will be a solar-powered catwalk featuring funky recycled fashion.

A Hyde Park inspired ‘soapbox speakers corner’ will be a continuous opportunity for people to take their stand and talk about issues of their choice.

Meanwhile leading eco-business leaders from the South West will also be giving relaxed chats about how their commitment to sustainable business has been the key to their success.

There will also be a programme of children’s entertainment, a large variety of stalls will be selling organic food and locally-sourced products, and there will be demonstrations of sustainable living methods.

A programme of ‘Sustainable Sounds’ from South-West based music acts will also be announced in the coming weeks and an open-to-all ‘Junk Jam’ will also take place on each of the afternoons.

The ‘One Planet’ event is not ticketed and only normal ticket prices will apply (of which a part will go to CoaST for new projects). The event will run from 11am to 4.30pm each day.

from helston Leave Helston on the Penzance Road signposted B3302 junction, take the B3303 signed Camborne. Trevarno is signposted at the northern end of the Crowntown Village. from the A30 at the St Ives (A3074) roundabout take the B3301 in to Hayle. In the centre of Hayle take the B3302 towards Leedstown and Helston. At the B3303 turning towards Crowntown turn left in to Crowntown and soon after the village turn right towards the garden.

Trevarno Gardens Crowntown Cornwall TR13 0RU

Hope to see you there.

Thanks to Ed Schofield for the photography edd_schofield@hotmail.com

who are the TAS?

The Tea Appreciation Society was founded in 2007 by a small collective of surfers, it is the one thing, other than the love of tea, that we all have in common, individually we are artists and designers and musicians and writers, together we are surfers, surfing really is our cup of tea.

Based in Cornwall in the UK we are often in the ocean, and when we're not, we're enjoying good quality loose leaf tea.

Because we are surfers there will often be an element of what we do, and write about at the Tea Appreciation Society that is connected to our surf culture, it's a culture that spans the world and there are many different elements to it.

We embrace creativity in every genre of art, music, tea drinking and wave riding. It is a broad canvas, and we will respect individuals and movements that paint on their canvas in any way they choose.

It’s all about Tea & Creativity

The world is a better place with both...

We welcome contributions from other like minded souls, if you would like to get in touch please email mail@teaappreciationsociety.org

Our Manifesto

Manifesto of the
Tea Appreciation Society

1. We want to sing the love of tea.

2. The essential elements of our poetry will be loose leaf tea, boiled water, a tea pot, a china cup and a biscuit.

3. Literature has up to now magnified idleness, and slumber. We want to exalt these slow movements of ecstasy, feverish boiling of the kettle, the pour, the perilous stir, the rattle and the clink of the spoon.

4. We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by an old beauty: the beauty of tea.

5. Beauty exists only in considered brewing. There is no masterpiece that has an aggressive character. Poetry is not a violent assault on the forces of infusion.

6. We want to glorify peace - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism; these destructive gestures kill the beautiful ideas of the human race.

7. We want to visit museums and libraries, encourage philosophy.

8. We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work; the revolt, smashing the supermarkets; we will rejoice in the baking of bread; the polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern music as we play our ukuleles: the nocturnal vibration of the worms in our compost; our spirits suspended from the clouds by the thread of cup in sleeve tea bags; and the gliding flight of creativity whose propeller sounds like the sipping of enthusiastic tea drinkers.