Hey Friends!
Today, Thursday August 26th
Drop in between 8PM and Midnight for:

Replay Your Tea With Me
feat/ TeaJays Luke Moloney and Adrian Sinclair

@ 45 WEST Performing Arts Studio
Use back alley entrance, from Abott Street.
45 West Hastings Street
BY Donation

Come out to enjoy traditional Chinese Tea (Gong Fu Cha)
with some temporal and experiential hybridity's.

This NIght is to kick-off our "TeaJay Tour."
We will be serving tea in this manner in various areas (outdoor, indoor, in the forest, in gardens)
along the west coast, with stops scheduled in the Gulf Islands and some across the border.

While its short notice, I hope to see some of you there.
We will have some incredibly tasty tea for you...

Read on below for more details...

Adrian Sinclair (Transformation Projects Crew)
Luke Moloney (Pandora Benevolent Soc. Crew)

This new work from the Pandora Benevolent Society New Media Research Initiative fuses traditional Chinese Tea Service (Gong Fu Cha) with interactive digital media. Replay Your Tea With Me (RYTWM) allows the tea drinker to experience the visual-sensual layering of simultaneous tea ceremonies as they occur in a single experiential field.

Prior to the performance, a separate tea ceremony is digitally recorded with a high-resolution digital video camera. Using this footage, the traditional bamboo tea tabletop is transformed into a tactile projection screen onto which a digital projector (hidden in lantern above) projects the previous tea ceremony onto the cups, teapot and hands of the participating tea drinkers. At the same time, the current tea ceremony is recorded by a camera (also in the lantern), for sharing with future “Teajay” stops on our tour. The experience has both sequential and simultaneous qualities. The ceremony is understood as a link in a long chain of ceremonies as well as a multi-temporal ceremony as it bares traces of past performances.

Exhibitions

First exhibited at Centre A[1] as part of the World Tea Party[2] during the Vancouver 2010 winter games, Replay Your Tea With Me began to connecting tea drinkers and art lovers between Centre A and Chinatown’s Real Chinese Tea Shop[3].

For the summer and fall 2010, Replay Your Tea With Me will be toured and exhibited at a variety of locations throughout British Columbia. At each exhibition, guests will share their tea with guests at the previous exhibition. In addition, the artists will be documenting the installations with the aim of creating a short film