This is not a teabagging party, it’s far more civilized. Just across from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum artist Michele Brody has set up a large copper cart where you can sip tea and tell Brody your stories. She’ll then transcribe these stories onto paper tea bags to go on display in the museum’s window through December.
Brody told us the inspiration for her project: “‘Tea Cart Stories’ focuses on the phenomenon of tea by retrofitting a street-vendor cart into a mobile tea ceremony. Passing pedestrians are invited to share a cup of tea, and the goal is to cross boundaries of what is private within the public realm: A chance meeting can transform one’s perspective. For the museum, the project will focus on how pushcarts have their beginnings in lower Manhattan as the first business that many immigrants own and run.”
Tea Cart Stories runs 4–7pm today, Jul 9 and Jul 23.
