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Coffee And Tea Festival Brightens Up The Weekend
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Food/Wine
- Published on Monday, 06 July 2009 20:23
- Written by Brad Balfour
Open to both the trade and the public from 11 am - 6 pm on 4-18 and 11 am - 5 pm on 4-19, 2009, the show serves as an opportunity for gustatory professional and the public to meet on this common ground--a love for coffee and tea.
Included among the featured exhibitors for the 2009 show are the following companies:
Omoma Coffee, SerendipiTea, Café La Paz, Tay Tea, Tavalon, Starbucks, Harney & Sons Tea, Green Mountain Coffee, Keurig, Guayaki Yerba Mate, El Pedral Gourmet Coffee, Hancha Tea, Zen Green Tea Liqueur, Srina Tea, Vittoria Café Coffee, TeLight, Sacred Rose Tea, and Jalima Coffee.
The show will also feature some extraordinary related products including Best Friends Cocoa, Biscottea, Deborah’s Kitchen, Chip ‘N Dipped Cookie Co., Erica’s Rugelach, and Taste of Home Bakery.
In addition to booths, tastings and opportunities to buy unique products, this two-day event also features a full program of presentations from well-known industry pros and pioneers.
Some of the highlights include:
• Home Roasting 101
Presented by Donny Raus, President of Northeast Roasters Group.
• Korean Loose Leaf Tea Ceremony
Presented by Yoon Hee Kim of the Korean Tea Culture Foundation.
• Chocolate Tasting
Hosted by Dina Cheney, author of "Tasting Club."
• Afternoon Tea: Tips Terms, and Traditions
Presented by Ellen Easton.
• The Art of Coffee Cupping & Tasting
Hosted by Marcela Zuchovicki of Jalima Coffee, Sponsored by Gillies Coffee.
• From Garden to Cup: Journey With Tea
Presented by Yoon Hee Kim,
Korean Tea Culture Foundation.
• Think Outside the Cup: Creating Coffee-And Tea-Infused Desserts,
Presented by Celebrity Chef Melody McGinley Whitelaw.
• Turkish Coffee & Culture, Presented by Sule Akoglu of The Turkish
Cultural Center.
• Korean Powdered Green Tea Ceremony
Presented by Yoon Hee Kim, Korean Tea Culture Foundation.
• Green Teas of China, Korea and Japan
Presented by Yoon Hee Kim, Sponsored by TeaClassics.
• Tea Cocktails
presented by Chris Cason, Tea Sommelier at Tavalon
The 4th Annual Coffee & Tea Festival: NYC will also help raise funds and awareness for Cup for Education, the official charity of the event. Cup for Education helps poor and rural coffee communities of Central and Latin America build schools within their communities and provide the basic tools needed to educate the future generations of coffee farmers.
Goodie bags will be also be available to attendees each day and include samples from: Adagio Tea, Celestial Seasonings, Wholesome Sweeteners, The Tea House Times, Glee Gum, Teeccino, Choice Organic Tea, Chopsticks Magazine, and others.
An all day pass includes sampling of the international lineup of coffee and tea exhibitors as well as attendance at the special
presentations.
for more info: www.CoffeeAndTeaFestival.com
The 4th Annual Coffee & Tea Festival: NYC
April 18th and 19th, 2009
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 W 18th St.
631 940 7290
15th Annual PoetryFest at the Irish Arts Center
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Thursday, 21 November 2024 19:37
- Written by Brad Balfour
The Irish Arts Center’s PoetryFest returns for its 15th installment November 22 to the 24th. Held at the Irish Arts Center JL Greene Theater (726 11th Ave, NYC), PoetryFest is a free festival that features contemporary work from both sides of the Atlantic as well as readings and conversations with leading Irish, Northern Irish, and North American writers.
The festival opens on November 22 with Favorite Irish Poets with Obie and Whitbread Award winning playwright Dael Orlandersmith, New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns, Consul General Helena Nolan, writer and critic Heather Clark, actor and boxer John Duddy, author Isabella Hammad, and more special guests to be announced, along with PoetryFest co-curators Vona Groarke and Nick Laird and poets Nuar Alsadir, Henri Cole, Leontia Flynn, John Kelly, Fran Lock, and Declan Ryan. This will be followed by a reception at the Devlin Café.
To learn more, go to: https://irishartscenter.org/
15th Annual PoetryFest
November 22 - 24, 2024
The JL Greene Theatre
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC
Irish Arts Center's 14th Annual PoetryFest Opens With Special Guests
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Monday, 27 November 2023 15:59
- Written by Brad Balfour
The Irish Arts Center has been a haven for creative minds since the 1970s and one of its long running events is PoetryFest. The 14th Annual PoetryFest, running December 1 - 3, 2023 at the Irish Arts Centr (726 11th Ave) brings together poets and bards from both sides of the Atlantic.
The opening night festivities on December 1st features special guests Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Lucy Caldwell, Michelle Gallen, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Consul General Helena Nolan, and Dael Orlandersmith with festival poets Sara Berkeley, Tara Bergin, Timothy Donnelly, Elisa Gonzalez, Thomas McCarthy, Mary Noonan, Tom Sleigh, and curator Nick Laird.
After the opening festivities is a weekend of readings. On Sunday, December 3 is Desert Island Poems, in which Thomas McCarthy and Sharon Olds, in conversation with Nick Laird, have each poet choose five poems they would bring to a desert island with them.
To learn more, go to: https://irishartscenter.org/event/14th-annual-poetryfest
Irish Arts Center's 14th Annual PoetryFest
December 1 - 3, 2023
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC
The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Literature
- Published on Wednesday, 08 November 2023 09:33
- Written by Brad Balfour
The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival will be held from November 9 to the 19 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (36 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10280) and virtually. Featuring a slew of literary guests and speakers with panel discussions, the festival includes Mitch Albom, Itamar Rabinovich, Shaul Magid, Ralph Shayne, and many more.
As part of a special presentation Lois Lowry will speak on her classic Number the Stars with a performance of songs from the Number the Stars musical by Sean Hartley from the Kaufman Music Center. A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig celebrates la cucina Ebraica Romana, Roman Jewish food, within the pages of her new cookbook, Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen. Donald Margulies and Deborah Dash Moore’s essays illuminate and contextualize Halperin’s brilliant photographs in Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria, taking us back to the Jewish cafeteria.
To learn more, go to: https://mjhnyc.org/new-york-jewish-book-festival/
The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival
November 9 - 19, 2023
Merchant Logo Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
