Book Launch | Invitation to Tea | A Tea Project Archive and Recipe Book
International Human Rights Day, Saturday, December 10, 2022 | 11:00AM-1:00PM (Central)
Co-hosted by Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Human Rights Watch, and Center For Constitutional Rights
In person at Weinberg/Newton Gallery with livestream access (shared by email upon registration)
On this International Human Rights Day, editors Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg are delighted to invite you to join us in a conversation with Aliya Hussain, Michael Rakowitz, and Mohamedou Ould Slahi. 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.
Tea is something that we all share.—Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo torture survivor
In Conversation with:
Aliya Hussain | Advocacy Program Manager, Center for Constitutional Rights
Michael Rakowitz | Artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and troublemaking
Mohamedou Ould Slahi | Author and Guantánamo torture survivor
Aaron Hughes | Artist, educator, anti-war Iraq War veteran, activist, curator and editor of this book
Amber Ginsburg | Artist, educator and member of many collaboratives and editor of this book