Australian Tea Cultural Society

AUSTCS is a not-for-profit promoting the benefits of tea and tea culture. Seminars: Brisbane 10 Sep | Sydney 21 Oct | Melbourne 5 Nov 2023. 🐦 Adeline Teoh

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@msknightsays Hello! Are you available to talk about Australian tea history? DM me or email adeline@ https://t.co/4tEJTSxyqV

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A sad state of affairs when Australia's largest tea estate winds down.
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What are you doing this International Tea Day? Our founding director David Lyons hosted a talk and tasting in his hometown of Temora.
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The teahouse that stimulated the suffrage movement: Read about educator Maybanke Anderson, who would meet her suffrage sisters in a Sydney teahouse known as the unofficial birthplace of Australian feminism.
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Which tea should you pair with the Year of the Rabbit?
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This Mental Health Month we uncover some of the ways tea can help us reconnect with one another and ourselves.

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(Photo by Anna Kapustina)

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Earth, fire, water, art – it’s all in a teapot: The Sydney Teapot Show combines claywork and tea culture in a popular annual exhibition. Here's curator Elisabeth Johnson on what to expect.
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The ABC of Tea in Australia: The history of tea-growing in Australia is as convoluted as it is cosmopolitan, but it all leads to a quality cuppa. Here's how Nerada became the bastion of Australian-bred camellia tea.
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When AUSTCS sought a partner to bake scones for our tea fair, the first people to come to mind were the Country Women's Association.

Here's how city women will be using baked goods in their regional and rural advocacy.
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How to paint a teacup: Why ceramicist Angie Russi prefers teacups without handles. - https://t.co/w4gMig18po

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So I did manage to stay awake for the whole of #LinnTea22, but had very little brainpower to livetweet it (also, or was it just me, did most presenters go at 1.5x speed?!). Wanted to share this amazing artwork introduced in the Peabody video.
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China made teapots for Vietnam at Yixing and Jingdezhen, two of its most famous production sites. The ones destined for Vietnam were different from the ones for domestic use.

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New lecture: Emma Newport on porcelain.

Porcelain is both art and functional, collectable and quotidian.

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Early teapots need to be distinguished from kettles. Usually kettle handles are looped... but not always. Curators usually label them more vaguely as 'vessels' or 'pots'.

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Katharine Burnett on 'The Curious Case of Sino-Vietnamese Teapots before 1700'

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Ray talks about the illustration of the hoolock gibbon being removed from context in its depiction when encountered on the nature expedition in Assam.

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Anyone else tuning in to the #LinnTea22 conference? It's 1am here in Sydney, Australia, so I'm going to go as long as I can.

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Unlike Chinese tea, which was associated with the literati, Assam tea grew wild.

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