Tea and Letters for Liberation
When
Mar 15, 2024
1:30pm–5:30pm
Cost
Free
The Tea Project invites you to take a moment to stop, sit, sip, and reflect over a cup of tea while writing a letter to imprisoned torture survivors.
This is a drop-in event. No RSVP is required.
From Illinois to Guantánamo, despite the well-documented use of police and military torture to extract forced confessions, many torture survivors remain imprisoned.
To break through their enforced isolation, and as a gesture of compassion and solidarity, you are invited to write to a torture survivor in Illinois or the US military prison in Guantánamo.
Insights and guidance on writing the letters will be provided by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Chicago Torture Justice Center.
As guests write, Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg–featured artists in Illinois Humanities Envisioning Justice RE:ACTION virtual exhibition–will serve tea in porcelain-cast Styrofoam teacups inscribed with flowers based on stories of the people imprisoned in Guantánamo who carve floral patterns into Styrofoam cups as a form of personal expression and resistance. The tea served will be prepared based on selections from the 48 recipes and traditions featured in the Tea Project archive and recipe book, Invitation to Tea.