Things that are really annoying to pull out that I want a separate set of
Highly annoying
- Byobu (this is the worst)
- HDMI cable
- Extension cord
- Extra chawan, have 10x tenmoku + 7x colorful ribbon + 5x jennifer anderson pastel + 1x dedicated. Anything more → super annoying
- Towels (always need to count, etc. Just have a second set)
- Mizuya-ita (aka our usual hana usuita)
Less annoying
- Omojawan (need to go through personal stash)
- Meimeizara (no carrying container)
- Natsume (need to use personal dougu)
Minor annoying
- Kekkai
- Chasen
Checklist
Demonstration itself
- Binkake
- Shiki-ita
- Kama
- Mizusashi
- Omojawan x1
- Natsume
- Chashaku
- Kensui
- Mizuya-ita
- Sarashi to cover
- Kekkai
- Meimeizara
- Futaoki
Shomohin
- Usucha (in sifter)
- Higashi
- Women’s kaishi (cut in half?)
- Temae chasen
- Temae hishaku
- Temae chakin
- Tissues
- Paper towel
Mizuya / serving
- Chasen x3
- Mizuya chashaku
- Mizuya hishaku
- Serving tray x2-3 (for higashi)
- Hot water kettle
- Kazujawan x20
- Joukin x??
- Zoukin (x1-2)
- Mizuya tubs for washing x2
- Water pourer (for if the sink is too small)
- Plastic bag/zip lock for wet towels/chakin
- [-] Hana scissors (if using hana)
- Kan for kama
- Kamazue
Setup
- Tatami (sanjo + teishu entrance mat)
- Large folding screen x2
- Jiku hanger
- Jiku
- Board for hana (?)
- Hanaire
- Hana
- Extension cords
- Gaffer tape
Other
- Laptop for presentation
- HDMI adapter
- HDMI cable
- Blanket to keep tatami safe
- Business cards
Flow
Setup
Before anything happens:
- Layout
- Sanjo (3-mat).
- Teishu will face the audience.
- Guest will sit on the far sanjo, directly facing teishu.
- To the left of the guest, across the two sanjo, will be the tokonoma.
- If it fits, byobu will sit on the tatami. Hana on a board on the floor, with a jiku hanging on the byobu.
- Temaeza prep
- Kama on furo on the tatami.
- Mizuya-ita set up behind the tokonoma byobu.
- Filled natsume, prepared bowl, kensui, mizusashi etc
- Meimeizara with higashi for demo guest.
- (Everything ready to go).
- Serving prep
- All kazuchawan out and washed.
- Water heated.
- Higashi prepped.
- Cut women’s kaishi in half, then place one piece of higashi on every kaishi half.
- Place kaishi on serving tray(s).
Lecture
~15 minutes of presentation.
Demonstration
As soon as presentation ends, demonstration can start. Kristina teishu, Sarah guest, Dario narration.
- Sarah to enter first. Skip seki-iri, just sit directly in position.
- Kristina brings higashi, exits. Standing bow for ippuku sashi agemasu, then enter with chawan + natsume. No sitting for aisatsu.
- (Still working through if we do this, or if we bring an extra hanjo).
- Make tea all as usual. No haiken.
After tea completes and teishu leaves, kyaku should exit and bring higashiki with them.
Serving and Q&A
Q&A and serving happening at the same time. Dario will stay out and answer questions, while Drea, Sarah, and Kristina handle serving.
- Before starting questions, we all serve higashi. Everybody has a tray and walks one-by-one down the line. Guests will take higashi from the tray on their own.
- Once higashi is served, Dario will open up Q&A.
- (It will be kind of busy, so difficult to start Q&A before that).
- Remaining three immediately begin whisking and serving tea.
- As soon as bowls are ready, take them out. Don’t let more than 2-3 bowls sit without being served.
- No need to stick with any one role. Feel free to whisk some, serve some.
- When serving, give bowls to guests by hand.
- After you serve your bowl, look around to see if anybody is done.
- Try not to come back without an empty bowl, once people have started finishing.
- Only carry one bowl at a time.
Don’t worry about cleaning bowls until all bowls are returned. Get bowls out as quickly as possible to get everybody their tea. Cleaning can happen after.