Monday, May 28th: 12pm – 6PM

Heather Tweed is a painter from Sarasota, Florida whose art primarily explores environmental issues in Florida and its surrounding waters. Mangrove estuaries, wetlands, aquatic animals, and birds inspire her. Heather hopes to spark a greater appreciation and awareness regarding Florida’s environmental issues through her art, and she is committed to the natural health of the Everglades and Gulf of Mexico.

Visit Heather online.

Knots & Ropework is brought to you be the Tampa Free Skool community.  Come learn 6 fundamental knots and gain a foundation to progress to more advanced knot work.  Includes lessons on the history of knot work, suggested reading, and discussion of real life uses for the knots taught.  All materials provided.

All Tampa Free Skool classes are free to the community.

Instructor:  Miles Tweed (a sailor and knot enthusiast).

An RSVP is required – please email milestweed@gmail.com.

Simply select any 5 herbal, rooibos, black or green tea and pay only $20. Explore and shop now to save almost 50% OFF your loose tea orders.

Offer is valid through 5/31/12 and available in store only. Not valid with any other discounts and doesn’t apply to all rare teas, white, oolong and signature blends.

Come by on Saturday, May 26th at 1pm  for our monthly free tea tasting.  Sample 10 variety of teas and enjoy a 10% discount on all loose tea and teaware purchases.  This is a fun and casual event that is perfect for the whole family.

Underground Comic Club is brought to you by the Tampa Free Skool community.   Meet with other comic artists and aficionados and collaborate to produce an independent comic book.

Example of class: Come to class and students are given a topic. Example: “I really hate it when my mom would …” or “The one food I cannot stand to eat is …” and must illustrate a short (1page max) story. Students must complete a thumbnail and or final product in the 1 hour class, if they do not finish they are welcome to finish it at home and bring it back for review at the next class. Eventually, when there are enough pages, mass produce a short book and hand it out to contributing artists. Any skill or art background is acceptable. The idea is that there are non-commercial, raw, humanistic stories, with art styles that reflect that.

All classes by the Tampa Free Skool community is Free but an RSVP is required.

Send RSVPs to Grace Szeja at orchidzorg@yahoo.com.

The USF Botanical Gardens hosts Butterfly and Native Plant Festival on June 9th and 10th.  There will be talks on butterfly gardening, Florida wildlife, bee keeping, herb growing, tea plant growing and a tea 101 talk.  Vendors will sell butterfly plants, herbs and native plants.  This will be a fun outdoors event for the family.

Kaleisia’s tea specialist will offer a catch-all workshop at 11am on June 9th.  The purpose of this class is to familiarize you with the varieties of teas around the world and the proper brewing techniques.

May12

Special thanks to Algorhythm Sky for providing amazing music all night long.  You guys are the best!

The raffle winners from last night’s party are:
457898 – a pack of your favorite black tea
457906 – Kaleisia Tea Shirt
457918 – a pack of your favorite fruit tea
457860 – a pack of your favorite signature tea
457842 – Kaleisia Mug
457808 – a pack of matcha cookies
457810 – a pack of matcha cookies
457753 – a pack of matcha cookies

Please bring your ticket to Kaleisia to redeem your prize(s).  We’ll hold the prizes until May 5th.

April 7th – Saturday: Open 10AM to 10PM

April 8th – Easter Sunday: Open 12PM to 6PM

April 9th – Easter Monday: Open 10AM to 10PM