NOVEMBER
Tea Ceremony x Kiki - 'Coming Home to Quiet'
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Step into stillness with a traditional Tea Ceremony. An ancient meditative ritual that invites you to connect with the spirit of Tea as a sacred medicine. Each session becomes a space for devotion, presence and introspection, allowing you to slow down and receive exactly what you need in the moment.
Tea is a graceful, compassionate teacher. She meets you where you are, offering gentle guidance, clarity and peace. Every ceremony is unique, unfolding intuitively and creating a deeply personal experience that nourishes both body and spirit.
Through silence, intention and the simple act of sipping tea, this ceremony becomes a gateway to inner harmony, grounded awareness and a deeper sense of connection.
What is a tea ceremony?
A tea ceremony in the Cha Dao tradition is a meditation with tea at its heart. When you arrive, you’ll find a place on a cushion around the tea space. Once everyone has settled, we drop into silence together. Kiki will prepare and serve three to five bowls of tea, one at a time. For this evening she’s bringing a rare tea, picked from old trees that have grown freely in the mountains, without pesticides or chemicals, in harmony with nature.
During the tea, there’s no talking and nothing you need to know or do right. You simply receive the bowl, drink and notice: the warmth in your hands, the taste, your breath, the quiet movements of your heart. The silence gently slows us down, and the tea, a true medicine for the heart, softens what needs softening and opens what is ready to open.
After the last bowl, we open a space to share where we are: what we felt, noticed or reflected on. Sharing is always an invitation, never an expectation, and simply listening is just as welcome.
You don’t need any experience with tea or meditation. Just come as you are.
About Kiki
Kiki is originally from Uzbekistan, with Mongolian roots, and grew up with tea as the heart of hospitality. She has been studying Cha Dao for three years, including time in Taiwan learning from tea teachers and farmers, alongside her Zen practice. She has served tea in Russia, South Africa, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Spain, and is honoured to share tea for the first time in her favourite city, London.
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The chabu
In a tea ceremony, the tea is served on a chabu, a tea cloth laid out under the bowls and kettle. It marks the space where the ceremony happens, and it often changes with the season, the tea and the people gathered.
For this ceremony, Cave Textiles has created a special chabu, plant-dyed in our studio with oak leaves and tea.
Cloth and practice
Meditation and practice have a strong connection to textiles. Cloth is the visible layer: what we sit on, wear and serve on. Spiritual practice is like an invisible cloth, weaving many traditions together into one simple moment, here and now, where everything dissolves. When & where
Tue 3 November 2026, 7.00pm – 9.30pm
Cave Textiles studio, 44 Bonner Road, London E2 9JS
Getting here
Nearest stations: Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath
Nearest pub: Approach Tavern
Tickets £60
Every ticket includes a gift to take home: a special tea blend and a small plant-dyed cloth from Cave Textiles
[Book your place]
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NOVEMBER
Community Ecologies - 'Rethinking Colour in a Changing Climate' by Karolina Suchanek
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2.00pm – 3.30pm
Sat 28 November 2026
Join Karolina Suchanek for a hands-on natural dye workshop exploring how colour is shaped by shifting ecologies, seasons and plant life.
Through a guided making session, participants will experiment with plant-based dyes. Blending craft, conversation and material exploration, the workshop invites participants to reflect on their relationship with nature and imagine more intentional ways of making. No experience needed.
Karolina Suchanek is a textile designer and founder of Cave Textiles. Her practice is rooted in intuition, spirituality, feminine energy and ancient making, using plant dyeing to connect with the natural world. She trained at the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych in Kraków and in Textile Design at Central Saint Martins, London.
Date & Time: 2pm - 3:30pm Saturday, 28th November 2026
Location: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, E2 9RR
Cost: Free, no booking required
AUGUST
Presence and Vocality: A Practice of Being
by Juliet Merchant
3.00pm – 4.30pm
Sat 14 August 2026
Cave Textiles is thrilled to invite the amazing musician Juliet Merchant to host this special workshop — the very first to be held in our studio. We can't wait to share the space, some delicious tea, and a practice of listening together.
Open to everyone, with no prior experience required. This workshop offers an introduction to Pauline Oliveros' text scores and the practice of Deep Listening. Together, we will explore and perform a selection of scores before reflecting on our experiences through an open group discussion. Whether you are a musician, artist, or simply curious, all are welcome.
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Juliet Merchant is an award-winning composer and pianist whose scores for Soviet silent films have premiered at MoMA, La Cinémathèque Française, and Institut Français, with her work on The House on the Volcano earning an "outstanding" review from The Guardian. She holds a Master's from Oxford and is completing a PhD in Composition at King's College London.
Tea Ceremony x Kiki - 'Coming Home to Quiet'
Step into stillness with a traditional Tea Ceremony. An ancient meditative ritual that invites you to connect with the spirit of Tea as a sacred medicine. Each session becomes a space for devotion, presence and introspection, allowing you to slow down and receive exactly what you need in the moment.
Tea is a graceful, compassionate teacher. She meets you where you are, offering gentle guidance, clarity and peace. Every ceremony is unique, unfolding intuitively and creating a deeply personal experience that nourishes both body and spirit.
Through silence, intention and the simple act of sipping tea, this ceremony becomes a gateway to inner harmony, grounded awareness and a deeper sense of connection.
What is a tea ceremony?
A tea ceremony in the Cha Dao tradition is a meditation with tea at its heart. When you arrive, you’ll find a place on a cushion around the tea space. Once everyone has settled, we drop into silence together. Kiki will prepare and serve three to five bowls of tea, one at a time. For this evening she’s bringing a rare tea, picked from old trees that have grown freely in the mountains, without pesticides or chemicals, in harmony with nature.
During the tea, there’s no talking and nothing you need to know or do right. You simply receive the bowl, drink and notice: the warmth in your hands, the taste, your breath, the quiet movements of your heart. The silence gently slows us down, and the tea, a true medicine for the heart, softens what needs softening and opens what is ready to open.
After the last bowl, we open a space to share where we are: what we felt, noticed or reflected on. Sharing is always an invitation, never an expectation, and simply listening is just as welcome.
You don’t need any experience with tea or meditation. Just come as you are.
About Kiki
Kiki is originally from Uzbekistan, with Mongolian roots, and grew up with tea as the heart of hospitality. She has been studying Cha Dao for three years, including time in Taiwan learning from tea teachers and farmers, alongside her Zen practice. She has served tea in Russia, South Africa, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Spain, and is honoured to share tea for the first time in her favourite city, London.
The chabu
In a tea ceremony, the tea is served on a chabu, a tea cloth laid out under the bowls and kettle. It marks the space where the ceremony happens, and it often changes with the season, the tea and the people gathered.
For this ceremony, Cave Textiles has created a special chabu, plant-dyed in our studio with oak leaves and tea.
Cloth and practice
Meditation and practice have a strong connection to textiles. Cloth is the visible layer: what we sit on, wear and serve on. Spiritual practice is like an invisible cloth, weaving many traditions together into one simple moment, here and now, where everything dissolves. When & where
Tue 3 November 2026, 7.00pm – 9.30pm
Cave Textiles studio, 44 Bonner Road, London E2 9JS
Getting here
Nearest stations: Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath
Nearest pub: Approach Tavern
Tickets £60
Every ticket includes a gift to take home: a special tea blend and a small plant-dyed cloth from Cave Textiles
[Book your place]
For more information, please email: studio@cavetextiles.com
Join Cave Textiles newsletter, for new workshop dates.
Join Cave Textiles newsletter, for new workshop dates.
NOVEMBER
Community Ecologies - 'Rethinking Colour in a Changing Climate' by Karolina Suchanek
2.00pm – 3.30pm
Sat 28 November 2026
Join Karolina Suchanek for a hands-on natural dye workshop exploring how colour is shaped by shifting ecologies, seasons and plant life.
Through a guided making session, participants will experiment with plant-based dyes. Blending craft, conversation and material exploration, the workshop invites participants to reflect on their relationship with nature and imagine more intentional ways of making. No experience needed.
Karolina Suchanek is a textile designer and founder of Cave Textiles. Her practice is rooted in intuition, spirituality, feminine energy and ancient making, using plant dyeing to connect with the natural world. She trained at the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych in Kraków and in Textile Design at Central Saint Martins, London.
Date & Time: 2pm - 3:30pm Saturday, 28th November 2026
Location: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, E2 9RR
Cost: Free, no booking required
bethnalgreennaturereserve.org
Join Cave Textiles newsletter, for new workshop dates.
AUGUST
Presence and Vocality: A Practice of Being
by Juliet Merchant
3.00pm – 4.30pm
Sat 14 August 2026
Cave Textiles is thrilled to invite the amazing musician Juliet Merchant to host this special workshop — the very first to be held in our studio. We can't wait to share the space, some delicious tea, and a practice of listening together.
Open to everyone, with no prior experience required. This workshop offers an introduction to Pauline Oliveros' text scores and the practice of Deep Listening. Together, we will explore and perform a selection of scores before reflecting on our experiences through an open group discussion. Whether you are a musician, artist, or simply curious, all are welcome.
Juliet Merchant is an award-winning composer and pianist whose scores for Soviet silent films have premiered at MoMA, La Cinémathèque Française, and Institut Français, with her work on The House on the Volcano earning an "outstanding" review from The Guardian. She holds a Master's from Oxford and is completing a PhD in Composition at King's College London.
julietmerchantmusic.com
