K I N N A B A R I is

a love note
a call and response
a remembering

quietness

… a life steeped in tea.

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K I N N A B A R I is an offering.

A place to feel.

All of it.

A space of sharing and togetherness.
A place for personal and communal tea ritual.
A space to restore gentleness.
A place to feed beauty back into the world.
A space for cultivating peace, love, and kindness.
A place to remember how simple life can be - when we let it be.
A space to practice liberation - for all beings.
A place to celebrate the cycles of birth, life, death ….

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Sharing tea life with you here and in the in-betweens.

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Est. 2016

If you would like to donate to support the upkeep of our by donation community tea
and other community offerings you can venmo @kinnabari
Many thanks <3

Our Origin, Intentions, Heart …

KINNABARI came into being in 2016 in salt lake city, utah ~ occupied lands of the ute, piute, goshute, shoshone, navajo+ ~ as a community offering & place for us to gather & hold each other in healing love & care - bound together & to our dear earth. several times monthly we would meet - growing towards one another & towards our unknown becoming. the leaves, heart medicine, balm, inspiration, poetry, belonging and love.

relocated & re-established in pgh in late 2023, we now continue our KINNABARI teahouse community tea practice. meeting in loving spaces ~ remembering our place & responsibility as humans among all living creatures here, seen & unseen. becoming steady & active in our roles here at this particular time & place in the story & on the map. renewing our commitments to show up for one another interconnected & intergenerational. to be of service in what ways we can & are accesible to each of us, while we are here. with patience & passion. practicing liberation, liberation, liberation. in heart and ACTION.

we share teas primarily from china (white, red/hongcha, sheng (raw) & shou (fermented) puerh, oolong wuyi phoenix mtn, liu bao, liu an) teas grown with care, often wild, or carefully cultivated, aged tested for chemicals, or tasted in best efforts for trace of chemicals. as a white person, serving chinese tea, i am committed with deep respect & acknowledgement of the responsibility to the land, ancestors, & her people living there and abroad, the farmers, the leaves, animals, the soil, all those unseen and seen beings - belonging to story & song & languages & people & place - all those that have been impacted through generations - harmed by & benefitting from tea trade. i work part-time for and with a tea company based in kunming, china. and travel to study and practice tea. growing relationship to land, people, and language. a continuing tea student.

serving tea on occupied adena, hopewell, monongahela, seneca, haudenosaunee, lenape, osage, shawnee+ land - here on turtle island. with deep love for aapi, bipoc, lqbtqia2s+ & palestinian siblings.

* KINNABARI serves (1) gongfu tea (~ ‘tea served with skill’), originating from china in guangdong provence during the late song dynasty (960-1279) when loose leaf tea began to be used in addition to powdered tea - then further developed in the ming dynasty (1368-1644) in more recent time focusing on ritual, preparation, and presentation — and (2) in the synthesized tea tradition of tea sage hut in miaoli, taiwan.

more to come ….

Again …

With humble acknowledgement of the earth origins of the leaves which I serve, primarily from China. The first people and their ancestors and relations living abroad and living there in relationship with and caring for and cultivating trees and plants as sacred. The land’s farmers and families and animals throughout time that have impacted and been impacted by the benefits and harm of tea trade. To all of her languages sung, spoken, painted, and written…

Serving tea on occupied Adena, Hopewell, Monongahela, Seneca, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Osage, and Shawnee + land - here on Turtle Island.

KINNABARI Teahouse practices liberation for all beings - in thought and action. Throughout the year tea ceremonies are offered for fundraising and awareness (please reach out if you would like tea service as organizers, or for fundraising efforts), and a portion of proceeds from yearly tea service are donated to local community organizations, mutual aid, groups, individuals, global solidarity, etc - in deep love of AAPI, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ & palestinian siblings.