{"id":3008,"date":"2023-02-21T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:50:44","slug":"expressing-creativity-through-the-authors-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/expressing-creativity-through-the-authors-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing Creativity Through the Author\u2019s Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Claire Fagan, Features Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an initiative this year to expand creative communities, National English Honor Society (NEHS) is holding an ongoing event series called the Author\u2019s Tea, the next of which will take place on February 22nd. Anyone is welcome to attend this imagination-focused event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Author\u2019s Tea is a cozy, stress-free environment for people to share their writing, such as their poems, their short stories, and perform them out loud, and drink tea and eat snacks with their peers,\u201d senior Jennifer Gao, vice president of NEHS, explains. The Author\u2019s Tea is designed to bring people together through their love of writing, and NEHS officers provide snacks and tea as further incentives to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Author\u2019s Tea at River Hill occurred on December 7th, with an attendance of about 30 people. During the Author\u2019s Tea, any student can present their work to a welcoming group. Although this concept may seem intimidating, NEHS sponsor Ms. Curry believes that many students who attended in December quickly realized there was no reason to be scared. She also hopes more students will attend the event and participate. She mentions, \u201cI think, the first time, kids were a little hesitant to share, a little nervous about what it was going to be like, and I\u2019m hoping that this time, because, if they\u2019ve gone to the last one, they\u2019ve realized what a warm, communal environment it was, that they\u2019re going to be more comfortable sharing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, students are also allowed to simply attend the event to watch and support others who perform. Senior Vianne Stanford initially visited the Author\u2019s Tea in December, intending to watch her friends perform and enjoy the tea. However, upon seeing the welcoming atmosphere, she decided in the moment to read a piece of her writing to the group. She comments, \u201cI liked how it allowed for people who weren\u2019t originally planning to do it, to be able to just spur-of-the-moment get cheered on and share something they otherwise wouldn\u2019t have.\u201d Like Ms. Curry, Vianne believes that the Author\u2019s Tea audience truly had no judgment and genuinely enjoyed every performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Vianne, about four other people spontaneously decided to perform during the Author\u2019s Tea. The NEHS officer team welcomes this and wants anyone to be able to share their works during the event. They are glad that the environment so positively influenced everyone who attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time around, NEHS officers have one main improvement in mind to make the Author\u2019s Tea even better. When asked about the beginning of the event, Vianne remarks, \u201cThere was a lot of confusion on who needed to sign in.\u201d Indeed, at the beginning of the event in December, officers still needed to set up and record the names of the NEHS members present, resulting in a slight delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, NEHS president senior Ava Aria took note of this difficulty and believes that the event on the 22nd should go off smoothly. She clarifies, \u201cFor the next one I\u201dm planning on coming in during 6th period to help set up so we can start right away after school.\u201d Hopefully, this change will allow time for more people to read their work and enjoy their tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, everyone who attended loved the Author\u2019s Tea in December, and many are planning to return for this month\u2019s Author\u2019s Tea. Jennifer comments, \u201cWe really want something that\u2019s fun and interactive and really gets people to spiritually open up and really interact,\u201d and the Author\u2019s Tea is a perfect execution of this idea. The Author\u2019s Tea helps create a creativity-focused community in River Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re interested in attending this event, you can come to room 234 after school on February 22nd. Additionally, the NEHS officer team is planning to have more Author\u2019s Teas in the future. Ms. Curry expresses, \u201cI hope it\u2019s one of our regular activities that we do all the time. I would like to have them quarterly.\u201d Ava agrees, commenting, \u201cI really hope that the future officer team continues it.\u201d NEHS truly believes anyone can enjoy the Author\u2019s Tea and help to make it a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Claire Fagan, Features Editor As an initiative this year to expand creative communities, National English Honor Society (NEHS) is holding an ongoing event series called the Author\u2019s Tea, the next of which will take place on February 22nd. Anyone is welcome to attend this imagination-focused event. \u201cThe Author\u2019s Tea is a cozy, stress-free environment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[432,294,286,438,437,434,436,269,211,285,435,433,439,299],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-authors-tea","tag-english","tag-journalism","tag-national-english-honor-society","tag-nehs","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-rhhs","tag-river-hill","tag-river-hill-high-school","tag-short-stories","tag-tea","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}