
Open House
Friday Tea
Fridays | 3.30–5.00pm | Elm Library
Each Friday throughout the academic year we open our offices and welcome friends of the institute to join us for afternoon tea in the Elm Library. These afternoon teas can offer a chance to meet a visiting speaker or other special guest, but mostly they are simply an opportunity to gather together and enjoy tea and conversation at the end of a busy week. Throughout the year we feature honeys from local apiarists, and friends share teas from their summer travels.
Our first Friday Tea open house of the 2025–2026 academic year will take place on August 29.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Mary Cassatt, Le Thé (1880)