Strictly Fairtrade Tea Dance Fun!

posted at 5:09pm, 01 Mar 10 by Siobhan [ 1 comment ]

Saturday’s Strictly Fairtrade Tea Dance in Spitalfields was lots of fun! The Cafédirect team (including the lovely Tea Ladies!) were there serving tea, chatting to Fairtrade fans and learning some dance moves!

Cafédirect Tea Ladies at the Strictly Fairtrade Tea Dance

From salsa to Bollywood and swing to samba, there were dance workshops throughout the day for everyone to enjoy. In between dancing, there were lots of Fairtrade stalls to browse, and of course Cafédirect tea to drink!

Here’s a poem from Tea Lady Karen describing the day:

“Today there was a lot more prancing, today I learnt some real dancing!
To the Fairtrade fair they came, to show us how to be less tame!
So we waltzed and jitterbugged, and then the trolley we lugged
To hand out samples of tea, to the many who wanted to see
What Fairtrade’s all about.
They tasted nuts, chocolate and our tea – which was, of course, complimentary!
They felt cotton and smelt soaps: which brought smiles and future hopes:
Learning of Fairtraders adding might, to help growers grow right.
People chatted and shared, the ways that they cared
Talked of their swaps, between dancing ‘bops.’
After beautiful Bollywood moves, we really got into our grooves:
The teapot was left for the rumba, the strutting limbered my lumbar!
We shimmied in our salsa so fine, forgot rain made our own sunshine!
Spitalfields deserves three cheers, a fairtrade must for coming years!”

We took lots of photos of the event, which you can see on Flickr and Facebook. If you spot yourself in the Tea Dance photos tag yourself in, because on Monday 8th March, we’ll have a prize draw for anyone who tags themselves in these photos. The winner will receive a three month supply of tea!