During the first phase of Around the Table in February 2024, Intervals Collective will collaborate with courier-art (Noriko Tanaka, UK, and Miwa Kojima, Canada) to present Happy Hour, a socially engaged art event created by courier-art and Tokyo based artist Mica Funaki in 2000. Between 2000 and 2005, the Happy Hour project was featured in four different countries, collecting people's stories of moments of happiness. After an interruption of nearly twenty years, the project is revisited at La Centrale galerie Powerhouse, inviting participants to share joyful memories involving food over tea and Japanese curry**.

**The Japanese curry will be served only on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th February.

No required registration. 

SUMMARY OF EVENTS

February 16, Friday, 12-5pm: courier-art (Noriko Tanaka and Miwa Kojima) will serve Japanese Curry and tea/coffee and ask people for their happy stories and meaningful moments involving foods. Stories will be interviewed or written on bamboo plates, which will be displayed on the walls in the space over the month of February. 

February 17, Saturday, 12-5pm: courier-art (Noriko Tanaka and Miwa Kojima) will serve Japanese Curry and tea/coffee and ask people for their happy stories and meaningful moments involving foods. Stories will be interviewed or written on bamboo plates, which will be displayed on the walls in the space over the month of February. 

February 24, Saturday, 2-5pm: courier-art (Miwa Kojima) will serve tea/coffee and biscuits and ask people for their happy stories and meaningful moments involving foods. Stories will be interviewed or written on bamboo plates, which will be displayed on the walls in the space over the month of February.

The events will be assisted by Maria Hoyos, member of the Intervals Collective. The gallery space will also be used as a Food Bank during the first phase of Intervals' residency. Collected foods will be donated to the Mile End Community Mission.