The Ottawa Tea Festival

Nick Ashdown

Nick Ashdown

Kyoko Tsunetomi pours boiling water into a cup of green tea during chado, a Japanese tea ceremony, at the Ottawa Tea Festival.

Ottawa's tea aficionados were in full force at the second annual Ottawa Tea Festival on December 1. Festival organizer Kimi Uriu aims to showcase culture through tea, and the festival was attended not only by tea sellers, but foreign diplomatic missions, Indian and Sri Lankan dancers, and Japanese tea ceremony practitioners.