Karavansarai is a series of free communal chai pop-ups. It’s an effort to reclaim public space, build community and political solidarity, and create beauty where we live.

We hope to foster a sense of entitlement to the built environment by reappropriating space within it for these events, and we want people to develop a lexicon for engaging and critiquing it.

These events began in North Carolina two years ago. Aside from the political solidarity, it provided a third space where people didn't have to pay to be welcomed, and they could genuinely socialize with their neighbors.