UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Frist Drinking Chocolate Workshop - Past & Present
September 17th Frist Art Museum, Nashville,TN
Peel, pour, and sip history! Led by chocolate historian Sophia Rea, this delicious workshop draws inspiration from the exhibition An Indigenous Present. Peel raw cacao beans, make your own drinking chocolate with spices and flowers used since precontact Mesoamerica, and froth it by hand with a traditional molinillo before tasting chocolate made today at Mexico’s oldest cacao farm, dating back to 1823.
Santa Fe Drinking Chocolate Workshop at Hacienda Doña de Andrea
October 22 - 25, 2026 Santa Fe, NM
A sweet pause from the pace of everyday life. The Long Weekend Drinking Chocolate Workshop in the Ortiz Mountains of Santa Fe is designed to enrich your love of chocolate through making, sipping, and learning. Your co-hosts are chocolate historian Sophia Rea and craft chocolate educator Mackenzie Rivers, founder of The Next Batch School. We’ll help you slow down, connect with chocolate enthusiasts, and learn about drinking chocolate through guided experiences, chocolate making, and time to simply be.
Dia de Los Muertos
October 31st
Springfield, TN
Cacao returns to Springfield for Dia de Los Muertos - third year running.
This year I’m bringing something specific: the drinking chocolate traditions of New Mexico, where cacao and remembrance have long shared a table. Ofrendas call for offerings such as marigolds, copal, photographs, and often, cacao itself. It was currency, medicine, and a gift long before it was a dessert.
Expect a hands-on tasting rooted in that history with real material culture behind it such as molinillos, mancerinas, and the recipes that carried cacao from Mesoamerica north into what’s now the American Southwest.
Three years in, this has become one of my favorite nights of the year in Springfield. Come sit with the ancestors, and with the chocolate that’s honored them for centuries.
Chocolate Museum
Chocolate Museum
Opening November 18th
Nashville, TN
The Indigenous Story of Cacao
Years of research into cacao’s material culture led me to a question that I wouldn’t let go. Where were the indigenous voices in the story chocolate tells about itself? The indigenous story of cacao is the answer. A pop-up chocolate museum opening in Nashville in collaboration with Indigenash tracing cacao from its origins through the hands that have shaped it for millennia. This musuem has been decades in the making and worth the wait. Opening soon.
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