Steeped in Strength: Tea, Songs & Stories from Africa & The Caribbean

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Some stories are told around a table.

Some are carried in songs.

Some live in the quiet moments between sips of tea.

For Culture Days, The Wellness Studio by Cicco Aroma invites you to experience Steeped in Strength: Tea, Songs & Stories from Africa, a pay-what-you-may walk-in experience exploring how tea, music, storytelling, and community care have supported wellness across generations.

This experience is inspired by the beauty, strength, and complexity of African communities — where music has long been a way to express joy, honour pain, celebrate, resist, gather, and heal. Through carefully selected short stories, songs, and reflection prompts, guests will be invited to explore how sound and community can become forms of wellness.

As guests sip sample teas, they will be guided through a gentle cultural experience that reflects on joy, resilience, and togetherness. This is not a performance or lecture. It is a reflection space. A community space.

Tea will be used as an invitation to slow down. Music will be used as a bridge. Stories will be used as a way to remember that wellness is not only individual — sometimes wellness is found in how we gather, how we sing, how we hold each other, and how we keep going.

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• www.ciccoaroma.com ciccoaroma.com

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The Wellness Studio by Cicco Aroma

The Wellness Studio by Cicco Aroma is a creative wellness studio in Vaughan, co-owned by Madonna and Dylan — partners in life, business, and community-building.

What began as Cicco Aroma, a plant-based wellness brand launched in 2019, has grown into a hands-on studio where people gather to make, connect, celebrate, and curate their own care. Year-round, we host wellness-inspired workshops, private events, corporate experiences, youth programming, and community activations centred around candles, perfume, body care, art, scent, and self-expression.

Our work is deeply connected to who we are. Madonna was born in Uganda and brings inspiration from African culture, storytelling, natural ingredients, and community care. Dylan brings his Jamaican/Caribbean heritage, along with his creative eye as a photographer and storyteller. Together, our backgrounds shape the warmth, colour, and intention behind the studio.

For Culture Days, our vision is to open our doors wider through free and pay-what-you-may experiences that invite the community to explore creativity, wellness, and culture in an accessible way. We want guests to feel welcomed, try something new, support local creativity, and leave with something meaningful they made by hand.

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