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Rituals and execution. Peter Hollands will talk in detail about it. “Rituals that people can engage with,” he says. “So things like the beer crates: when one runs out and we fill a new one, we’re going to carry it around the room and offer people more beers. Or the citrus press to make our own citrus water.” These are the rituals at Shaman, Hollands’ long-awaited bar slotted beneath the old Metro Arts building at 109 Edward Street. But, he says, they’re not meant to be burdensome. Hollands already has a knack for this with other bars he co-owns. At Frog’s Hollow Saloon on Charlotte Street, it’s honky-tonk. At Alice, just off Elizabeth, it’s ’80s rock and pop culture. At the Alliance in Spring Hill, it’s Queensland cultural throwbacks. At all of them, though, it’s never overbearing or constrictive.
