MATCHA isn't just a mixer—it's what makes your visit to the Asian Art Museum downright exhilarating. Experience mesmerizing performances, create your own art, embark on gallery tours, see the latest special exhibition, sit in on a talk, mingle with friends over cocktails, enjoy what the DJ is spinning, and much, much more.
We are Tealchemy, and we live to serve tea. We raise our roof as an oasis, a sudden spring. The frame echoes the yurts and tents of wayfarers, paying homage to those tea houses of ancient times: temporary structures for travelers temporarily in the same place and time on the road of life.
Enjoy the 2,000 year tradition of tea that crosses all political, economic, cultural and language borders. When two people sit down for tea, magic ensues, and peace blossoms. Visit us, sip some tea, and get your very own piece of our peace. Our goal is to create a company that is good for this world. We partner with tea experts and suppliers from small family farms and estates, and local businesses and organizations.
Teance is located in Berkeley, California just east of San Francisco, home of some of the most leading gourmet food and beverage products in the world. Formerly known as Celadon Fine Teas, the mission of Teance is to promote tea connoisseurship. By providing the most pure, premium, seasonal whole leaf teas possible, they hope to introduce to the consumer the enjoyment, health benefits, and the serenity that comes with drinking tea. Teance is named for tea and all of the elegant thoughts associated with it: nuance, ambiance, elegance.
Still dusty from its annual trek to Burning Man, Tealchemy's Tea Temple will
be erected inside the Asian Art Museum for MATCHA. Everyone can sip earthy
tea inside this mammoth atmospheric, communal space, which celebrates the
centuries-old nomadic trade and travel of the Silk Routes. Elsewhere in the
museum, taste teas from India, Persia, and Tibet (courtesy Samovar) or those
along China's Tea and Horse Roads (courtesy Teance). Discover how these
different blends are brewed and grind your own spicy chai (Indian tea),
mortar and pestle style. Learn about tea and its cultural influences, see art
of the spice routes on a guided tour, and view Power & Glory: Court Arts of
China's Ming Dynasty (on view at the Asian Art Museum from June 27, 2008 –
September 21, 2008).
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