Tea Ceremony with Pacific Plastics is an ongoing project that blends Japanese tea ceremony, chanoyu, with a focus on sustainability and oceanic plastic pollution. This project, a collaborative effort involving UCLA faculty, students, alumni, and local Japanese American communities, aims to create a tea house using salvaged ocean material, culminating in a tea ceremony-inspired art performance that explores Japanese American history in Los Angeles. To learn more, see our About and Support pages.
Upcoming Webinar • April 7 @ Smithsonian Museum!
In this webinar, founding members will share their diverse paths to chanoyu, the process of building a tea house from scratch, and how chanoyu’s philosophy of “creative reuse” and wabi-sabi (beautiful imperfection) can help address our plastic waste and pollution crisis.