Tea Ceremony + Whisking Workshop with Rebecca Corbett
Sunday, September 20, 2026 • 12:00–1:00 PM or 2:00–3:00 PM • In Person • $30
Want to learn more about the Japanese tea ceremony and matcha? Join scholars Dr. Rebecca Corbett and Dr. Michelle Liu Carriger for an afternoon exploring Japanese tea culture at AMOCA.
During this one-hour event, Corbett and Carriger will share their expertise as scholars and practitioners of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony), guiding participants through preparing their own bowl of matcha while introducing the history and practice of the Japanese tea ceremony. Every participant will prepare their own bowl of tea and enjoy a traditional sweet alongside it.
- Children and youth under 16 must be accompanied by a paying adult
- Registration includes admission to the museum; you might want to plan to arrive early or stay late to explore current exhibitions. AMOCA is open from 11 AM -4 PM on Sundays.
- To help us prepare workshop materials, pre-registration is required; space is limited. Ticket sales end at noon on Friday, September 18.
Event RSVP
Register automatically using the button below. When you register, select a ticket for either the 12-1pm or the 2-3pm workshop. If you prefer, you may also RSVP by calling (909) 865-3146 during business hours.
To help us prepare workshop materials, pre-registration is required. Be sure to purchase your ticket by noon on Friday, September 18!
Your ticket for this in-person event includes museum admission. AMOCA is open from 11 AM -4 PM on Sundays. You might plan to arrive a little earlier or stay a little later if you’d like to explore our current exhibitions.
About your hosts:
Rebecca Corbett received her PhD from the University of Sydney (2009) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (2013-2015). Currently she is Japanese Studies Librarian and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southern California. Her book Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2018) analyses privately circulated and commercially published texts to show how chanoyu (tea ceremony) practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. Her current research explores the history of Western engagement with tea ceremony and matcha in the Meiji period (1868-1912). She is also co-lead of the online project Teaching Tea for Japan Past & Present. She has been a student in the Urasenke School of Tea since 1999.
Michelle Liu Carriger is an Associate Professor in Theater & Performance Studies at UCLA. Her current research project involves transferring more than twenty years of tea ceremony practice into her second monograph using performance studies paradigms to understand chanoyu as embodied knowledge and culture. Her first book, Theatricality of the Closet, examined clothing controversies in 19th century Britain and Japan. She holds a PhD from Brown University, and an MA from University of Colorado, Boulder. She is also co-lead of the online project Teaching Tea for Japan Past & Present, and the project lead for Tea Ceremony with Pacific Plastics. She has been a student in the Urasenke School of Tea since 1999 and holds the “tea name” Sōmi.
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