What I do
Most of it comes down to making somewhere for people to land — a tea lounge at a wedding, a teahouse in the desert, twenty-three minutes of silence in a public park, a room where we try to think clearly together.
Tea & gathering
Twenty years of pouring tea for other people — at weddings, festivals and conferences, in Bay Area community events, and in teahouses out on the playa.
Event tea service & community gatherings
Tea Tribe
My main work. We bring ceremonial tea service to weddings, festivals, conferences and corporate events — tea lounges and tents set up as sanctuaries, poured by a crew of tea ceremonialists. Alongside that we produce holistic community gatherings around the Bay Area, rooted in mindfulness, music and meaning.
teatribe.com
Teahouses at Burning Man
Playa Tea
The teahouses we open in Black Rock City — tea temples built to give people somewhere to land. Sitting out 2026, hoping to return in 2027.
playatea.com
Teahouse — Center Camp
Chaiberpunk Tea Terminal
A 24/7 cyberpunk teahouse run by Time Bandits who travelled back from a future that's running out of time, open all week to help slow time down.
chaiberpunk.com
Teahouse — the Foam Hub
KeyHaus
A key-themed teahouse that gifts literal and metaphorical keys of liberation. It grew out of the Tea Tygers' tea temple, with its folk stage and Anger Alchemy.
keyhaus.org
Peace & presence
Making stillness something you can do in public, with strangers, on purpose.
Sound & performance
Thirty years shaped by sound — music of my own, and a troupe that turns tea into performance.
My music
Warble
Thirty years of being shaped by sound. The music pulls from dub's depth, folk tradition's memory and the open architecture of post-genre electronics, stitched into something meant to be listened to. Shows and tickets on the calendar.
warblesound.com
Performance troupe
The Tea Circus
A performance troupe inspiring healing through tea culture — theatrical, loud, and dressed for it. “Empires shall fall and steam will rise!” Always recruiting performers.
theteacircus.com
Sensemaking
Practical skills and gatherings for thinking clearly, and for keeping trust and truth intact in a fractured information world.
Think tank, design studio & media hub
Memetic Literacy Lab
Teaching practical skills that build public resilience against digital deception — through research and strategy, a creative studio, a media hub, and public programs.
memeticliteracy.com
Conference
Sensemaking Summit
A conference on building resilient trust and truth in an age of fracture.
sensemakingsummit.com
Media project
Meme Uprising
A one-stop shop of shareable media for countering misinformation — free to take and pass on.
memeuprising.com