MATCHA
First Thursdays, Through November
5PM – 9PM
FREE with museum admission (only $5 after 5pm)
Asian Art Museum

Get your monthly arts fix at the Asian Art Museum's MATCHA series. Watch performances, explore the galleries, create art, embark on special tours, mingle over cocktails, enjoy music, and much more! Like the tea it's named after, MATCHA stirs your senses.

August 2  //  Strange & Supernatural

Plaza  – a multidisciplinary performance ensemble – presents site-specific performances inspired by the vibrant, spine-tingling imagery from Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales. Their sound and video scenarios explore time, memory, and place. DJ Tau spins an aural arrangement of contemporary beats and traditional music from all over Asia.

Tour Yoshitoshi’s Strange Tales, Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga, and the Japan galleries. Craft a lantern in honor of the Chinese Ghost Festival and obon, the Japanese Buddhist "festival of the dead" that welcomes the return of ancestral spirits.

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MATCHA is made possible with support from American Express. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com. Official Airline: Southwest Airlines. Community Partners: Center for Asian American Media and Hyphen.