Drippin - A Tea Ceremony with CulCha Collective featuring MonAxi

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07:00pm, Thu 5th Jun 2025
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Drippin - A Tea Ceremony with CulCha Collective featuring MonAxi

18+
07:00pm, Thu 5th Jun 2025

DRIPPIN’  

Tea Ceremony w/ CulCha Collective featuring MonÁxi

Tea Ceremony/Dance Performance/DJ Sets

Thursday, June 5, 7-9:30pm at the Rusters Xiu Tea House

300k presale
400k door 

Limited Space, reserve your seat now 


Ubud tastemakers and tea connoisseurs, the CulCha Collective, takeover the tea table for a night of puerh drip and ceremonial performance. Step back in time to ancient China and the tradition of “tea art”, where sages and scholars gathered around the tea pot to indulge their senses. They drank fine tea in an exceptional atmosphere, sharing cultural conversation while absorbed in the finest music and dance performances. 
This art-form lives on in the CulCha Collective - with a modern twist. The old instruments have become NRYN’s turntables, the ancient poetry reimagined into hiphop lyrics, and the calligraphy has morphed into graffiti. Tea-master Faye Jie steps from behind the tea table to exhibit the traditional dance of China, remixed with kung fu from the city streets.

For this edition, CulCha Collective are joined by  MonÁxi, a Portuguese artist of Angolan-descent. Using her mystic roots and healing songs, she weaves African spirituality and feminine wisdom into the tea art fusion of CulCha.

The wise ones gather to both witness and express, therefore this is more than just a show. DJ sets and dance sessions give everyone the opportunity to share their inspiration, and the Tea Chi tea lounge grounds participants in comfort and conversation throughout the evening.

MonÁxi • singer + healer
MonÁxi—a name that means “Daughter of the Earth” in Kimbundu, a dialect from Angola, her
ancestral homeland—is a Lisbon-born artist whose music is rooted in deep cultural lineage and soul-stirring intention. Like a sacred tree, her sound draws nourishment from the rich soil of Angola while branching out through the Iberian Peninsula, Brazil, and North America, blossoming into a vibrant fusion of unexpected rhythms and emotional resonance. For over two decades, MonÁxi has captivated audiences with her powerful vocals and the primal heartbeat through the Djembé drum, composing and producing her own songs. A multi-instrumentalist with a gift for weaving textures through her loop station, she crafts immersive sonic journeys that invite listeners into spaces of connection, release, and renewal. Since stepping onto the Medicine Path ten years ago, her music has become a vehicle for profound healing. Whether through Healing Medicine Ceremonies, Sound Journeys, or high-energy concerts where people can sweat their prayers, MonÁxi holds space with reverence and depth. 
@monaxidaughteroftheearth

CulCha Collective.
CulCha Collective is a crew of tea servers, musicians, dancers, healers and ceremonialists. They create tea art, weaving traditional arts with modern methods. Their vision is to co-create new spiritual culture each time they gather, a culture that can unite people across any perceived division. Their intimate Speakteasy Sessions began during the pandemic, bringing a refined-yet-stylized way to commune with community using tea and music. Their visionary hip-hop explorations in the Tea Lounge Remixed are unique beyond possible replication, and their zen-style Quan Yin Tea Temple events present live guqin, Chinese poetry, and traditional Chinese dance. Listen to their Drippin’ EP on Spotify and all streaming platforms.
@culchacollective

NRYN • dj
A wanted beat criminal for audio espionage, sonic nomad NRYN (Cul•Cha Collective) is smuggling the thickest rhythm refugee cuts to Ubudian soundsystems. With that original hip hop mindset of playing any kind of track you can shake your @ss to, NRYN broke out of genre jail to mix world beats and good vibes in between his extracurricular Hanuman heists. A lifelong musician with innumerable influences, NRYN sculpts DJ sets to fit the specific time and place of the party - matching the aesthetics and elevating the mood. Bass, house, afro, latin, hiphop, and downtempo are all well-developed sonic signatures in his crates. His Tea Lounge Remixed events feature his original hiphop beats played live on samplers and drum machines. His latest album, CHI, infuses qigong and Shaolin kung fu into downtempo beats with bansuri flute. As the drummer for staple Ubud music groups, NRYN is known to transport audiences with his hypnotic live rhythms and make bodies move.
@narayan.108

Faye Ji • tea master
Faye is a professional choreographer, dancer and tea master. Born in Sichuan, China, she was raised in a lifestyle of tea and the tea arts. She studied dance since age 6 and performed for underground hiphop battles and tv performances in her teens. After graduating from Beijing Dance Academy, China’s best dance institution, she choreographed performances for high-level government events and worked with some of China’s most celebrated cultural figures, including Zhang YiMou. Since coming to Bali, Faye has been spreading the art and etiquette of tea ceremony, and transmiting the Tao of Oriental culture. Faye's talent of holding a beautiful space in both the flow of tea and in dance makes her one of the most beloved tea ceremonialists in Bali.
@faye_jj
@teachi1111

Venue Details

XIU TEA HOUSE BY RUSTERS
Jl. Raya Kengetan No.44, Singapadu Kaler, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571
Ubud, Gianyar, 80571