Lisbon · Portugal

ATÉ
CHÁ

Lisbon Tea Week & Festival
October 2026
Join the First Edition
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The Story

Tea is the most consumed beverage on Earth after water. And yet, despite connecting billions of people every day, tea remains one of the world's most overlooked cultural forces.

Behind every cup lies a story: of landscapes and ecosystems, trade routes and migration, ceremony and hospitality, resilience and exchange. For thousands of years, tea has helped people gather, negotiate, celebrate, grieve, learn, and belong.

What if tea still has something important to teach us?

Not a trade show
A gathering for those who believe culture matters.
Not a wellness conference
A living space where ceremony, conversation, and community share the same table.
Not a destination
A beginning. The first chapter of a growing movement reconnecting tea to the people, places, and traditions that give it meaning.

Join us in Lisbon this October.

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The Programme
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Tea Week Lisbon
The City Awakens
Oct 12–16
01

Before the festival begins, tea unfolds across Lisbon and the surrounding region through a series of intimate gatherings, ceremonies, and shared tables.

Partner tea houses, cafés, cultural spaces, and community venues across the city and coast host a week of experiences exploring tea as ritual, hospitality, culture, and connection.

  • Opening ceremony at Nomad Steam Tea Temple
  • Dinners with tea pairings and community tables
  • Ceremonies and tastings across partner venues
  • Sintra gathering and visit to Europe's oldest tea plant
  • Evening salons, conversations, and cultural events
  • Tea & listening lounges
  • Steam & tea field trips at partnering sauna and steam venues
Lisbon & surrounding region Partner Venues
Celebrate
The Tea Festival
Portugal's First Tea Festival
Oct 17–18
02

A full day celebration of tea in all its forms — open to the public, and deepened by conversations that matter. Discover producers, tea houses, artisans, ceramicists, educators, cultural practitioners, and forward thinkers from Portugal and around the world.

Participate in tastings, ceremonies, workshops, talks, tea meditations, food pairings, music, and immersive experiences exploring the many ways tea brings people together.

  • Tea tastings and producer conversations
  • Tea vendors and artisan marketplace
  • Ceremonial tea traditions from around the world — Cha Dao, Gong Fu Cha, Chanoyu, Moroccan mint ceremony, and beyond
  • Explore herbal infusions — highlighting the botanical heritage of Portugal
  • Workshops for those new to tea and those deepening their practice
  • Roundtables on integrating tea into existing frameworks and communities
  • Talks and panel conversations on the future of regenerative tea
  • Water education and science showcase — exploring filtration and structuring systems to enhance tea
  • Music, art, and cultural performances
Lisbon · Venue TBC Open to the Public
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São Miguel, Azores.
Oct 19–22
03

After the festival, a small group will journey to São Miguel in the Azores to integrate, reflect, and continue the conversation where tea, water, and landscape meet.

Together we will explore the islands' tea heritage, thermal waters, volcanic landscapes, and hidden cultural sites through a slower, more immersive experience.

This is not simply a tea tour. It is a chance to slow down, deepen relationships, and carry the week's conversations into the landscape itself.

  • Visits to Gorreana and Porto Formoso
  • Thermal baths and volcanic landscapes — including drinking tea brewed directly from hot thermal spring water
  • Guided walks and land-based experiences
  • Community integration and reflection sessions
  • Daily silent tea meditations and sensory explorations
  • Tea, water, and ecology explorations
  • Special access experiences to be announced
São Miguel, Azores 4 Days · Open to All
Padrão dos Descobrimentos — Monument of the Discoveries, Lisbon
Why Lisbon

One of Tea's
Historic Gateways
to Europe.

Lisbon's history of exploration shaped the world — and carries its shadows. The trade routes that brought tea into Europe were also routes of colonisation, extraction, and displacement.

We gather here not to romanticise that history, but to transmute it. At a moment when Lisbon is being reshaped by migration and questions of belonging, tea offers something rare: a shared ritual that crosses every border, every language, every generation.

"The Fifth Empire will not be a material one. It will be cultural."
— Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem

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Be Part
of the
Beginning.

The first edition of ATÉ CHÁ is coming to Lisbon in October 2026. Tell us who you are and how you'd like to be involved — we read every submission personally and will be in touch.

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