Location: Secret Loft, Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Guests: 6 max
Duration: 2 hours

Featured Guest: Elian Vero

Acclaimed science fiction author and speculative futurist based in Los Angeles.

Elian Vero’s breakout trilogy, The Resonant Age, envisions a near-future Earth where tea is more than a ritual—it’s a vessel of memory and encoded consciousness. Join Elian in an intimate salon where storytelling meets sensory exploration.

Tea Experience Curated by: Nari Utsuwa

Founder of Rising Steam Society, a futuristic tea house where tradition meets innovation.
Certified Tea Sommelier and narrative herbalist.

Nari introduces four speculative tea blends inspired by pivotal moments in Elian’s novels:

• Solar Fog Bai Mu Dan – white tea misted with Martian dew essence.

• Shadowroot Pu-erh – fermented black tea aged in obsidian echo-pots.

• NeoJade Sencha – engineered for lucid dreaming and empathic clarity.

• CryoChai – brewed with cryogenically preserved glacial botanicals.

Each tea is paired with a curated reading and discussion on the fusion of taste, memory, and imagined worlds.

Why Attend?

• Exclusive conversation with one of LA’s most imaginative voices in sci-fi

• Explore rare, otherworldly teas with a sommelier who blends narrative and flavor

• Connect with fellow creatives in a quiet, atmospheric setting

• Take home a signed chapbook and a sample of your favorite blend

Densely textured, full of dusty tannins and with rich black fruits, this wine is hardly shy. It comes from ripe fruits, rich tannins and texture and juicy final acidity.  Fermentation in temperature controlled steel tanks and lagares followed by an extended maceration on skins. 

In 2015, at Quinta de São Sebastião, Aged 18 months. 5000 bottles were produced. Alentejo is a well-known, highly respected wine region in eastern Portugal. This hot, dry area covers approximately a third of the country and is best known for its red wine, the best of which are sold under the and Alentejo DOC (Denominacao de Origem Controlada) title.