Shows & Events
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Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌
2-6th December at Omnibus Theatre
A bold new performance blending poetry, music, dance, and visual art.
This showconfronts the climate crisis, rising fascism, and existential dread with fierce creativity and urgency.
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Kakilang Connects 2026
This edition of Kakilang Connects is aimed at bringing people who work for/with, or are part of, East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) community groups and organisations together to discuss the needs, challenges, resources and opportunities within ESEA communities currently.
2023 Festival Highlights
Every Dollar Live. Photos by JY Mak @JOYCENTRISM
State-less. Photos by Richard Eaton @Worldcityphotog
Home X at Barbican
Every Dollar Live. Photos by JY Mak @JOYCENTRISM
Light Vessel
Taste
Every Dollar Live. Photos by JY Mak @JOYCENTRISM
State-less. Photos by Richard Eaton @Worldcityphotog
Taste
Taste
Light Vessel
Kakilang: ‘one of us’ in Hokkien*. Used in many places across East and Southeast Asia, evoking kinship and affinity.
Our Kakilang are people who come together through art, and who champion diverse voices and communities.
*Hokkien: a group of Minnanhua 閩南語 / Ban5-lam5-oe7 dialects, “the speech south of the Min river”, the most widely distributed of the Min languages. Minnanhua is spoken by slightly over 46 million inhabitants of the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines.