Shows & Events
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Kakilang Connects 2026
Thurs 22nd Jan - Chats Palace
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.
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Future Folk: Remixing culture through digital technologies
Fri 6th Feb - Cecil Sharp House
Brings together leading choreographers, digital artists, creative technologists, and academics for a day of discussion and exchange. Rebecca Evans (Pell Ensemble, UK) and Chieh-hua Hsieh (Anarchy Dance, Taiwan) are joined by other artistic & academic voices exploring folk, dance and music through digital technologies.
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Youth Music
Tues 17th and Wed 18th Feb 2026 - Studio 36, Hackney
Dream of writing your own songs or producing your first track?
If you’re 13–18 and love music, this workshop is for you! Over the programme, you’ll get hands-on with everything from songwriting to basic music production—learning directly from industry professionals.
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Truth, Fiction, and New Worlds A Writing Workshop & Book Talk with Yin Lo
Fri 20th Feb - Chats Palace
Join novelist Yin Lo for 2 exciting events exploring the art of storytelling. In Some Truth, Much Lies workshop, experiment with autofiction and learn to blend personal truth with imagination. In The Rise of ESEA Speculative Storytelling Book Talk, discover how ESEA writers are reshaping speculative fiction with insights from Zhui Ning Chang & Michael Tsang.
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.