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Shows & Events

  • 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.

  • Vibrant abstract digital artwork with swirling brushstrokes in blues, pinks, oranges, and yellows. Torn sheets of handwritten paper and a blue pencil float across the composition. Bold white text at the top reads, “A Contemporary Writing Workshop & B

    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.

  • Boss Ladies - A Fearless Female Comedy

    Sun 8th March - Top Secret Comedy Club

    Celebrate International Women’s Day with a special comedy showcase at Top Secret Comedy Store, Covent Garden!

    Featuring a brilliant line-up of female comedians:

    Ria Lina – TV comedian, writer, and Live at the Apollo star!

    Su Mi – quick-witted, razor-sharp humour

    Blank Peng – hilarious and original, with stories you’ll never forget

  • Black-and-white Chinatown street with hanging lanterns, a blue-highlighted figure walking away, and the title “In Search of Rice” overlaid.

    In Search of Rice

    Tour dates: 9th, 12th,16th, 19th 23rd and 26th March - Chinatown W1D

    In Search of Rice is not your typical Chinatown visitor experience.

    There are no stop-and-stare facts or dates to memorise. Instead, this is an artist-led participatory performance experience that invites you to feel Chinatown in a different way.

    Guided by three artists you’ll move through London’s Chinatown together as a group - listening to stories, noticing colours and markings, breathing in scents, and responding to the space around you. It offers time to pause, tune into the city, and reflect on our own relationships with food, place, and community.

2023 Festival Highlights

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.