Upcoming Workshops
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Creative Lab 2.0
Creative Lab offers a series of exciting workshops for emerging artists to discover new ways to create and remix their practice, exploring innovative approaches across performance, music, visual art, and technology.
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Verity Bargate Award 2024 Workshop
Join Kakilang and Soho Theatre for an insightful exploration of this year’s Verity Bargate Award - from how to apply to script preparation for submission to Soho Theatre.
Past Workshops
Poetry Workshops
Sun 19 March, 2:00pm – 4:30pm GMT
£5
Join us for a poetry workshop led by Christy Ku, accomplished poet, spoken word artist and founder of BESEA Poets, a platform for British based East and South East Asian poets, with Daniel York Loh, writer, actor and filmmaker and Associate Artistic Director at Kakilang.
In this workshop, Christy and Daniel will guide the participants through creative writing and performance exercises on the key themes of State-Less 無國界 exhibition, such as migration, identity and the environment.
For those who are happy to share their work, we will capture recordings of the participants' poetry which exhibition visitors can listen to whilst exploring State-less 無國界. We will also display the poems in written form.
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Christy Ku is a poet, performer and workshop facilitator. She has worked with organisations including the BBC, Sky Arts, Museum of London, Apples & Snakes and the Barbican on projects such as poetry films, spoken word tracks and theatre shows.
She was recently featured on BAFTA award winning show ‘Life and Rhymes’. Christy is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets, National Youth Theatre and New Earth Actors Academy, and is a BBC 1Xtra’s Words First 2019 winner. Christy has been published in numerous anthologies with publishers including PanMacmillan, Own It! Publishing, and Magma Poetry. Christy founded BESEA Poets, a platform for British based East and South-East Asian poets.
Christy is currently working on her debut poetry pamphlet. She was once rejected from having a poem baked onto 200 loaves of bread.
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Daniel York Loh is a performer, writer, filmmaker, musician and co-founder of Moongate Productions. He has worked as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Royal Court and many others, most recently in Dr. Semmelweis (Bristol Old Vic), No Particular Order (Theatre 503), Dmitry (Marylebone Theatre) and Caceroleo (Vault Festival) as well as with many major companies in Singapore including Wild Rice, Pangdemonium and Finger Players. He is one of 21 ‘writers of colour’ in the best-selling essay collection The Good Immigrant. His dramatic writing includes The Fu Manch Complex (Ovahouse) Forgotten 遗忘 (Arcola/Plymouth Theatre Royal) and every dollar is a soldier/with money you’re a dragon (Winner – 2021 Arts Council Digital Culture Award) for Kakilang where he is Associate Artistic Director. He is one-third of alt-folk-punk trio Wondermare whose self-titled debut album is available on iTunes and Spotify.
Orang Collectif Children’s Workshop (Puppetry)
Sat 1 April, 11:00am – 12:00pm GMT
£5 (+£1 for additional child)
Create your own puppets and bring them to life! Gather the family and go through your recycling bin and cupboards. LET’S CREATE!
Join the Orang Collectif to create your own puppet characters and bring them to life using recycled items found around your house.
The workshop focuses on the use of recycled and repurposed items, encouraging participants to use their creativity.
Age: Families with children 4 - 12yrs (Children must be accompanied by adults)
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Started by Natalie Wong and Arthur Astier, The Orang Collectif is a cross-disciplinary and multicultural collective, who tells stories and explores different forms of art through the languages of movement, music, sound, lights and text.
The Orang Collectif celebrates diverse cultures, languages and theatrical traditions reflecting upon our modern society. Their method of working is based on workshops led by one or more of the collaborators subjective to the goals of the investigation. The material generated from the workshops are then moulded and refined to form a performance. They enjoy working with individuals of varying disciplines and expertise as there is always a new perspective to be challenged by and to learn from.
Orang Collectif Children’s Workshop (Music)
Sat 1 April, 2:00 – 3:00pm GMT
£5 (+£1 for additional child)
Ever wondered where sound comes from? Want some new musical instruments? Gather the family and go through your recycling bin and cupboards. LET’S CREATE!
Join the Orang Collectif on a fun adventure learning about sound. Discover where sound comes from and how to make a musical instrument using recycled items found around your house.
The workshop focuses on the use of recycled and repurposed items, providing participants with tools to create their own musical instruments.
Age: Families with children 4 - 12yrs (Children must be accompanied by adults)
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Started by Natalie Wong and Arthur Astier, The Orang Collectif is a cross-disciplinary and multicultural collective, who tells stories and explores different forms of art through the languages of movement, music, sound, lights and text.
The Orang Collectif celebrates diverse cultures, languages and theatrical traditions reflecting upon our modern society. Their method of working is based on workshops led by one or more of the collaborators subjective to the goals of the investigation. The material generated from the workshops are then moulded and refined to form a performance. They enjoy working with individuals of varying disciplines and expertise as there is always a new perspective to be challenged by and to learn from.
Community Panel Discussion
Thur 6 April, 7:00 – 8:00pm GMT
£5
A panel discussion hosted by writer, actor and filmmaker and Associate Artistic Director at Kakilang, Daniel York Loh, to unpack the key themes and issues highlighted in State-less 無國界 exhibition.
Daniel will be joined by a range of individuals all engaged in their own practices that explore the exhibition’s core themes of identity, geographies, borders, migration narratives, the homogenisation of experiences and identities within East and South East Asian communities, the ethics of representation and more.
Meet the panelists:
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Yuen Chan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London. As a print and broadcast journalist in Hong Kong, Yuen covered news in the territory in the years leading up to and after the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China. She has also been a correspondent stationed in Shanghai and Beijing. Yuen was previously senior lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Wang Wei is a photographer based in London and from China. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing.
Her interest in photography is wide and varied, and her current specialisations are in portraits, still life, interiors, city landscapes and architecture. For the images, She likes them from an ordinary perspective, not exaggerated, but with fine details. She loves natural lights, calm composition, and with its perspective.
In 2006, her work was exhibited at the ZKM Museum in Germany. The work was also published in the accompanying book, 'Totalstadt. Beijing Case. High-Speed Urbanisation in China.'
In 2009 her portrait series 'Standard Room' was commended for the Taylor Wessing Prize and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.
2018, she was part of ‘209 Women' project. To mark 100 years since some women achieved the right to vote, we aim to take over parliament with 209 new photographic portraits of all female MPs, shot exclusively by female photographers, and shown in the Palace of Westminster at Portcullis House.
2021, she was part of INSIDE OUT: Dyslexia: Beautiful Minds project at Design Museum.
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Diana Yeh is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Culture and the Creative Industries and Associate Dean of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (SCC) at City, University of London.
She is Founder of eseahub and Principal Investigator of the project, ‘Responding to COVID-19 Anti-Asian Racial Violence through Community Care, Solidarity and Resistance’. Recent articles: ‘Becoming “British East Asian and Southeast Asian”: Anti-racism, Chineseness, and Political Love in the Creative and Cultural Industries’ (2021) and ‘COVID-19, Anti-Asian Racial Violence and The Borders of Chineseness’ (2020).
