Shows & Events
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Prayers For A Hungry Ghost
29th October - 1st Nov at Barbican
Shattering, sardonic, funny and tender, this ensemble production combines horror, physical performance, live cinema and Chinese mythology to bring audiences into 'the realm of hungry ghosts'.
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Alternative Roots
Sat 8th Nov at Hoxton Hall
Alternative Roots: a day-long festival curated by Ming Strike, the performance and podcast maker working in between languages, borders and genres.
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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.
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.