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Shows & Events

  • Neon-style event poster with a microphone, lips, hearts, flowers, and geometric shapes. Text reads: "Kaki Lang, The Divine. Little Taste. Hosted by Mild Peril. A night showcasing emerging queer ESEA artists.

    Little TASTE 2025

    Tues 7th October at The Divine

    Little TASTE: A Night Showcasing Emerging Queer ESEA Artists

    We’re back for the second edition of Little TASTE at The Divine — and it’s going to be bigger, bolder, and even more fabulous!

  • ESEA Comedy Night: Aiya Shoes Off!!

    Mon 20 Oct - Angel Comedy at The Bill Murray Pub

    Join us for an evening of laughter, good company and brilliant comedy from some of the East and Southeast Asian community’s rising stars.

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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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    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

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.