Shows & Events
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Kakilang Connects
September
Come and join us for Kakilang Connects—a welcoming social gathering for anyone who values community, creativity, and connection.
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Neurodiversity & Neurodiverse-Accessible Working Practices Workshop
September
This workshop delivered by Zoo Co aim to provide practical resources and raise awareness of accessible working practices to ESEA creatives and their allies.
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Little TASTE Open Call
September
We’re inviting new and emerging queer artists of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritage to showcase their work at this year’s Little TASTE scratch night. This is a unique opportunity to test material in front of a live, supportive audience in a safe and welcoming space.
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Little TASTE 2025
October
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!
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Prayers For A Hungry Ghost
October
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
December
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.
