Shows & Events
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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
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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.
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Necessary Journeys
25th April - Newcastle
30th April - Sheffield
Kakilang is excited to announce the second round of Necessary Journeys—an initiative dedicated to building meaningful connections with ESEA arts communities in regional locations, following the success of its first iteration.
Join us for gatherings at Bloc Projects in Sheffield on Thursday 30 April 2026, and in Newcastle at One Strawberry Lane on Saturday 25 April 2026, to connect with us and fellow local ESEA creatives.
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.