Kakilang

🎤 Boss Ladies – Update!

Sadly, Vera Chok can't host on Sun 8 March but don’t panic, we’ve got you covered 👀

Stepping in is the incredible Joan Jestress 💥
A multi-hyphenate powerhouse with razor-sharp wit, zero filter, fearless comedy rooted in real life & real people.
🎟️https://bit.ly/4b594gy

📣 Open Call: ESEA Queer Artists — TASTE Bristol 🏳️‍🌈

3 x Emerging queer ESEA artists in Bristol/nearby wanted for a scratch night on 20 May 2026 at The Jam Jar.

💸 £100 per act | 10–15 mins | any performance form

⏰ Apply by 20 March
📧 info@kakilang.org.uk
Subject: Bristol TASTE Open Call

The Rise of ESEA Speculative Storytelling — Book Talk
Speakers: Zhui Ning Chang, Michael Tsang
Host: Yin Lo

📆 Fri 20 Feb | ⏰ 7–8:30pm
📍 Chats Palace
🎟️ £8

An evening exploring bold ESEA speculative storytelling with leading voices in the field.

Join us 🎟️ 🔗 loom.ly/vu3_6Z0

Happy Year of the Horse to all who are celebrating! Wishing you a year filled with bold creativity, vibrant energy, good health and lasting prosperity.🧧🐎🍊

🎤 Meet Boss Ladies Host: Vera Chok

Actor, writer, comedian & performance maker Vera Chok brings wit, curiosity and mischief to the stage. With credits from the Globe, National Theatre, West End & Hollyoaks, plus award-winning writing projects like Dream Agency and Rice!

https://loom.ly/_upwc3M

💪 Meet Boss Ladies no. 3: Ria Lina

Award-winning comedian, writer and actress. Live at the Apollo, QI, Mock the Week, HIGNFY, Pointless & Amazon Prime’s Lovestruck High. The only Filipina comic in British stand-up, with a PhD in Virology and razor-sharp political satire.

https://loom.ly/_upwc3M

💪Meet Boss Ladies No. 2: Blank Peng

🇨🇳Made in China but with reliable quality.

🎤As seen on BBC 3, Radio 4. Warm up for Channel 4 The Last Leg.
"A delightful presence with a cherry innocence that conceals a cutting edge" - Chortle
"Love her, brilliant!" - Jo Brand

🎟️https://loom.ly/_upwc3M

Meet Boss Ladies No. 1: Su Mi
Asian queer comedienne Su Mi delivers bold, unfiltered comedy on identity, queerness, racism, and mental health. A force of nature breaking stereotypes & challenging comedy’s white spaces through fearless character work.
Grab your tickets now
https://loom.ly/_upwc3M

In Search of Rice isn’t a typical Chinatown visit. This artist-led, participatory experience invites you to slow down, listen, notice, and feel London’s Chinatown through stories, senses, and shared movement.

Tour dates: 9, 12, 16, 19, 23 & 26 March | 1:30–3pm
🎟️🔗kakilang.org.uk/insearchofrice

🎤 BOSS LADIES – A Fearless Female Comedy
Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with laughs at Top Secret Comedy Club, Covent Garden!
🗓 Sun 8 March | 3:30–5pm
Hosted by Vera Chok
Featuring Ria Lina, Su Mi & Blank Peng
🎟 £12 conc | £15 GA
https://loom.ly/_upwc3M

Join novelist Yin Lo for a storytelling workshop and book talk.
Fri 20 Feb 2026 | Chats Palace | £10 day pass

Explore autofiction and ESEA speculative storytelling with guest writers Zhui Ning Chang and Michael Tsang.

For more info and tickets visit: www.kakilang.org.uk/yinlo

Our 2026 Spring season starts now 🌱— step in with us! Full programme at www.kakilang.org.uk/springseason...

Our 2026 Spring season starts now 🌱— step in with us! Full programme at www.kakilang.org.uk/springseason...

If you’re 13–18 and love music, join this FREE 2-day songwriting & production workshop in Feb half term 2026.
🎶 Learn from industry pros incl. @emma_lee_moss, @mui_zyu, @ndrewhung & @aileen_de_la_cruz
📍 @studi0_36, Hackney
🗓️ 17–18 Feb
🎟️ Free – limited places. www.kakilang.org.uk/youthmusic 🎵

Kakilang Connects is back!
📅 Thu 22 Jan ⏰ 6:30–8:30pm 📍 Chats Palace
Bringing together people working for and with East & Southeast Asian community groups to share opportunities.
Short talks from Centre 151, Kanlungan & Sesame Organisation + snacks & chats! FREE Sign up - https://loom.ly/_UrNggc

Kakilang YouTube video by Kakilang

"It sang on the wind.
It soared in the skies.
It flew on the breeze.
It came from another world even then - now its locked away in another age..."

A fragment from Willow Hazell's breathtaking short film. Mountains and Seas - Song of Today is on at Omnibus Theatre 2-6th Dec.

youtu.be/stUGTrNjmZo

Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌 - southlondon.co.uk A compilation of myths, beasts, heroes, folklore and landscapes come to life Performance artist Xie Rong, writer and actor Daniel York Loh, and composer and musician Beibei Wang have come together to ...

A compilation of myths, beasts, heroes, folklore and landscapes come to life.

Read the full article 👇

southlondon.co.uk/lifestyle/mo...

Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海 · 今日之歌
2-6th Dec 2025
Omnibus Theatre
@danielyorkloh.bsky.social

‘Art Has to Fight Back’: Daniel York Loh on Mountains and Seas “If we knew the world was ending, I’d want to be there.” Daniel York Loh on awe, rage and reinvention in Mountains and Seas.

'Art has to fight back.’ @danielyorkloh.bsky.social's new show Mountains and Seas – Song of Today blends poetry, painting, AI & music to confront our crises.
Read the full interview here:
theqr.co.uk/2025/11/05/a...

Mountains and Seas - Song of Today is showing at Omnibus Theatre 2-6 Dec.

🎧Got a song in your head? Let’s bring it to life. 🎤

If you’re 12–18, join our songwriting & production workshops with Emma-Lee Moss, mui zyu, & other ESEA artists!
💫 Learn to write, produce & perform your own music.

🗓️ 15 & 22 Nov
📍Studio 36, part of EartH
🎟️ https://loom.ly/Kw0Dqt8

🌊 Movement of the Mountains and Seas – Now, Then, Here, There
🗓 13th Nov|6–9pm|Omnibus Theatre|£5
Explore ancient Chinese myth & our modern world - climate, activism, AI, mythical creatures -through movement, writing & film.
Led by Tash Tung & @danielyorkloh.bsky.social
Sign up now👇
bit.ly/47wwutx

Join us on Monday, 20th of October, for a night full of laughter! 🎭😂
🎟️ https://loom.ly/W1lS00o

Some exclusive BTS shots from Prayer for a Hungry Ghost rehearsals at Centre 151! 👻✨
If you haven’t got your tickets yet, be quick — they’re selling like hot cakes! 🔥

Wed 29 Oct - Sat 1Nov
The Pit at Barbican
7:45pm
🎟️ www.kakilang.org.uk/hungryghost

Don’t miss our amazing Little TASTE host @contains_mild_peril bringing the chaos to @thedivineldn this evening!

🎟️ Last few tickets left — grab yours now! https://loom.ly/VHkGtb8
⏰ Doors: 7:30pm | Show: 8:00pm

See you there for a night of mayhem and magic! ✨

The lineup is set. The mic is ready. Are YOU? 🎶👊
Grab your tickets now and see you on Tuesday 7th Oct at The Divine, London. 💋
www.outsavvy.com/event/29506/...

We’ve got a packed October at Kakilang — with exciting shows, creative workshops, and plenty to share with our community. Check out what’s on at www.kakilang.org.uk/events-calendar
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We’ve got a packed October at Kakilang — with exciting shows, creative workshops, and plenty to share with our community. Check out what’s on at www.kakilang.org.uk/events-calendar
We’d love to see you there! - part 1/2

✨Host Alert✨
Our Little TASTE Host is Mild Peril - a genderfuck Asian drag powerhouse serving camp, sex & satire.

Tuesday 7th oct, The Divine. Doors 7:30pm Show 8pm.
Don't miss it!
🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/29506/...

✨Meet AJ Yi (they/them) our final artist for Little TASTE - Olivier-nominated writer, sapphic songwriter & piano crooner with a dykey twist. Laugh, reflect & be seduced by nostalgia.✨

🗓️ Tue 7 Oct 📍The Divine 💷 £7
🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/29506/...
Come and join in the fun!

✨Meet our 4th Little TASTE artist: Jacqui Bardelang aka Sigi Moonlight ✨
Drag king, boylesque performer & actor seen at BBC3, Netflix's I Like To Watch, Pride, Glastonbury & The Bitten Peach.

🗓️Tues 7 oct at The Divine - £7 only
www.outsavvy.com/event/29506/...