Issue 14 | Nov & Dec 2024
Our last issue of the year!
Hi everyone! We’re both starting to wind down for the year and retreating into our hibernation nests, so this will be the last issue until Jan 2025!
There’s still plenty of community events to take you through the rest of the year, so read on to see what’s happening this winter
This month’s Photoshop Pop Culture Moment™️ is Gilmore Girls! If you have any suggestions for next month’s Photoshop Pop Culture Moment™️, please reply to this email or DM either of us at @kukadoodles or @connor_wan!
Asian Leadership Collective - Amplifying East & Southeast Asian leadership
Join us in this month of #ESEAEats as we have 2 amazing events:
ESEAEats Conversations: ESEA Entrepreneurial Journeys
Our flagship event, Tuesday 26th Nov at Slalom, London Bridge, 6pm-10pm. Buy your tickets here - food and drinks included!
Our panellists include -🌟 Howard Wong Little Moons 🌟 Shane Xu Shake Up Cosmetics 🌟 Annabel and Emily Lui Cutter and Squidge 🌟 Moderated by Mae Williams Bayanihan Circle
Asian Leadership Collective (ALC) x East Asian Lawyers Organisation (EALO) 5th Anniversary | Moving with the times Reflection on leadership journeys. Monday 18th Nov
We're partnering with EALO for their anniversary and some #ESEAEat treats for this FREE event. Tickets to this event are free of charge but please consider a small donation to ALC to allow events like this to continue.
(Also we’re loving ALC’s new logo!)
Centre 151 - Supporting the Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia community
Song Lang + Community Supper Club
Date & Time: Saturday 7 December, 17:00 – 20:00
Location: Centre 151
Queer East joins forces with Centre 151 to present Song Lang, a heart-wrenchingly ravishing gay drama about a brutish debt collector and a charismatic Vietnamese opera singer who forge an unlikely romance in 1980s Saigon. This event is followed by a supper club, providing a chance for our community members to meet and connect.
This is a pay-what-you-can event between £3 and £9.
Film Page: https://queereast.org.uk/programme/song-lang/
Season Page: https://queereast.org.uk/project/a-love-letter-to-vietnam-queer-vietnamese-film-nights/
Comediasians - the UK's premier pan-Asian improv group bringing laughs from the diasporASIA
Quick! Only four more chances to catch us before the year's out:
Fri, 8th Nov - Comediasians & Friends. Our monthly show at Hoopla at The Miller, London Bridge. Tickets here.
Sat, 16th Nov - Improv Fest Ireland in Dublin! Catch us at this big international improv festival. Tickets here.
Sat, 16th Nov - The Dish at Libra Theatre Café, Chalk Farm, London. We're part of a new improv night put on by The Dish. Tickets will appear here.
Thu, 12th Dec - Comediasians & Friends Christmas special! At Hoopla at The Miller, London Bridge. Tickets here.
All details available on our Linktree. Subscribe to our newsletter to keep up with our latest news and follow us @comediasians on Instagram and Facebook.
Watch clips from our last show here!
Four Winds Mahjong Club - London based weekly mahjong club
If you haven’t heard already, Four Winds is up and running at the new community centre in Dalston! Hackney Chinese Community Services have now rebranded to ESEA Community Centre and they’ve moved to a bigger location. Join the Saturday sessions from 10am-12noon with a £5 donation that will go directly to ESEACC!
Four Winds will also be at Camden Community Centre from 1.30 - 4pm on these Sundays:
10 Nov
24 Nov
8 Dec
22 Dec
The mahjong club are also having their first ever annual general meeting! You can apply for a position on the team, join the volunteer list or just come along and vote. The date is TBC but to nominate someone (or yourself), check out the link here.
Moongate Mix - Raising the profile of ESEA talent whilst challenging stereotypes
Moongate Mix November: ‘ESEA Feminism’ is a conversation chaired by journalist and writer Jessie Lau spotlighting ESEA Feminism with a focus on organising, how to grow ESEA ‘Diasporic’ Feminism and building solidarity.
The pop up kitchen by Tikim will open from 5.30pm to offer a nourishing space for conversation, connection, care, cuisine and comaraderie in these trying times.
November 11th Nov, 7pm. Omnibus Theatre.
Tickets here!
Other Friends!
Occasians - a platform for Asian creatives and artists by Asian creatives and artists
Green Lions: A space for ESEA people to connect, build a more equitable world, and give a voice to ESEA and PoC in climate change
Kakilang - Produces world-class art and pioneers multi-disciplinary art forms from a wide spectrum of Southeast and East Asian voices
ESEA Publishing Network - The UK’s award winning East and South-East Asian Literary Festival
Eastern Margins - the home for Alternative Asian culture
Christy Ku (one half of Tea Readings) is running a few online workshops!
Wintering Well for Writers - online writing workshop | Thurs 14 November 2024 Tickets here
Instagram for Writers - A Deep Dive | Thurs 21 November 2024 Tickets here
That’s all from us! We’re now going to hibernate but we’ll see you all in the new year!