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Every last Saturday of the month, join a staff member in the gallery for a free guided tour of esea contemporary’s exhibition ‘Slavs and Tatars: The Contest of the Fruits.’

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Join us for a special event with London-based artist Ye Wuji—taking place alongside Slavs and Tatars’ inaugural UK institutional solo exhibition 'The Contest of the Fruits' at esea contemporary.

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An open-air Cantonese opera performance and participatory demo by Aroma Cantonese Opera Troupe, presented with Liverpool Biennial.

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Join us for a special screening event with artist-filmmaker Luka Yuanyuan Yang, featuring three of her short films and a talk on her latest book, 'Dance in Herland.'

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Presented in collaboration with the Whitworth Art Gallery, this evening of collective reading invites you on a journey across continents and centuries, weaving together voices and texts in dialogue with 'Slavs and Tatars: The Contest of the Fruits', on view at esea contemporary.

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As Japan Week marks its 50th anniversary in Manchester, esea contemporary invites you to an exhilarating weekend festival that brings Japan’s genre-defying contemporary culture to life.

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esea contemporary and The White Hotel present Violent Magic Orchestra (VMO) — an extreme art music project from Osaka that fuses techno, black metal, industrial, noise, gabber, and contemporary composition.

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As part of Japan Week, join us for two curated screening programmes — Rhythms of the Earth and Feminist & Queer Reflections — featuring moving image works from the collection of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

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Learn the language of flowers through the timeless art of ikebana with Junko Popham, who blends classical Japanese technique with a northern sensibility.

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Join us for a sonic exploration of Chinese hip-hop’s multilingual roots and regional flows, led by writer and curator Alvin Li.

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ESEA Heritage Month

Join us for a special afternoon with artist Yan Wang Preston, centring on her new book 'With Love. From an Invader. — Rhododendons, Empire, China and Me.'

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Join us as part of the esea Talks series for Enid Tsui’s book talk, exploring the shifting landscape of Hong Kong’s contemporary art scene.

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Join us for the preview of 'Smooth Sailing, 一路順風', the first institutional solo exhibition by Marcos Kueh — an emerging artist from Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia, who currently lives and works in the Netherlands.

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esea contemporary is pleased to present 'Auntie Tales: Ghost Stories Across the Generations', an engaging and playful workshop led by theatre-maker and artist Trà Nguyễn.

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Every first Saturday of the month, join a staff member in the gallery for a free guided tour of Marcos Kueh 'Smooth Sailing, 一路順風.'

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Join artist Marcos Kueh in conversation with Amy George and Dr Vera Mey, moderated by Jo-Lene Ong, as they discuss 'Smooth Sailing, 一路順風' — Kueh’s first institutional solo exhibition exploring migration, memory, and cultural repair.

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Join us for the launch of 'The Duet of the Exodus', a non-traditional zine conceived by Queer Patch.

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esea ArtClub

Explore the intricate world of goldwork embroidery with textile artist and educator Elnaz Yazdani.

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Join us for ‘Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance’, a film screening and workshop that explore how memories and embodied histories can act as feminist and queer forms of resistance in the face of erasure.

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Join us for a collective exploration of memory, migration, and selfhood through film. This screening presents artists’ moving image works that imagine futures made possible through acts of re-telling.

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Join us for the preview of 'Thresholds of Becoming', featuring works by Nicole Coson, Xin Liu, Charmaine Poh, Minoru Nomata, Yang Yongliang, and Yin Aiwen.

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Every last Saturday of the month, join a staff member in the Gallery for a free guided tour of 'Thresholds of Becoming.'

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Join us for a workshop-led performance with BuYi Band that explores how music carries memory, place, and lived experience.

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Across two screening programmes featuring films by So Yo-hen, Erika Tan, Richard Fung, and Fiona Tan, 'Whose Homeland' considers migration, labour, and return as lived, embodied processes rather than fixed narratives.

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On the occasion of ‘Thresholds of Becoming’, dr dima mekdad has envisioned this workshop as a shared space for sensing and practising becoming together.

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Join curator and writer Milia Xin Bi's talk on a body of work that explores the material, cultural, and temporal dimensions of data and digital infrastructures.

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Join us for a guided game session for ‘Liquid Dependencies: What does a decentralised, caring society look like?’

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Join us for a talk with artist and curator Yuen Fong Ling, who will reflect on a period of creativity, hybridity, and possibility centred around Manchester, when artists of ESEA heritage were building connections across a widely dispersed and often fragmented artistic community.

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Join us for the preview of 'Chris Zhongtian Yuan: Two Improvisations', the first UK institutional solo exhibition by Chris Zhongtian Yuan.

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Join us at SOUP, Manchester, for a live performance by Wuhan-based music band Hardcore Raver in Tears featuring Lu Yan.

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Join artist Chris Zhongtian Yuan for a guided tour of ‘Two Improvisations’ — his first UK institutional solo exhibition at esea contemporary.

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Join a member of the programme team for a free guided tour of Chris Zhongtian Yuan's solo exhibition 'Two Improvisations.'

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Join Y7 and Milia Xin Bi for a screening of ‘Undead Internet Theory’, exploring the eerie conditions of an internet increasingly shaped by non-human agencies, including bots, algorithms, synthetic content, and automated systems.

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Join Penny Yiou Peng and Milia Xin Bi for an engaging conversation that revisits the concepts of intelligence (zhìnéng, 智能) and wisdom (zhìhuì, 智慧), exploring how these ideas are understood, challenged, and reimagined in contemporary artistic and cultural contexts.

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Join us for 'Thailand and the Making of Modernity,' a screening and conversation event presented in dialogue with Nakrob Moonmanas's exhibition 'รูปสุวรรณศิวิไลซ์: Metamorphosis in Gold,' curated by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, at Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok.

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Join us for a creative workshop exploring punk zines, DIY publishing, and archival practice, led by Charmaine Wah of Shoes Off, held in conjunction with Chris Zhongtian Yuan’s solo exhibition ‘Two Improvisations’ at esea contemporary.