Join Curator-in-Residence Milia Xin Bi and creative technologist Haidar Nasralla for an interactive workshop exploring the creative possibilities of locally run artificial intelligence (AI). Together, participants will learn how to build, customise and experiment with AI models that run directly on their own computers, opening up new ways of thinking about creativity, technology and digital autonomy.

An online panel discussion moderated by curator and writer Binghuang Xu. Bringing together practitioners from four independent art organisations across China, the conversation explores how contemporary art is shaped by place, and how artistic practice emerges in regions beyond established cultural centres.

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.

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.

Join award-winning poet Romalyn Ante for a creative writing workshop exploring how music, memory, language, and cultural identity can become sites of resistance, connection, and expression.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.