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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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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Join us for the finissage of 'Two Improvisations', featuring a conversation between artist Chris Zhongtian Yuan and Valentin Diakonov, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Whitworth Art Gallery.

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Join artist Donald Shek for an immersive workshop exploring dance, movement, and the act of being through 3D scanning and AI motion capture.

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Join us for an online reading performance and discussion with interdisciplinary artist Hiền Hoàng, who will present her research into the ecological and embodied legacies of Agent Orange, and the post-Agent Orange landscapes of Vietnam.

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Join us for the preview of 'Nocturnal Melody' at esea contemporary, a solo exhibition by Umi Ishihara touring from Gasworks, London.

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esea contemporary and Umi Ishihara invite you into the night with an electrifying Opening Party at YES (The Pink Room). This special event brings together DJs and live performers from Manchester and beyond for a late-night celebration of music and dance.

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Join artist Umi Ishihara and Rosa Tyhurst, Curator at Gasworks, for a guided tour of 'Nocturnal Melody' at esea contemporary.

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Join Andrew Maerkle, Editorial Director of Art Week Tokyo, for an online talk exploring its collaborative, citywide model and how it challenges conventional ideas of centre and periphery.

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Join a member of the programme team for a free guided tour of Umi Ishihara's solo exhibition 'Nocturnal Melody.'

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In this artist talk, Nguyễn + Transitory reflect on works developed through sustained collaborations and artistic research in Thailand and Vietnam.

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esea contemporary and Manchester Art Fair are pleased to present 'Making Worlds: Producing as Creative Practice', a panel discussion moderated by Xiaowen Zhu exploring the people, relationships and infrastructures that shape contemporary art and cultural production.