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Moongate Mix next Monday, 11th November @OmnibusTheatre 7pm. Pop up kitchen available from 5.30pm! Tickets: omnibus-clapham.org/moongate-mix-2/ @NuVoices @EseaSisters @VaChina1 @FrancescaHumi @EVR_ESEA @esea_hub

ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL IS BACK!!! A time travel tale of historical pirates and future revolutionaries! showing at Pleasance Theatre, London on 21st - 22nd November. Book your tickets here : pleasance.co.uk/event/asian-pi… See ya there!

Stampin In The Graveyard By Elisabeth Gunawan & Saksi Bisou An immersive headphone experience that fuses poetry, live music and movement! At The Cockpit, London, 8th & 9th November, 7pm Use the code ESEALove and get 15% off! Book tickets here : voilafestival.co.uk/events/stampin…

Check out our review on @ghostandjohn’s Two Plant Gaysians wearebeatsorg.org.uk/blog/theatre-r…

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Moongate Mix October is all about the Pontianak - Mythical female ghost of vengeance in SEA folklore 14th October, OMNIBUS THEATRE, 7pm with HOMI KITCHEN Join acclaimed author Sharlene Teo and filmmaker Amanda Nell Eu for this evening! Book tickets: omnibus-clapham.org/moongate-mix-2/

DON’T MISS THIS!!! Check out ‘PlantGaysians’ by @ghostandjohn Showing on 12th of October, at @ThePleasance SPECIAL OFFER FOR BEATS MEMBERS Key in PLANTFRIENDS when buying tickets here : shorturl.at/CdQAo to get a discount! Pic credit : Jane Lam and Deacon Lui

Fancy Halloween Southeast Asian style? Moongate Mix October is all about the Pontianak - Mythical female ghost of vengeance in Southeast Asian folklore 14th October @OmnibusTheatre 7pm Tickets: omnibus-clapham.org/moongate-mix-2/ Join acclaimed author Sharlene Teo who will read from ...

*** Global festival celebrating radical new voices in Malaysian cinema *** Running from 22nd September - 4th October, don’t miss these thought provoking films from Malaysia shown in London! Book your tickets here ; linktr.ee/globalmalaysia…

We are appalled and horrified by the recent outbreak of overtly racist violence aimed at vulnerable migrants and people of colour. What’s even more appalling to us is that this violence has been whipped up and encouraged by cynical corrupt politicians and online grifters…(ctd)

Worse still is that this time producers are using a person of colour for this appalling erasure, which indicates an intention to box-tick and tokenise rather than be truly inclusive. (P7)

This failure to use Southeast Asian male actors for roles such as the swashbuckling charmer Sandokan also continues the tradition of desexualising ESEA men and using the outdated practice of yellowface, dressing non-ESEAs in costume to impersonate East and Southeast Asians. (P6)

*** New series of Sandokan with Bornean lead character refuses to cast South East Asian actors *** Lazy casting of ESEA stories has yet again reared its head in the latest TV adaptation of Sandokan, a story set in Borneo about a pirate of Dayak heritage. (P1)

*** BOOK YOUR TICKETS FOR MOONGATE’S ASIAN POET’S CORNER SESH *** @moongateprods ‘s 2nd Asian Poets Corner sesh is on 10th June at 7pm, Omnibus Theatre. Featuring the excellent Nina Mingya Powles, Jennifer Wong and Eric Yip. Book tickets here : omnibus-clapham.org/moongate-mix-2/

Never Forget : The Victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre , June 4th 1989 BEATS remembers those on June the 4th who died, were injured, who were jailed or had to go into exile because of the Tiananmen Square protests and it’s subsequent massacre