ESEA unseen: Chance Encounters

Line-up
5.30pm: So Sha
6.30pm: Rowan Allen
8.30pm: mui zyu

So Sha is a Norwich-based neurodivergent artist, performer, writer and producer from the Philippines (who loves pigeons!). She has performed alongside Grammy-award winning artists such as Steve Aoki and Joss Stone. She creates multi-genre electronic music in English and Filipino. So Sha’s songs are a hopeful reminder for us that ultimately we’re all in this beautiful life together.

Rowan Allen is an artist of British and Chinese-Malaysian heritage, born in England and residing in Berlin, Germany. As a DI she deals in alternative club music and the experimental avant-garde, delivering exploratory and expansive sets. Expect a deftly woven selection from a vast range of influences – an audial forage for the curious listener.

mui zyu – who has just released second album nothing or something to die for to critical acclaim, and made mixes for KEXP, DubLab and Clash – is in the DJ portal dispensing a banquet of retro ESEA classics and boppable soundtracks.

ESEA unseen are Kim Chin and Sue Man, two multidisciplinary artists who met through London’s creative circles during the early 2000s.

Through organising and producing interventions fighting for intersectional social and climate justice, they reconnected with each other to use experimental textiles, conversations and social engagement as a vehicle to heal, connect, and build resistance.

By working with arts, learning and community networks, these experiences are assembled to create public facing events where people can come together, celebrate their experiences, and imagine spaces of cultural exchange that thrive beyond structures of colonial oppression.

This summer, we’re collaborating with a range of London-based collectives and organisations to curate the Riverside Stage in response to the theme of our season, You Belong Here, enabling these collaborators to welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong here at the Southbank Centre.