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This is a lovely start to the new year. Hope ESV nourishes yours!
RG • @gemmachan Happy Lunar New Year’s Eve 🎊 Late to posting that @eastsidevoices is now out! This is the book I wish existed when I was growing up and I’m honoured to have been asked to contribute to it. Edited by @hels_lee and featuring beautiful pieces from fellow ESEAs @maryjeanchan, @_katieleung_, @naomishimada, @annasulan, @ladybalisong, @rowanhisa, @miss_zing, @catherinekcho, @awongsw1, @thats.so.june, @tuyen_does, @tash.aw, @clairekohda, @amy__poon, @sharlene__teo and Will Harris. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have 💛
01 Feb 2022
And here are the incredible East Side Voices contributors! We held our book launch (slightly delayed due to the O word - but fortuitous that it was on the first day of Lunar New Year) at @thestandardlondon feeling lucky that we were able to properly meet in person. @gemmachan @rowanhisa @ladybalisong @awongsw1 @maryjeanchan - you were much missed! More pics to come, but this is my absolute favourite. Thank you @heatherchuter for capturing the night 📸
04 Feb 2022
The surrealness of last week: giving a copy of East Side Voices to HRH The Prince of Wales during his visit to Chinatown. Have always hoped that though the stories within the book speak to the British East and Southeast Asian experience, they also resonate with all who read them.
10 Feb 2022
Last week East Sides Voices and Rejina Pyo hosted a literary salon for Korean Heritage Month, featuring Catherine Cho in conversation with Harper’s Bazaar editor Helena Lee about her acclaimed novel THE DEVOTED ❤️🔥❤️🔥
They discussed the Korean diaspora, motherhood, yearning in K-dramas and Wong Kar Wai films, and Hong Kong’s criminal underworld.
Hailed by the Guardian as ‘The Godfather, seen through a female eye’, THE DEVOTED is an emotionally transportive literary debut in which a young Korean mother becomes entrenched in an infamous crime organization—and the dangerous world she once sought to escape.
📸: Melissa Legarda (@illumelation)
#TheDevoted #CatherineCho #4thestatebooks
15 Oct 2026
To celebrate Korean Heritage Month, join us for an exclusive, intimate literary salon hosted at Rejina Pyo Soho.
Introduced by Rejina Pyo, East Side Voices founder and Harper’s Bazaar editor Helena Lee will be in conversation with Catherine Cho to discuss her acclaimed debut novel, The Devoted.
Followed by drinks and a book signing.
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Hailed by The Guardian as “The Godfather, seen through a female eye” and named one of ELLE’s most anticipated reads of the year, The Devoted is a captivating love letter to K-drama and Wong Kar-wai. It follows a young Korean mother who becomes entrenched in an infamous crime organization—and the dangerous world she once sought to escape.
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Event Details:
🗓️ Tuesday 6 October | 7pm – 8.30pm
📍 REJINA PYO, 37 Upper James St, London W1F 9DG
🎟️ Spaces are limited. Tap the link in our bio to secure your tickets now!
#RejinaPyo #EastSideVoices #CatherineCho #TheDevoted #KoreanHeritageMonth
14 Sep 2026
Just look at this absolutely irresistible line-up.
Who are you most looking forward to seeing?
Congratulations again @mariagluc @joannaleebooks on putting together yet another stellar festival.
27 Aug 2026
Festival alert!
Please join East Side Voices on Sunday 13 September at 2pm at celebrASIA, which returns to Battersea Power Station this September, and it’s set to be bigger than ever.
Anna Sulan Masing will be hosting the Fashion and Global Tastemaking panel alongside the @bazaaruk editor Helena Lee, Audrey Khew from the @Britishfashioncouncil and Isabelle Landicho from @studio_landicho
They will discuss how South East Asian artists, fashion brands and individuals are shaping, making and leading the fashion world, but are not only defining the clothes we wear, but are having an impact on visual storytelling, film and culture.
From 11–13 September, this three-day celebration of South East Asian culture brings an exciting programme of live music, dance, DJ sets and comedy to the outdoor stage, alongside immersive craft workshops including candle making, traditional weaving and family-friendly sessions.
Explore over 50 artisan stalls, thoughtfully curated with sauces, spices, gifts, accessories and more, then experience some of the most exciting South East Asian street food traders from across London and beyond.
Book your tickets now and we’ll see you there
#celebrASIA @batterseapwrst @welovefestuk @annasulan
@lethal_izzle @hels_lee @happinessofdeliciousfeeling
05 Aug 2026
Slow Horses is back! And to celebrate, we have Christopher Chung on #ESVSpotlight. Known for his brilliant turn as the ineffable Roddy Ho in the Apple TV+ series based on the Mick Herron books, the remarkable Bafta and Sag-nominated actor has starred in Steve McQueen’s Blitz, been on stage at The Globe and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and has just finished filming the six-part Netflix adaptation of the novel My Brilliant Career. Here, he tells us what Roddy Ho – who is central this season – means to him, and the significance of having such a character who is so compelling, at times loveable, at times infuriating, but always at the beating heart of the series.
‘As an Asian male navigating this industry, I’ve always held tightly to the idea that my work should be rooted in integrity — that the characters I play should reflect a human being, not a stereotype or a ticked box. Too often we’ve been written as functional or peripheral, but I’ve fought to avoid that, to find truth and complexity instead. Playing Roddy Ho has been part of that journey: he’s not defined by his background, but by his chaos, humour, brilliance, and flaws. That, to me, is representation — not existing on the margins, but being embedded at the heart of a story, allowed to be as contradictory, maddening and compelling as any other character. That’s the space I’ve always wanted to carve out.’
Thank you @chrispchung!
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23 Sep 2025
We are delighted to feature Anna Jewsbury on #ESVSpotlight for London Fashion Week and #ESEAHeritageMonth. Anna is the visionary artistic director and founder of the jewellery brand @completedworks whose shows always have a strong cultural dimension. Each season, her collaborations are highly anticipated - she’s worked with the novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, the producer Gala Gordon and the actor Joanna Lumley. This season was no different - Jerry Hall thrilled as part fortune-teller, part salesman in The Gift, a specially-commissioned dramatisation by the playwright Laura Waldren. She was joined on stage by Raven Smith and Joséphine de la Baume.
There’s a beauty to the oblique nature of her designs that have a humour and poetry to them. We are particular fans of her earrings, beautifully-named ‘Yet Another Strong Westerly Gust’ and and her idiosyncratic interpretation of everyday objects - from mugs to vases. Here, she tells us about her new collection:
‘The Spring/Summer 26 collection explores fluidity and precision, forms blurred then reshaped by elemental forces. I was drawn to the idea of jewellery carved by the passion of wind across an archipelago—delicate forms disrupted, surfaces unsettled, pieces that feel both wearable and quietly complex. The collection builds on motifs of nature’s drama and rhythm, while layering materials into unexpected contexts. Inevitably, my Filipina heritage finds its way into these explorations—sometimes deliberately, sometimes unconsciously—as part of a wider intermix of influences.’
Congratulations, Anna!
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20 Sep 2025
We’re at the @southbankcentre as part of its ESEA encounters programme… Come and join @tash.aw willjharris123 @romalynante and @hels_lee on Saturday 19 July! It’s going to be a full day of talks from the cultural forefront of talent - incredible poets, award-winning novelists, Turner Prize nominees. Hear from @pioabad @_elainecastillo @_sue_k_b @becbecliuliu and more - it’s going to be ace. Link to tickets in our stories. Hope to see you there! Big up to @esealitfest for the brilliant brilliant programming. ♥️
03 Jul 2025
This is a very special ESV post for the incredible novelist @Tash.Aw, whose beautiful new novel The South comes out today. When I first read The Harmony Silk Factory, which won 2005’s Whitbread first novel prize, I thought it such a breath of fresh air, uncovering that less-familiar narrative of British-ruled Malaya through fantastic storytelling. Tash’s versatility knows no bounds. His sharp wit and fantastic observation of social mobility within the Chinese diaspora thrills in Five Star Billionaire, while We, the Survivors probes the inequality endemic in modern Malaysian society. His essays, whether on art, filmmaking or the allure of Penang, are perfectly formed. Little wonder the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls him ‘one of the greats’.
He has been so integral to East Side Voices, always striving to lift others and support talent with his generous spirit.
Here, he tells us about his most personal novel yet – the first of a quartet. We urge you to experience The South for yourselves - so that you can meet Jay and Chuan. Reading it is an unforgettable experience. Congratulations, Tash!
‘I wanted to recreate an intimate portrait of an ordinary Malaysian family like mine, filled with the details of everyday life—so normal back then but so dramatic in hindsight. To write the novel I had to recall my parents’ endless struggles with money, my anguish and joy over sexuality and first love, my sisters carving out a place for themselves in a world hostile to women, a country changing so fast that no one could keep up. For so long I thought I’d escaped that tangled emotional and physical landscape, but in fact I’d carried it inside me—all the sorrows as well as the joys, which I had also forgotten.’
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#ESVSpotlight
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13 Feb 2025
We’ll be cheering for the artist Pio Abad, who’s been nominated for the 2024 @turnerprizeofficial. His parents were at the forefront of the anti-dictatorship struggles in the Philippines in the 1970s and 80s; his compelling paintings, textiles and installation shine a light on a narrative so often repressed, about the country of his birth.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday night at @tate Britain, where you can currently see his show. Here @pioabad tells about the cultural dissonance that has informed his work and what he hopes his nominated show will achieve:
‘Growing up in a family of dissidents and painters, art and politics had always been interwoven in my life. My work uncovers political narratives that have been purposefully hidden or conveniently forgotten, and the more I make and exhibit work, the more I realise that this is a lifelong endeavour.
It was that distance between Manila and Glasgow [where he studied], both geographically and culturally, that made me see the contours of home more clearly. There’s a kind of sobriety provided by distance. And over that time, I have honed the language of my work by assimilating other languages, whether it’s the language of artists from Beirut dealing with archival material after the war, or the language of other diasporic Asian voices.
My hope for my exhibition ‘To Those Sitting in Darkness’ is that it brings to light stories that need to be told, despite not fitting in the limited categories imposed by museums. I hope that it can open up the ways we interpret objects that have been confined to the storage rooms of Western museums.
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#PioAbad
#ESVSpotlight
#ESV
#EastSideVoices
#TurnerPrize
#TateBritain
01 Dec 2024
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