Stories of Our Heritage
Celebrating East & Southeast Asian heritage
and intergenerational connection through storytelling.
Sunday, 26 Sep 2021 - 5-7.30pm
Please join us for a virtual family-friendly evening of poetry, storytelling, and ceremony. We will celebrate intergenerational connection and East & Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritage through the stories of our community. This is a donation-based event and proceeds will be directed towards supporting KindRedPacket’s ongoing community work. All are welcome.
This event marks the first live gathering in celebration of KindRedPacket’s ongoing Stories of our Heritage storytelling campaign, which launched in September as part of the UK’s first ESEA Heritage Month in collaboration with Britain’s East & Southeast Asian Network (BESEAN).
***A recording of the evening will be shared after the event if you cannot attend live.***
The evening.
5.00pm Welcome + mindful tea ceremony
5.10pm Meditation on ancestry + lineage
5.20pm Spoken word performance
5.35pm Campaign share
5.45pm Feature community stories
6.15pm Break
6.30pm Spoken word performance
6.45pm Community storytelling
7.00pm Gong bath ceremony
7.25pm Closing + goodbyes
Meet the talents.
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Fathima Zahra (she/her)
Spoken Word Artist. Indian poet based in Essex. Barbican Young Poet. Featured across BBC World News, The New Indian Express and Young Poets Network with works published in Tentacular Magazine, Khidr Zine. Author of Sargam / Swargam.
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Troy Cabida (he/him)
Spoken Word Artist. Filipino poet, creative producer and librarian from south-west London. His poems appear in harana poetry, bath magg, MacMillan and the Roundhouse. His debut pamphlet, War Dove, was published by Bad Betty Press in May 2020.
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Xie Jin Hao (they/them)
Spoken Word Artist. Poet born in Chengdu. Their poetry touches on culture, self-hood, and the everyday. As featured in Poetry Review, Gutter Magazine, Harana, Bath Magg, Spilled Milk Magazine and Instagram Poems for Every Day by National Poetry Library.
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Jambo Truong (he/him)
Meditation Guide. Teacher of Forrest Yoga, Functional Anatomy and Native practises of the Medicine People. An experienced bodyworker and bodywork teacher based on his multi-disciplinary practice of structural alignment, muscles testing & classical East Asian medicine.
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Lexi Elven (she/her)
Gong Bath Facilitator. Founder of Blithe Yoga. Lexi lives and works between London and Hong Kong. Outside of the world of yoga, she works with high profile clients as a motion graphics designer in TV and film since 2006.
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David Kam (he/him)
Host/Ceremony Lead. Malaysian, queer, creative based in London. Founder of KindRedPacket. Movement artist, yogi and speaker exploring play culture and joyful activism. David offers brave spaces for communities to #keepkam and explore the wonder in wellbeing.
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& You
Your presence is cherished. Your stories are welcome. And you are key to this gathering. Come share your story with us and listen to the stories of others.
Submit your story here.
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About the Kampaign.
We all have a unique story, and that story is the combined effort of everyone we have ever known. We are who we are today thanks to our ancestors, grandparents, family members, and friends. Our stories become history through community, connection, and storytelling.
Stories of Our Heritage is a kampaign by KindRedPacket to encourage the active and adventurous acknowledgement of our lineage through the stories of our loved ones, elders, and personal history.
Join us.
This event is donation-based with all proceeds
directed towards supporting KindRedPacket’s
ongoing community work.
We offer the following suggested donations as blessings.
£3 I call upon creativity.
£8 I call upon boundlessness.
£11 I call upon connection.
£25 I call upon alignment.
£100 I call upon abundance.
To those who have the capacity to offer a bigger donation, simply add a 0 after your chosen number ie. 60, 80, 250 to amplify your blessing call. Numbers significant to you are also welcome.