Radio Neighbourhood
Outdoor Community Dance Drama
Next edition: 16 October 2021 2pm
with Bloomsbury Festival

We are awarded Ideas and Pioneers Fund by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and are still seeking partners to present the work at more locations!

If you are a programmer in the UK and are interested in working with / creating more jobs for ESEA talents in your region, connect us through hiddenkeileon@gmail.com. 

After a year of living with COVID-19, the outdoor performance provides new strategies to engage the community with live art in the post-pandemic world. With a creative team of East and Southeast Asian artists, the performance tells stories about cross-cultural interactions and engages with post-humanist thinking. It explores humanity’s desire for the ideal society and addresses the most pressing concerns of the modern world, including migration and human rights.

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The event will take place in the open space of residential houses across London. The audience will be able to enjoy the performances from home through their windows or balconies with the sound and music broadcasted over Internet radio. 

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The performance is a 30-minute outdoor dance drama with voiceover that involves conversations and interactions of two performers (human and alien), focusing on questions of home, displacement and memory. The story engages with ancient East Asian mythology and conveys cultural significance relating to issues of belief and identity, transcending cultural backgrounds and different communities. It explores people’s psychological conditions when facing pandemic and socio-political instabilities. In response to the recent hate crimes against Asians, the work in particular deals with issues of identity related to ethnicity, race and gender, and confronts the historical portrayal of those raced and gendered bodies.

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With a core creative team of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritage, it provides a platform to support artists who are currently underrepresented in the arts and culture industry in the UK. It is an ongoing performance project that we will be touring the story (score and script) and hiring ESEA local talents to be part of the team, including performers and musicians, to continue developing the work and to perform in the communities that they live in. We aim to make the work available to more spaces and reach a wider audience through touring across London, the UK and beyond. 

Second Edition:

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Tuesday 13 July 2021 — 2:15-2:45pm
Evelyn Community Centre, Staunton Street,
Deptford, London, SE8 5TW
Broadcasting over Internet Radio:
https://ghostandjohn.page.link/radio

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Saturday 17 July 2021 — 12-12:30pm
(2 Locations Simultaneously)
1-4 Tanner's Hill,
Deptford, London SE8 4PJ
&
Pump House Square,Shackleton Way,
Royal Docks, London E16 2HU

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Commissioned by Deptford X 2021 & Bow Arts

Facilitated by AAJA Radio and Hidden Keileon

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First Edition:

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24 April 2021 (Sat)

5:00 PM - Cornmill Gardens

Lewisham, London SE13 7BN

This event is supported by Hidden Keileon, Bow Arts and West Silvertown Foundation, Lewisham Council, ShapesLewisham & the Albany.

Direction, Writing, Sound and Music: Ghost and John
Curator: Sandra Lam

Movement Deviser: Pui Yung Shum

Audio Actors: Siu-see Hung, Jennifer Lim

Narrator: Daniel York Loh
Live Performers: Pui Yung Shum, Yun Cheng, Jason Yip and John Chan

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Banner Photographer: Jeffrey Choy

Illustration: Pui Yung Shum

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We are currently in conversations with different local councils, cultural units and funding bodies. Aiming at putting on a 3rd edition in October 2021 and a 4th Edition at Easter break 2022, please contact us if you are interested in collaborating on this project focusing on tackling the current hurdles in the performing arts industry. 

To know more about this performance, please do not hesitate to contact Sandra Lam through hiddenkeileon@gmail.com or us through info@ghostandjohn.art