For ESEA Heritage Month, the University of Westminster, along with EAST2046, will host the “ESEA Heritage Making & Community Building via Arts and Technology” event on Wednesday, 24th September 2025.
The ESEA Heritage Making & Community Building via Arts and Technology will brings together academic dialogue, community practice, and embodied experience. The evening will begin with welcome remarks from Professor Dibyesh Anand and Cangbai Wang followed by a panel discussion chaired by Dr Lois Liao. The discussion will include how heritage is sustained and reshaped across creative, community and digital spaces. This will be followed by a workshop where participants will explore themes of trust, grounding, and collective action to create short performances. The session also incorporates a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) inspired decision-making process, offering a playful way to test how technology might support real-world collaboration.
Co-founder of EAST2046 Dr Lois Liao explained, “Moving together, building trust, and co-creating performances helps participants connect on a deeper level.”
The event builds upon the theme of this year’s ESEA heritage month, which focuses on Reframing Resilience, inviting communities to reflect on shared strength, resistance, vulnerability and interconnectedness. Unlike heritage rooted in a fixed homeland, diasporic heritage is cross-regional, hybrid, and constantly evolving through reinterpretation by new generations.
Dr Liao continued: “Recognition and celebration of diasporic heritage can empower migrants and challenge the mainstream heritage discourse that has ignored the cultural tradition of ethnic minorities.”
It is co-organised by the University’s HOMElandS Centre, which contributes to a UK-wide programme celebrating ESEA histories, cultures, and contributions that are often underrepresented, and EAST2046. Their recent festival explored the idea of a near-future world from an East and Southeast Asian perspective.
The event will take place at the University of Westminster’s Portland Hall on the Little Titchfield Street Campus.
It will be on Wednesday, 24th September 2025, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
If you like this article why not read: Taiwanese Cinema Season Opens at The Garden Cinema
