ESEA communities - Museum of the Home Skip to content Our work ESEA communities Current projects Past projects East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) is a term used in the UK for people who identify with the cultures and ethnicities of East and Southeast Asia. At the heart of our ESEA programme is co-creation and collaboration with diaspora groups, including artists, collectives and creatives. We practice care and commitment to explore new methods of working that create relationships with our local East and Southeast Asian communities. The urgent need to represent and preserve our local Vietnamese diaspora’s stories and memories led to the co-development of the Terraced Home in 2024 as part of our new Rooms Through Time. It expands on themes including nourishment, gardening, textiles, DIY, resourcefulness, and music. The objects and oral histories from Vietnamese donors enrich our collections and create a living archive and resource for future ESEA and Vietnamese generations to activate and engage. We have collaborated with over 50 ESEA groups – advocacy, social justice, services, creative, and film clubs – over the last three years. We have worked with End Violence & Racism ESEA ESEA Sisters ESEA Green Lions and more to develop new and exciting projects. In 2022, our Green Lunar New Year was fully programmed by climate awareness group Green Lions, celebrating the culturally significant day. “The ESEA Programme and its community producers are actively helping us to create a less fractured Vietnamese & ESEA diaspora community.” External Shaping Group member, 2024 Supporting our ESEA programme Since 2022, the ESEA Programme has been established and made possible through the generous support by Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association. We are now focused on deepening our relationships and expanding our work which is possible through funding – please get in touch with ESEA community producer Lara Baclig ( lbaclig@museumofthehome.org.uk ) at for any potential collaborations/knowledge sharing around this. Current projects Uncovering Vietnamese Archives: Library of Ancestral Knowledge Exploring, gathering and creating a resource and legacy rooted in care, celebration and connection, starting with our local ESEA community. Find out more Uncovering Vietnamese Archives: Library of Ancestral Knowledge Past projects A Terraced House in 2024 It is Sunday afternoon and the Nguyễn family is spending quality time together, having lunch and singing karaoke. Find out more A Terraced House in 2024 Seat at the Table with ESEA unseen and Swilipino ESEA unseen will share stories of cross-cultural identity and migration in relation to textiles in the domestic space, and invite audiences to… Find out more Seat at the Table with ESEA unseen and Swilipino No Place Like Home (A Vietnamese Exhibition) Part II No Place Like Home is a free contemporary art exhibition co-curated and led by KV Duong and Hoa Dung Clerget. Find out more No Place Like Home (A Vietnamese Exhibition) Part II Home Grown Join us for a community film and pop-up exhibition exploring the roots of Vietnamese home life. Find out more Home Grown Uncovering Vietnamese Archives with Dora Lam Embark on a journey activating Vietnamese Archives from a contemporary lens in five workshops with our resident artist Dora Lam. Find out more Uncovering Vietnamese Archives with Dora Lam Green Lunar New Year A sustainable twist on traditional Lunar New Year celebrations, in partnership with ESEA community group Green Lions. Find out more Green Lunar New Year Sonic Phở Museum of the Home and New Earth Theatre present Sonic Phở, the audio dining experience. Listen on Bloomberg Connects Listen on Bloomberg Connects Sonic Phở ESEA Sisters Healing Circle: Finding Home in Yourself Ending ESEA Heritage Month in October 2022, this healing workshop was held for ESEA communities of women, trans, non-binary and genderqueer folk. Our work Our work ESEA Sisters Healing Circle: Finding Home in Yourself The Nodey Process: Film Screening x Afterparty In August 2022 we hosted the UK's first screening of The Nodey Process, a documentary tracing the evolution of the French-Vietnamese music producer. Our work Our work The Nodey Process: Film Screening x Afterparty “You did it [collecting] with so much attention to detail and care, so much fluidity when we all needed you, by putting the work in to learn bits of our language, our culture and our objects of the home. You came to us. And uplifted us.” Donor, 2 August 2024 Keep in touch Sign up to our monthly e-newsletter for the latest news, events and exhibitions. Subscribe now