Creative Encounters: The Bitten Peach
Slither into the Year of the Snake with performances, workshops and new year vibes from the UK’s first queer pan-Asian cabaret company, The Bitten Peach.
With a cabaret featuring the best of Asian drag, poetry from the National Poetry Library and Daddy Maki’s very own origami workshop, there’s no better place to celebrate Lunar New Year.
The Bitten Peach’s mission is to empower the queer Asian community through shows, events and collaborations. They tell Asian stories, create safe spaces, diversify Asian representation, provide platforms, and educate on racial issues.
Schedule
7.30pm – 8.30pm: origami workshop with Daddy Maki
8.30pm – 9.15pm: The Bitten Peach cabaret
The Bitten Peach is a UK-based Pan-Asian cabaret collective. We tell Asian stories, create safe spaces, diversify Asian representation, provide platforms, and educate on racial issues. Our mission is to empower the queer Asian community through our shows, events and collaborations.
Bard the Beholder is London’s masked extraterrestrial drag creature conjuring worlds within words. Using eco-conscious costuming, stand-up comedy, and movement, Bard engages themes of migration, history and horror to explore their lived experience as a South-East Asian transmasculine person.
Rakhee Sharma is an actor, dancer and movement director who combines drama and dynamism in her performances. Her impressive acting credits span major productions with BBC, ITV, HBO, BFI, Amazon, Netflix, PunchDrunk, the National Theatre London, and the Royal Exchange Manchester. She is also a proud member of BollySass, a group that fuses Bollywood’s glamour with unapologetic sass.
Half-Japanese, half-lover boy, ready to roll your world, Daddy Maki is a mixed British-Japanese drag king. They’ve performed at festivals including Glastonbury and Mighty Hoopla, and their acts may include culinary themed boylesque, dramatic clowning and more.
ShayShay is a non-binary Japanese-Irish-American playwright, screenwriter and co-founder of The Bitten Peach. ShayShay’s work includes Mulan Rouge, The Witches of Oz and The Simple Life & Death.
Creative Encounters invites you to find a creative home in the heart of the city with our fortnightly creative sessions, bringing together Londoners old and new for conversation, music and making.
Need to know
This is a drop-in event.
Creative Encounters is a fortnightly programme, running every other Wednesday. This is sometimes subject to change, so do always check the website for dates. These are friendly sessions designed for both those attending on their own or with others. There are opportunities to socialise and take part in activities together, but you are also very welcome to have a solo experience.
Creative Encounters is part of our Open Doors programme to welcome everyone into our creative spaces.
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Access
This event is British Sign Language interpreted (BSL). Interpretation is by Lian Duan (subject to change).
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For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.
Plan your visit
The Clore Ballroom is located inside our Royal Festival Hall on Level 2.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
There is step-free access to The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, via a ramp.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.