Chaotic Good (Enough) — an ESEA Heritage Month mini series

About the show

Chaotic Good (Enough) is a mini series made for ESEA Heritage Month. It grew out of Beyond Belonging, a book I co-wrote about the mistakes and the learning that came with organising as part of besea.n, Britain's East and Southeast Asian Network. A big part of getting better at this work is pooling what we know, so I wanted to meet other organisers and have a rant n rave about the whole thing. We celebrate what's gone well, and we also dig into the pitfalls.

The series focuses on individuals and independent collectives, because I want to keep the grassroots side of ESEAHM alive

This episode: Sue Man, Offshoots Festival

Sue Man curated Offshoots, a festival of sculpture, film, food and workshops that is running until 27 September 2026 at the ESEA Community Centre, 12–14 Englefield Road, London N1 4LS, as part of ESEA Heritage Month.

The festival took its name from the volunteer plant, the kind that sprouts where it wasn't planted. That idea ran through the programme: displacement, belonging, and taking root somewhere you weren't meant to be.

Check out ⁠offshoots.xyz⁠ or follow ⁠@o.f.f.s.h.o.o.t.s⁠

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Please give if you can

• Help Mahmoud and his family
• Peiwen Legacy Fund

About the host

Amy Phung is a writer, designer, facilitator and co-founder of besea.n, Britain's East and South East Asian Network. Informed through years of cross-community solidarity building and active bystander workshop facilitation, she aims to develop her practices for transformation through art, using creativity as means to reimagine and embody new futures.

Ingrina (she/her) is a volunteer for ESEA Outdoors UK and London National Park City, mainly organising walks in green and blue spaces. By day she works in the climate sector, which was inspired by her love of the outdoors. She loves hiking, trail running, thru-hiking, wild camping, and dabbling in cycling.

ESEA Outdoors are a grassroots community celebrating East & Southeast Asian representation in the UK outdoors and fighting racism.

It's halfway through ESEA Heritage Month 2026! In today's show, we reflect on the impact of roaming on physical and mental health, care in collectivism, balancing the fun stuff with the logistical side and how we handle experiences of discrimination and harassment in outdoor spaces.

Get outside with ESEA Outdoors this ESEA Heritage Month!
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About the host:
Amy Phung (she/her) is a community organiser and co-founder of besea.n, Britain's East and Southeast Asian Network. She is a co-writer of Beyond Belonging: East and Southeast Asian Presence, Identity and Activism in the UK. Through her work in advocacy and cross-community solidarities, she seeks to expand her practises for transformation through art and storytelling, using creativity as a tool to reimagine and embody new futures.

Kyami Mitsui Russell is a New York-born, UK-based interdisciplinary artist working across music, design and creative technology. Her work captures the raw emotions that emerge from her perspective as a Japanese and Black American, neuro-queer woman, shaped by a lifelong love of cartoons, sci-fi, Y2K futurism, internet culture and a whimsical-yet-logical way of understanding the world. Through music, immersive experiences and technology, Kyami builds worlds where imagination, joy, hope and love meet an acute sense of self-awareness—holding up a mirror to who we are and how we choose to connect with one another.

Today we are chatting about Kyami's event for ESEA Heritage Month, Mahjong Music Club, their inspiration behind starting it and why you should go. We celebrate third spaces such as libraries and community centres and discuss Counterpoints Arts' "Protocol of Care" when facilitating events. We talk about intergenerational connection and Kyami's experiences inviting the elders into social spaces.

Kyami IG: @kyami_world
Amy IG: @_amy_pix
ESEA Heritage Month: eseaheritagemonth.co.uk
Counterpoints Arts: Protocol of Care: counterpoints.org.uk/protocol-of-care

About the host:
Amy Phung (she/her) is a community organiser and co-founder of besea.n, Britain's East and Southeast Asian Network. She is a co-writer of 'Beyond Belonging: East and Southeast Asian Presence, Identity and Activism in the UK'. Through her work in advocacy and cross-community solidarities, she seeks to expand her practises for transformation through art and storytelling, using creativity as a tool to reimagine and embody new futures.