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Mid-Autumn Festival

This September, we’re celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival, a time for family togetherness, autumn harvests and gathering under the full moon.

Date

Friday 25 September - Sunday 27 September 2026

Festivals

Our three-day programme responds to this year’s ESEA Heritage Month theme, Evolving Threads, with a film screening, creative journaling tea circle, children’s lantern-making workshop and a community celebration pop-up at the nearby community space Centre 151.

Part of Museum of the Home’s ESEA Programme, exploring the histories, cultures and experiences of East and Southeast Asian communities.

What's on

Events Film

Good Mourning Vietnam (Người Khóc Thuê)

A film exploring grief, memory and Vietnamese traditions, followed by a conversation with director Huong D. Ta and film critic Phuong Le.

Friday 25 September 2026

£5.00 – £7.00

Good Mourning Vietnam (Người Khóc Thuê)

Events Workshop

Tea & Tomorrow: Imagining Diasporic Futures

A tea circle, collective journalling and creative session exploring belonging, kinship, and the futures we imagine for ourselves.

Saturday 26 September 2026

Free

Tea & Tomorrow: Imagining Diasporic Futures

For Families Workshop

Make a Lantern for the Moon

Make colourful paper lanterns and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with a creative family workshop for children aged 5–11.

Saturday 26 September 2026

Free

Make a Lantern for the Moon

Events Drop-in

Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with Centre 151

Join us at Centre 151 for a special community celebration of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Sunday 27 September 2026

Free

Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with Centre 151

A blurred figure walks across a room in front of weathered looking panels and windows showing a model of a city.

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