ECHO 2026
SALO SALO: Come Together
We're building an archive on British Filipino history and culture
This year's ECHO exhibition is all about the Filipino diaspora in the UK.
We're exploring the nostalgia of karaoke, the quiet realities of visa processes and the rich flavours of home-cooked adobo from across each Filipino region.
We started with launch events and an exhibition in Manchester, before opening the doors in London at Oxo Tower. The week-long exhibition spans from Little Manila (Liverpool) in the 1800s to an oral history exhibition capturing the most recent three generations of British Filipinos across the UK. Come along for panels, film screenings, creative workshops and performances. Leave with new insight into 'home', from a different perspective!
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Help us build our British Filipino Archive
In collaboration with artist Chelsea Laylo, Kanlungan and the London Filipino Centre, Voice ESEA is hosting a publicly accessible British Filipino archive. Built to preserve the generations of voices spanning Filipino diaspora representing different regions in both The Philippines and the UK, we invite all to participate.
Please fill in this form for yourself and your family members to show interest in being interviewed.
ECHO 2026:
SALO SALO : Come Together
May 2026, Manchester & London
The Philippines exists half a world away as an archipelago of over 7,000 islands. It is a vast distance that crosses time zones and hemispheres, yet the spirit of that tropical landscape has found a home right here in the UK. Just as Manchester is anchored by its northern identity, Filipino culture also carries its own unmistakable markers from the rich flavours of a home cooked adobo to the local warmth of being called ‘palangga’. Today that heritage is flourishing in neighbourhoods across the U.K.
This journey is brought to life by Voice ESEA, an educational non-profit that uncovers hidden British history through interactive exhibitions. SALO SALO: Come Together builds on a wider oral history project curated by our collective of Filipino creatives from across the UK. This includes textile artist Phoebe Singzon, whose expertise has shaped the visual and material focus of the exhibition.
This piece will be at HOME until September, before moving to London’s OXO Tower from 2nd–7th September 2026.
