HEARD Live: Between Worlds + Ka-Yan Ip: The Child She Finally Raised
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Fri 12 Jun17:15Theatre 2
Turning unheard voices into change
Heard Live is the true spoken storytelling event that lifts unheard voices to create real, positive change. In this special edition, we're celebrating Vietnamese heritage on the theme of Between Worlds - an evening of raw, real accounts of identity, belonging and the space between where you come from and who you're becoming. Expect to be moved, challenged and inspired.
Join us for a specially curated lineup of everyday people with stories that will stay with you, sharing their experiences unfiltered and in their own words. No scripts. No polish. Just truth. Come to connect, reflect, and leave with a piece of someone else's world.
About the curtain raiser
Heard Live is preceded by a short 10-minute curtain raiser by Ka Yan Ip; The Child She Finally Raised. How love continues even when history keeps separating families.
The Child She Finally Raised is a new performance by Ka-Yan Ip, a Hong Kong-born theatre maker now based in Manchester. Drawing from her family history, the work explores migration, separation, and the bond between a grandmother and granddaughter across generations of political change. Blending storytelling, movement, and Cantonese song, this intimate work reflects on memory, displacement, and what we inherit from those before us.
The Child She Finally Raised is a new work-in-progress sharing is commissioned for the 2026 Horizons Festival Programme by HOME and Community Arts North West as part of a series of artist commissions created to support Manchester-based artists with lived experience of displacement to make new work. These opportunities are supported by HOME’s Creative Engagement Practitioners.
About HEARD:
Heard Storytelling is the spoken stories company that creates positive change.
Through live storytelling events, team-building workshops, bespoke community projects, outdoor exhibitions and their podcast, they harness the power of lived experience – told in your own words – to bring communities closer, make businesses better and ultimately deepen connections anywhere they can.
What started in the back room of a pub in the Northern Quarter in 2017 with the simple idea that we have more in common than we know, when we listen to each other's stories, has gone on to international events and exhibitions and back to Manchester where it all began.