Lunisolar launched on the 1st of December, 2025. We are an eco-conscious organisation headed by our Artistic Director, Sharon Sze. Bartolomeo Bartolini, Maria Cristina Petitti, and Lee Maeda are some of our key contributors to the running and development of Lunisolar. All of us are artists who have emigrated to the United Kingdom.
We focus on creating programmes for foreign nationals living in the United Kingdom with our primary focus currently on the (B)ESEA community.
If this mission inspires you or speaks to you, please get in touch at lunisolaruk@gmail.com. We welcome hearing your needs, reflections, and ideas. We also welcome help if you are able to offer it, be it in the form of manpower, mentorship, advice, opportunity, or funding.
Our first programme, Tides, is being run entirely on a voluntary basis, with only our mission for social justice at the fore. We are looking to begin regular programmes to promote this vision with consistency.
Our most ambitious goal consists of acquiring funding to host a month-long programme (working title: Eclipse) that aims to bring awareness to ESEA Heritage Month as launched by besea.n in 2021 (London City Hall, 2021). The goal is to pilot a programme to celebrate (British) East and South East Asian art, culture, and history by dedicating time and space just for people of this heritage and culture with dedicated events for those who are British and those who are not.
It will offer workshops to those outside of the arts the opportunity to access theatre and explore it as both a form of expression and a potential career path. It will also offer emerging (B)ESEA theatre artists accessible opportunities to develop their practice and gain career-forwarding experience alongside established ESEA and BESEA artists while simultaneously provide above union minimum wage work to established (B)ESEA theatre artists to combat the current cost-of-living crisis.
With the fostering of both lateral and vertical collaboration between established (B)ESEA and emerging (B)ESEA theatre artists, there will also be opportunity for mentorships to continue after the project ends. This programme will develop a production by ESEA artists for an ESEA audience, creating a space for ESEA communities to feel welcome in watching theatre.