An artist collective collaborating with migrant and queer people to imagine futures with justice and freedom for all, by dreaming up and leading multidisciplinary, life-affirming cultural projects.
We create the hard-to-imagine and yet-to-exist.
Our Mission
We are six multidisciplinary artists, strategists, thinkers, researchers and curators focused on making change. We collaborate with people from migrant and queer communities like ourselves to imagine futures with justice and freedom for all. We dream up and lead community building and life-affirming cultural projects across the UK and beyond.
We build radical friendships to change the world. We demonstrate a fluid and non-hierarchical collaboration. We make use of the transformative power of arts and culture to create new possibilities and ideas.
Our name ‘Hidden Keileon’, is inspired by a mythical symbol of hope, reflecting our commitment to amplifying the stories and cultures of overlooked communities. We make the unseen seen, the unheard heard, and the unimagined a reality.
Our Vision
Futures with justice and freedom for all.
Our Mission
We are six multidisciplinary artists, strategists, thinkers, researchers and curators focused on making change. We collaborate with people from migrant and queer communities like ourselves to imagine futures with justice and freedom for all. We dream up and lead community building and life-affirming cultural projects across the UK and beyond.
We build radical friendships to change the world. We demonstrate a fluid and non-hierarchical collaboration. We make use of the transformative power of arts and culture to create new possibilities and ideas.
Our name ‘Hidden Keileon’, is inspired by a mythical symbol of hope, reflecting our commitment to amplifying the stories and cultures of overlooked communities. We make the unseen seen, the unheard heard, and the unimagined a reality.
Our Vision
Futures with justice and freedom for all.
We are 6 multidisciplinary artists, strategists, thinkers, researchers and curators focused on making change.
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Building radical
friendships to
change the world
friendships to
change the world
Demonstrating collective,
non-hierarchical
collaboration
non-hierarchical
collaboration
Exploring possibilities
and imagination
through the arts
and imagination
through the arts
What is a Keileon?
Keileon (麒麟) is neither a dragon nor a tiger, neither phoenix nor peacock; It is a chimaera of mythical creatures, the impossible combinations of animals born to this beautifully chaotic world. You have probably not heard of this word before, because there are plenty of spellings out there from different East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritages (กิเลน, kỳ lân, 기린). However this time, it is from a London-based, Hongkongese narrative - Keileon. The old Hakka saying: Keileon hides as the people are troubled. Keileon dances as the world is at peace. (百姓愁，麒麟走；天下和，麒麟舞。)
No one has ever seen Keileon as turmoils constantly appear in corners of our world. Until the day the voiceless are heard, the suppressed are freed, and justice prevails, Hidden Keileon perseveres in presenting works liberating minds, bodies and spirits.
We are luring the hidden Keileon (麒麟, กิเลน, kỳ lân, 기린) out of its cave as it hides from the troubles in the world. No one has seen a Keileon before as the world has never been at peace. We are fearful of the changes it would bring but are also longing for the joy of discovering the unknown.
Keileon (麒麟) is neither a dragon nor a tiger, neither phoenix nor peacock; It is a chimaera of mythical creatures, the impossible combinations of animals born to this beautifully chaotic world. You have probably not heard of this word before, because there are plenty of spellings out there from different East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritages (กิเลน, kỳ lân, 기린). However this time, it is from a London-based, Hongkongese narrative - Keileon. The old Hakka saying: Keileon hides as the people are troubled. Keileon dances as the world is at peace. (百姓愁，麒麟走；天下和，麒麟舞。)
No one has ever seen Keileon as turmoils constantly appear in corners of our world. Until the day the voiceless are heard, the suppressed are freed, and justice prevails, Hidden Keileon perseveres in presenting works liberating minds, bodies and spirits.
We are luring the hidden Keileon (麒麟, กิเลน, kỳ lân, 기린) out of its cave as it hides from the troubles in the world. No one has seen a Keileon before as the world has never been at peace. We are fearful of the changes it would bring but are also longing for the joy of discovering the unknown.
© 2025 by Hidden Keileon
Hidden Keileon CIC - Company No.13909389
Hidden Keileon CIC - Company No.13909389
