Happenings Archive
Kids’ Storytelling: Stories from around the World
Kids’ storytelling and craft is back with our new series ‘Stories from around the World’. Each week we will explore a different country and its most famous stories. We will be starting off with two famous Chinese myths: Change’ Flying to the Moon and The Cowherd and the Weaver Maid. Chinese mythology often tell us about the founding of Chinese culture and history, so come and listen to these beautiful tales with Karin Markowski our storyteller, and learn about China. Afterwards we will get into the spirit of Chinese New Year and make Chinese lanterns.
To book or for more details email: [email protected]
40RMB per child
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.
FREE
Safari Song Time
All babies – from the quietest to the most vocal – love singing and rhymes! It stimulates their brains and development, and it’s also great fun for mamas, papas and other carers to see them so happy!
If you’ve got a 3-18 month old, bring them to the bookworm every Friday from 10.30am to 11.30am, to take your little one on a fun safari as he/she learns songs and rhymes from around the world, that you can also practice at home.
Please note: if the AQI is above 200 – the session will be cancelled.
60RMB per child
Tom Keneally in Conversation
Tom Keneally is one of Australia’s most beloved authors, well known for his prize-winning Schindler’s Ark – the basis for Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List – as well as his outspokenness on all matters political as well as rugby league.
He is the author of more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction, and as well being the first Australian to win the Booker Prize, has twice won Australia’s most prestigious fiction award, the Miles Franklin, been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and garnered Australian Film Institute and Critics Circle awards for his screenplays.
His passion for Australian history embues much of his work, particularly a three volume series focusing on the people of Australia, Australians. He has recently begun a series of crime novels set in colonial Australia co-written with his daughter Meg, citing that he has too many ideas to write himself in his remaining years.
Keneally visited China in 1979 as a founding member of the Australian government’s Australia-China Council, involved in the creation of the China Daily, and the first overseas delegate visit to the Entombed Warriors, as well as academic and other exchanges. Keneally is an official ‘Australian Living Treasure’ and in 1983 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Tom Keneally’s visit is part of Australian Writers Week in China (10-18 May 2017); presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Consulates-General in Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shanghai, and supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
50rmb (includes a drink)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/14488325
John Marsden: A Life in Books
Meet Australia’s ‘king of young adult fiction’ in this personal talk about life, inspiration and writing. Get some tips about where to hunt out ideas and how to tackle the big topics from the acclaimed author of the Tomorrow series.
John Marsden has written more than 40 books, mostly aimed at teenagers, and has sold more than five million copies internationally. He has also written books on the craft of writing, manhood and parenting, and even edited a collection of poems for special occasions.
A long-time teacher, John also started and still runs an alternative school in country Victoria, Australia.
(Note: Event suitable for Adults and Teenagers)
John Marsden’s visit is part of Australian Writers Week in China (10-18 May 2017); presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Consulates-General in Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shanghai, and supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
50 rmb (includes a tea, coffee or a soft drink)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/93161938
The Life and Work of Vince Vozzo: Documentary Screening and Book Launch
On this evening we will welcome Australian sculptor Vince Vozzo for the Beijing launch of the book VOZZO: The Life and Work of Vince Vozzo. The book charts the journey of a second-generation Italian kid from the Western suburbs of Sydney — from dyslexic, cartoon-obsessed school boy to sand sculptor on Bondi beach, to art student, and, finally, prolific and acclaimed artist.
This event will feature a 30-minute documentary that focuses on the artist and his life, entitled Chipping Away.
In a career spanning three decades, Vozzo has exhibited in 38 solo exhibitions and produced thousands of artworks in different mediums. His work has been included in 36 prize exhibitions and with eight selections in the prestigious Wynne Prize, Vozzo holds the record for a sculptor in that competition. His work is represented in private and public collections in Australia, Europe, USA and Asia.
Vozzo’s giant slabs of imported Italian marble form the basis for his most spectacular work, including The Last Desire, which is the largest piece of single-handedly carved marble in Australia.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Includes a drink
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/69243080
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