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Come join the fun on The Bookworm’s rooftop for a handmade market featuring a mix of new independent designers and familiar faces. Indulge in drink specials all afternoon, plus fill up on sustenance by Big Bear Baked Goods, Sweet Tart Bakery, and 9 cm Bagel, plus a few surprises!

FREE

Beijing native Chu Yibing began playing cello at seven, studied in Paris at 17, and became the principal cellist of the Basel Symphony Orchestra, but it wasn’t until he began conducting that he started loving music – at age 35! As head of the Central Conservatory of Music’s Cello Department, he leads China’s first permanent chamber ensemble, the China Cello Philharmonic. Besides regular international touring, they have played for former Chinese president Hu Jintao and US president Barack Obama; this month he brings a cello quartet to the Bookworm. This group often sells out – book soon!

50/40rmb with the April issue of Time Out Beijing

The Violet Hour is a poignant account of the death of the author’s son from a rare and aggressive form of infant leukemia. But it’s also a celebration of life, in which Sergio Del Molino shows us the deepest parts of an inner life confronted with its limitations. Children who lose their parents are orphans, and those who have to close their spouse’s dead eyes are widows and widowers. But we, the parents who sign the documents authorizing our children’s funerals, we have no name, no civil status. We remain parents forever.

Those who buy The Violet Hour from The Bookworm can get a free drink during the Book Club meeting on April 13th, 7:30 pm 

When Yorkshireman Chris Ruffle decided to build a vineyard complete with a Scottish castle in the midst of the countryside in eastern China, he was expecting difficulties, but nothing on the scale he encountered. But build it he did, and the wine is now flowing. A Decent Bottle of Wine in China tells the unique story of an adventurer determined to make his dream come true regardless of what strange and formidable obstacles are placed in his path.

50RMB, 40RMB (Members)

The Bookworm presents  “An Art Show” event in hope to gather all you creative minds who simply enjoy the pleasures gained from art, poetry and music! There will be Art by  Kent Niepert, 蔻子 KouZi, 庄怡姗 Atalanta, Shannon Lethbridge, Nik Skolar, Nathan Borofka & CanJing. Poetry by Matthew Byrne, Anthony Tao, Liz Richards, Steve Chen, Jo Merritt, 阿希 Asch, Josh Tyas & Shafei. Lastly music by Nathan Borofka & Randy Abel, Reese’s Ukulele Cluster-Cuss, Shannon Lethbridge, Jordan Darling and Ani!

We will also introduce a new artist to the scene, Kent Niepert who enjoys painting abstract and realism on large canvases using oils. We also welcome to the scene 蔻子 KouZi who will feature her oil paintings. In addition we will include work by the talented and young artist 庄怡姗 Atalanta, skilled in live drawings using pastels and water colors. And Shannon Lethbridge will have her abstract water colors on display along with poetry inspired by her artwork!

50RMB, 40RMB (Members)

Kung Fu Komedy makes history bringing Zainab Johnson, their first female international headlining comedian, to China!

Join Zainab as she explores her life being one of thirteen siblings growing up in New York all the way through her life now as an actress/ comedian in LA.  Learn why she’s “not super-ghetto but not, not ghetto” and why when she gets accused of either they are “both equally offensive”.

With her thoughtful, easy-going and hilarious comedy Zainab is making waves on the US comedy circuit.  Come see why Arsenio Hall calls Zainab “The real deal”.

150rmb in advance, 180rmb at the door, 100RMB students

Buy tickets online here

Program of the evening:

*Presentation of the poet and the Chinese translations: The Enormous Boiling Mouths of the Sun: Selected *Poems of Tomaž Šalamun Light-Blue-Pillow Tower: Selected Poems of Tomaž Šalamun
*Screening of the short documentary film “EveryTrue Poet” Poetry reading

Tomaž Šalamun (1941 – 2014) , is widely considered to be among the world’s most important and influential poets. He has published nearly 50 books of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Movie: Every True Poet (by Nejc Saje & Jeffrey Young) Every True Poet is a short experimental portrait of the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. Inspired by its subject, the film is an imaginative journey to encounter the power of Šalamun’s poetic world, the sources of his inspiration, and his profound message as an artist.

FREE

In 226BC, the State of Qin conquered the City of Ji, and in doing so, what we now call Beijing became part of their dominion. In this presentation, Newman Tours will therefore provide fascinating insight into the State Of Yan’s attempt to assassinate the future First Emperor Of China; the lives of the soldiers of Qin; and the cruel fate that they dealt to Beijing’s ancient ancestors. Come to this presentation to learn more about the bloodthirsty men that inspired the Terracotta Warriors.

50RMB, 40RMB (Members)

20,000 training centers, 70,000 football pitches and 50 million players by 2050. That’s just the beginning of China’s long march towards its goal of becoming a “football superpower”, as the media
have already called it. President Xi Jinping wants to qualify for, host and, eventually, win a World Cup and the Chinese Football Association has been tasked with trying to turn that dream into a
reality. Football fever is spreading across the country, with new football centers opening, offering business opportunities for many -and not only those in in China.
But behind the headlines, what state is Chinese football really in today? Is ‘football superpower’ status just around the corner, or an unattainable goal?

Three experts on Chinese football will join the first event in what wehope will be a football series:

-Rowan Simons, Chairman of ClubFootball, Beijing’s first joint-venture football club
-Bai Qiang, Entrepreneur, Creator of Sport8, an app designed to help introduce football to the lives of young Chinese people
-Feng Tao, CEO of Shankai Sports, one of China’s premier sports marketing firms

The event will be moderated by Calum McLeod, China Correspondent for The Times.

Free to FCCC members, 40 RMB for members of the Bookworm, 80RMB on the door for non-members

The dynamic artistic centers of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. In 2011, Sydney writer and art educator Luise Guest began a series of interviews with Chinese contemporary artists. As she went from studio to studio, and gallery to gallery, she began to question why the extraordinary female artists she encountered were not more widely known. From this experience, her book ‘Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artists in China’ was born. Luise realized that, despite the continuing international interest in China and in Chinese art, there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Mao Zedong who said “Women hold up half the sky”. Her book reveals the work and lives of the artists of three generations, working in diverse media, who are doing just that. She spent the next 4 years travelling to China many times, visiting the studios of female artists in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi’an and Chengdu. From all of these encounters she selected (with great difficulty) the 32 artists who feature in the book. The book is launched in Beijing with an allied ‘pop-up’ exhibition of some of the artists, at Red Gate Gallery on 23-25 April.

50RMB, 40RMB (Members)

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

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