Happenings Archive

The Bookworm’s food menu is getting a serious upgrade thanks to chef Ivan Arroyo from Mexico, and we hope you’ll swing by to check it out. How’s this for a little incentive? On Wednesday, May 4 from 5:00pm to 10 pm, all dishes come with a free glass of wine. Try new dishes such as The Bookworm’s Poutine and Sautéed Garlic Shrimps, and a variety of food boards featuring salmon, camembert cheese, bruschetta, and more. There’ll be old favorites too! Come find something you like.

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

This month we are thrilled to welcome The New Waves Trio, featuring award-winning musicians Chih-Huan Wu (Saxophone), Jeanne Yi-Chuan Lin (Flute) and Michelle Yip (Piano) playing a pan-Asian programme of contemporary music from Korea, Hong Kong and China. Between them, these celebrated musicians hold  faculty positions in Taiwan and China, have won national competitions and international scholarships, co-founded contemporary ensembles , premiered new music and played in a myriad of national orchestras. Don’t miss this very special Sunday Salon.

50RMB, 40RMB for The Bookworm members or with the April issue of Time Out Beijing. 

In this lecture, Karina Moriton from the Panoramic Team will narrate a photographic journey of Mongolia, Bhutan and Myanmar with anecdotes and insights from the film, documentary and fashion shoots that she has arranged in these countries.

Over the last decade the Panoramic team have provided media production services for a vast range of film, TV, commercial and press shoots in Mongolia, Bhutan and Burma (Myanmar). They have worked with both large corporations such as BBC, ITV, Sky, Condé Nast, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, The Telegraph, LIFE, The Sunday Times  and small independent companies. Each and every one of these productions has been thrillingly different from the last.

Learn more here

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

The Bookworm rooftop turns into a treasure trove once again with more than 30 independent labels, handmade goods, vintage, craft foods and drink specials. Come and post a photo on WeChat of your favorite vendor in the first hour of the event and get a free drink courtesy of The Bookworm.

E-mail: [email protected]
WeChat-ID: jmrapp19

“The Tiny Little Box” documents 4 people’s experiences with depression. They shared their stories on the onset of depression, recalled their emotional state, their situation in life, and their recovery; It also interviewed 2 mindfulness practioners to explore their experiences with mindfulness practice, which has been announced as an effective way to cope with and contribute to the recovery of depression. You’ll hear extraordinary story of the Direct from a mindfulness center on how mindfulness practice changed his life;
This documentary was screened in Thailand, and Beijing. Now, we’d like to invite more people to join our conversation on a topic that needs more attention, and more understanding from general public.
“Only through talking about it, can we take the first step towards healing”, CandleX
The movie is directed by Xiaojie Qin is the Founder and Executive Director of CandleX, which was founded in April 2015 with a goal to raise awareness on depression and bi-polar disorder, and provide social support for people experiencing depression, mania and/or severe anxiety and stress.

50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
With the proceeds going to CandleX

The Bookworm Book Club invites you to join the discussion about  Ofir Touché Gafla’s debut novel, first published in Hebrew in 2004, where it won the 2005 Geffen Award for best fantasy/science fiction novel of the year and the 2006 Kugel Award for Hebrew literature.  An epilogist finds his wife dead in a bizarre accident, and fifteen months later shoots himself in the head in order to begin his new life in the Other World to seek his beloved. What happens next, he never would have guessed.

Those who buy The World of The End from The Bookworm can get a free drink during the Book Club meeting on May 18th, 7:30 pm 

Scottish musician Matthew McAllister is widely regarded as one of the most exciting and talented Classical Guitarists in Europe. Matthew has been delighting audience worldwide with his exquisite performances and effortless presentation for over a decade.

“The sweetness of McAllister’s elegant tone and fluent phrasing soothed the audience”──Classical Guitar Magazine
“the superb musicianship of McAllister brought the very best from his instrument in this intimate setting, a fascinating and thoroughly entrancing programme”－The Scotsman

“Captivating and beautiful”－Paris Guitar Foundation

85RMB in advance, 100RMB (at the door)

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

Don’t miss the smart and witty  Quinn Dahle  on May 22nd! With appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comedy Central, Lopez Tonight and Carson Daly, Quinn tours from coast to coast and has entertained crowds as far away as Japan. Quinn’s comedy appeals to all age groups and ethnicities and he loves to talk about them all. Being married to a Mexican-American girl from east L.A., he is never short of material. Reserve a ticket now for a comedian who has worked with such names as Dane Cook, Drew Carey, and Robin Williams.

buy your tickets here: https://yoopay.cn/event/44405616

150RMB presale, 180RMB at the door, 100RMB students

嘉宾：王小羊，暴风影音内容编辑部总监，暴风影音自制节目《牛人传》、《牛人看电影》主持人。

百变的戏剧之王莎士比亚逝世400周年，可他仍旧是今天的经典。

这位有史以来最复杂、最具挑战性也最让人捉摸不透的剧作家和诗人究竟有着怎样的性情与才情？

怎么样的深度和艺术，才能迷倒众生数百年？

这一次，就让我们一同跟着王小羊走进这位迷之一样的大家。

看看在王小羊笔下的《牛人传》中，关于莎翁有着怎样的记忆。

活动报名（免费）：六点一刻APP

手机报名链接：http://www.after615.com/actives/s?id=2049&time=1463366165743&sign=463f6162234fe430a67c5fe3a44e06a4&from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0

邮件报名：[email protected]

An Introduction to Multimedia artist David Gumbs’s experimental video
For this presentation David Gumbs will focus on new media work created during his award Wining Davidoff Art Initiative Residency at Redgate Beijing.
This new work is based on Blossoming aesthetics through realtime generated animations inspired from patterns and natural micro architectures found in Nature, and from the caribbean landscape (flowers, leaves).The relevance with his residency project and Beijing, is the introduction of plants that help fight air pollution.These generated visual “mindscapes” are also a reminder of our true nature, as interconnected vibrating beings of energy. An hymne to Life and it’s inherent regeneration.

FREE

When Paul French opened an unlabeled bookcase at the archives in England he had no idea of what he would find. The documents he discovered would later become the background of his bestselling historical murder novel “Midnight in Peking”.
The novel sheds light on parts of 1930s Beijing history that had not before received much attention. Places like the Badlands, the French ice-skating ring, the fox tower and of course the murder victim, Pamela Werner, herself – all became household names to a broader international audience.
During the last half year Beijing Postcards has taken a fresh look on the murder case. We managed to find new sources and perspectives to add to the narrative. In this process we have uncovered a lot of documents not used in the book. Among them a hitherto unpublished 150 pages long Chinese police report. We call our project – Beyond the Badlands.
Join us on May 25 when we will present our findings and try to answer the question: Who killed Pamela?

50RMB, 40RMB (Members) 

Join  Dr. Erik Schott for a lecture about Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community. By the end of the lecture you will learn:

• Define common terms that the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming community may use to describe themselves;
• Identify best practices for providing culturally competent services to the transgender and gender non-conforming community;
• Understand the benefits to working on a multidisciplinary team.

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