Happenings Archive
Storytelling for Kids with Julia Jarman
Join us for a fun storytelling session for kids of all ages with the visiting Award Winning Children’s author Julia Jarman! Learn more about Julia here. Her selected works will be available for purchase at The Bookworm both in English and Chinese.
Free
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
Sunday Salon presents Chu Yibing
For October, Sunday Salon is thrilled to welcome world-renowned cellist Chu Yibing. 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! This month he leaves his group at home and plays a program of Gounod , Faure, and Saint-Saens.
50RMB; 40RMB with October issue of Time Out
Read more about Sunday Salon here
The Bookworm Monthly Book Club
The Bookworm Book Club meets every month to discuss exciting works of literature from both modern authors and classic masters! In October we will meet to talk about Heart of a Dog by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of the New Soviet man, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period,when communism appeared to be weakening in the Soviet Union.
The novel is generally interpreted as an allegory of the Communist revolution and “the revolution’s misguided attempt to radically transform mankind.“
It is “one of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov’s most beloved stories” featuring a stray dog “named Sharik who takes human form” as a slovenly and narcissistic incarnation of the New Soviet Man. The novel has become a cultural phenomenon in Russia, known and discussed by people “from school children to politicians.” It has become a subject of critical argument, was filmed in both Russian and Italian-language versions, and adapted in English as a play and an opera.
FREE
Heart of a Dog is available for purchase at The Bookworm bookstore.
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
Live Music with Zhen Ren
真人 (Zhen Ren) is Beijing’s only band playing early blues from before the Chicago blues scene. These blues came from the rural American South, like Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. They feature the music of Robert Johnson, Blind Blake and others. They combine country blues acoustic guitar and violin with modern electric guitar and electric slide guitar. If the electricity in the world disappears, the electricity in this music is here forever! 真人 is Peter Murchison on guitar, slide guitar and vocal and Richard Barnes on electric guitar and dobro. Get ready!! Zhen Ren is here.
FREE
瑞士意大利语区作家Andrea Bertagni 小说《金山》的读书会
瑞士意大利语区作家Andrea Bertagni 将小说《金山》设置在名叫Airolo的村子附近；而在小说中，圣哥达雄伟的山脉和藏满金条的山洞是小说引人入胜的故事情节的主要部分。瑞士最大的银行决定将其财富藏匿于此，但他们没有想到隧道的挖掘和新的阿尔卑斯山运输隧道的修建吸引了大批的罪犯和冒险家，他们为了获得财富不惜任何代价。作家Bertagni将读者带上了一个充满希望、背叛、阴谋、谋杀、报复和爱恋的历险旅程。前来北京的老书虫以及上海和广州聆听作者讲述小说创作背后的故事。瑞士意大利语区作家Andrea Bertagni将小说《金山》设置在名叫Airolo的村子附近；而在小说中，圣哥达雄伟的山脉和藏满金条的山洞是小说引人入胜的故事情节的主要部分。瑞士最大的银行决定将其财富藏匿于此，但他们没有想到隧道的挖掘和新的阿尔卑斯山运输隧道的修建吸引了大批的罪犯和冒险家，他们为了获得财富不惜任何代价。作家Bertagni将读者带上了一个充满希望、背叛、阴谋、谋杀、报复和爱恋的历险旅程。前来北京的老书虫以及上海和广州聆听作者讲述小说创作背后的故事。
免票
Artist Talk by Patricia Villalobos Echeverría
Patricia Villalobos Echeverría was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Salvadorian parents, and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. She has a hybrid practice of prints, photos, videos and installations that investigates notions of transport, movement, displacement, transmutability, and memory. She is currently Professor of Art at the Frostic School of Art of Western Michigan University and is in Beijing on a one-month artist residency at Red Gate Residency. She will give an artist talk about her artistic practice and the project she is developing while here in China.
Check her works at www.patriciavillalobos.com
Poetry Reading With a Prize-winning Irish Poet Peter Fallon
A prize-winning Irish poet, his books include The Georgics of Virgil (Oxford World’s Classics), The Company of Horses and Strong, My Love. Recent poems have appeared in The Guardian (England) and The New York Times. At the age of eighteen he founded The Gallery Press, Ireland’s leading literary publishing company, and over forty-six years he has edited and published five hundred books of poems and plays by the country’s finest established and emerging authors. He is currently editing the five-volume Collected Plays of Brian Friel.
‘One of Ireland’s greatest literary talents’ – The Sunday Times, London
‘Care, company, community have been fundamental concerns of Peter Fallon’s writing in and about the world, care for people and place, for planet earth and the poetry of earth . . . and the seriousness of that caretaking has developed over the years to a point where the artistic and moral have converged.’
FREE
(Seamus Heaney)
Beijing Postcards Talk: The Central Axis of Beijing
Beijing is built around a 7.8-kilometre-long central axis, even older than the city itself. All the most important imperial institutions of old Beijing were placed either alongside or directly upon the axis. “The Central Axis of Beijing” tells the story of this commanding stretch from when it was first laid out during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, to when it was condemned after the communist takeover, right up until the 2008 Olympics where the axis enjoyed a big comeback when it was prolonged up to the Olympic Village.
75RMB, 65RMB (Members)
Juxtapositions: Images from the Newseum Ted Polumbaum Photo Collection
Join us to celebrate the book Juxtapositions: Images from the Newseum Ted Polumbaum photo collection,a global tour of humanity that includes glimpses of 1980s China. Author Judy Polumbaum will share stories and pictures from the life and work of her photojournalist father.
Ted Polumbaum (1924-2001), blacklisted from newswriting during the height of Cold War hysteria for defying U.S. Congressional inquisitors, took up photography instead. As a photojournalist in the heyday of the great picture magazines, working for LIFE, Time, Look, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications, he documented some of the most important news events and social movements of the twentieth century with compassion, conviction, stunning beauty and often whimsy.
His photography features seldom-seen cameos of political and cultural icons, from Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedys to regional artist Thomas Hart Benton and TV chef Julia Child, as well as never before published portrayals of labor, leisure, love and life across generations and cultures. Judy Polumbaum, in the womb when Ted was blacklisted, is professor emerita of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. A scholar of Chinese media, she has been coming to China since 1975.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
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
Irish Music and Dance at The Bookworm
最高品质的中文脱口秀··10月21日·10月22日·幽默小区脱口秀
目前演员尚未完全确定，已基本敲定的有：某神秘大咖, 卡木 COM, 小鹿, 陈秋实, Rock, 主持人：Tony Chou
Bookworm Comedy Night: Kyle Grooms
A regular on the New York scene, Kyle has performed at top clubs like Caroline’s, Comic Strip, Comedy Cellar and Gotham. He also has his own hysterical Comedy Central half-hour special, as well as appearances on VH1, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and famed sketch comedy show Chappelle’s Show.
Kyle delivers an honest and intelligent approach towards comedy. His exploration of the human experience crosses many ethnic and social boundaries. Kyle has been invited to perform on shows such as diverse as “Showtime at the Apollo,” “Comedy Picante,” “Premium Blend” and “Tough Crowd with Collin Quinn.” Kyle has also been well received throughout England, Holland and at the Montreal Comedy Festival.
150RMB (in advance), 180RMB (at the door), 100RMB (students)
Get your tickets online here: https://yoopay.cn/event/66105017
Heat and Light – Book Talk with Jennifer Haigh
Heat and Light, the sixth book by American author Jennifer Haigh, looks at a community divided by the controversy over fracking. Bakerton is a dying Pennsylvania coal town that’s offered a surprise third act when the natural gas industry comes to town. To drill or not to drill? The question pits husband against wife, neighbour against neighbour, entrepreneur against environmentalist.
“We finally have a novel — and a novelist — whose ambitions match the scale of this subject. Heat and Light is the best fracking novel ever.” – Washington Post
Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. A Chinese translation of Heat andLight will be published in 2017.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer – Book Talk with Dr. James M. Dorsey
Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a recently published book with the same title, and also just published Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario
James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football – an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics was the midwife of soccer in the region, with many clubs being formed as pro- or anti-colonial platforms and engines of national identity and social justice. This book uncovers the seldom-told story of a game that evokes deep-seated passions. The book also tells the story of Somali child soldiers turned soccer stars and Iranian women who dress as men to smuggle themselves into stadiums to watch matches.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Pre-election US-China Relations Panel
Join us for a pre-election panel discussion on the potential impact of the upcoming election on US-China relations with former United States Diplomatic Officer Morton Holbrook, Jim Zimmerman, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, and Dr. Jia Qingguo, Professor at Beijing University who holds a PhD from Cornell University. The panel will be moderated by Ted Plafker.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Get your tickets online here: https://yoopay.cn/event/22942843
The Last Gods of Indochine – Book Talk with Samuel Ferrer
With The Last Gods of Indochine, Samuel Ferrer became the only non-Asian to have ever been nominated for Asia’s most prestigious literary award, The Man Asian Literary Prize (“The Booker of Asia”). Born in California, Ferrer has lived in South East Asia since 2002, writing The Last Gods of Indochine in the bars of Bangkok, Saigon, Hanoi, the cafes of Laos, in the mountains of Sapa, and on location throughout Cambodia. Inspired by the real life of explorer, Henri Mouhot (1826-1881), this historical fiction novel centers around Mouhot’s fictitious granddaughter and uses excerpts from the journal that made Mouhot famous after his death in the jungles of Laos, published posthumously in 1863.
Short Summary of The Last Gods of Indochine:
Jacquie Mouhot and Paaku the Lotus-Born are divided by six centuries but linked by a common curse. In medieval Cambodia, Paaku is an orphan whose community believes he may be a reluctant incarnation of a god, causing sectarian turmoil for the kingdom’s leaders. Meanwhile, in 1921, Jacquie follows the footsteps of her grandfather, a famous explorer, to Indochina, where she becomes immersed in the tragedy of Paaku’s history: a story simultaneously unfolding in the intertwined present and past, a story in which she still has a vital role to play.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
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
Finding Them Gone: Visiting China’s Poets of the Past – Book Talk with Bill Porter
To pay homage to China’s greatest poets, renowned translator Bill Porter—who is also known by his Chinese name “Red Pine”—traveled throughout China visiting dozens of poets’ graves and performing idiosyncratic rituals that featured Kentucky bourbon and reading poems aloud to the spirits.
Illustrated with over one hundred photographs and two hundred poems, Finding Them Gone combines the love of travel with an irrepressible exuberance for poetry. As Porter writes: “The graves of the poets I’d been visiting were so different. Some were simple, some palatial, some had been plowed under by farmers, and others had been reduced to trash pits. Their poems, though, had survived… Poetry is transcendent. We carry it in our hearts and find it there when we have forgotten everything else.”
“A travel writer with a cult following.”—The New York Times
“A road trip with poetry—if that sounds like your kind of thing, then this is the book for you.”—That’s China Magazine
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Blues and Folk with Peter Murchison and Ira “Doc Ra” Packman
Join us for 2 master fingerstyle guitarists. Peter Murchison is the singer and acoustic front-wizard for Beijing blues band Zhen Ren 真人. In this special show, he is joined by his guitar mentor Ira “Doc Ra” Packman from the USA. Together they bring you folk and blues from Blind Blake, Brownie McGee, Doc Watson and many others.
Kids’ Halloween Event
Join The Bookworm for a spooky Halloween children’s event for 4-12 year olds, including music, stories and Halloween themed food!
Dress code: Formal or costumes
Time: 10:00-12:00
Price: 35 RMB per child
Bukaopu Halloween
我已是个十足的纽约客了 | 10月理想家读书会
“在纽约最大的好处，便是渐渐忘却了自己的身份。真的我已经感觉自己是个十足的纽约客了。”
——白先勇 《纽约客》
10月全国17城共读
白先勇 |《纽约客》
《纽约客》里有一批中国人，他们在20世纪60年代至80年代来到纽约，上海大官的女儿李彤，家里在上海霞飞路有栋法国房子的黄凤仪，卡耐基优胜奖获得者、朱丽亚音乐学院的学生吕芳，“民盟”健将、“救国会”领袖龙鼎立，还有模范老师云哥。
云哥：“我必须斩断过去，在泯灭掉记忆的真空中，才能苟活下去。幸亏纽约是如此的庞大而又冷漠无情，藏身在曼哈顿汹涌的人潮中，销声匿迹并不是一件困难的事。”
黄凤仪：“在纽约住了这几年，我深深地爱上了这个城市，我一向是热爱大城市的，哪个大城有纽约这样多的人，这样多的高楼大厦呢？带着太阳眼镜在Times Square的人潮中，让人家推着走的时候，抬起头看见那些摩天大厦，一排排在往后退，我觉得自己只有一点丁儿那么大了。淹没在这个成千万人的大城中，我觉得得到了真正的自由：一种独来独往，无人理会的自由。”
在纽约，说这话的黄凤仪成为了老爹爹们的“蒙古公主”；李彤在纽约生活几年后，在威尼斯游河时跳水自杀了；吕芳回到中国，在苏北五七农场上徒手挖了两年的野草；龙鼎立在风烛残年才启程前往纽约，打算在纽约物色一块不贵的墓地，做自己和夫人这一生最后的停留之处；还有云哥，云哥是逃来了纽约，在送走他的Danny boy后，干净的死去了。
飘荡的灵魂，全来了纽约。纽约吞食掉他们的悲苦，而不为所动。纽约自己跟自己热闹，谁也不停留。《纽约客》，写的实际是纽约过客。
共读城市
1、北京 | 老书虫
2、河南郑州 | 松社书店
3、四川成都 | 巷弄里的咖啡馆
4、湖南长沙 | 止间书店
5、吉林长春 | 学人书店
6、黑龙江哈尔滨 | 中央书店
7、重庆 | 淳世界咖啡馆
8、江苏南京 | 万象书坊
9、广东广州 | 蓝藻咖啡艺术荟 @荒岛
10、 福建福州 | 无用空间
11、湖北武汉 | 物外书店
12、上海 | 言几又
13、内蒙古锡林浩特 | 淳咖啡&溪山书社
14、天津 | 蚂蚁和海洋书店
15、陕西 | 万邦书店
16、海南海口 | 众创社区三人咖啡馆
17、浙江杭州 | 木心咖啡馆
共读时间
10月30日（周日）
10:30 — 12:00
15:00 — 17:00
共读书目
白先勇 | 《纽约客》
来自【City | 城市】书系
活动人数
每城每场，15人及以下
参与方式
理想家添加同城【认证群主】微信并报名
报名成功后
群主拉你进入【理想家读书会全国群】
北京｜老书虫 The Bookworm
群主微信：鹿呵呵（tonghe0369）
地址：北京市朝阳区南三里屯路4号楼
（中宇大厦后身或爱奇艺咖啡馆旁20米）
活动形式
主题讨论+Freetalk，半开放式
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Prat 1 | 主题讨论
提前确定书目的讨论主题，
读书会围绕主题展开讨论，
具体讨论主题在报名结束后，
读书会成员在【理想家读书会全国群】内确定。
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Prat 2 | Freetalk
读书会成员分享、讨论环节。
【理想家读书会】
【理想家读书会】是理想家会员计划推出的一个读书计划，读书会定位为“Self-made ”（自我塑造），旨在提倡所有理想家一起，通过文学类、社科、政史类经典书目的阅读去塑造自我。目前，理想家读书会正在以 【city | 城市】书系进行主题阅读。
理想书目
City | 城市书系
都市上空那吹不散的浊烟，压着柏油路面的瘴气。记忆既不是短暂易散的云雾，也不是干爽的透明，而是烧焦的生灵在城市表面结成的痂，是浸透了不再流动的生命液体的海绵，是过去、现在与未来混合而成的果酱，把运动中的存在给钙化封存起来，这才是你在旅行终点的发现。
“……如此看来，你这可真是记忆中的旅行！”
001 《我城》| 西西 | 9月已读
002 《纽约客》| 白先勇 | 10月在读
003 《台北人》| 白先勇 | 11月待读
004 《门外汉的京都》| 舒国治 | 12月待读
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