Happenings Archive
Walkley Foundation Journalists in Beijing
Trent Dalton (Walkley Winner, The Australian) and Steve Pennells ( Gold Walkley winner, Seven Network and The West Australian) will be at The Bookworm on November 1st, and will talk about Longform journalism , writing/crafting longform stories for print and online in 2016 , the narrative tools used in longform journalist and journalism in general. Jacqui Park , CEO, Walkley Foundation, will moderate and the panel will be joined by a local Beijing journalist (TBD)
The Walkley Foundation celebrates and encourages great Australian journalism, telling the stories of our nation and strengthening our democracy.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members), free (FCCC Members)
Steve Pennells is a five-time Walkley Award winner who also took out the coveted Gold Walkley in 2012. He works for The West Australian as the paper’s Sydney-based chief writer, a roving brief which has seen him on assignment across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. But he is probably better known for his two-year court battle against Gina Rinehart, who tried to force him to reveal the sources behind his award—winning series which exposed her multi-billion dollar battle with her children. He also works as an occasional guest reporter on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night.
Trent Dalton writes for the award-winning The Weekend Australian Magazine on The Australian newspaper. A former assistant editor of The Courier-Mail, he has won two Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism, been a four-time winner of the national News Awards Feature Journalist of the Year Award, and was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the 2011 Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland media. His journalism has twice been nominated for a United Nations of Australia Media Peace Award. In both 2014 and 2013, he was named Best Feature journalist at the annual Kennedy Awards for excellence in NSW journalism.
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
US Presidential Quiz!
Do you think you are in the know when it comes to the upcoming US election and the candidates? Do you also remember details about former presidents? If you think you do, then come and join our quiz, where we will go through both serious and fun facts, as well as coincidences of former and future US Presidents alike. Participants will be divided into teams, each team will have maximum 6 people! Bring your friends and win the status of the most prepared team for US elections!
FREE! RSVP here: https://yoopay.cn/event/02874328
Kids’ Storytelling: The Gruffalo
Kids’ Storytelling/Arts and Craft will begin its Julia Donaldson story series, with the award winning book The Gruffalo, which has sold over 11.5 million copies worldwide and has been animated by Magic Light. A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo. Afterwards make your own paper plate Gruffalo!
35RMB
Green Drinks
BJ Green Drinks is a casual networking event that draws a steady crowd, which includes green-collar professionals, government, academia, media, and NGOs. BJ Green Drinks aims to provide a fun and casual atmosphere for people to learn more about China’s sustainable development. This event takes place every 2nd Tuesday of each month and everyone is welcome to attend.
FREE
Watch the 2016th US Presidential Election Results Live at The Bookworm
Come watch the 2016th US Presidential Election Results Live at The Bookworm with Democrats Abroad.
Entry Ticket: 60RMB and includes a cup of coffee (tea) and a breakfast special.
Get your tickets online here: https://yoopay.cn/event/63405955
Or reserve it via [email protected]
Tickets will be available at the door!
Basically Beethoven
The Bookworm hosts Beijing’s only classical music open-mic night. Get involved or simply bask in the glory of some of Beijing’s best international classical musicians.
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
Kids’ Storytelling: The Paper Dolls
Join us for the next instalment of our Julia Donaldson series with the story The Paper Dolls: “They were Ticky and Tacky, and Jackie and Backie, and Jim with two noses, and Jo with the bow.” Follow the paper dolls when they face different dangers and learn that nothing’s really gone as long as it’s alive in your memory. Our story will be followed with making your own paper dolls who will also go on their own adventures!
35RMB
Travels Through Dali With a Leg of Ham – Book Talk with Zhang Mei
Founder of WildChina Zhang Mei always cherished the ham from her native province of Yunnan. Growing up poor on a dam site on one of the provincial rivers, Mei relished the small bits of ham her father would toss in a dish of spicy green peppers and leeks. Over time she learned that true magic of Yunnan ham lies not just in its salty-sweet taste, produced by an intricate curing process, but also in its ability to bring people together to carry on a time-honoured way of life. Now a successful entrepreneur, Mei returns to her childhood home, finds a leg of ham and travels with it through Yunnan’s cultural and culinary cradle of Dali. Her edible companion becomes a calling card that takes her into the history and traditions of the region and unveils the unique stories and recipes of those who call it home.
In this book talk, Mei will discuss what inspired her to document this whimsical journey, and share with us a difference perspective on China, the country that we know as our host country and she knows as home.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Documentary Screening: Democracy, Followed by a Discussion.
Democracy offers an insight into a hidden world of political struggle for new data protection legislation in the European Union. Euro-MP Jan Philipp Albrecht and EU-Commissioner Viviane Reding attempt the supposedly impossible. They take on a hard-edged apparatus of political power, in which intrigue, success and failure are frequent bedfellows. After two and a half years following the legislative process, the documentary brings complex power structures to life and offers a snapshot of democracy today.
Speaker: Albert Grech is currently serving within the Political Section of the EU Delegation in Beijing, where since October 2015 he has been part of a team of officials monitoring domestic affairs. Prior to arriving at the EU Delegation, he served postings in Cairo (from August 2013 to September 2015) and Beijing (from June 2010 to July 2013). Albert has pursued studies at the University of Malta, University of Aberdeen and University of Oxford, focusing on international relations and Chinese studies.
The film will be shown in a the framework of the 4th festival of German cinema. Please see more information here: http://www.festivalofgermancinema.com/
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
The People’s Bard, How China Made Shakespeare its Own – Book Talk with Nancy Pellegrini
The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theater directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics, it tracks the trajectory of modern Chinese history and the development of theater arts. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, Nancy Pellegrini pulls back the curtain on how the Bard of Avon rose from inauspicious Chinese beginnings to become the People’s Bard, exploring traditional opera-style Shakespeare productions, decades of Marxist interpretations, revolutionary translation methods and more.
Beijing-based writer and photographer Nancy Pellegrini, has been Fine Arts editor for Time Out Beijing, specializing in Asian theater and music, since 2006. Her articles have appeared in South China Morning Post and Gramophone UK.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Beijing Postcards Presents: Layers of Beijing (Mr.Shi’s story)
68 years ago “Beijing” was not the capital of China. It is easy to forget, but our neighbor Mr. Shi remembers. He was standing at the Imperial gate of Qianmen when the Communists came in.
The scruffy looking soldiers did not look as modern as the Republican Army that had just fled to Taiwan, but the discipline of the soldiers amazed him. No mentionable looting was taking place.
But, with the Communists, wave upon wave of seemingly endless social campaigns started. Illiteracy, rats, sparrows, Imperialists and Rightists were all targeted in the enormous Communist effort to change society and transform Beijing into the Communist capital of China. Industries were moved into old temples. Brothels and opium dens closed down.
Beijing Postcard’s new project “Layers of Beijing” creates a portrait of the time from 1949 to the present day, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes of the 1950s. Based upon interviews and archival research we have created a portrait of Beijing from the perspective of those who have lived through the immense changes.
Our neighbor Mr.Shi knows because he was there.
75RMB, 65RMB (Members)
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 November we will discuss Last Gods of Indochine by Samuel Ferrer, which was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize .
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.
Art & Place: Authenticity, Community and Development
What is the intersection between artists and the communities they live in? How do artists play a pivotal role in the development of a neighborhood – whether consciously or without their knowing? What does it mean to authentically represent a place, culture, or history in this era of globalization and migration?
Join Detroit-based performance artists The Hinterlands for a conversation about 21st Century art-making, and strategy-session on how independent artists working across the globe can share best practices and resources for ethically navigating the creative world in the digital age.
About The Hinterlands
The Hinterlands create theatrical performances that are both highly irrational and deeply American, diving into the dark heart of American popular entertainment to unlock the cultural memories held in our bodies and collective histories. Formed in 2009 by Richard Newman and Liza Bielby, the Detroit-based company has create a range of work from psychedelic Wild West shows to immersive documentary film to sub-cultural Vaudeville evenings seen at the Shanghai Biennale, the Berlinale, Alverno Presents, Legion Arts, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charlestown Working Theater, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit among others.
Speaker: Liza Bielby, the founder of The Hinterlands
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
Kids’ Storytelling: The Magic Paintbrush
Storytelling this week is Donaldson’s beautiful tale The Magic Paintbrush. Written in vibrant verse and with beautiful illustrations about Shen, a Chinese Girl and her magic paintbrush. Shen can paint steaming pots full of fish and oysters to feed the hungry people in her village. When the evil emperor commands Shen to paint gold for him, she is determined to keep her promise to paint only for the poor. Join Karin for storytelling and make your own magic paintbrush!
35RMB
The Bookworm Monthly Comedy Night: Vladimir Caamano
With the name “Vladimir,” few people expect a Dominican from The Bronx to take the stage. His comedic style is the fruit of an immigrant Dominican family living in the cultural mecca that is New York City and is described as an elegant combination of urban grit and intellect. He began polishing his wit in the concrete jungles of The Bronx and Washington Heights and after graduating from Wesleyan University launched into Standup Comedy.
Vlad has quickly become a staple of the New York Comedy scene performing at The Stand, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Dangerfield’s and the Comic Strip Live. He has been featured on Gotham Comedy Live on AXS.TV and Adam Devine’s House Party for Comedy Central.
Now Los Angeles based, you can catch him performing all over town at Hermosa’s Comedy & Magic Club, The Hollywood Improv, and others.
In 2016, Vlad was named one of the Top 10 Comics to Watch by Variety and was honored at JFL. Vlad also works with the Psychological Trauma Center at Cedars-Sinai which is a one-of-a-kind, school-based prevention and early intervention mental health program servicing the needs of Hispanic children in the community at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
150RMB (in advance), 180RMB (at the door), 100RMB (students)
Buy your tickets here: https://yoopay.cn/event/18681175
北京沙龙丨我和哈利的环球骑行
《我和哈利的环球骑行》
作者/羿云鸢_鱼
广西师范大学出版社
作品介绍
一人，一狗，一辆自行车环球旅行。2012年，从川藏骑行到珠峰尼泊尔，再穿越青藏回到内陆苏州。2014年的环球骑行，从苏州出发沿“丝绸之路”横跨亚洲，欧洲，及北美，环球一圈。
小鱼：桂林人 85后 生活在苏州 宠物摄影师，纽带国际青少年交换生活项目中国区筹划人 喜欢户外和动物。哈利：一只长得像大贵宾的西班牙水犬，2010遇到小鱼爸爸被收养。
小鱼说：“这本书里记录着我们的冒险故事与一路的心情感怀，很多时候我想没办法用语言直接表达，而文字是我和你诉说的最好方式。从小妈妈说我是一匹野马，喜欢满野地里跑……我想要知道世界有多远？其实只有两个车轮的距离。”
分享会
Part1 为什么会骑行那么远？
Part2 为什么会带上哈利？
Part3 骑行的故事，一路辛苦、欢喜哪个多？
Part4 怎么与当地人交流？
Part5 为什么想到去看望那些流浪动物？
生活是什么？爱是什么? 生命是什么？
最后， 梦想是什么？4个问题贯穿在整个讲述当中。
[活动时间]
11月21日（周一）19:00
[活动地点]
北京老书虫书店
（北京市朝阳区三里屯南路4号院内）
Rechenberg-Trio: Clarinet, Violoncello and Piano
The art of playing trio – clarinet, violoncello and piano – to combine these different instrument to one sound into one expression. With the compositions of Beethoven and Brahms this combination got their best pieces. Performed by Rechenberg-Trio: an international ensemble with many years of experience of performing. So it’s a unique, inspiring and romantic concert, completed by four character pieces of Paul Juon.
80RMB, 70RMB (Members)
String – 139 Presents: Guitarist and Composer Dr Marek Pasieczny
Award winning guitarist and composer Dr Marek Pasieczny (*1980) is one of the most influential and respected contemporary composers writing for the guitar worldwide.
As a composer, guitarist, lecturer and adjudicator Dr Pasieczny has appeared regularly at festivals in Europe (Poland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The UK, and Italy), Asia (China, Japan), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Program will include: SCINTILLA | After Arvo Pärt (to David Russell) (2013), TRAVELS (excerpts) (2011) – 10 different miniatures based / inspired by traditional music, art, dance and places from ten different countries on three different continents (excerpts will include Poland, Spain, Japan, Australia, South Africa, China, Taiwan and Scotland), NEO VARIATIONS (2015/2016) Theme | 1-6 Var. | Finale, LUTOSŁAWSKI: In Memoriam (2012-2013) (excerpts), SPIFFY | to Ana Vidovic (2013) Intro | Theme.
85RMB in advance, 100RMB (at the door)
Tickets in advance can be purchased here: https://yoopay.cn/event/47801221
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
The Beijing Flea Market: Holiday Edition!
Get your Christmas shopping done early at Beijing’s one-stop shop for all things made in Beijing. The Beijing Flea Market returns on Saturday, November 26 from noon to 6pm at The Bookworm and Pop-Up Beijing. Expect a curated selection of some of the best local, independent design and crafts from both established and emerging makers, food and drink, and activities throughout the day!
Be sure to follow The Beijing Flea Market page on Facebook or beijingfleamarket on WeChat for more updates leading up to the event!
FREE
这本书甚至可以说是一部民国史 | 11月理想家读书会
11月全国22城共读
白先勇 |《台北人》
《台北人》里讲的，其实是沦落台北的大陆客，这些人里有百乐门的舞女，参加过辛亥革命的将军，有米粉店的老板娘，有大学教授，女佣，飞行员遗孀，他们因权利系统的衰败漂泊异乡，昔日的辉煌和风光折损大半，他们面临着生存困境和身份认同的危机，想着老亲旧邻，故土往事，这些遗老遗少，在时代交替面前，对自己的个人命运无力左右，但他们有的是记忆，他们通过回忆将往昔填补进此刻，得到心理上慰藉和满足。
已为伙夫的赖鸣升喝醉了酒滔滔不绝的讲着自己当年如何勇武，风月场上打了二十年滚的金大班在嫁做人妇的前一夜想起了那个她多年前爱过的月如，变得美丽妖艳的朱青依旧喜欢空军小伙，花桥荣记的老板娘看着卢先生跟罗小姐的合影脑子里是桂林的老店，朴公想的是日后回到大陆，而总也不老的尹雪艳，不管这世事如何变换，她仍“站在一旁，叼着金嘴子的三个九，徐徐地喷着烟圈，以悲天悯人的眼光看着她这一群得意的、失意的、老年的、壮年的、曾经叱吒风云的、曾经风华绝代的客人们，狂热地互相厮杀、互相宰割。
《台北人》是一本由“记忆”构成的书，这些被抛弃，被放逐者讲述着过去，他们仍固执的遵守着过去的生活秩序，他们靠记忆生活，沉浸在昔日风光快活的幻影之中，但他们已经被称作“台北人”。
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 | 建投书局
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、陕西西安 | 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
18、山西太原 | 发小咖啡店
19、云南昆明 | 花生书店
20、山东烟台 | 美文书店
21、辽宁大连 | 简汇书店
22、江苏靖江 | 牧然书店
共读时间
11月27日（周日）
14:00 — 16:00
共读书目
白先勇 | 《台北人》
来自【City | 城市】书系
这是理想家读书会的第1个理想书目
文末附有书单详情。
书单中包含了四本书，
一月一座城市，
11月我们与你看见台北。
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参与方式
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群主拉你进入【理想家读书会全国群】
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九月理想家读书会：我城（下）
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北京｜老书虫 The Bookworm
群主微信：鹿呵呵（tonghe0369）
时间：11.27/ 14:00-16:00
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
Poetry Workshop with a Spoken Word Poet Zohab Khan
Zohab’s fast paced poetry workshop offers a learning experience focused on building performance skills, confidence in self-expression, memorization, poetic writing techniques and editing tips. Zohab guides the students with his unique brain hack activities so as to unlock an internal creativity which exists in all people. Through the use of diffuse thinking even the most uncreative of us learns to wield their brain to create innovative poetry.
Zohab Khan is an educator, spoken word poet, motivational speaker, didgeridoo player, musician and hip-hop artist. Since 2006, Zohab has been building a formidable career in spoken word poetry, culminating in taking out the title of the Australian Poetry Slam Champion in 2014. Zohab runs poetry workshops across the world and is the co-founder of The Pakistan Poetry Slam.
200RMB
Buy your tickets here: https://yoopay.cn/event/78277894
Sunday Salon Presents: Lujia Tang and Pu Yaoyuan
Sadly, pianist/composer Wang Xiaohan has been rushed to the hospital and will be unable to play for us this Sunday, but we couldn’t leave you an evening without music. His two students, part of the original programme, are now taking the evening alone; 16-year-old Pu Yaoyuan is a national competition winner and has played in Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall. Lujia Tang is 18, and has already awarded in national, pan-Asia, and international competitions. The complete programme includes Debussy, Bartok, and Chopin. But, because we all hate last-minute cancellations, we are offering this programme free to all Sunday Salon official subscribers, so just flash your WeChat at the door and enjoy an evening of free music from China’s rising stars. Just our way of thanking you for your continued support. All the best from Sunday Salon!
Spoken-Word Poetry Performance with Zohab Zee Khan
In a rousing set, Zohab Zee Khan combines poetry with hip-hop to enthrall and entertain, giving listeners a new outlook on the possibilities of the spoken word. Since 2006, Zohab has been building a formidable career in spoken word poetry, culminating in taking out the title of the Australian Poetry Slam Champion in 2014. Zohab runs poetry workshops across the world and is the co-founder of The Pakistan Poetry Slam. He is also a proficient didgeridoo player, harmonica beat-boxer, and percussionist.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Mini North Korean Film Festival: A State of Mind
The Bookworm and Koryo Tours, two Beijing institutions! present a mini North Korean Film Festival. Over two weeks, five movies featuring elements of travel, DPRK propaganda, as well as a the bizarre tale of the Dennis Rodman visits will be shown at The Bookworm. After the movies we will have Q-and-A sessions with a representative from Koryo Tours to discuss the subject covered in each film. Koryo Tours have produced a range of movies in North Korea and are official partners of the Pyongyang International Film Festival so they have a lot of knowledge, experience, and stories to share!
November 30th: A State of Mind (2004) (93 min)
A State of Mind is a 2004 documentary film directed by Daniel Gordon and produced by Nicholas Bonner, founder of Koryo Tours. The film follows two North Korean child gymnasts and their families for over eight months during training for the 2003 Pyongyang mass games. The film won two awards at the North Korean Pyongyang International Film Festival in 2004 and was shown at 11 other film festivals worldwide before being released in a theatrical run in 2005.
Ticket for 1 movie: 50RMB ( includes a free drink).
Buy your single ticket online here
Ticket for 5 movies: 200RMB (Includes 5 free drinks)
Buy your ticket for 5 movies here
Check the full schedule and movie descriptions here:
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