Happenings Archive
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: Scandinavian stories
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. This week we will be telling two stories from Scandinavia: The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Moomin and the Birthday Button. Both stories are classic Scandinavian children’s tales which are gentle, witty, and completely engrossing. Storytelling will be followed by a craft activity of making trolls from stones, Play-Doh and toilet rolls.
Price: 40RMB (includes a kid’s hot chocolate)
To book, or for more information email: [email protected]
Quilling Cards Valentine’s Day Workshop
Poetry Reading with Irish Poet Helen Kavanagh-Ronan
On Wednesday, February 8th. come listen to the poetry of Irish poet, writer, and stage director, Helen Kavanagh-Ronan. Listen to mesmerizing works such as And, The Gate Zapper is Mine! written in 2010 and Girl in a Blue Dress. As a writer and stage director for the Classik Attak Theatre Co for nearly 20 years, Ms. Kavanagh-Ronan has received awards for many of her productions, such as the musical Hoodwinked, and her adaptations of Beckett plays, Waiting for Godot, and Endgame. As a poet Kavanagh-Ronan has performed at O’Bheal as well as represented Avant Garde Theatre in Ireland throughout her career.
FREE, 19:30pm
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: Valentine’s Day Special
On Valentine’s Day week, we will celebrate love with two stories: Frog in Love and Guess How Much I Love You. Both focus on relationships and the importance of love. Kids will also participate in a craft activity of making Valentine’s Cards with Karin.
Price: 40RMB (includes a kid’s hot chocolate)
To book, or for more information email: [email protected]
The Bookworm Comedy Night: Tony Woods
Tony Woods is a one-of-a-kind comedic legend that is always in control of his audience. A seasoned veteran in the comedy business, Tony is recognized not only by fans but by his peers as one of the best and most engaging comedians in the business.
Tony has a strong following in the US, UK, Australia and Europe. Born in North Carolina and raised in the D.C. area, Woods kicked off his career as an original member of Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam on HBO and P. Diddy’s Bad Boys of Comedy, he is an all-round veteran and one-of-a-kind comic. His playful and cool demeanour, combined with sharp and mischievous subject matter, create a show that is unmistakably entertaining at every level. A natural entertainer, Woods understands an audience and encourages them to become part of his strange world.
150RMB Presale
180RMB At the door
100RMB Students
purchase your tickets at: https://yoopay.cn/event/79218982
See Tony’s former performance:
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
Valentine’s Day: 2.14，来画画！
如果你渴望情人听到你的心声，带她来，为她写诗，画画，用色彩和笔触留下回忆。如果你还没有遇到她，也来玩，或许，你将在此遇见所爱。
你可以把最动心的诗写在明信片上，在高颜值插画师指导下，为爱人或自己画一幅像，最后，带走自己的画和某段未署名的情诗。
如果独自前来，也没有关系，在画布或布袋上，画你所想，一棵树、一株仙人掌，或者你自己。
50元/人（画板、茶水）
If you long lover to hear your heartfelt wishes, taking her here, writing poetry or painting for her, leaving memories with colors and brush strokes.
If you have not met her yet, perhaps, you will meet love here.
You can write the most tempting poems on postcards, draw a picture for your lover or yourself under the guidance of a gorgeous illustrator, and finally take away your own paintings and some unsigned love poems.
If you come alone, it does not matter. You will be allowed to draw what you want on a canvas or a fabric bag, maybe a tree, a cactus, or yourself.
The Bookworm Monthly Book Club: Death in the Andes
The Bookworm Book Club meets every month to discuss exciting works of literature from both modern authors and classic masters! For the past two years, the Book Club has discussed many books with particular relevence to China, and while this will continue, future editions will also include a variety of works from international authors, looking at international stories.
In February we will discuss a modern classic from Peru. Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes) is a 1993 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. It follows the character Lituma, from Who Killed Palomino Molero?, after being transferred to the rural town of Naccos.
This novel examines the tactics and motivations of the Shining Path, (a group of Peruvian communists aligned with Maoism) but situates their violence in the context of an older world where life is brutal and in a society which is on the very fringe of the modern world. A lot of magic realism is employed, with a great deal of references to old, “indian” spirituality, and to Pishtacos, vampires of Andean folklore.
The book is available at the Bookworm. Book Club members will receive 1 free drink with purchase of the book on the night of the Book Club.
FREE
19:30 15 Feb 2017 @ The Bookworm
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：Russian/Ukrainian Stories
This week, kids’ storytelling and craft will focus on stories from Ukraine and Russia: The Mitten and The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. Both are perfect stories to read on a wintry day with a cup of hot chocolate (wearing mittens of course!) For this week’s craft, kids will be making their very own pair of cosy mittens!
Price: 40RMB (includes a kid’s hot chocolate)
To book, or for more information, email: [email protected]
China and Trumponomics: Navigating the New Abnormal, with James McGregor
Little wonder we’re confused about how Donald Trump will do business with China. Recently the new U.S. President had an unexpectedly “cordial” telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and committed to honoring the “One China policy” involving Taiwan. That’s quite a reversal, after Trump earlier accused Beijing of manipulating its currency and “raping” American business, and threatened to use the “One China” protocols as leverage in trade negotiations with Chinese officials. In this RASBJ presentation, veteran business consultant, commentator and author James McGregor — freshly returned from a trip to Washington D.C. — will offer his views on the “new abnormal” in Sino-U.S. trade and business relations.
James McGregor is Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide and author of two highly regarded books: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, and One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. He is a former China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and former CEO of Dow Jones China. In his nearly three decades in China, he has also been a venture capital investor, entrepreneur who founded a research company for hedge funds, and an advisor to many multinationals and start-up companies. McGregor is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Society Global Council and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
65RMB(members of RASBJ and Bookworm), 75RMB(non-members)
includes a house drink
LA Time’s Jonathan Kaiman on the China-Africa relationship
Jonathan Kaiman, Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, recently spent a month in Africa reporting on China’s deepening influence across the continent. In Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, he found that Africans’ enthusiasm for the country, once sustained by waves of easy money, is beginning to wane; that they’re beginning to see the drawbacks of dealing so closely with the world’s newest superpower, one incalculably different from the retrenching West. Come hear Jonathan’s rare insights into the changing face of the China-Africa relationship, with stories from Djiboutian-Chinese restaurants, Ethiopian factories, rural Ghanaian gambling halls, and much, much more.
The talk will be moderated by the BBC’s Beijing Correspondent and FCCC vice-president, John Sudworth.
50RMB, 40RMB(Members)
Includes a free drink
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
Screening of Selma – Black History Month
Join Democrats Abroad for an event honoring Black History Month and the United State of Women’s week of action. There will be a short reading by Kassy Lee, a screening of Selma, and guided discussion following the film.
*Open to all nationalities
FREE
A BLK GEN PROJECT
Song & instrumental art! Strengthening Pan-African unity and building greater opportunities toward progress in equality.
INFO:
@LeroyAdams
@XiaYuHeiYu
@N11550
35RMB Scan the qr code to get your ticket!
PROCEEDS DONATED TO ROUNDTABLE CNARITIES AND GIRLS NOT BRIDES.
Chinese NGOs Going Global
NGOs in China are facing pressure to take the international stage but the journey can be a difficult one. Looking at this issue in detail is the hot-off-the-press “Chinese NGOs Going Global” report by the Global Environmental Institute. The report analyzes the opportunities and challenges Chinese NGOs are currently facing to expand and improve their work internationally. GEI report author Jingwei Zhang, who herself has carried out GEI’s NGO work abroad, will present some of the report’s findings and moderate a session featuring NGO panelists all highly experienced in this field: Elizabeth Knup, Ford Foundation China Chief Representative; Yiyi Fan, a China foreign aid research fellow at Chinese Academy of International trade and Economic Cooperation; and Siran Huang, a researcher of Chinese CSR at consulting firm, Syntao.
50RMB, 40RMB(Members)
Includes a drink
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