Happenings Archive
Beijing Improv
Beijing Improv is China’s oldest and largest Improvised Theater organization. Its members come from around the world and have been trained in the best improv schools from New York, Chicago, California, the UK, France, New Zealand and more. Script-less, long-form is a popular type of improv that uses audience suggestions to create an extended scene. Attendees never know what is in store but there is always the guarantee of a laugh and a good time. Don’t miss this hilarious event!
Beijing Improv is a non-profit organization, so they donate all of their proceeds to a local charity Hua Dan which benefits migrant workers and children through the performance arts.
PRESALE: 75RMB (65 RMB for members)
AT THE DOOR: 85RMB
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/53199247
Tom Keneally in Conversation
Tom Keneally is one of Australia’s most beloved authors, well known for his prize-winning Schindler’s Ark – the basis for Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List – as well as his outspokenness on all matters political as well as rugby league.
He is the author of more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction, and as well being the first Australian to win the Booker Prize, has twice won Australia’s most prestigious fiction award, the Miles Franklin, been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and garnered Australian Film Institute and Critics Circle awards for his screenplays.
His passion for Australian history embues much of his work, particularly a three volume series focusing on the people of Australia, Australians. He has recently begun a series of crime novels set in colonial Australia co-written with his daughter Meg, citing that he has too many ideas to write himself in his remaining years.
Keneally visited China in 1979 as a founding member of the Australian government’s Australia-China Council, involved in the creation of the China Daily, and the first overseas delegate visit to the Entombed Warriors, as well as academic and other exchanges. Keneally is an official ‘Australian Living Treasure’ and in 1983 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Tom Keneally’s visit is part of Australian Writers Week in China (10-18 May 2017); presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Consulates-General in Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shanghai, and supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
50rmb (includes a drink)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/14488325
John Marsden: A Life in Books
Meet Australia’s ‘king of young adult fiction’ in this personal talk about life, inspiration and writing. Get some tips about where to hunt out ideas and how to tackle the big topics from the acclaimed author of the Tomorrow series.
John Marsden has written more than 40 books, mostly aimed at teenagers, and has sold more than five million copies internationally. He has also written books on the craft of writing, manhood and parenting, and even edited a collection of poems for special occasions.
A long-time teacher, John also started and still runs an alternative school in country Victoria, Australia.
(Note: Event suitable for Adults and Teenagers)
John Marsden’s visit is part of Australian Writers Week in China (10-18 May 2017); presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Consulates-General in Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shanghai, and supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
50 rmb (includes a tea, coffee or a soft drink)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/93161938
Bookworm Comedy: Wali Collins
Professional chin fondler Wali Collins, the man with the golden smile, is bringing his leather-bound suitcase of hard hitting punchlines and tailored suits to China this week.
A stalwart of the NYC scene, the man is a mountain of positive energy as he talks about life with his Puerto Rican wife. Come find out why David Letterman said “this is one funny guy.”
View video at: https://v.qq.com/x/page/v0399p5xd11.html
Book at: https://yoopay.cn/event/94444333
The Life and Work of Vince Vozzo: Documentary Screening and Book Launch
On this evening we will welcome Australian sculptor Vince Vozzo for the Beijing launch of the book VOZZO: The Life and Work of Vince Vozzo. The book charts the journey of a second-generation Italian kid from the Western suburbs of Sydney — from dyslexic, cartoon-obsessed school boy to sand sculptor on Bondi beach, to art student, and, finally, prolific and acclaimed artist.
This event will feature a 30-minute documentary that focuses on the artist and his life, entitled Chipping Away.
In a career spanning three decades, Vozzo has exhibited in 38 solo exhibitions and produced thousands of artworks in different mediums. His work has been included in 36 prize exhibitions and with eight selections in the prestigious Wynne Prize, Vozzo holds the record for a sculptor in that competition. His work is represented in private and public collections in Australia, Europe, USA and Asia.
Vozzo’s giant slabs of imported Italian marble form the basis for his most spectacular work, including The Last Desire, which is the largest piece of single-handedly carved marble in Australia.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Includes a drink
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/69243080
Red Gate+Qingyun Residency Artist Talks 红门驻地项目+青云驻地项目艺术家座谈
Artist talks this month are at The Bookworm in Sanlitun! We’ve teamed up
with our friends at Qingyun Residency to bring you talks by our current
artists-in-residence. They will each give a short presentation on their creative
practice and what they plan to do during their residencies. Come by The
Bookworm and be inspired by artist talks!
本月的艺术家座谈将在三里屯老书虫举行! 红门驻地项目与青云驻地项目的艺
术家们将会发表他们在驻地期间的作品与创作过程!
About Red Gate Residency｜关于红门驻地
Red Gate Residency is an established international artists residency program
providing artists, curators, writers, and academics with the opportunity to
live and create work in China. Over the course of 15 years, Red Gate
Residency has hosted over 500 artists from all over the world providing
assistance and studio facilities.
About Qingyun Residency ｜关于青云驻地
Qingyun Residency launched in 2016. Far from the city center in Daxing, the
residency is surrounded by farmland and nature. Qingyun International Art
Center focuses on the research, development, and creation of Chinese
handicraft art. With studios dedicated to ceramics, glass art, metal, jewelry,
and lacquer, Qingyun’s residency program combines traditional culture and
heritage with contemporary art and design.
座谈时间｜Time and Date:
Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
5月16日，星期二，晚7点30分至9点30分
入场免费 Entrance is free
英文活动 English Event
幽默小区脱口秀
汇聚国内外最棒的中文脱口秀演员和幽默明星，最高品质的中文脱口秀演出“幽默小区”脱口秀5月19日（周五）、20日（周六）晚又来了！这次我们依然挑选了几位国内最棒的中文脱口秀演员，在幽默小区的主场，现场效果最佳的三里屯老书虫爆笑上演，嗨翻全场。幽默小区开演以来，场场爆满，演出票总是提前售罄，从未让观众失望过。想来看我们的演出，建议提前尽早购买门票，以免临近演出时演出票售空耽误观看。
目前已确定演员：
周奇墨
领衔主演
更多详情或购票，请移步：http://e.evente.cn/101810
幽默小区脱口秀
汇聚国内外最棒的中文脱口秀演员和幽默明星，最高品质的中文脱口秀演出“幽默小区”脱口秀5月19日（周五）、20日（周六）晚又来了！这次我们依然挑选了几位国内最棒的中文脱口秀演员，在幽默小区的主场，现场效果最佳的三里屯老书虫爆笑上演，嗨翻全场。幽默小区开演以来，场场爆满，演出票总是提前售罄，从未让观众失望过。想来看我们的演出，建议提前尽早购买门票，以免临近演出时演出票售空耽误观看。
目前已确定演员：
周奇墨
领衔主演
更多详情或购票，请移步：http://e.evente.cn/101810
从颠覆“唐朝三百年之幻想”讲起丨五月理想家读书会
我认为，不仅有世界改变“中国”的情形，“中国”改变世界的事例也很多。恐怕不只是在近现代，之前的时代也是如此。在大的图表上，显示的是内陆向海洋、军事力量向经济力量、生产向流通、宗教向理性、思想向实践发展，等等。
这种种的变化，是在由“小中国”向“大中国”变身的过程中孕育、萌芽、成长发展的。例如，欧洲的所谓文艺复兴，其从神学的精神向合理的思辨之转变，由资本主义产生的注重实际利益的观念等等，如果没有来自以蒙古为中心的“巨大东方”的影响，那么从物质和精神两个方面都难以想象。其渊源的很大部分恐怕就在中国。
——《疾驰的草原征服者》杉山正明
共读时间
5月21日（周日）
14:00 — 16:00
共读书目
杉山正明 | 《疾驰的草原征服者》
来自【On Histroy | 汉学家眼里的中国】书系
这是理想家读书会的第3个共读书系
包含三本书，
一月一位作家，带你和历史对话，
5 月，跟杉山正明一起读《疾驰的草原征服者》。
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】
本次活动仅限理想家
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）
FREE
Sunday Salon | Pipa artist Lan Weiwei and composer Yao Chen
In a Sunday Salon first, pipa artist Lan Weiwei and students play an evening of composer Yao Chen’s music, with the man himself in attendance! Lan is world-famous musician and is known as Tan Dun’s favourite pipaplayer; Yao is a distinguished composer who has collaborated with a number of Grammy-winning ensembles. Together, they will give a joint interview about their careers, their training, and how they chose their musical paths — and of course, Yao’s music. Don’t miss this very special Sunday Salon.
50RMB (includes a drink )
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/27455990
Luoyang Launch Invitation
Book Launch: In Search of Ancient Luoyang.
Hidden Treasures of China’s Forgotten Capital.
Author and Publisher Talk and Drinks
Luoyang, China’s capital of 13 dynasties, studded with remnants from the Xia dynasty through the glories of the Han and the Tang. Many visitors are drawn here by the artistic treasures of the Longmen Grottoes which are the sublime summit of Chinese rock sculpture. But beneath the dust of a modern city, lies the forgotten centre of the ancient Chinese world: imperial tombs, buried palaces, and China’s earliest Buddhist temple.
Recent excavations have revealed more of Luoyang’s unparalleled heritage as a cradle of Chinese civilisation. In Search of Ancient Luoyang takes readers on an unforgettable journey to the very start of China.
Join us for the book launch as Make-Do Publishing founder Harvey Thomlinson and guidebook contributors travel writer Thomas Bird and Danny Josa Parrott make a presentation about the hidden treasures of China’s ‘forgotten capital’ .
Harvey Thomlinson
Harvey is a writer, translator and publisher of Meet Asia guides and has contributed to many China travel titles. Harvey’s Hong Kong based press Make-Do Publishing also publishes fiction by authors from around Asia.
Thomas Bird
Thomas is a travel writer lost in Asia who occasionally prints his musings in the Guardian, Lonely Planet Online and other publications. He has contributed to several guidebooks including Rough Guides China and Dunhuang: A City on the Silk Road. You can follow his journey at www.thomasbird.info
Danny Josa Parrott
Danny studied Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford before setting off on an ambitious round the world adventure. Nowadays he devotes his time to arranging volunteering opportunities in China (check out his website, www.go-to.co).
Bookworm. May 24th. 6.30-8.00pm
Followed by a party at the rooftop!
Talk with Canadian Hugo Award Winner Robert Sawyer
Robert Sawyer is one of only three people ever — and the only Canadian — to have won all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The author of 23 novels, he won China’s Yinhe Award (its top honour in science fiction) for Most Popular Foreign Author in 2007, and he recently won the 2017 Robert A. Heinlein Award (for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space). In fact, Robert Sawyer has won more awards for his novels than any other science fiction author.
Come hear Robert Sawyer together with Li Zhaoxin (兔子瞧), renowned science fiction critic, in a conversation moderated by Ji Shaoting, CEO of Future Affairs Administration.
About JI Shaoting: JI Shaoting is the founder and CEO of the Future Affairs Administration, the “Future Science Fiction Master Workshop” series, Non-Exist Daily and the serial panel “Time Gateway”. She is also the co-producer of the VR film The Firekeeper and the co-founder of Guokr.com and Songshuhui.net. She has worked as a journalist for ten years, and is also a sci-fi writer.
About LI Zhaoxin (兔子瞧): LI Zhaoxin is a sci-fi critic and co-partner of the Future Affairs Administration. He is responsible for business development and creative writing coaching. He is the founder of Bianyuan (Margin) Review, and the bilingual sci-fi platform “SF Comet”. He has participated in many SF conventions in China and overseas, published papers on sci-fi, and given lectures on various topics.
Wednesday, May 31, 6:30PM
beijingbookworm.com
FREE ENTRANCE
English only
About IFOA: Toronto’s International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from over 100 countries, including 22 Nobel Laureates and countless other award winners, since its inception in 1974. IFOA presents the finest international novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and biographers, and provides Canadian writers with an internationally recognised forum in which to present their work.
The WOW Collective: a Bookworm writing group
The WOW Collective is a writing group that seeks to help its participants hone their skills and receive critical feedback on their work. For more information, please see this blog post.
Free
The Art of Storytelling: The Canadian Perspective
For decades, Canadian writers have been “punching above their weight” on the global literary scene, with books that reflect the country’s history, its land, its peoples and their journeys. Contemporary Canadian literature continues to explore rich and evolving themes to ensure a collection of varied and compelling writings, which generate wide appeal that knows no borders. Come enjoy an evening with Gary Barwin, Maxime Bock and Kathleen Winter – three award-winning, impassioned writers whose works are charged with lyrical and shimmering prose.
Gary Barwin is the author of 21 books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His latest book is the poetry collection No TV for Woodpeckers (2017) and his recent bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates (2016), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and recently longlisted for the Leacock Medal. Other recent works include the short fiction collection, I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 (2015), and Moon Baboon Canoe (2014), a book of poems. A finalist for the National Magazine Awards (Poetry), he is a three-time recipient of Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year, has received the Hamilton Arts Award for Literature, and co-won the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the K.M. Hunter Arts Award. Gary Barwin has taught creative writing and has been a writer-in-residence at several post-secondary institutions.
After pursuing sports and music and studying creative writing Maxime Raymond Bock published Atavismes(2011), which won the 2012 Prix Adrienne-Choquette for outstanding short story collection. Its English translationAtavisms was released in 2015. Bock has published two novellas, Rosemont de profil (2013), and Des lames de pierre (2015); the latter was released in English translation under the title Baloney (2016).
Kathleen Winter is a short story writer and novelist who began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street before becoming a newspaper columnist. Her debut short story collection, boYs (2007) won the Winterset Award and Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her novel Annabel (2010) won the Thomas Head Raddall Award, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen for the Canada Reads competition. In 2014, a second book of short stories, The Freedom in American Songs, was released along with a nonfiction book, Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage. Boundless was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. This fall, her novel , Lost, based on the letters of General James Wolfe to his mother, will be published.
Wednesday, May 31, 8PM
www.beijingbookworm.com
FREE ENTRANCE
*English only
About IFOA: Toronto’s International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from over 100 countries, including 22 Nobel Laureates and countless other award winners, since its inception in 1974. IFOA presents the finest international novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and biographers, and provides Canadian writers with an internationally recognised forum in which to present their work.
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