Open Mic at Poetry OutLoud: Ekphrastic Poetry
Please join us on Wednesday 8 May 2019 for an ekphrastic poetry workshop, making use of writing prompts based on Shaun Tan's THE ARRIVAL (2006), led by Kate Rogers. Participants are very welcome to read their poems.


時間和地點 Time & Location
May 08, 2019, 7:45 PM – 9:45 PM GMT+8
Colette's (Room b), Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central, Hong Kong
活動詳情 About the Event
Please join us on Wednesday 8 May 2019 for an ekphrastic poetry workshop, making use of writing prompts based on Shaun Tan's (2006), led by Kate Rogers. Participants are very welcome to read their poems.The Arrival
is the first book chosen for 我城我書 / , a community reading programme initiated by the Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities at The Education University of Hong Kong, which aims to encourage as many people as possible, to read and discuss the same book at around the same time. Each year students, scholars, readers and writers of all kinds will focus their attention on one single book. is a wordless graphic novel by the Chinese Australian graphic novelist Shaun Tan.The Arrival One City One Book Hong KongThe Arrival
is a particularly appropriate choice for the first One City One Book initiative in Hong Kong. Shaun Tan's wordless graphic novel transcends language barrier…