5th Nov 2021 - 14th Nov 2021

Fri, 5th Nov 2021

Online Festival Pass
- ONLINE

6:30 pm

Opening Night Party
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Banyan Workspace Germaine Leece   Sonya Tsakalakis  

7:00 pm

Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendships Together
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ONLINE Germaine Leece   Sonya Tsakalakis  

Sat, 6th Nov 2021

9:30 am

Battle of Hong Kong Walking Tour with Philip Cracknell: Shing Mun Redoubt
9:30 am - 3:00 pm Walking Tour Philip Cracknell  

10:00 am

Building Other Bodies: A Conversation About Speculative Fiction In Translation
10:00 am - 11:30 am ONLINE Mona Kareem   Bora Chung   Anton Hur   Ta-wei Chi    Ari Larissa Heinrich  

11:30 am

Sunset Survivors Walking Tour: Sai Ying Pun
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Walking Tour Lindsay Varty  

2:00 pm

To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ONLINE John Keane   Debasish Roy Chowdhury  

3:00 pm

Yoga and Creative Writing Workshop with Tiffany Hambley
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm ONLINE Tiffany Hambley  

5:00 pm

Unraveling Burgundy: Talk and Tasting with Master of Wine Jeannie Cho Lee
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm The Fine Wine Experience Wine Lounge at K11 Musea Jeannie Cho Lee  

7:00 pm

Jonathan Kos-Read: Inside China’s Film and Television Industry
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ONLINE Jonathan Kos-Read   Ken Smith  

Sun, 7th Nov 2021

8:00 am

Battle of Hong Kong Walking Tour with Philip Cracknell: WNC Gap Battle Trail
8:00 am - 1:00 pm Walking Tour Philip Cracknell  

10:00 am

Ghosts, Beasts and Family Histories
10:00 am - 11:00 am ONLINE K-Ming Chang   Pik-Shuen Fung  

11:30 am

K-Pop Confidential with Stephan K Lee
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ONLINE Stephan Lee   Tamar Herman  

2:00 pm

Bookbinding workshop with Rachel Smith
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm senselessart Studio Rachel Smith  

4:00 pm

An Inventory of Losses
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong | ONLINE Judith Schalansky   Julia Kuehn  

5:00 pm

Telling the World: A Journalist and a Writer Discuss their Different Approaches to Reality
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm The Peninsula Hotel Francesca Borri    Gianrico Carofiglio  

6:00 pm

Family Faultlines
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm ONLINE Emily Maguire   Alice Pung  

7:00 pm

Snakes and Wildlife Walk with Adam Francis
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Walking Tour Adam Francis  

8:30 pm

Aunties and Tiger Moms: Writing the Asian Family
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm ONLINE Lyn Liao Butler   Jesse Sutanto  

Mon, 8th Nov 2021

7:00 pm

Re-Educated: How I Changed my Job, my Home, my Husband and my Hair
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ONLINE Lucy Kellaway   Charmaine Chan  

8:30 pm

Curious Histories and Current Realities of Sexual Health
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm ONLINE Kate Lister   Sarah Chadwick   Dr Tanaya Narendra  

Tue, 9th Nov 2021

7:00 pm

An Ocean Away
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ONLINE Alia AlShamsi   Jennifer Wong  

8:30 pm

Bhanu Kapil in Conversation
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm ONLINE Bhanu Kapil   Collier Nogues  

Wed, 10th Nov 2021

7:00 pm

The Shortest History of China
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ONLINE Linda Jaivin  
Peel Street Poets Anniversary Slam and Readings at the Social Room
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Social Room

8:30 pm

Rumours from Shanghai
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm ONLINE Amy Sommers   Paul French  

Thu, 11th Nov 2021

Asia Society 3 Day Pass
- Miller Theatre, Asia Society
The Fringe Club Festival Pass
- Fringe Underground Theatre

7:00 pm

Family Fables: Damon Galgut and Xiaolu Guo in Conversation
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Damon Galgut   Xiaolu Guo   Jo Lusby  
Hannah Bent: When Things are Alive They Hum
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Hannah Bent  

7:30 pm

The Flower Boat Girl: The Story of Hong Kong’s Pirate Queen
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Larry Feign  

8:30 pm

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Horatio Clare  
Companion Required: A Gay Romance from Conception to Publication to Moderate Success
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Brian Lancaster  

9:00 pm

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE Sathnam Sanghera    Caryl Phillips   Ravi Mattu  

Fri, 12th Nov 2021

Tai Kwun 2 Day Pass
- JC Cube, Tai Kwun

6:30 pm

After The Storm: The 17th Anthology by the Hong Kong Writer’s Circle
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre

7:00 pm

How to Love Animals in a Human Shaped World
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm JC Cube, Tai Kwun | ONLINE Henry Mance   Jill Robinson  
Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury with Evan Osnos
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Evan Osnos   Keith Richburg  
A Field Guide to the Snakes of Hong Kong
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Adam Francis  

8:30 pm

The Lincoln Highway: Amor Towles in Conversation
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm JC Cube, Tai Kwun | ONLINE Amor Towles  
To Asia with Love: Food and Stories from the Heart
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Hetty McKinnon   Amanda Strang  
Hong Kong Stories: True Stories of Recovery
8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Niharika Aggarwal  
Add Ink: Cartoons and Comedy in Hong Kong
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Harry Harrison   Vivek Mahbubani  

Sat, 13th Nov 2021

Asia Society Saturday Pass
- Miller Theatre, Asia Society

9:00 am

Battle of Hong Kong Walking Tour with Philip Cracknell: Mount Davis & Jubilee Battery
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Walking Tour Philip Cracknell  

10:30 am

My Old Home
10:30 am - 11:30 am Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Orville Schell   Xiaolong Qiu   Emma Zhang  

11:00 am

Version Zero: David Yoon’s Takedown of the Digital World
11:00 am - 12:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE David Yoon   Daniel Elam  
#myvoice: A Collective Memoir by Women of Substance
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Minal Mahtani   Tracy Ho   Neelam Harjani   Shirley Adrain  

11:30 am

Sunset Survivors Walking Tour: Yau Ma Tei
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Walking Tour Lindsay Varty  

12:00 pm

The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness Film Screening
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Matt Ottley  

12:30 pm

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE Geoff Manaugh   Nicola Twilley  
More Than a Label: Looking Beyond Stigma
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Ophelia Tam   Jonathan .   Xanthe .   Hilary .  

2:00 pm

The Magic of Podcasting: Storytelling with a Twist
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society Regina Larko    Cissy Radford   Emery Fung  

2:30 pm

Price’s Price
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Chris Maden   Cameron Dueck  
Behind Closed Doors: The Hong Kong Quarantine Experience
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE Kate Whitehead   Judith Blaine   Elisabeth Wong   Gira Patel  

3:30 pm

The Psychology of Work
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Naomi Shragai   Ravi Mattu  

4:00 pm

Life Histories
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Heather Diamond   Arthur van Langenberg  

4:30 pm

Make Independent Publishing Work For You
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Larry Feign   Jordan Rivet   Chris Maden  

5:00 pm

Navigating Life and Work for Energy, Success and Happiness
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Bill Mitchell   Rachel Ho   Hannah Reidy  

5:30 pm

New Writing from Hong Kong
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Alice Yuen Shan Chan   Virginia Ng   Yat Hong Lee  

7:00 pm

Dear Hong Kong
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Aggie Lam  
A Slow Fire Burning with Paula Hawkins
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm JC Cube, Tai Kwun | ONLINE Paula Hawkins   Lee Williamson  
New Hong Kong Fiction from Kit Fan and Naoise Dolan
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Kit Fan   Naoise Dolan   Patrick Holland  

7:30 pm

“Hong Kong Dictionary” (noun.) A dictionary belonging to Hong Kongers
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Char Kwok   Ka Ying Chow  

8:30 pm

AI 2041: Ten Visions for our Future
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm JC Cube, Tai Kwun | ONLINE Adam Grant   Qiufan Chen   Kai-Fu Lee  
Italian Noir: Crime Fiction from Gianrico Carofiglio
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Miller Theatre, Asia Society | ONLINE Gianrico Carofiglio  
Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe James Griffiths  

9:00 pm

I am a Poker Player: Lessons from the Best Players in Asia
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Wood Chu   Derx Lai  

Sun, 14th Nov 2021

8:30 am

Battle of Hong Kong Walking Tour with Philip Cracknell: Stanley & Chung Hom Kok
8:30 am - 1:30 pm Walking Tour Philip Cracknell  

10:30 am

Writing Through Difficult Times
10:30 am - 11:30 am JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Michael O'Sullivan   Collier Nogues   Karen Cheung   Florence Ng  

11:00 am

How to Become an Indie Publisher with Chris Maden
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Chris Maden  

12:00 pm

The Battle of Hong Kong - 80 Years On
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Chi Man Kwong   Tony Banham  

1:30 pm

Writing YA: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Dystopian with Jordan Rivet
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Jordan Rivet  

2:00 pm

Along the Southern Boundary: ​​A Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boat People and their Arrival in Hong Kong
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe Les Bird   Annemarie Evans  

3:30 pm

Francesca Borri: Live from Afghanistan
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE Francesca Borri   
Researching/Writing Historical Fiction with Larry Feign
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Larry Feign  

5:00 pm

Julia and the Shark
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE Kiran Millwood Hargrave   Tom de Freston  

6:00 pm

Writing Romantic Fiction with Brian Lancaster
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Fringe Underground Theatre Brian Lancaster  

7:00 pm

Wish: Schools Poetry Contest
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm JC Studio Theatre, Fringe | ONLINE Will Harris   Mary Jean Chan   Mona Kareem   Alia AlShamsi   Jason Lee   Antony Huen   Tim Tim Cheng  

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