Hip, Hapa an Happening…. Word on the Street Sep 30
Last week was a busy week for hapa events… this week busy with other things…
Last night I MCed the inaugural music cabaret for the Vancouver District Labour Council. It was a wonderful event with incredible musicianship… a review will follow soon.
The Word On The Street – Book & Magazine Festival is full of hip, hapa and happening things.
This year Vincent Lam, the Governor General's Prize winning author of Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures is reading…
Ruth Ozeki, author of My Year of Meats, is reading as the wrap up finale to the 2007 One Book One Vancouver event.
World Poetry, led by Ariadne Sawyer is reading in languages from all around the world, including English.
Evelyn Lau is reading….
And who could be more Hapa than Hapa-girl Meg Tilly – born of Chinese and Caucasian ancestry, raised in Victoria. Meg made her name as an actress in The Big Chill and Agnes of God. Now she is a writer!