On Thursday December 8th Asialink Arts takes over the New Gold Mountain bar in Chinatown to launch our new Strange Flowers book, and a new Utopia @ Asialink issue of Broadsheet magazine.
It's a night to celebrate the year's achievements, spends some time with Asialink Arts staff, and get your hands on two excellent new publications.
Strange Flowers is a glorious, full-colour, bi-lingual look at the stories of nine artists and writers working between Australia and China. It sheds light on the daily acts of translation and transformation needed to bridge languages and culture, and is packed with new writing and images from Alice Pung, Benjamin Law, Ouyang Yu, James Stuart, Li Yao, Zhao Chuan, Melody Willis, Michael Yuen and Ivor Indyk.
Following on from our events at this year's Melbourne Festival, Broadsheet 40:4 is a special issue dedicated to the 'intimate publics' of our roving Utopia visual arts project. Guest edited by Natalie King (Utopia) and Larissa Hjorth (RMIT), writers include Nikos Papastergiadis, Cao Fei, Justin Clemens, Lee Weng Choy, Sunjung Kim and the Gwangju Biennale curatorium.
Where: New Gold Mountain, 2nd floor, 21 Liverpool St, Melbourne (http://g.co/maps/d5y6r)
When: 6-8pm, Thursday 8 December