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EVENT DESCRIPTION
Nightcaps and Narratives invites audiences into an intimate evening of reflection, memory, and storytelling about place; an event celebrating the festival’s 25 years of inspiring generations of readers, writers, and storytellers.
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The evening opens with Pulitzer Prize – winning novelist Hernan Diaz, whose exploration of truth, time, and storytelling sets the perfect foundation for a night devoted to place, belonging, and the ways stories travel across time.
The conversation then turns to four writers who illuminate the emotional and cultural landscapes of Greater China. Paul French brings forgotten corners of Shanghai’s past into vivid relief. Emma Pei Yin offers a contemporary, incisive lens on identity, womanhood, and the shifting rhythms of modern Chinese life. Xu Xi, one of Hong Kong’s most distinctive literary voices, reflects on hybridity, displacement, and the evolving meaning of “home.” Anthony Tao adds a lyrical and clear-eyed view of the tensions and tenderness that shape the mainland today.
Through short readings and insights from their books, these writers explore the cities, languages, and memories that continue to anchor their work based on Mainland China and set in Hong Kong. Settle in with a nightcap for an evening designed to linger in a quiet, thoughtful, and resonant space, honoring a quarter-century of stories that connect us across generations.
*Dress code: No sports shoes, slippers, short trousers and t-shirts.
*Please be reminded that the venue has 3 flights of stairs.
