Special Event: A Day of Literature, Music & Culture at M on the Bund

A special From the Lighthouse presentation: an evening of poetry and song in China! Featuring Toby Davidson, Jane Messer and Hsu-Ming Teo reading their works, with musical accompaniment by Shu-Cheen Yu.

Event Program

Australian literature today: Toby Davidson
Reading 1: Jane Messer from her novel Hopscotch, a novel set in present-day Sydney
Reading 2: Toby Davidson, poems about Australia from his collection Beast Language
‘Lotus Moon and Willow Spirit Songs’: opera singer Shu-Cheen Yu and novelist Hsu-Ming Teo perform a series of Chinese and Australian songs, and paired Chinese-Australian stories:
 
1. ‘The Swallow’. Traditional folksong from Xinjiang Autonomous Region
    ‘Three Swallows’. By Hsu-Ming Teo
2. ‘My Dark-Eyed Acushla’. Music by Horace Keats; words by Paul Furniss
    ‘Acushla of the goldfields’. By Hsu-Ming Teo
3. ‘Feng Yang Flower Drum Song’. Anhui folk song
    ‘Big Feet, Doesn’t Sew’. By Hsu-Ming Teo
4. Rivers: ‘The Murray River’ and ‘Untitled’. Ouyang Yu. Read by Shu-Cheen Yuand Toby Davidson
    ‘Song of the Yangtze River’. By Wang Shu Guang