How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart: Book Launch & Panel Discussion on Book Publishing | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12023-03-27T19:00:57+09:00PeatixKellyHow Kyoto Breaks Your Heart: Book Launch & Panel Discussion on Book Publishingtag:peatix.com,2023:event-34710492023-02-25T14:30:00JST2023-02-25T14:30:00JSTCome join us at the charming C/NE cafe on 25 February to celebrate the launch of How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, a debut collection of essays by Florentyna Leow! Following a book reading plus Q&A, there’ll be a 3-way panel discussion featuring translator Yuki Tejima (@booknerdtokyo on Instagram) and David Wang (Editor-in-Chief of sankaku magazine), facilitated by designer and writer Carina Fushimi. There’ll be plenty of time to chill out, chat with like-minded bookish people and make new friends over drinks. Plus, there will be copies of How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart as well as Volume 1 of sankaku magazine for sale. ▼ Event information / イベント情報 ・Date: 25 February / 日付：2月25日・Open: 2:30 PM / 開場：14時30分・Start 3:00 PM / 開始：15時・ Advanced Tickets: 2,000 yen / 前売券: 2,000円 ・Venue: C/NE / 会場: C/NE ・Get your tickets here on Peatix! / チケットはこちらでゲットできます！Tickets: https://howkyotobreaksyourheart.peatix.com/view NOTE: ・Due to venue size, attendance is capped at a maximum of 40± people. Please get your tickets early! ・The owner of C/NE requests that everyone order one drink – non-alcoholic or alcoholic, it doesn’t matter. But if you do drink, there’ll be 5 different types of craft beer on tap that day.▼ About Florentyna LeowFlorentyna is a writer and translator based in Tokyo. Focusing on under-reported stories from rural Japan, like English Toast (neither English nor toast), an ice shrine, and Japan's rarest citrus, her writing has appeared in Gastro Obscura, The Japan Times, Culinary Backstreets, SBS Food, Roads & Kingdoms, and more. She cannot go five minutes without thinking about food. How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart (The Emma Press) is her first book.著書「How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart」(2023年2月23日)。東京在住。2015年から京都でツアープランナーとして活動し、日本地方の魅力を紹介するツアーを企画。同じ時期に、京都を中心にウォーキングツアーをガイドし始めた。2017年、Writers in Kyoto 超短編小説コンテストで３位を受賞。寄稿は Gastro Obscura、Culinary Backstreets、TripAdvisor、Japan Times、SBS Foodなとに及ぶ。▼About Yuki Tejima Born in Tokyo but raised in Los Angeles, Yuki Tejima runs the book-centric Instagram account @booknerdtokyo, one of the few Japan-based bilingual accounts of its kind. Personal and thoughtful, her reviews are like chats over a cup of coffee with a bibliophile friend.More about Yuki: ・https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2022/12/11/people/yuki-tejima/・https://www.instagram.com/booknerdtokyo/?hl=en ▼About David Wang and sankaku Born and raised in Toronto, David sells Japanese crafts internationally by connecting brands, distributors, and consumers. Currently based in Tokyo, he is Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief at sankaku – an independent publication telling the stories of people, places, and products in Japan. He loves kettlebells, getting to know the countryside, and eating all kinds of dumplings from gyoza to pierogies.More about David:・https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/06/22/people/david-wang-designing-space-asia-world/ ▼About Carina Fushimi Carina is a designer and writer with a background in ethnographic research. She will find any way to bring up Gifu, day-in-the-life vlogs, and tarot cards in a conversation. She runs a seasonal newsletter and is working towards her first solo exhibition in March.▼About The Emma PressThe Emma Press is an independent publishing house based in Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK, specialising in poetry, short fiction, essays and children’s books. It was founded by Emma Dai’an Wright in 2012.Emma Press books have won the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Award, the Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work, and the CLiPPA, and been recognised in the Michael Marks Awards.The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers in 2016, with the judges remarking ‘As well as having a remarkable list of poets they pay close attention to every aspect of the pamphlets they publish. This is a vibrant, thoughtful press bringing a great energy and sense of endeavour to their work.’Updatestag:peatix.com,2023-01-31 12:44:432023-01-31 12:44:43The event description was updated. Diff#1320275