The Need for Literature

Date: March 14 - 6 pm

Venue: The Bookworm, Courtyard 4, Sanlitun Nanjie, Beijing

Price: 100 yuan

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fes, Morocco and now lives and works in Paris. His second novel La nuit sacree (The Sacred Night), published in 1987, won the Prix Goncourt. He is one of the most translated French writers in the world. His works have won wide acclaim for tackling themes such as racism and religious repression, and issues such as the Arab Spring. "We need the novel," Ben Jalloun said at the 2011 International Literature Festival in Berlin, "not only to explain the world to us, but also to accompany our historical times."

Contact: 010-6503-2050

JUE Creative Market

Date: March 15 - 11 am

Venue: The Vintage Creative Art Zone, Tonghuihe North Rd, Beijing

Price: Phone for prices

The JUE Creative Market will continue to be home to a variety of locally designed fashion, interactive art, installations, mouth-watering craft food & drink and surprise musical guests throughout the day. Whether it's live body/face painting or talented musicians jamming together on stage, the JUE Creative Market will be an exciting and memorable event to welcome in the Spring. One new exciting element for 2015 is the special raffle we are holding to give our supported arts initiative, Pojie Arts, a bump.

Contact: 010-8408-4637