Matthew Byrne | Writer, Founder, Digital Marketer

What the Collective Announced

It is with great excitement and anticipation that the Spittoon Collective presents The Spittoon Literary Tour, a cross-cultural collaboration of literature, music and art.

The last two years have seen a wild ride of growth for Spittoon events, from Spittoon Poetry, Spittoon Fiction and Spit-Tunes, our music and poetry collaboration night, to the upcoming Spittoon Poetry Slam night, to the major success of the Spittoon Literary Magazine, which launched its second issue at the 798 Art District earlier in May. We would like to thank our followers for their genuine support.

The ethos of this tour is collaboration and the celebration of the diversity of cultures and nations that Spittoon exemplifies. It will consist of 2 days worth of readings, talks and panel discussions. Now it’s time to begin the Spittoon Literary Tour.

Beijing programme

Saturday 23 September

1pm, Poetry in Beijing

3pm, Panel discussion

5pm, Poetry in Translation

7pm, Spit-Tunes

9pm until late, Party

Sunday 24 September

2pm, Books of Beijing

4pm, Fiction in Beijing

6pm, Literary quiz night

What each event is

Poetry and fiction readings: Eight of the best English-language poets and fiction writers that Beijing has to offer, each give a reading of their latest work along with a short Q&A.

Books of Beijing: Come join us for a time of intimate storytelling where the “books” featured are real, breathing people you get to “loan” and “read”. At this event featured “books” get to share a story about themselves in small groups so that both the “reader” and the “books” get to connect on a deeper level.

Spit-Tunes: Features excellent poets working with 4 separate genres of music. All those who participate have been selected by Spittoon, then by musicians who take inspiration from them. After one month of collaboration, the result is a song, based on the musician’s and writer’s individual style. The genres for this event are: sax and guitar duo, trip-hop, indie acoustic, jazz.

Literary pub quiz: A fun and brain-tickling literature-themed pub quiz hosted by longtime pub quiz host and former Bookworm employee Anthony Tao, with lots of boozy prizes. Team limit six people.

Poetry in translation: Presents 4 excellent Chinese poets, featured in our literary magazine, who will read their poetry with the English translation provided.

Festival party: What kind of literary and arts organization would we be if we didn’t throw a massive party? Complete with live music, DJs and great drinks for everybody to enjoy.

The details

23 and 24 September 2017

Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

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Originally published 15 September 2017 on the Spittoon WeChat channel. Archive reference #39.