Book Launch: The Bamboo Metropolis
Join Zolima CityMag and Bookazine at the newly opened Bookazine Landmark Atrium for an evening celebrating the release of the third volume of the Zolima Culture Guide, " The Bamboo Metropolis", with drinks served.
Meet the creative team behind the book, hear from our panel of writers, and discover the deep cultural and architectural impact of bamboo in Hong Kong.
Event Details
Date: 17 November
Time: 18:15 - 20:00 pm (Talk starts at 18:30)
Location: Bookazine, Shops 314-315, 3/F, Landmark Atrium, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong
Moderator: Christopher DeWolf (Editor & Writer of The Zolima Culture Guide Collection)
Speakers: Billy Potts / Daniel Ho / Raffaella Endrizzi / Sue Ng (Writers of The Bamboo Metropolis)
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About the book: The Bamboo Metropolis
The City Made by Bamboo
WHY WE CREATED THE BAMBOO METROPOLIS
Hong Kong has a habit of overlooking what has always been there. Bamboo is everywhere. It climbs skyscrapers, shelters opera singers, steams dim sum, becomes lion heads and lanterns, frames rituals and inspires artists and architects. It is one of Hong Kong's defining materials — and one of its least understood. Today, bamboo scaffolding is facing increasing pressure. Traditional crafts are losing apprentices. Knowledge that has shaped Hong Kong for generations is becoming more fragile. Yet this isn't a story about disappearance or nostalgia. It is a book about scaffolders and chefs, theatres and skyscrapers, artists and artisans, rituals and reinvention. Above all, it is a book about the material that has helped Hong Kong become itself. At the very moment many people assume bamboo belongs to the past, it is being rediscovered in unexpected ways. Architects are testing it as a sustainable building material. Artists are using it to explore memory, identity and place. Designers are uncovering new possibilities in one of Hong Kong's oldest materials. Younger Hongkongers are beginning to see what has always been in front of them. That is why we created The Bamboo Metropolis: to look closely at bamboo before it is reduced to nostalgia — and to ask how it can continue to grow.
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