In Conversation with Mimi Kwa

The dragon circles and swoops ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. .

Why would a father sue his own daughter? The collision was over the estate of Mimi’s beloved Aunt Theresa, but its seed had been sown long ago. In an attempt to understand how it had come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa. One of a wealthy silk merchant’s 32 children, Mimi’s father, Francis, was just

a little boy when the Kwa family became caught up in the brutal and devastating Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Years later, he was sent to study in Australia by his now independent and successful older sister, Theresa. There he met and married Mimi’s mother, a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed, chronic mental illness. Soon after, ‘tiger’ Mimi arrived, and her struggle with the past - and the dragon - began...

Attendee price: $10 bookings essential incl. light refreshment. Tickets can also be purchased at the Library.

Attendee price: $11.78 bookings essential incl. gst, booking fee & light refreshment. Tickets can also be purchased at the Library. More information at https://ballaratmi.org.au/talks/

Presented in partnership with Collins Booksellers on Lydiard.

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This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.