Lectures on Tap - "Storytelling, East vs West: Parasite, Nintendo, & More"

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🧠 Lecture: "Storytelling, East vs West: Parasite, Nintendo, & More"

🎤 Speaker: Author, Henry Lien

Join us for a fascinating evening as Henry Lien explores how Eastern and Western cultures tell stories in profoundly different ways. While Western narratives often center on the three-act structure and relentless conflict, this lecture reveals how those “essentials” are far from universal.

Henry will introduce the elegant East Asian four-act story structure, showing how it shapes everything from the Oscar-winning film “Parasite” to beloved Nintendo games. Along the way, he’ll challenge our assumptions about what stories must do, and how rethinking conflict on the page can transform how we understand conflict in our own lives.

Henry Lien is the author of the Peasprout Chen fantasy series and the non-fiction book Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling. A four-time Nebula Award finalist, his work has appeared in Literary Hub, Poets & Writers, Asimov’s, Analog, and F&SF. He teaches for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, the University of Iowa, Clarion West, and Writing the Other.

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Agenda

7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

7:55 PM – Host introduction

8:00 PM – Lecture begins

8:45 PM – Audience Q&A

9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

9:30 PM – Wrap up.

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