LUNCH TALK | WTF: Woman Turning Fifty

Speaker: Marga Ortigas

Moderator: Tiffany Tivasuradej

Date: March 4, Wed

Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Venue: Wyndham Social - 27/F Gallery

Address: Soho House - Blue Room

Price: HKD698 (includes lunch)

Language: English

Format: Lunch Talk

Description:

Join author Marga for a lively reading and lunch discussion about dynamic meditations on adulthood, mortality, and ageing as told by an unprepared Gen-Xer. WTF: Woman Turning F*fty is a collection of savagely personal ‘postcards’—or eclectic experiential essays—from a former journalist on the margins of middle age.

About the Speaker:

Marga Ortigas travelled the world as a journalist for three decades, with a career spanning five continents and two of the largest global news networks. After getting her start in the Philippines, she joined CNN in London, working across Europe, Iraq, and Gaza. She then returned to Asia with Al Jazeera, setting up its bureau in Manila and covering the wider Pacific region. As senior correspondent, Marga reported from the frontlines of armed conflict, geopolitical challenges, and climate change, receiving an award for Humanitarian Reporting from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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