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In this panel, four creatives come together to talk about their creative practices and the intersection with their Chinese heritage, in a conversation moderated by Zoe Li, founder of East and Southeast Asian online bookshop Juniper by the Sea, and a co-editor of magazine-anthology Golden.

About the panellists

JENNY LAU is a writer, community organiser and the creative behind Celestial Peach. She is the author of An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included).

JASMINE SU JUANYAN GARDNER (b.1997), is a Manchester-based artist whose work primarily focuses on binding traditional Chinese art forms such as painting and paper cutting, with contemporary social issues surrounding her lived experience as an adoptee from the age of 8 months old. Themes deriving from lived experience are channelled through traditional Chinese artforms and mythology as a method to connect to her heritage.

STANLEY CHOW is a Manchester-based artist and illustrator renowned for minimal geometric portraits. He gained global recognition for his work with The White Stripes, earning a Grammy nomination in 2008. Clients include Manchester United, Adidas, Nike, Netflix, McDonald’s, The New Yorker and The New York Times.

JENNIFER WONG is a Hong Kong-born writer based in the UK. She has a PhD in creative writing from Oxford Brookes. She is the author of Light Year (Nine Arches Press, 2026) and Letters Home 回家 (Nine Arches Press, 2020) which received the PBS recommendations, and her monograph Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury, 2023) looked at contemporary writing from the Anglophone Chinese diaspora. She is currently editing a Rebecca Swift Foundation women's poetry anthology entitled Woman, Mapped forthcoming from Fly on the Wall Press in 2026.