Jim Wong-Chu and Evelyn Lau performed together at the Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Gardens with friends and supporters in the audience in celebration of the the Heart of the City Festival, which is the ninth year in which it has focused on the rich and diverse communities of the Downtown Eastside.
Evelyn Lau also read from her books of poetry, including her most recent Living Under Plastic. It was a nostalgic moment for the two writers, as Evelyn Lau remarked that it was almost twenty years ago that both of them had read at the very Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Gardens, when she was a teenager and he was leading the community in promoting new Asian Canadian writers.