08.04. – 11.04.2024 , BOLOGNA, ITALY

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is a 4-day event aimed exclusively at the professional public, with around 30,000 visitors. The Bologna Book Fair is, alongside the Frankfurt Book Fair, the international platform on which the largest number of Slovenian publishers in the field of children’s and young people’s literature present themselves. Huiqin Wang was chosen as one of the twelve slovenian representatives this year.

06.02.2024, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

Guests cut the ribbon at the inauguration ceremony of a replica of Hallerstein-designed armillary sphere in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Feb. 6, 2024. A full-scale replica of the armillary sphere with rotating rings created by Augustin Ferdinand Hallerstein, or Liu Songling by his Chinese name, in the 18th century, will be permanently installed in Ljubljana.

Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar, Chinese Ambassador to Slovenia Wang Shunqing, and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic attended the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday in front of the Slovenian Archives building on the bank of Ljubljanica River, which runs through the capital.

07.12.2023 AT 7:45, K3 FILM FESTIVAL, VILLACH, AUSTIRA

The Slovenian poet Alma Karlin was the first women to travel the world alone. Based on the book “Little Alma on the Great Road” by Huiqin Wang, the film portrays the peculiar personality of the famous cosmopolitan and writer, tells of her youth and her stay in Japan, showing feelings that we did not know about her.

15.11.2023 – 23.11.2023 IN HAUS AM DOM, FRANKFURT, GERMANY

The exhibition Alma Maksimiliana Karlin highlights the literary journey of Alma M. Karlin and its interweaving in time and space. The exhibition builds on quotes from her books, with which she interrogates ever-current questions about positions of power, the role of traditions, and the issues of gender and social inequalities. The exhibition is connected by contemporary artistic and literary reflections: enlargements of illustrations and a selection of originals by painter Huiqin Wang, the artist who illustrated the picture book Little Alma on the Great Road and supplements for the animated film Alma, an indomitable woman.

SHORT FILM BY HUIQIN AND ANDREJ KAMNIK

The animated film is about an unique artist and writer, a multilingual cosmopolitan and world-traveller, Alma Karlin (1889-1950), about her youth, her stay in Japan and her work and life there. The film summarizes her personality and part of Alma Karlin’s journey around the world, and shows feelings that we did not know about her. On her eight-year journey she circled the globe. Her works reveal an incredibly relevant way of thinking, as she remains a most fascinating figure of the first half of the 20th century.