On May 5, 2013, authors Loretta Seto and Fiona Tinwei Lam held a reading as part of explorASIAN 2013.  Held in conjunction with a solo exhibit of eastern inspired contemporary Mandalas and new children’s book illustrations by artist Kristi Bridgeman, illustrator of The Rainbow Rocket, the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and explorASIAN were on hand to help with the launch, reception, reading, signing on Sunday May 5th at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Gardens, 578 Carrall Street, Vancouver. Loretta Seto (Mooncakes) and Fiona Tinwei Lam (The Rainbow Rocket) are established writers in the Asian Canadian literary landscape, having been published in Ricepaper Magazine as well as the Asian Canadian anthology Strike the Wok