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ACTIVITIES

Rolling Music Course for Kids and Young Adults: Make Music Fun

Date: March 5-30－1:30 pm

Venue: Rolling Music Classroom

Price: 5,800 yuan

Rolling Music provides a full year course as well as winter and summer programs for young musicians from ages 6 to 17. Our instructors, who have over ten years of teaching and performing experience, excel at making music composition and performance simple and fun. Learn all the band instruments, including keyboard, guitar, bass, drum, vocal and music production. Master the techniques to turn your own inspiration into a masterpiece with our engineering courses. Practice, collaborate and perform with friends, classmates and instructors to hone your technique skills and accumulate live performance experience. Those who have training with classic music will also learn to thrive in music from popular culture and overall develop a stronger affinity with your instrument. What is music production? Explore nuance and the possibilities in recording and production with Rolling Music's computer software, studio equipment and sound engineering, and D-Jaying courses. This course benefits amateur singer songwriters, aspiring sound engineers and club DJs. Rolling Music instructors will integrate courses in music theory, style acquisition, sampling, software to diversify our musician students' proficiency in taste and execution. Course Description: Phase I: Sound theory and basic software operations with DAW equipment and music production software like Logic, Pro Tools and Ableton Live. Computer Effects control and input. The Use of the Midi Keyboard. Editing and layering audio tracks. Phase II: Composition; record and produce technical and theoretical ideas. Create your sound. Recording session with various instruments. Looping tracks and track recording. Drum tracking. Vocal tracking. Phase III: Sampling and audio enhancement. Production balance and equalization. Track mastering and final production. Course for DJs. Follow Rolling Music Wechat "rollinmusic" to know more courses and activities.

E-mail: ponypiao@damai.cn

Contemporary Spanish Poetry

Date: March 18－6:30 pm

Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Price: 60 yuan

Instituto Cervantes and the Embassy of Uruguay in Beijing present the projection of two movies connected to the poetry of Uruguay, made by poet/audiovisual artist Fernando Foglino. The event will consist of welcoming words from Inmaculada Gonzalez Puy, director of the Cervantes Institute in Beijing, and introduction of the event by the Embassy of Uruguay in Beijing, followed by a presentation on the characteristics of contemporary poetry in Uruguay by Laura Silva, the Uruguayan embassy's Cultural Attache. A six-minute short video, Clipoemas Foglino will be screened first, followed by Poetas Proyecto Crossmedia, a material of 45 minutes. Both will be in Spanish with Chinese subtitles. A taste of honor will follow, provided by the Embassy of Uruguay. This event will be held at the Cervantes Institute of Beijing. Reservation required by emailing cult1pek@cervantes.es (please include phone number). This event is part of the Bookworm Literary Festival, please visit bookwormfestival.com for more information.

Contact: 010-6586-9507

SPORTS

The Shanghai Major 2016 DOTA2

Date: March 5-6－10 am

Venue: Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai Expo Culture Center)

Price: 99-169 yuan

Host by Perfect World, with a total prize pool of 3 million dollars, 16 top Dota 2 teams all over the world will compete in a 5-day double elimination match for the championship. Not only fierce fight will be brought in the 5-day event, but a Dota 2 concert be presented to Dota 2 fans around the world. The concert, produced by global famous orchestra, will show the infinite charisma of game music.

Contact: 400-610-3721