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(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-12-15 08:33

Exhibits

UCCA Exhibition Tour and Dinner

This is an exclusive evening at UCCA where artists will lead you on an intimate tour of their exhibitions. Liu Xiaodong, Yang Yong, Sui Jianguo and Lu Zhengyuan will participate.

Meet three generations of Chinese artists and enjoy a specially-designed dinner menu beneath Yang Yong's light installation in the UCCA Nave.

An opportunity to meet and dine with major players in the Chinese contemporary art scene.

Dec 16, 7:30 pm-9 pm, reservation needed, free for platinum members, 198 yuan for members, 588 yuan for non-members.

UCCA, 798 Art Zone, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang district, 8459-9269.

尤仑斯当代艺术中心

Media art journey between worlds

Journey Between Worlds is a media art performance that blends oral storytelling, soundscape recordings, digital audio effects, minimal electronic music and live ink painting into a rich futuristic theatre event.

Max Willis will relate a journey from the Sonora Desert of Arizona in the United States to the jungles of Yucatan, Mexico, passing beyond the scientific world, through the ancient practices of spiritual leaders and weaving a path between psycho-spiritual dimensions.

On this journey, the audience will follow a cosmic map that marks the links between a family history, an anarchist subculture, the modern world of the traveler and the spiritual world of his ancient ancestors, investigating the voyage of mankind, on the earth and beneath the sky.

Journey Between Worlds is presented in ambisonics multi-dimensional surround sound to create a virtual environment using digital and analogue audio, interaction programming and computer-human interface elements.

Max Willis is an international artist with roots in the Americas and Germany. A painter, performer, interaction programmer and post-production specialist, he uses diverse artistic techniques to relate a unique performance experience. His work embodies the traditional values of an artist who learned from his father, and the ultramodern perspectives of an artist developing in the digital era.

Dec 16, 7:30 pm, Penghao Theater, 35 Dongmianhua Hutong (off Nanluoguxiang), 64006472/52.

东棉花胡同35号蓬蒿剧场(中央戏剧学院东侧)

Delicate and intimate Farewell to Cambridge

Based on the love triangle between some of modern China's most beloved intellectuals - architects Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, and the poet Xu Zhimo - when they were students in Cambridge in the 1930s.

The "small, fresh, concise and delicate" production lets audiences both experience the charm of music and the fine emotional links between different characters.

Accompanied by beautiful melodies, famous poems such as The Peach Blossom and Goodbye Again, Cambridge, which were created by Xu Zhimo, will be reproduced in a novel way to render the deep romance that has influenced one generation after another.

Dec 15 to 19, 7:30 pm-10 pm, 200 yuan to 320 yuan.

National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district, 6655-0000.

国家大剧院

Tribute to Spanish poets Hernndez and Rosales

2010 is the centenary of the birth of the poets Miguel Hernnez and Luis Rosales. Instituto Cervantes is commemorating the occasion by organizing a series of events (including a conference and an exhibition) dedicated to the work and life of two of the greatest poets of the Spanish post-war period.

Dec 16, 7 pm-9 pm, free entry. Instituto Cvreantes, A1 Gongti Nanlu, Chaoyang district, 5879-9666.

朝阳区工体南路甲1号塞万提斯学院

Carnival night of the Middle Eastern dance

Molly & Mystery Move present a night of passionate belly dance. Molly was a member of the belly dance group "Bellydance Evolution" and has performed in many countries.

Dec 15, 8: 00 pm, 50 yuan. Yugongyishan, East Courtyard, site of Duanqirui Government, Zhangzizhong Lu, Dongcheng district, 6403-0311

东城区张自忠路3-2号段祺瑞执政府旧址西院愚公移山