Listings

Show Jogos De Letras in Shanghai

Date: July 25-26 - 2 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center

Price: 120-550 yuan

The show performs in Portuguese with Chinese subtitle. Almada dance troupe has attended many art festivals and dance meetings at home and abroad and has won some awards, among which the most representative one is The Best for Opening Stage Award in Fira de Teatre Al Carrer, T��rrega, Spain in 2006. This dance show tells an accident in a letter-making factory. Because of the accident, all the letters lose their lives. What on earth is going on next? This works originates from a Modern poetry These are the letters. Dancers use images and voice to describe every letter. Just as the book, every picture in dance drama test children's imagination and let children take part in the show. In 1990, with support of local cultural department and Portuguese government, Almada dance troupe was established in Almada. The troupe puts its heart into originating modern dance art and popularizing art, letting more audience loving and taking part in dancing.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Beijing Dance Festival-Faded Monologue

Date: July 23 - 8 pm

Venue: PLA Opera House

Price: 200-680 yuan

Faded Monologue, a realism work of dance, is specially created for the opening of Beijing Dance Festival by Ma Bo, the well-known choreographer from Beijing Dance/LDTX. "Tener" and "sentimental" are not always suitable words to describe women in an era where women are mainly praised for their toughness. How many of these women who are considered strong can be their true selves? In Faded Monologue, the choreographer is searching for a pure spiritual territory where she will expose reality, explore humanity, and express her inner world with sense and sensibility. "BeijingDance/LDTX keeps creating miracles for contemporary dance in China through its charismatic openness and vision in the art." - China Cultural journal. BeijingDance/LDTX is a platform for creativity and serves as both a leader and a catalyst for the contemporary culture and the modern dance appreciation movement.

Contact: 400-610-3721

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Date: July 18-20 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Inside-Out Theatre

Price: 100-380 yuan

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is coming to enjoy its summer vocation with children in China! Adopted from a classic best-selling picture book, this innovative black-light puppetry will present its first show in Beijing. This caterpillar who has a red head, a green body and walks with its back arches high is created by Eric Carle, an internationally acclaimed children's literature author, in his vivid classic picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The book has made a great hit throughout the world for 45 years with a book circulation over 20 million, and the caterpillar has already flown from the picture book to stage. To date, over 3000 performances have been presented, capturing children's hearts in many countries. The puppetry will be performed by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia with great passion and its Chinese version is dubbed by Dashan - "the most famous foreigner in China". The show is a moving fairy tale book presented on the stage, enabling children to grow with the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is surely an amazing experience with black-light puppetry. Black-light puppetry treats light and color with special techniques so as to create fantasy effects. With only the light in front of the stage on, the actors wearing black costumes or clothes seem almost invisible against a stage background of total black. During the performance, the stage will boast with a variety of fantastic and gorgeous images because of the fluorescence-coated properties in actors' hands or the colors painted on actors' bodies.

Contact: 137-1610-0397

Andre and Dorine

Date: July 21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Oriental Palace Theater

Price: 50-380 yuan

In a small room where memories hung over the walls, sound the keys of a type writer and the notes of a cello. They are Andr�� and Dorine, an elderly couple that lives just like many old couples do: gently decaying from routine and neglect, with passion once so huge for each other now fading into indifference. But an event comes to break the monotony: Alzheimer's, our greatest antagonist, devourer of memories and of identity itself. And so begins a fresh start in their relationship. A journey through memory. The couple needs to remember who they were, so as not to forget who they are now. Remember how they loved in order to keep loving each other.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Activities

Arrival Survival in Beijing - INN event

Date: Aug 31 - 10 pm

Venue: Capital Club Athletic Center

Price: 50 yuan

Join INN on Aug31 for their biggest monthly meeting of the year - "Arrival Survival in Beijing". INN volunteers and expat experts will help you navigate getting settled into life in the capital city with cultural adjustment challenges, transportation basics, places to shop to set up your household, food and water safety, personal safety, renting bicycles in Beijing, and lots more. INN's expat volunteers with a wealth of knowledge and resources will be on hand to offer support and advice. Come meet old friends and make new ones at this not-to-be-missed INN annual gathering.

Contact: 132-4039-9256

The Eely Good Stuff

Date: Daily through July 31

Venue: Hagaki, 1/F, EAST Beijing Hotel, 22 Jiuxianqiao Lu

Price: Phone for prices

For the months of June and July Hagaki is introducing 6 deliciously fresh eel dishes. Come try a few eely creative dishes including anago sushi, saut��ed eel with asparagus, eel tempura with sweet potatoes & enoki mushroom, eel with Japanese curry, steamed eel with pickled vegetables, or grilled eel with teriyaki sauce. These limited time only dishes are available from June 1st until July 31st. The eely classics will also be available as usual whether you're in the mood for a bowl of una-don or a spicy tuna roll that's topped with eel.

Contact: 010-8414-9815

Huangshan Overnight Tour

Date: Daily through July 28

Venue: The China Guide

Price: Phone for prices

Considered to be one of China's most beautiful mountains, Huangshan sees countless visitors each year. The China Guide provides an overnight tour to the UNESCO World Heritage Site that is perfect for exploring the most scenic spots of the mountain. Immerse yourself in nature and catch a glimpse of the tranquil granite peaks in a blanket of clouds. Carefully selected tour guides are available in English, French, Spanish, and German to provide you with the best service.

Contact: 132-6148-5759

Parties

Housing the Bar featuring Jesse Rose

Date: July 24 - 10 pm

Venue: The Bar at Migas

Price: 70 yuan

Housing the Bar brings together Beijing's best House DJs with a selection of talented international acts. From bumping deep house to forward disco grooves to straight up Jacking tracks, expect sounds that rattle your soul and lift you up off one of Beijing's best dance floors. A true pioneer, Jesse Rose is responsible for twisting the template of house music as we know it. Be it through his genre bending productions, DJ performances across the planet, remixing some of the biggest acts around or as a label boss/A&Ring the freshest talent in electronic music, Jesse has one of the most revered profiles in the scene.

Contact: 010-5208-6061

DJ Krush

Date: July 18 - 10 pm

Venue: Dada, Beijing

Price: Phone for prices

DJ KRUSH considered as one of the pioneers of Japanese hip hop, established himself as one of the most respected artists and producers in the hip hop industry, both in Japan and abroad. Starting with his debut album KRUSH released in 1994, he has released 8 solo albums, 4 remix albums, and 3 mix albums worldwide. All of the albums have been in the top of various music charts in and outside Japan. His 6th album Zen was awarded the Best Electronica Album in 2002 AIFM Awards. 8th Album Jaku topped the RPM chart of CMJ for 3 weeks in a row.

E-mail: ask.seven.entertainment@gmail.com

Feige Weekend Bazaar

Date: Every Saturday and Sunday between July 18 and Aug 30 - 1 pm

Venue: Wangjing Kirin Place

Price: Phone for prices

Started in 2012, Feige is now the largest Vintage Fair in Beijing. Our fair features the finest vintage traders around China, with goods spanning the period 1920-1990. Ever since our first vintage fair, we've been heralding a positive lifestyle and today, in addition to the vintage traders, the Feige weekend fair offers numerous activities such as workshops, musical performances, swing dance, foosball and darts tournaments. This Summer Feige Weekend Bazaar is organized exclusively around Beijing. The idea is to follow along the same lines as our Feige Vintage Fair, but smaller in scale, with immersive themes; all conveniently taking place on the weekend without entrance fees. This allows us to organize more events, in shorter time spans. Feige Vintage Bazaar will feature our vintage market, food & drink providers, DJs and musical performances. After one busy month organizing the fair in Sanlitun, our Weekend Bazaar move to Wangjing. We will put some vintage in this cosmopolite atmosphere! Don't plan to go again to one of the hundreds fast food or Korean restaurants around the area, but come to our fair; you'll get nice food and have lot of fun. If you have a motorbike feel free to drive to our weekend bazaar, we have place to park your vehicle and we'll organize a "retro motorbike" show. Come with your friends to buy some nice products, join our eating hot-dog & watermelon competition, and ONLY for people who don't drive: beer contest! We'll set up a special area to relax, have a glass of wine and listen to our bands & Dj's.

Contact: 010-8559-1033

Life in Color Hong Kong

Date: July 25 - 5 pm

Venue: AsiaWorld-Expo Hong Kong Hall 10, Hong Kong

Price: 60-100 yuan

Hong Kong is getting ready for a new way to party! Life in Color "The World's Largest Paint Party" 2015 will make its Hong Kong debut on 25 July 2015 at AsiaWorld-Expo. This one-of-a-kind event is colorful mash up of cutting edge electronic dance music, artistic performances and, the signature element of spraying the audience with rainbow colored paints throughout the show. It has come a long way since its beginning in 2006 on college campuses in Florida, USA. The events have since taken the Americas by storm positioning itself as a unique, spectacular party experience with a fun and creative vibe. Now, hundreds of thousands of people have witnessed this spectacular show that fuses high-energy music, art, dance, and Paint into one mind blowing combination.

E-mail: info@sigma-production.com

Sports

Tour de France 2015

Date: Daily from July 18 to July 26

Venue: Paddy O'Shea's

Price: 150 yuan

The Tour de France is an annual multiple stage bicycle race, watch live at Paddy's 102th edition of the race. In 1904 twelve riders, including winner Maurice Garin and all the stage winners, were disqualified for various reasons including illegal use of cars and trains. In 1990 the organisers learned of a blockade by farmers in the Limoges area and diverted the race before it got there. In 1991 riders refused to race for 40 minutes because a rider, Urs Zimmerman, was penalised for driving from one stage finish to the start of the next instead of flying.

Contact: 010-6415-6389