Nightlife and activities

Blastfemme China Tour in Beijing

Date: Dec 7 - 9 pm

Venue: Dusk Dawn Club

From the depths of the dangerous underground of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, Blastfemme appears. Band formed under the feminist dogma that embodies in explosive concerts the urgency, the revolt, the sensuality and power of the cause in the presence of imposing stage of the punk muse Danni Vallejo. Driven by disco punk beats added with melodies sometimes subtle and at other times, dirty and confused. The band is newly formed and is in the process of recording their first album, in the face of the current moment in Brazil, Blastfemme presents itself as a resistance, a fight, a force in the movement for women's rights in the country. In Beijing, the explosion will be greeted by the Chinese equivalent Xiao Wang, the recent European toured Lonely Leary and by the dynamics flows of Thruoutin.

Heteroglossia in Shanghai

Date: Nov 17-Feb 17 - 10 am/1 pm

Venue: How Art Museum

This exhibition brings together a group of artists actively engaged in the contemporary art scene, from across the world including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the Netherlands. These artists have been exposed to the general influence of Chinese culture, yet they have evolved along different trajectories by incorporating distinct varieties of historical experience, memory, and identity.

Heteroglossia, also known as the theory of polyphony, was a concept introduced by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to summarize the unique characteristics of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels. The term refers to the coexistence of different languages as well as the conflicts between them, and it also reflects the plurality and fluidity that characterizes our contemporary culture and society, where independent, uncompromising voices and ideas come at us through a variety of different agencies, but which nonetheless intertwine with each other and participate equally in the discussions and debates of a shared contemporary landscape. As the theme of this exhibition, Heteroglossia also provides a critical line of inquiry into it and invests the whole exhibition by formulating a dialogue between the artists and a world that has become more and more complex and challenging. By establishing this theme, the artists hope to communicate to the public what this world looks like from their perspectives.

Scorpions - Crazy World Tour in Beijing

Date: Nov 17 - 8 pm

Venue: Beijing Olympic Center Stadium

German hard rock and heavy metal act Scorpions comes to Olympic Stadium on Nov 17. Together since 1965, the group has released 18 studio albums, 27 compilation albums, 74 singles and has six number one hits. These "heroes of heavy metal" are now contemplating a brand-new studio album.

Four Tet

Date: Nov 17 - 9 pm

Venue: Omni Space, Beijing

Boundary-pushing British electronica star Four Tet will grace the stage at Omni Space for what is sure to be one of the hottest gigs of the fall season. His recently released ninth full length long play, New Energy, garnered some of his most enthused reviews yet, with critics calling it a return to form that also pushed his sound forward. Exclaim! magazine, for instance, praised the album's "sonic palettes ... that bleed into textures born from transfigured field recordings and sonic artifacts that epitomize the producer's discography while refining his sonic identity."

Tourism Product Innovation Conference

Time: Nov 27-28

Venue: Beijing International Hotel

The China Service Tourism Product Innovation Conference would showcase latest technologies used in tourism by such companies as Tencent and AutoNavi Software Co. It is hosted by the China Tourism Association and aims to encourage more tourism innovations to meet the increasing needs of Chinese tourists.

Wow Collective Writing Group

Date: Nov 22 - 7 pm

Venue: The Bookworm

The Wow Collective is a writing group that seeks to help its participants hone their skills and receive critical feedback on their work. "Writing on Walls" was based on fostering a gentle environment for emerging writers in which there were strict rules for the nature of feedback shared by participants. While we are all caring, compassionate people (none of us bite except me and that's only when provoked), we felt that, to move forward in our writing, we needed more constructive discussion of our work. The Wow Collective is about moving forward with our writing rather than concentrating on the fundamentals. If you are someone who writes, or wants to write and wants to hear what their contemporaries are doing around Beijing, then please join us to make friends like-minded individuals and receive not only feedback but also inspiration and fun.

(China Daily 11/17/2018 page19)