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Sweden Svanholm Singers

Date: Aug 5 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 50-320 yuan

Svanholm Singers is an extraordinary male voice chamber choir. Since its formation in 1998, the ensemble has established itself as one of the brightest shining stars on the Swedish choral scene. The 20 talented singers constantly strive to develop and refine their artistic and musical expression, through vocal music for male voices. The core of the repertoire is the male choir tradition of Scandinavia and the Baltic. Through numerous tours and awards in Europe and Japan the ensemble has gained a reputation for performances characterized by spirit, joy and youth while making unique interpretations of classical music. The light voices of the singers in combination with an exact intonation create a unique sound that has become the trademark for Svanholm Singers.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

British Royal Opera House Ballet film Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Date: Aug 9 - 2:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 60 yuan

At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents' friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows him down a rabbit hole, events become curiouser and curiouser... As Alice journeys through Wonderland, she encounters countless strange creatures. She's swept off her feet by the charming Knave of Hearts, who's on the run for stealing the tarts. Confusion piles upon confusion. Then Alice wakes with a start. Has it been a daydream?

Contact: 010-6655-0000

British Royal Opera House Ballet film

Date: Aug 9-10 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 60 yuan

Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. One of the swans turns into a beautiful girl and enraptures him. The girl is Odette, who is under a spell and may only regain human form at night. The evil spirit Von Rothbart, arbiter of Odette's curse, disguises his daughter Odile as Odette to win Prince Siegfried's love. Fooled, Siegfried declares Odile as his wife, and Odette is doomed to suffer under the curse forever.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Ariana Grande 2017 World Tour Live

Date: Aug 26 - 8 pm

Venue: Wukesong Arena

Price: 80-500 yuan

Live Nation is proud to announce Ariana Grande is bringing her world tour to China for the first time this coming August. The multiplatinum selling and Grammy Award-nominated artist is ready to ignite this summer with her debut performance in China. In less than a year, she captured the No 1 spot, twice, on the Billboard Top 200-first with her Republic Records debut Yours Truly and also with its 2014 follow-up, My Everything. Yours Truly yielded the game-changing pop smash The Way featuring Mac Miller, which went triple-platinum, landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and seized No 1 on the iTunes Overall Top Songs chart.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

The Epic Horse Show - Troy

Date: July 29-30 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Stadium

Price: 100-1,280 yuan

She will be the grand achievement of the history of Chinese performance, with hundreds of well-known horses and Asian and European artists. She is based on the great literature of ancient Greece that spreads thousands of years-Homer's Epic Poems; She will lead the audience back to the era when man and god were coexisted. Horses and Beauties, Gods and Heroes are the essential elements throughout the performance; She appeared as film, TV serial, play, animation once, but has never entered the world of Show. Now, through the wind and the clouds, she shall meet the horse appearing as The Epic Horse Show - Troy.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Slava's Snow Show

Date: Aug 30-Sept 3 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 99-680 yuan

Snowshow is a universal and timeless theatrical poetic spectacle which has unanimously enchanted and empowered the imagination of audiences and critics since 1993 in dozens of countries, hundreds of cities with multiple thousand performances resulting in millions of ecstatic spectators from all nationalities, genders, beliefs, types and ages, probably like no other show. It is a genre of it's own and remains as spontaneous and magical as on the first day it was performed, systematically catapulting adults back in childhood.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Gloriously Broadway - Sister Act in Guangzhou

Date: July 29-Aug 6 - 8 pm

Venue: Guangzhou Opera House

Price: 180-980 yuan

A newly revised adaptation of the show opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 20, 2011, after previews beginning March 24, 2011. Jerry Zaks was the new director with Douglas Carter Beane rewriting the book. Patina Miller, who originated the role of Deloris in the West End production, reprised the role on Broadway, making her Broadway debut. The original cast featured Victoria Clark (Mother Superior), Fred Applegate (Monsignor), Sarah Bolt (Sister Mary Patrick), Chester Gregory (Eddie), Kingsley Leggs (Curtis), Marla Mindelle (Sister Mary Robert) and Audrie Neenan (Sister Mary Lazarus).

Contact: 400-610-3721

Gigi Leung Good Times Concert Tour Part II 2017

Date: Aug 5 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Wukesong Arena

Price: 280-1,280 yuan

Gigi Leung Wing-kei is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Her singing career began the following year with the debut album Love Myself (1996). Since then, she has sung both Cantonese and Mandarin songs. She is recognized not only as a Cantopop/Mandopop singer, but as a songwriter and lyricist as well, having written songs for both herself and other local singers. She has a contract with Warner Music Hong Kong, with more than a dozen albums to her name. She has performed in several full-scale live concerts including one entitled Funny Face in 2003. In 2008 March 25 she signed a new company Big Artiste Management a subsidiary of Mei Ah Entertainment.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Activities & nightlife

National Theater Live: Frankenstein, No Man's Land, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Amadeus

Date: Aug 5 - 2 pm

Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Price: 120 yuan/200 yuan

See all your favorite actors - Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Patrick Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Daniel Radcliffe - in these National Theatre Plays screening at UCCA. From a staging of the classic Frankenstein with Cumberbatch to Stewart and McKellen in Harold Pinter's classic No Man's Land, a drama about elderly writers, to the Mozart biopic Amadeus, to Daniel Radcliff in Tom Stoppard's Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, this series has something for every theater lover.

Contact: 010-5780-0200

Bilingual Teen Creative Writing Workshop by Beijing Youth Literary Review

Date: July 29 - 2 pm

Venue: The Bookworm

Price: Free Entry

BYLR interns, Iris and Eli, are hosting the first ever Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop! It will be hosted at the Bookworm on July 29 at 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. The two will instruct 14 - 19 year-olds in both English and Mandarin on the art of haikus! Haikus are a traditional Japanese style of literature that can be translated into any language. The only rule is that it must have three lines: the first being 5 syllables, the second being 7 syllables, and the last being another 5 syllables. Come together with other young writers and artists to perfect the art of the haiku, and share your work.

Contact: 010-6586-9507

Contact_Improv X (Dance+ Music + Visual_Art+ Exhibition)

Date: July 29 - 4:29 pm

Venue: 1 Zhonglucaoyuan Hutong

Price: 229 yuan

Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion - gravity, momentum, inertia. Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion - gravity, momentum, inertia. This time we gather together in a historic mansion with various artists in visual arts, music and dance. We got separated sessions for visual arts, music and dance and then we jam together.

Contact: 151-4543-0521

Ambulance of Love, Swinging Babarellas, The Paper Tigers (Farewell Show!), Electric Lady, The Hunters

Date: July 29 - 9 pm

Venue: School Bar

Price: 60 yuan

This evening we shall all indulge in Volume 2 of School Bar's "Wild Tales of Beijing" series! Ummm, yeah, nuff' said, these bands like to have fun! Taking you back to the 70s in the vain of Johnny Thunders and the Ramones are drinking punk dudes Ambulance of Love! Joining them are the genre-jumping Chairman Wow led rock n' roll foursome Swinging Barbarellas (buy bassist Liane a shot, she's celebrating her birthday the next day!), playing The Clash meets Block Party inspired tunes and unfortunately playing their last show The Paper Tigers, female fronted psychedelic prog-rockers Electric Lady, and rounding out the lineup are the always funky The Hunters!

Contact: 010-6402-8881

Rembrandt and His Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection

Date: July 29-Sept 3 - 9 am

Venue: National Museum of China

Price: Free Entry

As part of its mission to stimulate a wider appreciation and understanding of seventeenth-century Dutch art, The Leiden Collection's first international traveling exhibition will bring a group of some seventy works to the National Museum of China, Beijing from June 17, 2017 through September 3, 2017. The Leiden Collection exhibition makes history by presenting the largest assemblage of Dutch Golden Age paintings ever to visit China. It will include eleven paintings by Rembrandt - the greatest number of works by the master in private hands - as well as Vermeer's Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, the first painting by the celebrated artist to travel to Beijing.

Contact: 010-6401-2252

Lany 2017 in Shanghai

Date: July 31 - 8 pm

Venue: Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Future House

Price: 250-280 yuan

For a shot in the dark, Lany's album is something of a triumph, underpinned by distinctive, wistful lyrics that continue to set Lany apart from their peers. "It wasn't a conscious decision to write such conversational lyrics, but I've definitely noticed most people don't do it," Klein adds. "I know we're different, because people tell me we're different, but we never tried to be. The result is an album packed with truth, and light on ambiguity. "Some writers aren't even sure what their lyrics mean until after they're written, and only then do they attach meaning," Paul adds. "I know what I mean, and I'm going to say it. That's the only thing that makes sense to me." Contact: 400-610-3721

The Beijinger 2017 Pizza Cup Launch Festival

Date: Sept 16-17 - 11 am

Venue: Wangjing Sohu, 1 Futong East Street

Price: 80-700 yuan

To mark the launch of 2017's Pizza Cup, our annual Pizza Festival returns to Wangjing Soho for what will be the fourth celebration of all things cheesy, saucy, doughy, not necessarily triangly, but certainly squarely one of our favorite foods ever to exist. Following the success of last year's event, at this year's two-day festival we'll have entertainment fit for all the family in the form of live music, DJs, and of course unlimited amounts of the city's best pizza, snacks, and drinks. We've even invited the Guinness Book of World Records to witness what will hopefully be the biggest dough toss of all time.

Contact: 400-815-9888

Sports

WWE Live 2017 China

Date: Sept 17 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sport Center Chun Jian Gymnasium

Price: 180-2,080 yuan

Fans attending WWE LIVE China will be able to see their favorite WWE Superstars, including John Cena, Randy Orton, AJ Styles, Dolph Ziggler, Shinsuke Nakamura, Kevin Owens, The New Day, Charlotte, Becky Lynch, Natalya, Sami Zayn and many more.

Contact: 400-610-3721