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Activities

Huangshan Overnight Tour

Date: Daily through June 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

The Eely Good Stuff

Date: Daily through July 31

Venue: Hagaki, 1/F, EAST Beijing Hotel, Beijing

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

Beijing Overseas Property Expo And Luxury China Exhibition

Date: July 3-5 - 9 am

Venue: Beijing Exhibition Center Theater

Price: Free

Luxury china is the top luxury brand show in Asia, many rich people and distributors will visit the show every year as well as media. Through this show, we can help your brand quickly to enter into the Chinese market.

Contact: 010-5927-3816

Packaging: The Great Unpacking!

Date: June 14 - 1:30 pm

Venue: Institut Francais

Price: Free

Attractive colors, original shapes ... Everything is done to attract the consumer's eye. The package, whose primary function is to protect a product, has become a selling point. Result: the "packaging" is becoming more and more expensive. It can represent up to 60 percent of the total price of a product. Aware of this explosion, the government since 2004 oblige companies to reduce the weight of packaging they place on the market but they have become icons of our brands ... Besides this sector represents 20 billion euros in sales business in France and 100 000 employees ... It is in the same rank as aeronautics.

Contact: jingyao.li@institutfrancais-chine.com

Great French Actress: Bright Days Ahead

Date: June 13 - 6 pm

Venue: Institut Francais

Price: Free

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself! However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood's senior club as a birthday present ... Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what's expected of her ... Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

E-mail: jingyao.li@institutfrancais-chine.com

Show

Donizetti's L'elisir d'Amore

Date: July 9-12-7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

The story takes place in a small Italian village about two centuries ago. A poor peasant Nemorino is in love with Adina but the beautiful landowner torments Nemorino with her indifference. Nemorino is also afraid she loves the self-important Sergeant Belcore who appears with his regiment and immediately proposes marriage to Adina in front of everyone. The traveling quack salesman, Dulcamara arrives, selling his bottled love potion to the townspeople. Nemorino drinks it, feeling its effects immediately. His confidence that he will win Adina causes him to act indifferently toward her. This upsets Adina and she ups the ante as well by agreeing to Sergeant Belcore's alternate suggestion: that they marry immediately as he has just received orders that the regiment must ship off the next morning. Nemorino realizes that he has lost Adina. He sees the Doctor and begs him for another love potion. When Nemorino says he has no money Belcore immediately suggests that if he joins the army he'll be paid immediately. When Nemorino says he's seeking a better life in the army, Adina responds by telling him he is loved and that she has purchased his military contract. Seeing the two in an embrace, the Sergeant leaves. Dr Dulcamara's potion makes him a rich man.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc Concert

Date: June 12-13 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Century Theater

Price: 100-900 yuan

Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc is a mixed unit composed of seventy-five to eighty school-aged children from ten to fifteen years old. Les Petits Chanteurs acquired recognition with the release of the 2004 film Les Choristes, for which they provided the vocals for the soundtrack. One of the soloists, Jean-Baptiste Maunier was chosen to play a lead role in the film. The choir held a performance, entitled Les Choristes en concerte in which they sang a variety of songs, including several from the film. Jean-Baptiste Maunier and Emmanuel Liz?? were the boy soloists for the concert. After Maunier's departure from the choir, Liz?? moved to first soloist and his prior spot was filled by Rabi Ramadan.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Teo Tronico VS Roberto Prosseda

Date: June 14 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Concert Hall

Price: 160-280 yuan

Teo Tronico is a pianist-robot who plays the piano with considerable dynamic control and articulation, moving its 53 fingers with great accuracy and speed. It was presented in concert for the first time in March 2012 by pianist Robot Prosseda in a lecture-concert about the difference between reproduction and interpretation in music. Besides playing, Teo can talk, sing and make funny facial expressions. Thus Teo Tronico can interact with its interlocutors, even through his facial expressions. The debate on the role of the interpreter has been open for many decades. It has often been discussed how an interpreter can go towards a personal-creative interpretation of the score.

E-mail: ponypiao@damai.cn

Parties

Damacha - TuHaoJin - Beijing Release Show

Date: June 25 - 10:30 pm

Venue: Huizhanyujing, 16 Yufeng Lu, Beijing

Price: 30 yuan

"Damacha's music - while averaging out around the 90 bpm boom-bap mark - jumps from style to style and incorporates samples from every possible source, working through the maestro's flitting obsessions with Chinese mall techno, McDonald's music, classical instrumentation, gutter pop; his collaborations with producers and rappers mediated by Twitter, Weibo, Wechat, QQ, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Douban; and his in-the-flesh encounters with Shanghai's underground elite at such glorious dives as The Shelter, Arkham, Arcade." - SmartBeijing, "Digging with Damacha"

"Musically, the idea for Tuhaojin is inspired by combining footwork with Chinese club music aka 'high' music, then adding a kind of lo-fi flavor and some other forms of electronic music thrown in, such as trap/cloud rap and even a bit of PC Music. I always thought this Chinese electronic music was pretty awesome - shitty but awesome. So I wanted to give new life to this music and turn it upside down." - Damacha

E-mail: bloodzboi@gmail.com

Life in Color Hong Kong

Date: July 25 - 5 pm

Venue: AsiaWorld-Expo Hong Kong Hall 10

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 July 25, 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

Footprint Sessions with Adriana Lopez

Date: June 13 - 10 pm

Venue: Lantern Club

Price: 70-100 yuan

DJ Producer and Grey Report Label Head - Adriana Lopez, whose career dates back to the late 1990s, is one of the most prominent South American techno artists in today's techno scene worldwide. The Colombia born artist has been busy developing her focused style behind the decks and releasing her material for Developer's Modularz label and her own label, Grey Report that she runs from Barcelona where she now resides. Her skills as a producer have also been picked up by renowned techno label Semantica where she released some material in the early months of 2014. Adriana's DJ sets flow effortlessly through techno's landscape focusing their power on rhythm and energy never forgetting hints of melodies and a fair share of dynamics. All in all, they are a fine example of her uncompromising approach to the art of djing and vowed fans include some of techno's finest artists like Jonas Kopp, Svreca, Oscar Mulero and of course Deep Space Helsinki.

E-mail: footprintsessions@gmail.com

Great Wall Party

Date: June 13 - 5 pm

Venue: The Great Wall

Price: 200-300 yuan

After a few years hiatus the team that brought you the "Great" series of parties including the Great Wall, Great Aircraft Carrier, Great Wall Beach, Great Music Festival and the Great Pool Party is back together! Teaming up with NB Noise to deliver some epic outdoor summer adventures for 2015. First on the list is the mighty return to the greatest of walls the world has to offer, for the original "Great Wall Party". This once, yearly gathering started it all, focusing primarily on the Beijing DJ scene and underground music. Somethings are best left unchanged and the team will not deviate from their previous approach, keeping the party true to it's roots.

Contact: 186-1829-1732

Sports

Summer Shake-Off - Jindafit, Factory Fresh and Juice by Melissa

Date: June 27 - 10 am

Venue: Chaoyang Park

Price: 150 yuan

Join us on June 27th for a morning full of fun, fitness and delicious food and juices to get fit and nourished for the summer. The morning starts with a Jindafit session, a fun and full-body dance workout based on African music. After burning it out we replenish with a nourishing juice from Juice by Melissa and indulge and fuel our body with a healthy feast created by FACTORY Fresh. Gather some friends, put on your sexiest pair of tights and kick off your healthy Saturday at Chaoyang Park. Please note that the event will be canceled in case of pollution over 200.

E-mail: jindafit@outlook.com