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Shows

China National Opera House and Ningbo Song and Dance Theater Dance Drama Mulan

Date: May 17 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-500 yuan

The national dance drama Hua Mulan is adapted according to the Chinese folk songs in the Northern dynasties (439-581). It tells the story of a young girl who grows up to a heroic woman. She disguises herself as a man to join the army instead of her father and accomplishes the mission successfully. Also, she pursues love peace and freedom. The dance drama integrates the modern stage technology elements, creating a story line about self-discovery and self-identity.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Beijing Peking Opera Theater Guzheng Concert

Date: May 7 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-200 yuan

As the young Guzheng performer of the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing and a member of the Chinese Musicians' Association, ShangJingya graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music. She won the Golden Prize in the 2nd International Guzheng Competition (Youth Professional Group). She successfully held a Guzheng recital in 2014. In the same year, she published her Guzheng DVD album Jingya's Guzheng Words.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

NCPA Drama A Midsummer Night's Dream

Date: May 11-14 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-500 yuan

In a midsummer night in Athens, Duke Theseus and his fiancee are busy preparing their wedding. In the meantime, another couple of lovers are worrying about their love. The beautiful Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father Egeus insists that she weds Demetrius. Egeus' demand is supported by the Duke. Should Hermia resist she would be sentenced to death or a lifetime of chastity, according to the Athenian law. To pursue their love, Hermia and Lysander flee into the forest outside Athens.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

2017 CoCo 18 World Tour

Date: May 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sport Center Chun Jian Gymnasium

Price: 380-1,280 yuan

Coco Lee is a Hong Kong-born American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Lee's career began in Hong Kong and then expanded to Taiwan. Her single, "Do You Want My Love" also entered the US music charts. Her first full-length English language album was Just No Other Way. As a Chinese American, Lee is the first and only person of Chinese ethnicity to perform at the Oscars; she performed the Best Original Song nominated, "A Love Before Time" from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

Space Club - 05/11 Oliva Heldens

Date: May 11 - 10 pm

Venue: Space Club, Chengdu

Price: 150 yuan

Oliver Heldens is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer from Rotterdam. His 2013 song, "Gecko", caught the attention of fellow Dutch DJ Tiesto, who signed him to his label, Musical Freedom, and released the track with vocals from British singer Becky Hill on June 23, 2014. Heldens also has a weekly podcast titled Heldeep Radio, which has been ongoing for over 2 years. In 2015, he began producing bass house songs under the alias HI-LO, which comes from 'Oli H' in reversed form. Under his alias, Heldens produced three singles titled "Crank It Up", "Renegade Mastah" and "Wappy Flirt", releasing the latter two on his label Heldeep Records.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Mark Reeder China Tour

Date: May 12 - 8:30 pm

Venue: VOX Livehouse, Wuhan

Price: 80/120 yuan

Mark Reeder grew up in Manchester, England. He is a musician and record producer. At a young age, Reeder became interested in progressive rock and especially early electronic music. In his teens, he worked in a small Virgin Records store in Manchester city center.

Reeder has been living and working in Berlin since 1978. He is also the founder and owner of the German electronic dance music label "MFS" and "Flesh". In 1991, Reeder discovered the teenage Paul van Dyk, guiding and paving his way to build up his now international DJ superstardom. Through books as Dave Haslam's "Adventures on the wheels of steel - The rise of the superstar djs" it is now clearly understood that Reeder initiated and successfully outlined Paul van Dyk's early career from 1991 until 1999.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Megadeth 2017 China Tour

Date: May 12 - 8 pm

Venue: Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Dream Hall

Price: 980 yuan

Megadeth is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson formed the band in 1983 shortly after Mustaine's dismissal from Metallica. A pioneer of the American thrash metal scene, the band is credited as one of the genre's "big four" with Anthrax, Metallica and Slayer, responsible for thrash metal's development and popularization. Megadeth plays in a technical style, featuring fast rhythm sections and complex arrangements. Themes of death, war, politics and religion are prominent in the song lyrics.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Childs 2017 China Tour

Date: May 13 - 8:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Qianshuiwan Culture Art Center

Price: 160-350 yuan

Paul Marr??n and Guillermo Batiz are the dynamic duo behind the epic electronic lullabies of Childs. Inspired by anime aesthetics, Icelandic elfin pop, sounds from the shoegaze era in the early nineties and indie rock, Childs have developed a strong cult following in their country. Their music stops short of being more than dream passages in a world full of pop opportunities, transcending simple trends of indie electronic music. With live instrumentation and intense performances in a live setting, Childs is one of the young electronic acts that live up to the task of transforming the precepts of Mexican electronic and rock music. Their music is a soft melange of digital, analog and acoustic sounds that they describe as "electronic lullabies".

Contact: 400-610-3721

Priscilla Ahn "LaLaLa" 2017 World Tour in Beijing

Date: May 13 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Century Theater

Price: 100-880 yuan

After years of performing at open mic nights, Priscilla Ahn played a showcase in New York City for Blue Note Records and was signed to the label. In 2008, Blue Note Records released her full-length debut album, A Good Day, produced by Joey Waronker. The following June, Ahn went on a national tour. Her album, A Good Day included musical contributions by keyboardists Greg Kurstin, Keefus Ciancia, guitarist Mike Andrews, musical saw player Ursula Knudsun, cellist and string arranger Oliver Kraus, keyboardist Larry Goldings and singers Jim Gilstrap and Orin Waters. Ahn's music is described as grounded in folk, country and pop. Ahn explored electropop music in the album This Is Where We Are.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Les Freres Colle (The Colle Brothers) Percussive Juggling

Date: May 6 - 3:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Himalayas Art Center

Price: 80-380 yuan

Clement is a drummer, Stephane is mostly a juggler and I, Cyril, I don't really know, in between the two, I guess ... We did not know what to do with all this. Stubborn, each one of us did exactly as he pleased. This combination had the right ingredients for "the sound of war...," Unexpectedly the ideas emerged and the brotherly chaos transformed into a visual musical show. We Are the Colle Brothers - Come and discover what "percussive juggling" means.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Jazz Weekend - French Jazz Artist Thomas Enhco Piano Recital

Date: May 6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Concert Hall

Price: 30-599 yuan

Thomas Enhco, born in Paris, France, on September 29th 1988, starts playing the violin and piano at an early age, and studies classical music and jazz in both instruments. He starts composing at six, and gives his first concerts with a band made up of young children. At the age of nine he is invited by Didier Lockwood to participate with him in the Antibes Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival. At ten years old he plays the role of a young violinist in the film directed by Otar Iosseliani, Adieu, Plancher des Vaches.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Activities & nightlife

From Shakespeare to Sherlock: Treasures of The British Library

Date: May 6-June 21 - 9 am

Venue: National Library

Price: Free entry

The National Library hosts an exhibition in partnership with the British National Library, showcasing rare prints and first editions of classics including the manuscript of Dicken's Nicolas Nickelby, the revised manuscript of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, a draft of Wordsworth's poem I Roam Like A Cloud and other important works of literature.

Contact: 010-8854-5393/4089

LMT Connection Live in Xi'an

Date: May 6 - 10 pm

Venue: East Beijing

Price: free

Calling all music funs! We are very happy to welcome back the world-famous funk band from Canada, LMT Connection, to conduct a one time performance in Xi'an on May 6. From 10 pm, May 6, LMT Connection will deliver a truly "funktastic" night. Guests can enjoy signature cocktails, wines and snacks at Xian. Our in-house band, Unity, will kick off the night with music at 9 pm. It is also a charity journey for the band. On the same day from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, the band will perform exclusively for the students of the Beijing Guang Ai School. The Beijing Guang Ai School is an orphanage founded in 2004 by Shi Qinghua. Airbus is kindly providing the transportation for the children to and from the venue.

Contact: 010-8426-0888

Dope Flow Freestyle Battle

Date: May 6 - 10 pm

Venue: ModernSky Lab

Price: 100/200 yuan

ModernSky Lab hosts the Dope Flow Freestyle Battle, with the city's best rappers squaring off to be crowned number one and win prizes and equipment. The contest will be judged by Ijapa Banton and Jiggy, with beats by DJ 4tel, with Nasty Ray and Boom squaring off to compete.

Contact: 010-5876-0143

Czech Film Festival

Date: May 9 - 8 pm every Tuesday

Venue: Mogu Space

Price: 35/50 yuan

Mogu Space hosts a Tuesday Czech film night, celebrating the work of Czech artists. The first film screened will be Cutting It Short, a film by director Ji i Menzel, which follows a family of brewery owners with visiting relatives; a different film will be featured each week. Films will be subtitled.

Contact: 264962628 WeChat

Women in Leadership: Mentor Walks Asia

Date: May 12 - 7:45 am

Venue: Ritan Park

Price: Free

Mentor Walks Asia in Beijing brings together established and emerging women leaders in the community for a morning walk to discuss professional and personal successes, challenges and aspirations. This event aims to provide women in the workplace a platform to share their experience and help them progress in their careers.

Contact: 010-8562-2612

Big Swing The Blue Note Beijing Jazz Orchestra

Date: May 12-13 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Blue Note Beijing

Price: Free

The Blue Note Beijing Jazz Orchestra brings together some of the finest musicians in Greater China, into one of the only professional Jazz large ensembles in the country, performing traditional and modern big band works alike from both historical and contemporary composers in Jazz. The Blue Note Beijing Jazz Orchestra delivers a night of Big Swing on May 12-13, showcasing composers and highlights of the modern big band Jazz tradition, from Joe Henderson, Count Basie, Thad Jones, Neal Hefti, Bob Mintzer and more! Two nights of Big Swing!

Contact: 170-000-0288

Sports

IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2017

Date: May 13 - 6 pm

Venue: Shanghai Stadium

Price: 50-680 yuan

IAAF Diamond League Shanghai was known as the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix when it launched as the first world-class track and field event in China in 2005. IAAF Diamond League is a top annual series of track and field meets which has been held globally since 2010. There are 14 individual meets holding in different cities throughout Asia, North America and Europe. In 2010 the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix has been invited to join the prestigious IAAF Diamond League and became one of the only two stops in Asia.

Contact: 400-610-3721