Events
Conferences & Meetings \>\> In China
China Education Expo
An event for overseas schools to expand their presence in the world's potentially largest recruitment market.
Date: Oct 20-Nov 3
Venue: Selected cities
Website: chinaeducationexpo.com
China Xiamen International Vegetarian Food Fair, Xiamen
Centers on vegetarian food, environmental protection and health in the Chinese mainland.
Date: Oct 19-22
Venue: Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
Eco Lifestyles Fair, Shanghai
A green marketing platform for government agencies, municipalities, district officials, food and beverage groups, restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and department stores.
Date: Oct 25-27
Venue: Shanghai Mart
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
The 5th China International Games & Amusement Fair, Zhongshan
The only games and amusement show in China financed by the Chinese government.
Date: Nov 1-4
Venue: Zhongshan Expo Center
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
Shanghai Art Fair 2012, Shanghai
Presents domestic and overseas collectors a gorgeous art event in Shanghai. More than 1,000 art galleries, organizations, agencies from more than 50 countries and areas have participated in this lively art exchange in the past 12 years.
Date: Nov 1-4
Venue: Shanghai Mart
Website: www.chinaexhibition.com
Conferences & Meetings \>\> In Europe
Improving shareholder value; maximizing and protecting your intellectual property across the Web and in new markets such as China, London
Speakers will focus on China to illustrate opportunities and the pitfalls of not protecting and commercializing intellectual property effectively.
Date: Oct 9
Venue: Royal College of Physicians
Website: www.cbbc.org
Enabling Innovation: Huawei Showcase, London
Offers knowledge of the procurement process of Huawei, the Chinese global information and communications technology solutions provider, and provides opportunities to meet some Chinese technology decision-makers.
Date: Oct 15
Venue: Aldersgate Room, Central Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster
Website: www.cbbc.org
Asia Task Force Event - Doing Business in Asia: Meet the Experts, Merseyside, England
Features an interactive business panel, roundtables on 12 markets across Asia, clinics on the financial and legal aspects and bookable one-to-one meetings to answer specific questions.
Date: Oct 17
Venue: Haydock Park Racecourse
Website: www.cbbc.org
Southwest China: Opportunities for British Companies, London
British Expertise and CBBC cohost this event on developments and opportunities in Southwest China.
Date: Oct 18
Venue: British Expertise
Website: www.cbbc.org
Culture \>\> In China
Oktoberfest, Beijing
Paulaner Brauhaus, the home of authentic German beer in Beijing, will be delighting beer lovers from around the world.
Date: Oct 12-28
Venue: Kempinski Hotel Beijing
Website: www.kempinski.com/en/beijing/hotel-lufthansa-center/events/oktoberfest-beijing
Harmony Shanghai: Firebird, Shanghai
A group of 120 Shanghai-based pupils from Chinese and German schools will perform Royston Maldoom's choreography based on Igor Stravinsky's Firebird.
Date: Oct 24
Venue: Lyric Theater
Website: www.shgtheatre.com
Staatskapelle Dresden, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing
Founded by Prince Elector Moritz von Sachsen in 1548, this is one of the oldest orchestras in the world and steeped in tradition. Christian Thielemann, its current principal conductor, has received honorary membership of the Royal Academy of Music.
Dates and venues:
Oct 28, Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, Taipei
Oct 30-31, Shanghai Grand Theater
Nov 2-3, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing
Website: www.wupromotion.com/en/international-artists
International Festival Chorus: Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony, Beijing
A rousing program conducted by Nicholas Smith and accompanied by Peking Sinfonietta.
Date: Oct 27
Venue: Beijing Concert Hall
Website: www.uknow.org.cn/en/events/239.html
Culture \>\> In Europe
Collecting abroad for the V&A 1851-1914, London
This display tells the stories of five intrepid agents whose mission was to find and buy the best of world art and design for the V&A: Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave (Italy), Robert Murdoch Smith (Iran), Caspar Purdon Clarke (Turkey), and Charles Wylde (China and Korea).
Date: Until May 26
Venue: Library Landing, Room 85
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/collecting-abroad-for-the-v-and-a-1851-1914
Chinese seals: tradition and innovation, London
In conjunction with a contemporary Chinese seals exhibition by Li Lanqing, this conference looks at seals in religious, political and social contexts from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) to the present.
Date: Nov 3
Venue: Stevenson Lecture Theater, British Museum
Website: www.britishmuseum.org
Calligraphy Today, Cambridge, UK
Shows vibrant contemporary artworks together with pieces that celebrate the rich traditions and contemporary cultures of Europe, the Middle East, China and Japan.
Date: Nov 10-Jan 13
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Website: www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/article.html?3550
Events can be sent to: events@mail.chinadailyuk.com
Diplomatic Pouch >> With Mike Peters
The German Ambassador to China Michael Schaefer celebrated his country's national day, the Day of German Unity, on Oct 3 in a big way in Beijing.
October also marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Germany, and the embassy sponsored a series of music and design events at the just-ended Beijing Design Week.
Schaefer will host a reception at the embassy on Oct 10 for hundreds of invited guests, and the following night will escort German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and several Chinese dignitaries to a German concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts.
The Swedish embassy announced that the author Sven Lindquist will speak in Shanghai on Oct 6. Since 1955, Sven has published more than 30 books of essays, aphorisms, autobiographies, documentary prose, travel and reportage, including The Myth of Wu Tao-Tzu, which he wrote in Beijing during his time as a cultural attache to China starting in 1962.
The book is being published in English for the first time this year by Granta.
One year ago Innovation Center Denmark launched the website www.sinodanishnetwork.com to promote Danish education and career opportunities for Chinese students and professionals. The Danish embassy says the center marked the anniversary by launching a Chinese version of the webpage, and promises that the network's biggest events to date are coming up this month.
More than 12 university events have been hosted with representatives from Danish universities and a current total of 15 partner companies.
Almost 1,000 Chinese people have registered their profiles in the network, and more than 2,500 are following the Sina Weibo profile.
The Delegation of the European Union and EU member-state embassies, in cooperation with Chinese science and technology organizations, will hold a series of information seminars across China through Nov 9.
The events aim to raise awareness among innovation stakeholders in China about the research-and-development collaboration opportunities Europe offers, including mobility schemes.
European science and technology embassy counselors and representatives of research organizations from several EU countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain, will present and discuss European programs in eight cities in China.
The campaign began last month and will last until November. The first cluster of seminars was held in Kunming and Chongqing Sept 24-25.
Finnish Ambassador to China Lars Backstrom will open an exhibition next week titled "The Spirit of the Material", which will display Finnish and Chinese art glass side by side.
The show, at the White Box Museum of Art in Beijing's trendy 798 Art Zone, runs from Oct 12-24.
It is a satellite event of Radical Design Week, being held in Shanghai in conjunction with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.
Send embassy and consulate news to michaelpeters@chinadaily.con.cn.
China Daily
(China Daily 10/05/2012 page37)
