Stage
Hayley Dee Westenra
Hayley Dee Westenra, a young soprano from New Zealand, will perform at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Westenra is from Christchurch, New Zealand, and is of Dutch and Irish heritage. The versatile singer and songwriter performs in diverse styles, such as classical, pop and Celtic, and is considered another crossover diva after Britain's Sarah Brightman. She's also a UNICEF ambassador.
7:15 pm, Oct 30
Shanghai Grand Theatre, 300 Renmin Avenue
021-6372-8702
120-580 yuan
Air Supply
The soft-rock band from Australia, Air Supply, made up of guitarist Graham Russell and singer-songwriter Russell Hitchcock, will perform in Shanghai. The duo was one of the few Western pop musicians introduced in China in the early 1990s, and many of their songs were adapted into Chinese.
7:30 pm, Nov 5
Shanghai International Gymnastic Center, 777 Wuyi Road
021-962-388
280-1080 yuan
Exhibitions
Years in One Minute
Contemporary artist Hu Jieming presents his video and audio creations at a solo exhibition. "Based on classic modern and contemporary art work, my team has transformed them into video clips by means of improvising changes directly onto them," Hu said. "The absurdity reflected in these 1,100 one-minute videos imbues the images shown on the storage bags with a kind of weird timelessness, blurring visual memory and values to the maximum extent."
10 am-6 pm, Oct 23-Nov 23
ShanghART Gallery, Building No 16, 50 Moganshan Road
021-6359-3923
Paolo Sabbatini
Paolo Sabbatini, the current director of the Italian Culture Institute in Shanghai, will have an exhibition of his paintings for the first time, in a joint exhibition with Chinese artist Fang Fang. The exhibition will be a visual dialogue about the Expo between two artists from China and Italy.
Until Oct 24
9 am-5 pm, Xuhui Art Museum, 1413 Huaihai Road M
021-6431-1900
Stage on Paper
An exhibition of poster design for performing arts is going on in Suzhou, following an international forum on the art of poster design. The exhibition has a special section for Chinese students' creations relating to Peking Opera, under the guidance of German designer Christof Gassner.
10 am-5 pm, until Oct 30
189 Zhineng Avenue, International Education Park, Wuzhong district, Suzhou
010-6579-7690
(China Daily 10/22/2010 page)
