Upcoming celebritions

Beijing

Folk art from the heart

Audiences can expect a series of upcoming folk performances at the PLA Theater.

Accomplished singers from around the country, including Pan Shuzhen and Jiang Jiaqiang, and ethnic singer Ge Yunping, will stage folk concerts. The program covers such festive songs as What a Beautiful Jasmine Flower, In the Remote Place and The Crescent Moon Rises.

Feb 4-6 will feature the folk art of old Beijing. Performances will include acrobatics, traditional instrumental concerts, ballads and storytelling sessions.

7:30 pm, Feb 4-6. PLA Theater, 60 Deshengmennei Dajie, Jishuitan, Haidian district. 010-8322-0726

A treasure trove for free

An exhibition featuring masterpieces donated to the National Art Museum of China over the past 50 years has opened.

On view are more than 800 prints, ink art, calligraphy, oil paintings, sculpture and folk art works. Free admission from Feb 3-9 to celebrate Spring Festival. Visitors can make reservations at www.namoc.org, or get free tickets at the entrance.

9 am-5 pm, until Feb 26, except Mondays. National Art Museum of China, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng district. 010-6401-7076

Celebrities get own show

Lao She Teahouse is organizing a Paiker Spring Festival Show on the afternoon of Jan 30. Paiker refers to people who take videos and then put them on the Web.

There will be more than 20 programs featuring ordinary people who have become popular on the Internet because of video clips. They are Xidan Girl, China's Forrest Gump, Brother Cui from North America, and a migrant worker breakdancer.

The show will be broadcast live on the Internet from 1:30 pm on Jan 30, for 100 minutes, on www.youku.com.

Shanghai

Laborer of love

The Yueju Opera classic Tang Bohu will be staged by the Xiao Baihua Yueju Opera Troupe from Ningbo city, Zhejiang province.

The story is about Tang Bohu, a famous Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) poet and artist, who fell in love with a servant girl and pretended to be an illiterate laborer in order to serve the same family she did.

7:30 pm, Feb 7. Shanghai Art Theater, 466 Jiangning Lu. 021-6217-2426

Art by numbers

The group exhibition One by One features 38 artists' small-sized artworks, created using different media. Every work will be placed 1.1 meters above the floor. And every work will be labeled only with a number and displayed in random order. The signage will not indicate the artists' names, media, classifications or concept descriptions.

10 am-6 pm, until Feb 15. ShanghART Gallery, Building 16, 50 Moganshan Lu. 021-6359-3923 Rabbit art

Twelve artists will get together to create art works out of cardboard at LifeHub@Jinqiao, a shopping mall. Curator Li Xu has asked the artists to work on the theme of the rabbit, to mark the coming Year of the Rabbit.

10 am-10 pm, until Apr 30. LifeHub@Jinqiao, 3611 Zhang Yang Lu. 021-2023-3888