Beijing

Contemporary music

Chinese and Indian musicians will co-stage a concert in Beijing. The yangqin player Liu Yuening will collaborate with Vijay Ghate and Tarun Bhattacharya as well as the EOS orchestra from the Academy of the Central Conservatory of Music for the concert. They will present contemporary music works.

7:30 pm, July 6. Beijing Concert Hall, 1 Beixinhua Street, Xicheng district. 010-6605-7006

Dreams and reality

Pan Shiqiang's new series is themed on daydreams. Originally comprised of 150 works, the series is displayed on a horizontal scroll of more than 100 meters. The Daydream series tells of the relationships between people and society, and the contradiction between dreams and reality.

10 am-5 pm, Tue-Sun, June 29-July 5. Times Art Museum, F35-37 D Block, CITC Plaza, 6A Jianwai Street, Chaoyang district. 010-8567-9817

Macao

Bollywood royalty

Break out the bling for the 14th annual edition of the International Indian Film Academy Awards. The celebrity-laced event of the year celebrates Bollywood cinema and features the talents of movie stars Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Madhuri Dixit and dance guru Prabhu Deva, who will all be performing at the event. The gala presentation caps two days of Indian film screenings from July 4-6 at The Venetian.

5 pm, July 6. CotaiArena, The Venetian Macao, Estrada da Baia de Nossa Senhora da Esperanza, Cotai. 853-2882-8818

Hong Kong

Weekend sparks

Asia Art Archive invites both professional and student artists to drop by its annual open house for a weekend of collaborative fun. This year's theme of Spark! encourages interaction through networking and conversations, with an accessible program of talks and workshops. There will also be a screening, story telling, a book booth and a mini show.

10 am-7:30 pm, 9-10:30 pm, July 6; 10 am-7 pm, July 7. Asia Art Archive, 11/F Hollywood Center, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan. 852-2815-1112

Taiwan pairing

Artists Charwei Tsai and Chi-tsung Wu were both born in the 1980s. Meeting Point, their inaugural exhibition in Hong Kong curated by Jenny Yen Chen-lee, shows how their oeuvres were influenced by Chinese culture and Western education. While Tsai's series Incense Mantra illustrates musings on the natural environment, Wu's work examines the mechanisms behind how images are transformed into art.

10 am-7 pm, Mon-Sat, July 3-Aug 17. Edouard Malingue Gallery, 1/F, 8 Queen's Road Central. 852-2810-0317

Shanghai

Classic production

A Chinese theatrical production of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre will be presented in Shanghai. The play is produced by the National Center of the Performing Arts and directed by Wang Xiaoying, featuring leading actors Yuan Quan and Wang Luoyong.

7:15 pm, July 5-7. Shanghai Culture Square, 597 Fuxing Middle Road. 021-5461-9960

Modern drama

Transsexual modern dancer and actress Jin Xing will collaborate with Peking Opera-turned singer Guang Dongtian to present a play The Dubious Relationship. Written by Yu Rongjun, it tells of flirting, intimacy and disappointment between a man and woman, in different social contexts.

7:30 pm, July 4-21. Lyceum Theater Shanghai, 57 Maoning South Road. 021-6217-3055

Gallery fair

Asian Art Gallery Fair will take place this weekend in Shanghai. As a Shanghai Art Fair initiative, the fair will feature about 600 paintings, sculptures, ceramic works and other art works from such countries as China, Republic of Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Artists from Shanghai are presenting their distinctive understanding of the Shanghai character, while a large group of art works from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will have a debut exhibition in Shanghai.

9 am-6 pm, June 28-30. Shanghai Exhibition Center, 1000 Yan'an Middle Road. 021-6090-1729

China Daily

(China Daily 06/30/2013 page15)