Nightlife & Activities

Kids Storytelling and Crafts

Date: June 23 - 10:30 am

Venue: The Bookworm

Teacher Karin Markowski leads this storytelling and craft class every Saturday, reading a short children's story appropriate for kids aged four to seven. The price of the class includes a hot chocolate for your little reader.

ACYA& NCP Youth Opportunities Showcase

Date: June 23 - 4 pm

Venue: Naked Hub

Come along to hear fellow students and young professionals speak directly about their experience as an intern. At our upcoming ACYA x NCP Youth Opportunities Showcase, it won't be company representatives speaking with you, but rather fellow interns who can tell you what working at a company is really like, as well as giving you tips on the application process!

Art Book in China at M Woods in Beijing

Date: June 29-July 6 - 12 pm

Venue: M Woods

Check out books, magazines, zines and art from a variety of imprints and artists with special spotlights on Indiemags from Germany, Japanese photo editions from Einstein Studio and the Desktop Art Fair.

UCCA Art Film Screenings This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk in Beijing

Date: June 30-July 1 - 1:30 pm

Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

UCCA brings This is Now: Film and Video After Punk, a major new touring project that looks at artists' film and video from the post-punk era (1979 - 85). These programs focus on work from the early 1980s that explore the blurred lines between media images and identity, creating new dialogues between the self and the world. It was an uncertain, politically contentious time, a time in which - very much like today with the internet - technology appeared to ease life, yet also created gaps between people. Artists considered what images and technology could mean and be in their fullest sense. Works will be screened in English with subtitles.

Doboku: Civil Engineering in Shanghai

Date: June 9-June 24 - 10 am

Venue: Modern Art Museum

This is a design and education-focused exhibition, using art as a method to draw people's attention to civil engineering. In the exhibition, they will guide visitors to explore different crucial parts of city constructions and the indispensable facilities in their daily life, such as roads, railroads, metro, internet networks, water pipe and water dam. The exhibition aims to combine various art forms with city engineering to show visitors a different aspect of those complex constructions and the works behind the scene.

Azure Ray Live in Beijing

Date: June 23 - 8 pm

Venue: Tango Live

Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink reformed the band for a one-off show in Los Angeles on Nov 30, 2008. The duo was accompanied by Andy LeMaster of Now It's Overhead and Nick White of Tilly and the Wall. In 2009, Taylor announced on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic that the band would reform on a semi-permanent basis in July 2009 for "five or six" shows before working on a new Azure Ray album. Their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon, was released in September 2010. Azure Ray's six-song EP, As Above So Below, was released on Sept 5, 2012, on Saddle Creek Records. On Feb 11, 2015, Taylor Swift included Azure Ray's song "Sleep" from their self-titled LP on a 6-song "breakup playlist" made for a fan via her official Tumblr.