Nightlife & activities

Art Book in China at M Woods in Beijing

Date: June 30-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.

Play: Equus

Date: June 30-July 16 - 7:30 pm

Venue: The Capital Theatre - Renyi Experiment Theatre

Dr. Martin Dysart, a dissatisfied and disaffected psychiatrist, is faced with a unique case when a young man, Alan Strang, is brought to him for treatment. Alan, a passionate and obsessive horse lover, has blinded six horses, to the horror and surprise of his family. In his efforts to coax Alan out of his shell and treat him, Dr. Dysart begins to unravel the complex psychological puzzle of Alan's obsessions. Underneath Alan's complacent manner, Dr. Dysart discovers a fervent, passionate, almost religious power that has both the power to destroy Alan, and perhaps, to save the doctor himself. English playwright Sir Peter Shaffer's international hit is a dazzling, complex, and thrilling look at passion, sex, religion, and sanity.