Nightlife & Activities
Women in Leadership Mentor Walk Date: March 10 — 9:30 am Venue: Embassy of Australia The British Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to participate in the Beijing Mentors Walk. Our first Mentor Walks of 2018 will take place on March 10, at the Australian Embassy. Mentors and mentees will be gathering to walk around Liangma river. As they walk, attendees will be able to discuss their professional and personal challenges, successes, aspirations and lessons learned.
Comedy Night — Kyle Grooms Date: March 11 — 8 pm Venue: The Bookworm, Beijing Best known for his hilarious half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central and his guest appearances on VH-1, NBC’s Last Comic Standing and Chappelle’s Show, Kyle started doing standup at a local Miami night club while holding down a day job as Art Director at the Spanish-language network Univision. After a few years honing his act in Miami, Kyle said goodbye to Spanish TV and returned to New Jersey, where he was born. He delivers an honest and intelligent view of the world and gives an intimate look into his life experiences growing up in the American melting pot. Kyle has a sharp sense of humor that appeals to a broad audience. His first comedy CD, The Legend of the Jersey Devil, was named one of iTunes’ Top 100 Comedy CD’s of 2009. Kyle has been featured on several television, radio and internet broadcasts. He also has several appearances in national TV ad campaigns under his belt for companies including T-Mobile, Sears, Career Builders and Holiday Inn Express. Kyle continues to grow as a stand-up comedian, writer and actor and can be seen performing worldwide.
How to Build an Anti-Fraud Program Date: March 13 — 9 pm Venue: European Union Chamber of Commerce in China Asset misappropriation, bribery and corruption and procurement/accounting fraud are relatively common economic crimes in China. PwC’s most recent Global Economic Crime Survey indicates that around one out of every three China based companies have experienced some form of economic crime in the past two years. Given the extent of this issue, businesses and their staff need to ask themselves some hard questions about these risks, including: “Is our company doing enough to preserve its value so we can sleep soundly at night?” The European Chamber invites you to join a seminar with Benjamin Ee, Director of Forensic Services, PwC China who will present on how to build an effective anti-fraud program and share practical experience of managing these challenges.
In Conversation with Geoff Dyer Date: March 10 — 6 pm Venue: The Bookworm, Beijing Geoff Dyer dissolves genres and writes a blend of fiction, autobiography, travel writing, cultural criticism and literary theory, often laced with a sardonic and self-deprecating wit. His 14 books have won many awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His subjects vary wildly, from an ode to critic John Berger to how the World War I is remembered, to a book about his failure to write a book about DH Lawrence. His “nonfiction” book about jazz imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the lives of the greats, his “novels’ often harbor essays and critiques, while his latest book White Sands blends travel writing with some fictitious aspects in his search for the most vivid of experiences.
Longines Global Champions Shanghai Date: April 20-22 — 10 am Venue: South of China Art Museum The Longines Global Champions Tour is the world’s premier show jumping series, bringing together the top ranked athletes in the world to compete in prestigious locations for unprecedented prize money. From the sands of Miami Beach to the lights of Shanghai, under the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the breathtaking Stadio dei Marmi in Rome, it offers some of the most explosive and exciting competition of any equestrian series. Revolutionary in the sport, the LGCT of Shanghai is in its fifth year running, breaking records by being one of the first major equestrian events in the heart of China, and bringing top sport to new audiences. Now highly respected as one of the most prolific social and sporting events on the calendar, the Shanghai leg of the Championship will welcome the world’s best horses and riders as they battle it out for the prestigious top spot in their season long campaign for the coveted LGCT Champion of Champions title. Over the course of three days, fans will be treated to a spectacle of show jumping as the world’s best come together to battle it out for top honors.
The Pearl Movie Night Date: March 13 — 8 pm Venue: The Pearl, Shanghai Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness. Kevin Costner stars as Ness, a federal agent who has come to Chicago during the Prohibition Era, when corruption in the local police department is rampant. His mission is to put crime lord Capone (Robert De Niro) out of business, but Capone is so powerful and popular that Ness is not taken seriously by the law or the press. One night, discouraged, he meets a veteran patrolman, Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery), and discovers that the acerbic Irishman is the one honest man he’s been seeking. Malone has soon helped Ness recruit a gunslinger rookie, George Stone (Andy Garcia), and, joined by nebbish accountant Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith), the men doggedly pursue Capone and his illegal interests. At first a laughingstock, Ness soon has Capone outraged over his and Malone’s sometimes lawbending tactics, and the vain mobster strikes back in vicious style. Ultimately, it is the most unexpected and minor of crimes, tax evasion, which proves Capone’s undoing.
The Future of Cars in China Date: Mar 14 — 1:30 pm Venue: Microsoft Research Center Asia The automotive industry and technology sector are converging, and intelligent connected vehicles including interconnected smart cars, electric vehicles, will change the future of personal transportation. This development and implementation is coming to China and AmCham China member companies are leading the way in technological development through innovations in artificial intelligence and utilization of big data. However, the progress of new interconnected vehicles also presents policy challenges.
Stage: The Seagull Date: March 14-17 — 7:30 pm Venue: Capital Theatre Theater Lithuania stages Chekov’s classic play The Seagull, at the Capital Theatre, with an all-star cast. The production stays true to Chekov’s dark comedic script, the first of his four major plays and a major leap forward in the way drama was written and directed.