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The Shadows Thief — AuMents Malasombra Visual Theater Dance Date:

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Aug 22-26 — 7:30 pm

Beijing Tianqiao Performance Art Center An emotionally dark, richly visual fairytale for adults and heavy-metal kids. How would you feel if your shadow took over your soul and began exploring its own desires and urges? What would you do? How could you get it back? Are self-confidence and friendship with others enough to defeat the evil of the shadowy Mister Malasombra? Internationally acclaimed Spanish company auMents combines visual theater, dance, video art, object theater, experimental shadow theater and rock music to create a beautiful, exciting, fantastical journey through a collective fantasy, plunging us through the human soul’s darkness and light. Malasombra is a production that was developed for the stage in collaboration with auMents dance theater (Spain); cartoonist Max (Spain) — winner of the National Comic Book Award 2007. Max was responsible for the dramaturgy and the project’s artistic implementation inspired by the world of shadows. June 9-10 — 10 am

Shanghai Pudong Yuanshen Sports Center Gymnasium

The China Dota 2 Supermajor, hosted collaboratively by Perfect World and internationally-renowned esports company PGL, is the final stop in the inaugural Dota Pro Circuit. With the highest prize pool and largest qualifying points total in all Pro Circuit tournaments this year, the Supermajor becomes one of the most important loops in the DPC chain, a focus for all the powerhouse teams in duking it out before TI. June 3 — 10 am

Fosun Foundation, Shanghai For his first solo exhibition in China, artist Tomas Saraceno will bring together a compendium of works from across his practice. This exhibition concentrates on the space above the Earth’s surface, inviting viewers to travel together on an imagined journey from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic. Tomas Saraceno was born in 1973 in Tucuman, Argentina. He studied architecture at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in Argentina and received postgraduate degrees from Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nacion Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires and Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Stadelschule, Frankfurt. In 2009, he attended the International Space Studies Program at NASA Center Ames in Silicon Valley, California.

China Dota 2 Supermajor Date:

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Tomas Saraceno: Aerographies Date:

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Paul McCarthy: Innocence in Beijing Date:

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2018 Volleyball Nations League — Men (Guangdong-Jiangmen) Date:

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Branagh Theater Live: The Winter’s Tale (Screening) in Shanghai Date:

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June 2-17 — 10 am

M Woods Museum

M Woods is proud to present a solo exhibition by American master Paul McCarthy, a veteran of the Los Angeles scene and hugely influential to scores of artists across the world. McCarthy has dedicated his career to experimental practices, examining the shortfalls of conventional language and shining a light on the dark side of contemporary culture specifically consumerism and mainstream media as they are experienced in America. McCarthy’s 50 years of artmaking have seen him work in nearly every conceivable medium, from painting and sculpture, to performance, video, featurelength film and recently virtual reality. For the exhibition at M Woods, the artist has chosen to present a survey of video, which he has worked with since the beginning and consistently returned to over the course of his career. Showing publicly for the first time in China are 43 works by McCarthy and selected collaborators, made between 1970 and 2013. June 22-24 — 4 pm

Jiangmen Sports Center

The VNL is a brand-new competition launched by the FIVB in 2018 for the top men’s and women’s national teams of the world, Jiangmen being one of its editions. The aim of the Volleyball Nations League is to raise the level of the sporting action for fans and provide a world class platform for athletes to compete and grow. Launching a men’s and women’s competition under the same name and format promotes equality in volleyball, while also making it simpler and more engaging to follow. In the men’s event, Brazil, Italy, US, China, Serbia, France, Argentina, Iran, Poland, Germany, Japan and Russia make up the core teams, while Australia, South Korea, Canada and Bulgaria are the four designated challenger teams. For the women’s competition, Brazil, Italy, US, China, Serbia, the Netherlands, Thailand, Turkey, South Korea, Germany, Japan and Russia comprise the 12 core nations. Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Poland and Belgium have been selected as challenger teams. June 2-6 — 7 pm

Huangpu Theater

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life.

Doboku: Civil Engineering in Shanghai Date:

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May 26-June 24 — 10 am

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.

Blissful Land I: Into the Depth of Statues & Murals

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May 26-27 — 10 am

Shanghai Himalayas Museum One day, a tailor receives a note: “Your mission is to sew a coat by midnight. The size does not matter, but it must fit perfectly.” Come join in the magical adventure of the tailor and discover for who the coat was made. A play with few words combining puppetry, object theater, textiles and music. Winner of Israel’s Interdisciplinary Play of the Year and Puppet & Prop Design Award for Children’s Theater 2014, the play is performed worldwide. It also won conceptual solution of performance at International Puppet Theater Festival. The Train Theater is an artistic repertoire puppet theater for children, which promotes freedom of creation, innovation and excellence of professional artists. The theater is unique in the world of children’s theater in Israel and a leader in its field. The theater was founded in Jerusalem in 1981, as a collaboration of four independent puppeteers: Michael Schuster, Alina Ashbel, Hadass Ophrat and the late Mario Kotliar. It started in a train car that was brought to Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem. The train car transformed into a locomotive, a major driving creative force and hub of inspiration for puppet theater in Israel.