Nightlife & Activities
Virgin Suicide China Tour 2018 in Beijing
Date: Nov 22 — 8:30 pm
Venue: Omni Space
The boys met at school in the town of Silkeborg, in western Denmark, before they relocated to Copenhagen and formed Virgin Suicide in 2012. Sporting matching normcore haircuts and turtlenecks, the band sings us the sweet finger banging lullaby of teenage playground love. The sunshine and palm trees are a perfect backdrop for the upbeat tune which has roots in 1960s rock with a touch of that slick attitude of 80s Brit jangle pop. Since the debut release of Virgin Suicide in 2015, the band has been invited to play various concerts and festivals, including the famous Roskilde Music Festival which gained them huge international attention. The singles Twistor Space and You Hate The Way I Feel received great success on Radio in Denmark and the UK, and both songs were later included in the band’s second album Forever Trouble. If there is one word to try to summarize Virgin Suicide’s music, it must be “sweet”.
Ma Bang Band China Tour 2018 in Beijing
Date: Nov 25 — 9 pm
Venue: School Bar
Looking deep into the vast mountains of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in South China, the band showcases beautiful sounds and styles rarely heard outside of the region. The members of the band play a wide variety of Chinese and Western musical instruments and excel at foregrounding rare folk instruments, ethnic singing styles, and vocal harmonies in their shows. Lead vocalist Ye Honggang’s voice is striking and powerful as he sings in the local Guilin dialect of Chinese, blending with the uninhibited rhythms of the percussion, the sonorous suona, and intricate and powerful vocal harmonies. These elements combine to form the unique sonic imprint of the band, transporting audiences instantly into the vast mountains and mysterious jungles of South China.
Blastfemme China Tour in Beijing
Date: Dec 7 — 9 pm
Venue: Dusk Dawn Club
From the depths of the dangerous underground of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, Blastfemme appears. Band formed under the feminist dogma that embodies in explosive concerts the urgency, the revolt, the sensuality and power of the cause in the presence of imposing stage of the punk muse Danni Vallejo. Driven by disco punk beats added with melodies sometimes subtle and at other times, dirty and confused. The band is newly formed and is in the process of recording their first album, in the face of the current moment in Brazil, Blastfemme presents itself as a resistance, a fight, a force in the movement for women’s rights in the country. In Beijing, the explosion will be greeted by the Chinese equivalent Xiao Wang, the recent European toured Lonely Leary and by the dynamics flows of Thruoutin.
Heteroglossia in Shanghai
Date: Nov 17-Feb 17 — 10 am /1 pm
Venue: How Art Museum
This exhibition brings together a group of artists actively engaged in the contemporary art scene, from across the world including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the Netherlands. These artists have been exposed to the general influence of Chinese culture, yet they have evolved along different trajectories by incorporating distinct varieties of historical experience, memory, and identity.
Heteroglossia, also known as the theory of polyphony, was a concept introduced by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to summarize the unique characteristics of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels. The term refers to the coexistence of different languages as well as the conflicts between them, and it also reflects the plurality and fluidity that characterizes our contemporary culture and society, where independent, uncompromising voices and ideas come at us through a variety of different agencies, but which nonetheless intertwine with each other and participate equally in the discussions and debates of a shared contemporary landscape. As the theme of this exhibition, Heteroglossia also provides a critical line of inquiry into it and invests the whole exhibition by formulating a dialogue between the artists and a world that has become more and more complex and challenging. By establishing this theme, the artists hope to communicate to the public what this world looks like from their perspectives.
Scorpions — Crazy World Tour in Beijing
Date: Nov 17 — 8 pm
Venue: Beijing Olympic Center Stadium German hard rock and heavy metal act Scorpions comes to Olympic Stadium on Nov 17. Together since 1965, the group has released 18 studio albums, 27 compilation albums, 74 singles and has six number one hits. These “heroes of heavy metal” are now contemplating a brand-new studio album.
Four Tet
Date: Nov 17 — 9 pm
Venue: Omni Space, Beijing Boundary-pushing British electronica star Four Tet will grace the stage at Omni Space for what is sure to be one of the hottest gigs of the fall season. His recently released ninth full length long play, New Energy, garnered some of his most enthused reviews yet, with critics calling it a return to form that also pushed his sound forward. Exclaim! magazine, for instance, praised the album’s “sonic palettes … that bleed into textures born from transfigured field recordings and sonic artifacts that epitomize the producer’s discography while refining his sonic identity.”
Tourism Product Innovation Conference
Time: Nov 27-28
Venue: Beijing International Hotel The China Service Tourism Product Innovation Conference would showcase latest technologies used in tourism by such companies as Tencent and AutoNavi Software Co. It is hosted by the China Tourism Association and aims to encourage more tourism innovations to meet the increasing needs of Chinese tourists.
Wow Collective Writing Group
Date: Nov 22 — 7 pm
Venue: The Bookworm
The Wow Collective is a writing group that seeks to help its participants hone their skills and receive critical feedback on their work. “Writing on Walls” was based on fostering a gentle environment for emerging writers in which there were strict rules for the nature of feedback shared by participants. While we are all caring, compassionate people (none of us bite except me and that’s only when provoked), we felt that, to move forward in our writing, we needed more constructive discussion of our work. The Wow Collective is about moving forward with our writing rather than concentrating on the fundamentals. If you are someone who writes, or wants to write and wants to hear what their contemporaries are doing around Beijing, then please join us to make friends like-minded individuals and receive not only feedback but also inspiration and fun.