Nightlife & activities

Alice: Into the Rabbit Hole in Beijing Date: June 9-18 — 10 am

Venue: Chaoyang Joy City Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson over the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The exhibition will use interactive multimedia arts and design. It retains the original classic with interactive design. The exhibition was hot in Seoul, Korea before. There were about 6,000 uploads on average on social platforms such as Instagram with 5,100 upload videos per day. Neighborhood Earth in Beijing Date: June 9-18 — 10 am

Venue: Winter Garden, L1 Indigo The featured exhibition Neighborhood Earth has come to Beijing. It is the third station in China of the exhibition during its worldwide tour after the premiere in US Space & Rocket Center in February this year. Dedicated to exploration on the galactic scale of our solar system, Neighborhood Earth is developed in partnership with US Space & Rocket Center and the Official Visitor’s Center for NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, designed and produced by Chronica Creative. The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to zoom through the solar system with a 360-degree cinematic experience along with the spacecraft and robotics that explore our celestial neighborhood, and further our knowledge of the worlds around us. Hello, My Name is Paul Smith Date: June 8-Oct 7 — 10 am

Venue: Today Art Museum, Beijing British fashion designer Paul Smith brings his simply titled “Hello, My Name is Paul Smith” exhibition to Beijing this June. Brought to you by Beijing Chuanbao Technology, the exhibition will be held in the Today Art Museum from June 8 to Oct 7. The exhibition is a touring exhibition showcasing the fashion designer’s journey in building his company, as well as his stylistic tastes and eye for design. It combines the artistic and the business aspects of running a fashion brand and gives the audience a glimpse into the designer’s world, helping people understand the interactions between operating within an industry as a business and within the fashion world as a designer and artist. From his company’s modest beginnings in Nottingham to its international prominence today, this exhibition reveals how Paul Smith’s intuitive take on design, together with an understanding of the roles of designer and retailer, have laid the foundations for lasting success and offers a unique insight into the magnificent mind of Paul Smith. Devendra Banhart in Beijing Date: June 9 — 8:30 pm

Venue: Yugong Yishan Livehouse The charming, witty, whimsical work of songwriter Devendra Banhart is often classified as “freak folk”, but that’s far too dark a descriptor for music that brims with infectious energy, hearty laughs, and bossa nova-laced grooves. Over nine studio albums, he’s come to define the burgeoning genre of alternative folk music: tunes that sound fresh, yet as old as the hills. He’s created a wacky, inscrutable world, with a sound that somehow blends “Axl Rose, Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Ali FarkaToure.” The Shadows Thief AuMents Malasombra Visual Theater Dance Date: Aug 22-26 — 7:30 pm

Venue: 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 selfconfidence 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.

2018 Volleyball Nations League Men (Guangdong-Jiangmen)

Date: June 22-24 — 4 pm

Venue: Jiangmen Sports Center The Volleyball Nations League is a brandnew 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 VNL 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. 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.