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Chinese Tea Tour to Maliandao Market

Date: May 23 - 9 am

Venue: China Culture Center

Price: 280-350 yuan

Join CCC's tea-tasting and learning tour to the largest tea market of China Maliandao in the southwest Beijing. The long street is lined with thousands of tea wholesaling stores. They start the morning with tasting high grades of fresh and light tea - white peony (white tea) and dragon well (green tea), then try the oolong tea Tie Guan Yin. Tea origins, processing knowledge will be explained as well as kungfu tea ceremony and its complicated tea sets. Then have lunch in a nice Mao Family Restaurant featuring Hunan cuisine. In the afternoon visit another store to learn darker and earthier Puer and black tea. In the end, free time to shop around for tea, tea sets and gifts before boarding CCC coach back to Chaoyang District and CCC.

Contact: 010-6432-9341

Sleeping on the Great Wall

Date: May 16 - 1:30 pm

Venue: China Culture Center

Price: 950-1,200 yuan

This unique tour offers you two memorable experiences on the Great Wall. The early morning hike along the Great Wall on top of the mountain range gives you breathtaking views in relative isolation, while spending the night just by the Great Wall under the evening stars - is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not to be missed. CCC chooses some sections of the Great Wall near the border of Beijing, which is less touristy and more natural and even "wild". The Great Wall snakes its way through fantastic natural scenery in the mountains. Many watchtowers dot this part of the Great Wall, from which you can see the capital city on clear days.

Contact: 010-6432-9341

Chinese Painting

Date: May 25 - 1:30 pm

Venue: Jianwai SOHO Building 9, Room 605

Price: 50 yuan

Chinese ink and water painting has over a 1000 year history and is concerned one of the most sacred forms of traditional Chinese art. It is one of the four basic disciplines studied and developed by the Chinese literati. This class is a great way to experience traditional Chinese culture and philosophy.

Contact: 010-5869-5800

Lecture: The City Gates of Beijing

Date: May 25 - 3:30 pm

Venue: Jianwai SOHO Building 9, Room 605

Price: Free

There are many city gates in Beijing, Do you know what their names, the total number of them are and why they got these names? Beijing also has a lot of interesting names of places. Do you want to know what they are? Let's join teacher Zhang's class to experience the history and culture of Beijing.

Contact: 010-6503-2050

Irish Network Night

Date: May 28 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Paddy O'Shea's, 28 Dongzhimen Wai Dajie

Price: Free

Get yourself warmed at this social night organized by Beijing's Irish community. You don't have to be Irish to join the fun - everyone is welcome, and with an extended happy hour - 30 percent off all drinks plus buy-one-get-one-free on house mixed drinks - running till 10pm, you're sure to make some new friends. The night is organized by the Irish Network China, Beijing GAA, Beijing Celtic and Paddy O'Sheas, so if you're interested in getting involved with the Irish community or its sports teams, and have a word with one of their members on the night. Also, the Irish music group Blackwater will perform an acoustic set, and you are all welcome to bring an instrument and play along or do a guest turn on vocals. Or bring your dancing boots if you fancy throwing some shapes to the music.

Contact: 010-6415-6389

Show

China Puppet Art Theater True and False Monkey King

Date: May 30 - 2:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 160-280 yuan

In The True and False Monkey Kings, Monkey King's master, the Tang Priest Xuanzang, is waylaid by a band of robbers on his journey to India. Monkey King kills all the robbers, but the Master accuses him of being too cruel and sends him away. After Monkey King leaves, a six-eared Macaque dresses up as the Monkey King and come to steal the Master's belongings. Guanyin the Goddess to Mercy sends Monkey King back to subdue the imposter, but the two monkeys are so alike that no one, in Heaven or on Earth, can tell which one is the true Monkey King. Finally, the two are brought before Sakyamuni Buddha who sees through the macaque's disguise and exposes him. Before he can escape, Monkey strikes him down with his golden rod.

E-mail: ponypiao@damai.cn

Edinburgh Fringe Showcase: Leo

Date: May 27 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Oriental Palace Theater

Price: 50-380 yuan

What would happen if the laws of gravity were to suddenly change? Leo is a mind-bending, funny, surreal, and surprisingly touching work that challenges the senses and tests perceptions of reality through the clever interplay of live performance and video projection. Leo leaves audience members wondering which way is up and which way is down. Directed by the Montr??al actor and director Daniel Bri??re, and based on an original idea by the multi-talented performer Tobias Wegner, Leo has won several major awards including the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, the Three Weeks Editors Award, the Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and more recently, won the John Chataway Award for Innovation at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Leo has dazzled audiences and critics from New York to Berlin, from Melbourne to Hong Kong with stops in Montr??al, Moscow and London along the way. Leo is now touring in countries all around the world.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Andrea Chenier

Date: May 28-31 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

Andrea Chenier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr?? Ch??nier (1762-1794), who was executed during the French Revolution. On March 28, 1896, Andrea Ch??nier was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. It remains popular with audiences, though it is now less frequently performed than it was during the first half of the 20th Century. One reason that the opera has stayed in the repertoire is due to the magnificent lyric-dramatic music provided by Giordano for the tenor lead, which gives a talented singer many opportunities to demonstrate his histrionic skill and flaunt his voice.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Parties

Summer Arty-Party

Date: May 24 - 2:30 pm

Venue: Huizhanyujing, 16 Yufeng Lu, Beijing

Price: Free entry

Atelier Art school Shunyi will celebrate summer and welcome every one for a Friendly Party. All the team will be there, offer arty-crafty activities & games for children in and outdoor, with passion, energy and their professional expertise. Parents and art lovers can check our programs and find the best classes for them or discover our crazy themed Artistic Summer Workshops. Visit us with your family and friends, spend the afternoon with us or just drop by to say hello, we are really happy to finally meet you all.

Contact: 010-5686-4243

Paul van Dyk

Date: May 29 - 9 pm

Venue: LIV Club, 2/F, 6 Gongti Xilu

Price: 60 yuan

Paul van Dyk is a man that needs no introduction, but just in case you need a refresher, he is an East Germany born electronic music producer that was named the World's No 1 DJ in both 2005 and 2006. Paul van Dyk was the first superstar DJ to receive a Grammy nomination and since then has sold millions of albums worldwide. His major hits include For An Angel, Face to Face, and White Lies. He is coming to Beijing to promote his new album The Politics of Dancing 3 and you can see him at Live in Vac with DJs Basestring and Half/N/Half on May 29, 2015.

Contact: 010-6708-9898

E-mail: sp@spli-t.com

Life in Color - Hong Kong

Date: July 25 - 5 pm

Venue: AsiaWorld-Expo Hong Kong Hall 10

Price: 60-100 yuan

Hong Kong is getting ready for a new way to party! Life in Color, "The World's Largest Paint Party" 2015 will make its Hong Kong debut on 25 July 2015 at AsiaWorld-Expo. This one-of-a-kind event is colourful mash up of cutting edge electronic dance music, artistic performances and, the signature element of spraying the audience with rainbow coloured paints throughout the show. It has come a long way since its beginning in 2006 on college campuses in Florida, USA. The events have since taken the Americas by storm positioning itself as a unique, spectacular party experience with a fun and creative vibe. Now, hundreds of thousands of people have witnessed this spectacular show that fuses high-energy music, art, dance, and Paint into one mind blowing combination.

E-mail: info@sigma-production.com

The 27th Annual Canadian Charity Ball

Date: May 23 - 6 pm

Venue: Four Seasons Hotel Beijing, Beijing

Price: Free entry

Join us for an evening of great food, drinks, and live entertainment. The Charity Ball will feature a distinct Canadian flavour, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag. Mr. Guy Saint-Jacques, Canadian Ambassador to China, will be among the evening's distinguished guests.

Contact: 010-8526-1820

E-mail: canadianball@ccbc.com.cn

The Detroit Series - Legend Roland Clark

Date: May 30 - 10 pm

Venue: The Bar at Migas, 81 Sanlitun North Road

Price: 010-5208-6061

Once again, The Detroit Series is bringing a bonafide House Music Legend to Migas for your listening and dancing pleasure. We are honored to have DJ, Singer, Producer Roland Clark for the first time in Beijing. DJ Roland Clark is a man of many words, and within those words are some of the most proli?c lyrics in all of dance music. This legend has served us well in his 25 years of professional producing, writing, and deejaying. Since the early 90's, Roland has made his mark several times in dance music, once being his smash hit top 40 single Alright Urban Soul that took the European charts by storm. Another instance was with his recording of South Street Players Who Keeps Changing Your Mind, Roland started out his music career in NYC, at a small but infamous recording studio called Calliope engineering for some of music's future giants. Fast forward to today where he collaborates with some of dance music elite and most recently pinning one of his spoken-word driven house beats for Steve Angelo's Size Records & Mark Knight's Tool room recordings.

Contact: 010-5208-6061

Sports

Tri4Change Super Sprint Triathlon

Date: May 16 - 7 am

Venue: Western Academy of Beijing

Price: 250-300 yuan

Put yourself on the line: Tri4Change will host our 2nd sprint triathlon to raise money for Roundabout Beijing, a local charity organization that assists children with payment of medical bills, on May 16 at 7 am. The event will take place at the Western Academy of Beijing. The race will consist of a 400-meter pool swim, a twelve-kilometer bike ride, followed by a three-kilometer run. Roundabout is a social enterprise headed by volunteers.

E-mail: tri4change@gmail.com