Events Calendar Shanghai

1. Events Calendar Shanghai June 2011

2. Concert Opera&Ballet Circus Festival Literature

3. ERA - Intersection of Time II • Date: June 1st-30th, 2011 19:30 • Venue: Shanghai Gong Stage • Ticket Price: 580, 380, 280, 180, 80 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

4. Swirling Oscar - A 60th Anniversary tour Concert by I MUSICI • Date: June 4th, 2011 19:30 • Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall • Ticket Price: 580, 480, 380, 280, 180, 100 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 I MUSICI, a representative authority for Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, who has recorded seven versions of it, is coming to Shanghai soon. Since its establishment of 60 years ago, they have created a unique chamber orchestra comprising six violins, two violas, two cellos, one double bass and one harpsichord. With their unique style of combining the ancient and the modern techniques, I MUSICI has successfully continued their inimitable virtuosity while reaching different possibilities. Back

5. When Hip Hop Meets Jazz • Date: June 5th, 2011 15:00 • Venue: Shanghai Oriental Arts Center • Ticket Price: 280, 180, 100 Yuan • Booking Link: http://www.smartshanghai.com/smartticket/hiphop-meets-jazz JZ Shanghai Concert Series returns with a performance by The Word – a group of Shanghai musicians fusing the genres of hip hop and jazz. Live musicians and MC’s culled from the local jazz community on stage at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center. It’s a special one-time performance, on the afternoon of June 5. Back

6. Duanwu Festival The DuanwuFestival, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zongzi (glutinous rice wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing dragon boats. Dragon Boat Festival is said to commemorates the sacrifice of Qu Yuan, a legendary Chinese poet. In Mi Lo River around 2000 years ago, he drowned himself to protest against the rulers and to stop corruption. As respect to the poet, people throw dumplings into the river to stop fish from feeding on the poet’s body as well as make noise to scare the fish away. Back

7. An Ode to the Dance - Eiji Oue Conducts Beethoven 7 • Date: June 11th, 2011 19:30 • Venue: Concert Hall • Ticket Price: 460, 240, 160, 90, 60 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 One of the most accomplished young cellists of our time, Hai-Ye Ni is recently appointed the Principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Miss Ni first came into prominence via her critically praised New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1991. This noted performance came as a result of Miss Ni capturing the first prize at the Naumburg International Cello competition, the youngest recipient ever of this distinguished award. Since then, she has won First Prize at the 1996 International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland by unanimous choice, and became a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2001. Back

8. Ballet "The Red Detachment of Women" • Date: June 14th, 2011 19:15 • Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center • Ticket Price: 680, 420, 320, 220, 120, 60 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

9. Straight No Chaser • Date: June 17th, 2011 19:45 • Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center • Ticket Price: 280, 150, 100, 60 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 The Shanghai Hai Lin Jazz Orchestra is the Orchestra’s mission to deliver and promote innovative metropolitan jazz culture to the wider community. This performance has set the record of several first: Opening remarks in international first-class theater in field performance beginning; In the international first-class theater in the field performance number many, lasts the long world first. The orchestra also attended the Expo, China Shanghai international arts festival and so on significant performance. Back

10. What Love Tells You - A Concert Dedicated to My Teacher Huang Xiaotong • Date: June 18th, 2011 19:30 • Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center • Ticket Price: 460, 240, 160, 90, 60 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

11. Peking Opera "Azalea Mountain" • Date: June 22nd, 2011 19:15 • Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center • Ticket Price: 420, 320, 220, 120, 60 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

12. M Literary Lunch: The Foremost Good Fortune with Susan Conley • Date: June 24th, 2011 • Venue: M on the Bund Author Susan Conley presents her debut memoir The Foremost Good Fortune, a chronicle of her expat experience in China and coping with being diagnosed with breast cancer. It's a candid look at mortality, culture, and belonging as well as a celebration of family and has been selected by O, The Oprah Magazine in its "Top Ten Reads" for February, and The Washington Post hailed it as a "beautiful book about China and cancer and how to be an authentic, courageous human being." Back

13. Liang Ching Ju 2011 Shanghai Concert • Date: June 25th, 2011 19:30 • Venue: Mercedes Benz Arena • Ticket Price: 1299, 999, 699, 499, 399, 299, 199 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

14. Ode to Red Flag - Concert by Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra • Date: June 26th, 2011 19:15 • Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre • Ticket Price: 680, 580, 480, 380, 280, 180 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

15. Ballet "The White Haired Girl" by Shanghai Ballet • Date: June 28th, 2011 19:30 • Venue: Shanghai City Theatre • Ticket Price: 280, 180, 80 Yuan • Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road • Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back