Data Fun Talk: Artificial Intelligence Technology Salon

Date: July 14 - 1 pm

Venue: Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group Headquarters Building 1

As AI makes its mark on all kinds of industries, two have stood apart from others - computer vision and natural language processing. Learn about developments in natural language processing from top industry experts at this Data Fun Talk AI Salon.

The Leading Man Returns

Date: July 14 - 2 pm

Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Following the Sing and Dance series, UCCA presents screenings of four National Theatre Live productions in May. Hamlet features Benedict Cumberbatch as the protagonist of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time has been hailed by The Times as "a phenomenal combination of storytelling and spectacle." The great playwright Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in the dark and passionate tale A View from the Bridge.

Dispel an Resetting

Date: July 22 - 10 am

Venue: EGG Gallery in Beijing

EGG Gallery is delighted to present a new body of works by Chinese artist Bai Jingsheng. In her first solo exhibition with EGG Gallery in 2018, viewers are able to see how Bai uses her brush to record light, time and life in the abstraction of colors, lines, and patterns. Bai who was born in the mid-fifties shows her love for painting since childhood. Although she is not good at words, she can express herself freely while she is painting. For her, painting is a kind of spiritual practice. In that process, the negative emotions in the common life are calmed down and relieved. The works have their own self-examination. Therefore, she is more willing to call her work as "Journal" which has her most true and prime vision and portrays the beauty that eventually settled after years' lives.

Discover your Inner Clown

Date: Aug 19 - 11 am

Venue: Yale Center in Beijing

This is a class in comic acting in which we try to locate the part of you that is the most funny, playful, open and without fear. We will sing and laugh and play with complete abandon in search of your unique relationship to the comic world. We will pursue your playful self that has been buried in the polite and shy world. This is a day intensive for actors, artists, creators and even normal people who want to feel more comfortable in front of an audience. It will challenge you to make new discoveries, live more fully in your body and your voice and encourages each student to be more bold, daring and courageous in your work and life. Teacher Christopher Bayes began his theater career with the internationally acclaimed Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer and designer.

FKJ Live in Beijing

Date: July 27 - 8:30 pm

Venue: Tango Live

Vincent Fenton, born in 1990, known professionally as French Kiwi Juice or the abbreviation FKJ, is a French multi-instrumentalist, singer, and musician from Tours. His self-titled debut album, French Kiwi Juice, was released on March 3, 2017. FKJ has performed at music festivals including Coachella and Lightning in a Bottle.

Kashmere China Tour 2018

Date: July 29 - 9 pm

Venue: Yuyintang Livehouse in Shanghai

Straight out of Stockport, England, Kashmere merges anthemic, stadium-sized indie rock, with a cut of melodic brooding synth pop to create their own unique form of sonic worth. Formed by Joey Newey and Andy Law, on vocals/guitar and drums, as well as lead guitarist Charlie Cole and bassist Freddie Hughes. The band gained recognition after long-awaited debut single "Blow Your Mind" springing the band into the limelight in the summer of 2016. Followed by a string of successful singles including 2017 festival favorite "Porcelain".

Hello, My Name is Paul Smith

Date: July 7-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. 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 takes 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.

Say Yes Anniversary - Broken English Club aka Oliver Ho

Date: July 18 - 10 pm

Venue: Oil Club, Shenzhen

From the beginnings of Blueprint records, Oliver Ho has explored techno in its many different styles, from his early dark electronic records to the more organic percussive grooves on Meta records. All these ideas and sounds have been distilled down into the current project, Raudive. Those familiar with Oliver Ho's fearsome and often brutal futurist early EPs on Blueprint and his more recent avant techno/house Raudive material will be aware of his ability to inject a dark narrative into functional electronics. With Broken English Club, he delivers monotone vocals and shards of live instrumentation over stuttering beats and bleak synths. The blank-stared, pinpoint-focused electronics and layers of noise betray no wave and post punk influences, dragging together industrial experimentation and pitch-black techno.

China's Financial Innovation through History

Date: Aug 5 - 10:30 am

Venue: Yale Center, Beijing

Professor William Goetzmann will talk on China's financial innovation through history and his book Money Changes Everything. The book was one of Financial Times Best Economics Books of 2016. In his book, he shows how finance was present at key moments in history: driving the invention of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, spurring the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome to become great empires, determining the rise and fall of dynasties in imperial China, and underwriting the trade expeditions that led Europeans to the New World. He also demonstrates how the apparatus we associate with a modern economy stock markets, lines of credit, complex financial products, and international trade were repeatedly developed, forgotten, and reinvented over the course of human history. The language of the event will be English.