Art Seen: Gallery Weekend Beijing Brings Domestic and International Creators to the Capital, Apr 27-May 2 Apr 27, 2021 8:30 am | 1 comment | 39 reads
Although fans of the motion picture arts will have to wait until August for their big celebration, the Beijing International Film Festival, fans of just about every other art form will be kept busy over the next five days as
Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ) kicks off today, Apr 27, and runs through May 2. This year marks the fifth iteration of the festival when the capital plays host to domestic and international creators of contemporary art and performance, spread throughout the city’s premier art hub, 798 Art District, and various other venues dotted across town.
Ticket Giveaway: Xi Festival s Immersive Music, Arts, and Culture Experience Takes Over Longfusi, May 1-5 Apr 14, 2021 8:30 am | Add a comment | 67 reads
If there were any lingering doubts that spring is in full swing and – dare we say – already giving way to summer, the recent unveiling of Xi Festival’s mind-boggling five-day lineup blew those doubts up in a sweetly sticky explosion of arts and culture, like a bouquet of firecrackers stuffed into an ice cream sundae. Between May 1 and May 5, a dizzying array of DJs, musicians, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, and creatives will take over the ninth-floor rooftop of Longfu Cultural Center in what can only be described as an ambitious and immersive kaleidoscopic playground, fit for a city still thawing out after the harsh winter.
OlymPicks: Iran s Paralympic Winter Athletes Given Cold Shoulder, Japan Turns Down Chinese Vaccine Offer Mar 17, 2021 4:30 pm | 1 comment | 197 reads
In OlymPicks, we highlight news, gossip, and developments regarding the buildup to Beijing s 2022 Winter Olympics.
Iranian Paralympic athletes forced to chart their own course
Although Iran officially made its Paralympic Winter Games debut at Nagano in 1998, it wasn’t until the PyeongChang games two decades later that the country sent more than one athlete to compete. Back in the early days, the responsibility of representing the country fell squarely on the shoulders of Para alpine skier Sadegh Kalhor, however, today, the honor is split between three Para snowboarders – Puriya Khaliltash, Hossein Solghani, and Sedigheh Rouzbeh – and two Para cross-country skiers, Aboulfazl Khatibi Mianaei and Farzaneh Rezasoltani. Unfortunately, in a story akin to
Discussing African Representation With Poet, Mystic, Ahead of Kente & Silk s By the Fireside, Mar 20 Mar 16, 2021 4:30 pm | 1 comment | 127 reads
Oftentimes, when we talk about racism and tone-deaf portrayals of other cultures – namely, Black culture – conversations focus on the long history of marginalization, dehumanization, and outright aggression well-documented in the West. And while racism is inextricably linked to systems of power and particularly white hegemonic systems of power, it’s not to say that other parts of the globe are devoid of problematic portrayals, misrepresentation, and the general mistreatment of Black folks. Case in point, 2018’s Spring Festival Gala, featuring a Chinese actress donning blackface with prosthetic buttocks and chest. After the performance was met with fierce backlash both here and abroad, many hoped that it would be the last time such an egregious display featured in “the world’s mo
OlymPicks: Two Olympians Attempt To Reclaim the Glory of the Games Mar 11, 2021 11:30 am | 2 comments | 131 reads
In OlymPicks, we highlight news, gossip, and developments regarding the buildup to Beijing s 2022 Winter Olympics.
Speed skating sex offender ditches South Korea for Team China
Earlier this week news broke that the reigning men’s 1,500 meters short track speed skating Olympic champ, Lim Hyo-jun, was eyeing the possibility of becoming a naturalized Chinese citizen so that he could compete for China’s national team at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. Citing an unnamed source in a report by the South Korean
Yonhap News Agency,
Global Times says that Lim has already accepted a proposal from the Chinese Skating Association (CSA) and is “going through the naturalization process,” however, a representative of the CSA told the