ACTIVITIES & NIGHTLIFE

2016 Shanghai Young Art Fair Date: July 1-4-2 pm

Venue: Shanghai Exhibition Center Price: 80-198 yuan

With Transience Metro: Scape as its theme, Shanghai Young Art Fair 2016 features three regular exhibition areas, namely "Transience Metro: Scape", "Top 24" and "Galaxy of Galleries "with one conceptive hall of "Future Perspective". The main exhibition part is proudly presented by two renowned guest planners, Yu Ke, professor of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, together with Du Xiyun, an independent art curator. They manage to unfold an infinity of panoramas of the modern young art/city life fusion. "The exhibition aims to accentuate the interconnections between artistic creations of urban culture and the development of its host, a city or a country itself. It reflects the profoundness of their history and reveals their future path of progression," says Yu Ke, the art curator of 2016 Shanghai Young Art Fair. "As a vibrant metropolis and bellwether of national trends, Shanghai constantly renews its appearance. Thus we can only capture a brief period of time when trying to summarize it. But we do consider it pivotal to make the picture accurate and farsighted," says Xiyun Du, art curator of 2016 Shanghai Young Art Fair.

Contact: 400-610-3721

2016 Sino-Sierra Leone International Cultural Exchange Year

Date: Through the end of 2016

Venue: Embassy of Sierra Leone in Beijing

Price: Free

The 2016 Sino-Sierra Leone International Cultural Exchange Year was officially kicked off recently in Beijing, marking the official launching of the Africa Asia Development Cooperation Organization, with a buffet reception held by the organization in the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Beijing. The event, which will last through the end of 2016, aims at enhancing the mutual understanding and friendship between people in Asia and in Africa, through introducing to each other the culture and art of modern China and Asia in multiple forms, such as painting, handicraft, folk art, film and photograph, according to ZhangGuoyi, the secretary-general of the organization.

Contact: 138-1121-2110