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Every Monday at 9:00 a.m., we meet on time to provide you with a guide to the literary and artistic life in Beijing for the coming week.
Whether you like theater, exhibitions, literature, fine arts, or film, television and music, the Beijing Literary and Art Calendar can provide you with enough rich content and free choice.
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Monday, January 3rd
【Concert】Chen Xi's finger-playing guitar solo concert
(Sanlitun Philharmonic Art Space 19:30) In Sanlitun, a fashionable place, you can also come to a fashion concert. Chen Xi, a young Chinese guitarist, is good at classical guitar playing, and the repertoire she plays is both classic and popular, "Love of a Lifetime", "Nine Children", "Ghost of Qiannu", "Exodus" and so on.
【Episode】"Happiness Duo"
Starring: Yin Tao, Sun Yizhou, Yuan Hong, Jiang Yan
(CCTV8 Mango TV) The drama is based on the novel "Husband and Child Raised Together" serialized in Douban Reading by Ellie, which tells the story of men and women in the urban "circle of friends" who have undergone many tempers in the interpersonal relationships of life and the workplace, unlocking the most self-consistent way of getting along between husband and wife and friends, and finding the true meaning of happiness. The series breaks the stereotype of the modern marriage model and explores the infinite possibilities of the marriage model through the marriage life of two couples who love each other but are frequently contradictory.
【New Book】"The Children After Them"
Author: [Law] Nikolai Matthew
(Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House) This is the winning work of the 2018 French Goncourt Literary Prize, which tells the growth of two teenagers in the Lorraine region of eastern France, four summers, four moments, from "Young Heart" to the 1998 World Cup in France, telling the story of this double-sided France sandwiched between the city and the development zone. This is not only a story of adolescent growth, but also a story of the times, and the author touches on the dilemmas faced by teenagers in the era of globalization in a very subtle way, while puncturing the lies of the Western world about equal opportunities.
Tuesday, January 4th
【Exhibition】"One Yuan 'Middle' Beginning" 2022 Beijing Central Axis Special Exhibition
(Beijing Dongcheng Cultural Development Research Institute 1.1~1.24) Located in the Huangchenggen Ruins Park, the institute is a wooden structure Qing-style building with five wide rooms, three deep rooms, and a single eaves hard mountain top. The exhibition follows the overall courtyard pattern of the Institute and is set up as three sections, corresponding to the three exhibition areas of "History and Today, Spring and Autumn Circulation, and Charming East City". Among them, the conference hall of the institute is the main exhibition area, which comprehensively displays the heritage components of the central axis of Beijing, historical development, and the heritage protection of Beijing and Dongcheng District.
【Documentary】"Love of Taihu Lake"
(Oriental Satellite TV 22:00) As the opening work of the new high-quality documentary period opened by Oriental Satellite TV in 2022, the 3-episode ecological and humanistic documentary "Love of Taihu Lake" vividly presents a beautiful picture of the Taihu Lake Basin in the new era with a warm style, beautiful lenses and exquisite structure.
【Episode】"Family Glory"
Starring: Zhang Zhilin, Yang Qianyao
(Youku) The story slowly unfolds with Ma Zhanhong's "revenge" as the dark line, and the different family members are actually in line with each other under the appearance of "a group of harmony". In addition to the dramatic elements such as sisters opposing each other, the drama also includes dramatic conflicts such as the change of power of the family group, the expansion of commercial territory, and the stirring of the concept of blood ethics.
【New Book】"White Knight: Huashan Youth Handbook"
Author: Pan Yimin
(Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House) The book uses the form of a handbook to truly record the efforts made by the medical staff and logistics workers of Huashan Hospital in the frontline of the fight against the new crown epidemic, as well as the true love and friendship between colleagues who are blocked by protective clothing. For the wider reader, this is even more of a look back – only by drawing lessons from past experiences and gaining new strength can we go on more firmly until we see the light and the light...
Wednesday, January 5th
【Drama】GulouXi Classic Drama "Pillow Man"
(Drum Tower West Theater 1.5~1.16) The classic masterpiece of the famous playwright Martin Macdonald has been performed for a long time as the opening drama of the Drum Tower West Theater. The play tells the story of writer Catullan who is involved in a serial murder plot for creating a series of black suspense fairy tales featuring children. In the whole work, violence and innocence intersect, and warmth and cruelty coexist, allowing the audience to constantly reminisce and think.
【Drama】National Drama Theatre Classic Drama "Copenhagen"
(National Theatre Theatre Theatre 1.5-1.9) "Copenhagen" leads to the mystery of the 1941 Copenhagen meeting in the history of modern science through the dialogue between the souls of Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg and Nilspol and his wife Margaret, who influenced the course of world physics. Screenwriter Mike Freyne has won two pulitzer prizes and a Tony Award for this drama. Director Wang Xiaoying put it on the stage of the National Theatre of China in 2003, and over the years, he has performed for a long time, won many awards, and also triggered a lot of thinking and discussion.
【Dance Drama】Suzhou Ballet Dance "My Name is Lilac"
(Beijing Shunyi Grand Theatre 1.5 Beijing Tianqiao Art Center 1.7~1.8) Suba's first realistic work directed and choreographed by the famous dancer Yabin, specially invited Polish musician Simon Bozoska to perform original arrangements. Through the story of the inheritance of revolutionary faith between the 22-year-old Suzhou girl Lilac martyr, the army propagandist Zhong Man and the modern youth Le Lilac who sacrificed for the revolutionary cause, the historical figure of "Lilac" is reshaped, paying tribute to One of the 16 female martyrs exhibited at the Nanjing Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall.
【Movie】Women's Basketball No. 5
Director: Xie Jin
(China Film Archive Xiaoxitian Hall 1 19:00 Plot/Sports) With the arrival of 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics are about to open, you may wish to relive the first sports-themed color feature film in New China directed by film master Xie Jin. This work vividly shows the life story of a group of female basketball players and their coaches in a concise and simple way, with ups and downs and bright rhythms. The 4K restoration version of this screening is the first time to meet the audience.
Thursday, January 6th
【Drama】Stage drama "Love in the City"
(National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera House 1.6~1.10) Ye Jintian, who won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", made his first time as a drama director, using the combination of video and drama to bring Zhang Ailing's classic novel "Love in the City" to the stage. Starring Wan Qian and Song Yang, the drama depicts the delicate and complex emotional relationship between Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan.
【Movie】"Cut belly"
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
(China Film Archive, Hall 1, Konishiten, 19:00 Plot/Action/Suspense) Director Masaki Kobayashi, a masterpiece of samurai films, won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. Japanese national treasure actor Tatsuya Nakayo uses his free-flowing performance to show a magnificent tragedy of a small character fighting against the system in the changing times. The director uses light and shadow to exert the charm of black and white images to the extreme.
【Exhibition】Sketching and Creation: Zhu Danian Art Exhibition
(Tsinghua University Art Museum 11.16~3.20) Zhu Danian is one of the pioneers of modern ceramics, modern murals, and modern brushwork and heavy color paintings in China, and is also an educator. The Jianguo porcelain he presided over designed is a peak of Chinese ceramic art; the mural "Song of the Forest" created for the capital airport is a milestone in the history of Chinese mural art; his brushwork is directly chasing the ancients and proud of the West; and his pen paintings can be called "textbook classics". The special exhibition presents more than 90 works, and exhibits their sketches and creations in contrast.
【New Book】The Great Salt Merchant
Author: Fu Heng
(Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House) This is a long historical novel with epic charm and full of regional customs in southern Sichuan created by writer Fu Heng. The whole book takes the "Salt Capital" of southern Sichuan in the Republic of China period as the background of the times, and takes the struggle and love of the salt well, salt merchants, salt gangs, Japanese Kou, bandits, and low-level small people as the lead, constructing a rather grand story, and spreading out the generational entanglement of the two major families of the Yandu Shu family and the Gong family.
Friday, January 7th
Concert: Xie Nan and her students violin concert
(Zhongshan Park Music Hall 19:30) Xie Nan is a famous violinist in China, a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, who herself has been guided by violin masters Stern, Accardo, zuckerman and is highly appreciated. In this concert, she will bring her students on stage to perform "Xinjiang Spring", "Carmen Fantasia", "Four Seasons" and other songs.
【Exhibition】Sheng Sheng - Yang Gang Art Exhibition
(Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum 12.24~1.13) The exhibition takes the theme of the Winter Olympics as the starting point, exhibiting more than 130 works of ink, sketching and calligraphy on the theme of the Winter Olympics created by Yang Gang between 2000 and 2018. The exhibition was also included in the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Art Festival, which became a dynamic artistic landscape during the Beijing Winter Olympics. The exhibition also featured Yang Gang's winter Olympics-themed door sticker image created on red paper, adding joy to the New Year and the Beijing Winter Olympics. #不容错过 #
【Movie】"A River of Spring Water"
Director: Gao Qisheng
(Plot/Family) Another literary film with mature women as the absolute protagonists! This time, the protagonist is a foot therapy sister in her early thirties, good-looking but never married, and a rebellious younger brother alone. The little sister and the owner of the foot massage shop talk about underground love, and they dig their lungs out of him, and it turns out that the truth is not so beautiful. The film adopts the Hubei dialect, very grounded, the heroine's face is attractive, the performance is moving, and other female characters in the film, such as aunt Tian, a guest of the foot therapy shop, the heroine's girlfriend Chunhua, and the rebellious brother's rebellious plus girlfriend are also very vivid. #不容错过 #
【Movie】"Magic Full House"
Director: Gerald Bush
(Comedy/Fantasy/Adventure) Disney's new work of digging into cultures around the world. This time Mickey Mouse extended its tentacles to Colombia in South America. There is a magical family living in a local place called the Valley of Miracles, and each child has a unique magical talent, except for the protagonist Mirabe, who does not seem to have... Basically, you can guess what the story is going, but Disney's trump card is warm family fun, good songs, fantastic animations, why bother?
Saturday, January 8
【Concert】Ice and Snow Haoyao Cheers Winter Olympics - Joint Concert of the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Central Conservatory of Music
(National Centre for the Performing Arts Concert Hall 1.7~1.8 19:30) The Beijing Winter Olympics are coming, and there are more and more ice and snow-themed performances. Conductor Lu Jia will lead the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra in a concert with violinist Lu Siqing and Jinghu player Wang Shuang. Lu Siqing will play "Winter" from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons". You can still hear "Me and You" played at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. #不容错过 #
【Exhibition】Photography in a Mirror- Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the National Art Museum of China and the Nanjing Museum
(National Art Museum of China 12.09~01.16) Portraiture in China has a long history, appearing as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, a number of outstanding painters such as Zeng Whale, Yu Zhiding, and Xu Zhang emerged. In addition to the common imperial sages and heroes, there are also literati portraits that express seclusion and elegance, as well as a large number of portraits of family ancestors that have survived; the creative techniques are either pastels for ink bones, or multi-layer rendering for lines, or white paintings, or compatible with Chinese and Western. These paintings are also like a mirror, reflecting the cultural connotations of folk customs, religion, clothing, and aesthetics in the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. #不容错过 #
【New Book】Poetic Botany
Author: Zang Di
(Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House) This is a complete collection of Zang Di's poems about plants. The book consists of 290 poems, covering all the plants that can be seen in daily life, and is the first collection of poems in the history of poetry to concentrate on writing plants, and it is also a unique vein in Zang Di's poetry, with a high degree of richness and sufficient sense of topic. The Botanicals of Poetry carries ancient genes and responds to the botany of modern poetry in world literature, such as Goethe's The Evolution of Plants, Thoreau's Believing in The Seed, Whitman's Blades of Grass, and The Flower of Evil, which is rooted in the modern city.
【Drama】Sound Theater "Cloud Whale Chronicles"
(Beijing Intermediate Theater 1.8~1.9) The 2021 Middle Theater Science and Technology Art Festival work "Cloud Whale", adapted from the novel of the same name by science fiction writer Ah Que, who won the Best Short Story Award at the 29th China Science Fiction Galaxy Awards. Director Li Haotian put it on the stage and made a creative adaptation around the science fiction text. In the form of sound theater, it focuses on the feelings between people and between people and creatures in the context of science fiction.
Sunday, January 9
【Movie】"Feather"
Director: Omar El Zoheri
(China Film Archive Xiaoxitian Hall 1 16:00 Plot) This year's Pingyao Film Festival has received many award-winning works, and it is a film from Egypt, which is also very rare. The story has a magical beginning, but the background color is quite solid realism, a poor family, the husband suddenly became a rooster at his son's birthday party, so the wife raised three babies alone, but also had to find a way to face this "chicken husband". The director can also have black humor when telling the suffering, and the control of the texture of the image is also very mature. #不容错过 #
【New Book】"Four Seasons of Bookstore"
Author: [English] Sean Bethel
(Beijing Daily Press) This is the British super popular poisonous tongue shop owner Sean. Bethel follows up with the 2019 book The Bookstore Diaries. The book continues some of the characters and the same writing style that appeared in the previous work, faithfully records the bookstore operation from January to December, each diary is accompanied by the number of customers and flowing income of the day, there is no ordinary people's imagination of poetry and far away, non-chicken soup, non-healing, but also not only stop at spitting, truly record the book industry daily life that is difficult to survive under the strong impact of e-commerce represented by Amazon.
【Concert】"Youth" Zhang Yi and the Symphony Orchestra of the National Ballet of China
(National Centre for the Performing Arts, Concert Hall 19:30) As the Spring Festival approaches, conductor Zhang Yi will bring the Symphony Orchestra of the National Ballet of China to a concert, and the selection of music is full of festive atmosphere. The "Spring Festival Overture" is indispensable, and the repertoire of Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Bizet is also short and concise, and the repertoire full of national customs accompanies the audience for the New Year.
【Exhibition】Ren Chong Gao Yuan- Exhibition of Calligraphy Works by Yu Right Ren and Senior Second Grade
(National Art Museum of China 12.15~2.16) Yu Youren was a 20th-century politician, educator, and calligrapher. His calligraphy is written into the grass with a stele, melting and casting hundreds of families, forming a majestic and mellow, dashing and natural artistic style, known as the "Three Plains Grass Sage". The second year of high school is a famous scholar, poet and calligrapher of the 20th century, who is a scholar of Chinese culture, Xiaochang Zhouyi, poetry, and academics, and is especially good at calligraphy. Yu Right is in his 20s, and the two are friends. Through this exhibition, the audience can not only witness the reunion of the calligraphy art of the two confidants at the National Art Museum of China, but also further appreciate the charm of the calligraphy art of the 20th century.
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