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Kunqu ‘Hamlet’Classic Kunqu Opera “I, Ham-let” will be staged as part of the opening season for 2017 Future Contemporary Kunqu Art Week. Audiences will be provided with elegant performances featuring romance, as well as a story of two “experienced” beggars teaching a poor scholar how to beg. The opera will be performed by Kunqu Opera artist Zhang Jun who has given more than 300 lectures in universities at home and abroad. He pioneered in reinterpreting Kunqu works with different artists including Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, violinist Charlie Siem and jazz master Bobby McFerrin, and thus expanded the audience of the traditional art.Date: April 16, 7:30pmTickets: 280-380 yuanTel: 5292 0164Venue: Shanghai TheaterAddress: 1186 Fuxing Rd M

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Patriotic OperaShanghai Grand Theater will stage the two-act opera “The Daugh-ter of The Regiment,” which was originally written by Italian com-poser Gaetano Donizetti. It was later adapted into a French version by French playwrights Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard, first de-buted in 1840 at the Paris Opéra-Comique. The show in Shanghai will combine military songs to awaken audience’s patriotic sentiments. The thought-provoking music and plot are incorporated perfectly in this classic opera.Date: May 11-13, 7:15pmTickets: 120-580 yuanTel: 5292-0164Venue: Lyric Theater of Shanghai Grand TheaterAddress: 300 People’s Ave

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8am Docu View8:30am Pop Top English9am Real Fun10am High Drama12pm Docu View12:30pm Talk Talk1pm Minds of Millionaires1:45pm Fitness Planet2pm Real Fun3pm High Drama5pm China Untapped5:30pm Talk Talk6pm Sports on the Edge6:30pm The Barrister7pm Love Hokkaido7:30pm Pop Top English8:30pm China Untapped9pm Shanghai Live9:15pm Fitness Planet9:30pm Talk Talk10pm High Drama

Exhibition

Shining Buddha“The Buddha Light” is an exhibi-tion featuring calligraphy works and carvings of a group of famous artists such as Liu Xiaojing and Lu Kang. Artist couple Le Zhenwen and Zhang Chi have created an amulet for the exhibition. Shen Dingyong, a seal-carving art-ist, has created a semi-abstract “Thousand-handed Goddess” on a small stone.Date: Through April 22, 10am-4pmVenue: Duoyunxuan Art SpaceAddress: 4/F, 422 Nanjing Rd E.

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Readings of Lu XunAn exhibition featuring China’s greatest modern writer Lu Xun is currently underway in Shanghai. It’s a joint effort between Lu Xun museums in Shanghai and Beijing. The exhibition chronicles the “reading life of Lu Xun” from his teenage years to being a profes-sional writer and editor. More than 300 pictures and 60 sets of books, manuscripts and letters of Lu are on display at Shanghai’s Lu Xun Museum. Records at the exhibition show Lu was an ardent reader. He had a personal collec-tion of more than 13,000 books, read more than 4,000 books and left more than 9,000 notebooks of reading notes. Date: Through April 25, 9am-5pmVenue: Lu Xun Museum Address: 200 Tian’ai Rd

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Jackie Chan TreasuresAn exhibition about Chinese kung fu star Jackie Chan and his focus on environmental sustain-ability is currently running at the Shanghai World Financial Center. Twenty-five artists, architects and designers have spent half a year to revive the values of these stage props for the exhibition “Eye of the World, Jackie Chan Treasures.” The show features more than 40 artworks made of recycled items used in Chan’s movies, including decorations, spotlights, camera lenses and other equipment. One highlight shows two special-effect stages simulating “a mountain of swords” and the “sea of fire” where visitors can feel the excit-ing experiences of stunt men in Chan’s movies. The “mountain” and “sea” are made of wasted plastic bottles and sponges.Visitors are invited to create their own artworks with abandoned items such as buttons and plastic bottles at the end of the exhibition.Date: Through May 20 (closed on Mondays and April 22), 10am-9pmAdmission: 40-80 yuan Venue: Shanghai World Financial CenterAddress: 4/F, 100 Century Ave, Pudong New Area

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Stage

Dance Theater Feast Shanghai Dance Theater will present dance lovers a season of original dance dramas, including “Red Clouds in Sky,” “Crested Ibises” and “Wild Zebra.” The three productions will be staged in varied styles with compelling scenes and melodies. Elements of traditional and modern dance will be combined to create artistic treat.Date: May 30-June 28 Tickets: 80-480 yuan Tel: 5299-0372Venue: Shanghai International Dance CenterAddress: 1650 Hongqiao Rd

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‘Wicked’ the MusicalMagic will come alive at Shanghai Culture Square, as the musical “Wicked” arrives in May. Born green, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) grows up in an unfriendly environment. Although friends with Glinda (the Good Witch), they fall out after falling in love over for the same man. When Elphaba sings out her high F in “Defying Gravity,” the wicked is ready to be herself regardless of what the others say. It is a daz-zling emerald journey to the magic world of wizards and fairies. Date: Through May 14, 7:15pmTickets: 80-1,050 yuanTel: 6472-6000, 6272-9000Venue: SAIC Shanghai Culture SquareAddress: 597 Fuxing Rd M.

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A SOLO exhibition titled “A Journey” featur-ing works of Belgian artist Burhan Amer is currently underway at Chen Ji Art Museum.

Different from his peers, Amer has had an amazing life journey.

Born in 1960 in Palestine, Amer fled his coun-try due to political strife and bombings.

In 1979, he arrived in China and studied construction engineering at Shanghai Tongji University.

After staying in the city for nine years, Amer went to Belgium and took up residency there.

However, he still kept close contact with China. His experiences in Southeast Asia and Europe have unwittingly nurtured his desire to paint an art world in fluorescent colors.

Through his paintings, Amer shares his thoughts, emotions, sensitivities and reflec-tions about the world.

His paintings can be painful but colorful, dynamic but peaceful, realistic but abstract. Besides art, Amer is a linguist and speaks four foreign languages.

He has even published a French novel titled “Le Papillon de Palestine” in Belgium.

‘A Journey’Date: Through April 27, 10am-5pmVenue: Chen Ji Art MuseumAddress: 800 Dongchuan Rd

“The Silk Road” by Burhan Amer

amer’s ‘Journey’ on display at chen Ji art Museum

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