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This music school offers music training for all ages starting from 3 and all levels with faculty consisting of foreign and local instructors. The school also hosts a number of open workshops, masters classes and other community events.

A gallery, community art centre with art classes. Run by creative collective, its members are all professional artists / designers/eco-enterprisers. It's a space for creativity and expression. Open to everyone this space is a hub for international and local creatives living in Shanghai.

IFA Paris is a French fashion school, established in France in 1982. In 2002, IFA Paris opened its Shanghai branch offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs with a focus on Fashion Design, Fashion Business, and Luxury Brand Management.

Offering ongoing adult classes and courses in English for expats in Shanghai, including photography, designing, painting, Web design, TCM, filmmaking, writing, Photoshop, management, HR, finance, and many more.

Chinese Cooking Workshop is an expat-oriented cooking school that teaches dumpling making, wok cooking, wet market shopping, and the like. It\'s in the maze of rooms and artists studios that make up the factory-cum-creative-studios in the 696 Weihai Lu building. Prices start around 150rmb per person per lesson.

The Continuing Education School (CES), directly under Shanghai Jiao Tong University, offers western-style adult education classes to foreigners and local English speaking students. All the courses are taught by foreign professionals. You can take daytime, evening, and weekend continuing-education classes. They recruit in four semesters a year.

This international fashion design school was formerly known as LaSalle Design College.

Professional, bilingual music instructors offer a wide variety of classes in a "a la carte" system: You pick your instrument(s), your techniques (reading, rhythm, listening/recognizing, playing), the time you want the class to last. Classes are available from beginner to advanced levels, for both children or adults, out-call or at one of their two locations in Shanghai.