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Some people take portraits of children. Some take portraits of pets. Others take portraits of dried mushrooms, dessicated squid and preserved fish bought from Chinese wet markets. Nicolas Santa Maria Cea falls into the third category — my kind of people. In 2016, he began photographing ingredients when he and his family were living in Chilean Patagonia. When he moved to China two... Read more...
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia! Local LGBTQ community group Qmmunity is throwing China's first IDAHOT Gala , cramming high-filutin' professionals into the Reniassance Shanghai Yu Garden Hotel .... Read more...
If you haven't heard of Bohan Phoenix, we did a Shanghai Famous on him, and picked JALA as the spiciest Chinese release of 2017. The Hubei-born, New-York-raised, recent returnee indie... Read more...
We Are Shanghai is Shanghai's (mostly) annual compilation album. It's like a census and/or time-capsule, compiled by dozens of Shanghai bands and musicians from every imaginable genre. Volume 6 is already out to listen to for free, and this Saturday sees the release... Read more...
Matthew Hildebrandt (DJ Frau) and Phillip James (DJ PCJ) have been playing music and throwing parties in the indie club scene for the past five years. Together they make up China Social Club , a music promotion house and agency passionate about exposing up-and-coming Chinese artists. Now, in addition to regular gigs... Read more...
Xenia Sidorenko the designer behind the UseDem project, takes your old pair of jeans and magically bibbidi-bobbidi-boo 's them to a trendy backpack, apron—really anything you want. This project's goal is to make us (society) think twice about what we throw away and watch how we consume in order to save resources like water, which turns out... Read more...
I guess we know by now that people other than white dudes can aspire to be comedians (thanks Tiffany Haddish, Kumail Nanjiani, Ali Wong, et al.) but still seems worth shouting out Reyhaneh Rajabzadeh and her last show in Shanghai this Saturday. Reyhaneh was born in Tehran, raised in California, and has been doing stand up in... Read more...
Just released last week , the results of the latest official Shanghai-focused survey on residents' diet and health offered an unsurprising conclusion: our diets aren't great. The number one recommendation for improvement attached to the report was also a no-brainer: we need to adopt a more... Read more...
Rebecca Kanthor and Liu Jian are the Shanghai-based couple that decided to organize a children's music festival in China, due to a lack of variety in kid-pop. If you build it, they will come. And they have, with the third edition of Hand in Hand Children's Music Festival , bigger than its predecessors. Just like the... Read more...
Dr. Nicolas Romanov has worked with seven Olympic teams and published over a dozen books on one thing we all wish we were a little better at: running. He’s kept a watchful eye on the running boom in Shanghai and for the second year his organization Pose Method will be running the official training... Read more...
Shanghai's developing, bourgeoning, budding, (festering?) comedy scene is abuzz with the imminent arrival of American stand-up Doug Stanhope , a self-admittedly "vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest and shockingly uninhibited" sort of fellow who has appeared on classics like "The Man Show", "Girls Gone Wild", "The Howard... Read more...
Founded in 2015, Farmonize is an eco-farming project aiming to connect people directly to the process of growing their own vegetables by leasing them farmland. Basically, they provide subscribers with a 120-square-meter plot of farmland and the option to grow eight to twelve different varieties of vegetables in one season. Their farms are mainly located in Chongming, Fengxian, and... Read more...
Late last year, Lindsey Fine of Happy Buddha managed to launch not one but two simultaneous, successful crowdfunding campaigns to raise the roughly 150,000rmb needed to relocate to a new venue (just downstairs). Considering crowdfunding has a 75-90% failure rate, that's not an insignificant... Read more...
Beijing's most wonderful arts, music, and creative writing media platform LoReLi (short for "Look", "Read", "Listen") is hosting two nights of creative chaos in Shanghai on Friday and Saturday night , collaborating with a bunch of... Read more...
Mindfulness, mindfulness, mindfulness . The thing where you try to think about nothing in order to be a happier, less anxious, well adjusted person. It's Brandon Mehrgut’s hope that this practice will become as routine as a morning shower — the physical exercise of the twenty-teens. Brandon’s been practicing and spreading mindfulness in Shanghai since his arrival about two and... Read more...
NBA name-about-town Tracy Murray's showing up in Shanghai this week. Let's reel off some achievements? Ex-UCLA Bruins, left as their #5 All Time Top-Scorer, spent 12 years in the NBA, ex-shooting-coach of the Lakers, he once scored 50 points in a game with Washington Wizards. Puts him up there on the Washington honor roll with the... Read more...
There’s a magical place right here in Shanghai, a quiet, serene spot with several floral arrangements and even more shades of pink. It’s Sorority China , an exclusive coworking space for women that encourages sisterly bonds in an attempt to shift the ‘gender status quo.’ They’ve got a coliving space... Read more...
Frank Tsai, is the one man tour de force working behind the scenes of four lecture series: Hopkins China Forum , M Talks China , Shanghai Thinkery , and China Crossroads . Altogether these series bring about 50 lectures to Shanghai annually, creating a community of those seeking intellectual stimulation. Ahead of an upcoming
Broadcasting from a hole in the ground straight to your internet speakers is Shanghai's newest arts, culture, music, conspiracy theories, conservative talk radio platform " Shanghai Community Radio ". A joint project from some of the Basement6 art... Read more...
Ton Mak is a visual artist who has created her own doodle society of little creatures called Flabjacks . According to her what makes a flabjack a flabjack is their “curiously ambiguous face, rotund body, and exotically contrasting personalities.” Simply put, it seems what makes a flabjack a flabjack is being cute AF. In an endearingly grotesque... Read more...
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