Upcoming Events in Shanghai

2026-10-11

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - The Ultimate Girls Night Out Concert

The Red Stars present a high-energy pop concert built entirely around iconic feel-good anthems made famous by some of the biggest female pop artists of recent decades. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is...

Today @ The Pearl

From ¥ 60

Huang Jingyao: La Dénivelée

Fotografiska Shanghai presents emerging artist Huang Jingyao’s solo exhibition La Dénivelée, exploring the relationship between memory, the city and photography through distortion and...

Daily until Dec 6 @ Fotografiska

From ¥ 50

HD Screening: National Theatre Live – All My Sons

Filmed live from the West End, this acclaimed production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Ivo van Hove and led by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and...

Oct 2, 5, 11, 16, 25, 30 @ Wanping Theater

From ¥ 168

HD Screening: Top Hat The Musical

Based on the classic 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Top Hat brings the glamour of Hollywood’s golden age to the stage with lavish sets, elegant costumes, witty comedy and...

Oct 2, 5, 11 @ Wanping Theater

From ¥ 168

House of Zup - Kitchen Meets Club (House, Disco, Techno)

Neighborhood pizza bar back with another Sunday day party, with pizza by the slice, beer and spritzes flowin, and six djs throwin down all kinds of chill and possibly turnt up tunes. Free entry....

Today @ Zup Pizza Bar

Lynching Sinner, Orchid, The Dark Tide

Episode 35 of the Yuyintang Channel series continues to spotlight emerging (or unsung) bands over at their Basement space - and tonight’s got an eclectic spread of HEAVY rock and roll with three...

Today @ Yuyintown Basement

ATAQUE TROPICAL, Haqin Almighty aka XIEXIE3LLA, 肖文宇

FREAK OUT returns to the experimental music hub with a truly ‘punk-cyber-cumbia’ from BRASIL and MEXICO. Special guests are ATAQUE TROPICAL - the combustible Brasil Latin American dancefloor,...

Today @ trigger

Botanicas

Botanicas is a drone and ambient music artist based in Cape Town, South Africa, who works at the intersection of ecological systems and sound perception. Part of the Sonic Exploration Network South...

Today @ Cedar Land

2026-10-12

Laylive: A Lie-Down Concert in Tents

LAYLiVE transforms the Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai into a “city camping ground” where audiences listen to music inside tents. The 90-minute performance features fingerstyle guitar and...

Jun 8, Aug 10, Oct 12, Dec 14 @ Jazz at Lincoln Center

From ¥ 120

Shanghai French School Open Houses

Experience a top-ranked education for yourself at the next Shanghai French School open house. This non-profit international institution welcomes over 1,530 students (not just French nationals!)...

Qingpu: Oct 19, Yangpu: Oct 12 @ Lycée Français De Shanghai (Shanghai French School)

Manchester Global EMBA Roundtable | Leadership in a Changing World of Work

The University of Manchester China Centre hosts an evening panel discussion on the changing world of work, exploring how AI, hybrid working, multigenerational teams and global business shifts are...

Tomorrow @ The University of Manchester China Center

Making Scents of China: Global Fragrances, Chinese Tastes.

Join Dialogs on October 12 for a Business Breakfast with Anaïs Bournonville, founder and CEO of AB ADVISORY, a marketing and retail agency working with luxury and lifestyle brands in China. With a...

Tomorrow @ Dialogs

2026-10-13

Goldfish Theatre - Millennium Oriental Goldfish immersive Art Exhibition

Goldfish Theatre is an immersive art exhibition at BFC that brings together Chinese goldfish culture, live goldfish, digital projections and immersive installations. Across 10 themed spaces,...

Daily @ BFC

From ¥ 49

Open Day at NAIS Pudong

For over 25 years, Nord Anglia International School Pudong has been a leading British international school, offering the English Curriculum, IGCSEs, and the IB Diploma for students aged 2-18. See...

Oct 13 & Nov 3 @ Nord Anglia International School Shanghai, Pudong (NAIS Pudong)

Tuesday Losers Club: Feeling of Emptiness (Multidisciplinary Art Jam)

Low-key one of the best bars in the city brings back their Tuesday Losers Club night, which is a multidisciplinary art jam that's open to pretty much any form of creative expression: poetry, music,...

Tue, Oct 13, 2026 @ Keep It Quiet

The Generational Tasting Tour

Experience the Generational Tasting Tour, a global four-hands dining series bringing Wolfgang Puck and Byron Lazaroff-Puck together at Spago Shanghai for an unforgettable evening celebrating two...

Tue, Oct 13, 2026 @ Spago

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