Where to go, what to do this week in Shanghai

MONDAY

CNY Sewing and Craft Camp @ Craft'd

If you are staying in Shanghai for Chinese New Year then this is the perfect opportunity for your kids to get creative! Craft'd holiday camps offer kids a wide variety of creative workshops. In the morning they will be using a sewing machine to create a variety of projects that we are sure they will love. The afternoons are more varied: activities in the past have included soap making, lipstick making, acrylic and watercolor painting, memo boards, yarn crafts and so much more!

💰 ￥1,500 - 3,,000
📍 1288 Middle Fuxing Road | 复兴中路1288号

TUESDAY

Shanghai Ballet: The Butterfly Lovers @ Shanghai International Dance Center

For more than three decades, the Shanghai Ballet has been dazzling audiences around the world with its unique repertoire of folk- 42 30388 42 13004 0 0 6654 0 0:00:04 0:00:01 0:00:03 6655infused Chinese ballet and classical Western masterworks. The Butterfly Lovers is a poignant love story that dates to the Tang Dynasty. The Butterfly Lovers, often considered the Chinese equivalent to Romeo & Juliet, is an audience favorite and features elegant choreography, graceful dancers, magnificent costumes, and a touching story of love and loss. Since 1979, this accomplished ensemble has enchanted audiences around the world with its interpretations of classical Chinese and Western ballets.

🕒 7:30pm
💰 ￥180 - 680
📍 1650 Hongqiao Road | 虹桥路1650号

2018 A-La Chinese New Year Carnival @ Great World

New Year's Carnival in Shanghai is coming, with a full feast of international delicacies, cultural performances, music, dance, theater, and fun games for the whole family. Expect market vendors with unique crafts and goods for sale, Shanghai’s “Time-Honored” brands showcasing their wares, film screenings, a live kitchen, interactive exhibitions, and VR fun for kids.

💰 ￥54
📍 1 South Xizang Road | 西藏南路1号

WEDNESDAY

Valentine’s Day cakes @ Bread etc

Give yourself over to your lover this Valentine's Day with Bread etc's red velvet cake. They're melding cream cheese, homemade whipped cream, and mascarpone together, before soaking it in crème de cassis and shaping it into two sizes: a bigger, heart-shaped portion and a smaller set of lips. Pick one or both to show what your heart and lips desire.

💰 ￥28 - 88
📍 1486 West Nanjing Road | 南京西路1486号

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Valentine's Day @ The Portman Ritz-Carlton

The Portman Ritz-Carlton is having a number of wine and dine packages this Valentine's Day. Happening both at The Ritz Bar & Lounge and the revamped Portman's Restaurant, there're drinks, dinners, and an afternoon tea set that will leave you and your partner in the mood for love.

💰 ￥1035 - 1499
📍 1376 West Nanjing Road | 南京西路1376号

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Valentine's Day @ The Westin Bund Center

Show how much you care by feeding someone an endless amount of food, which you can do at The Westin Bund Center. They're holding their Be My Valentine buffet dinner at lobby restaurant The Stage, which includes an array of cuisines combined with champagne or sparkling wine. Your special someone will also receive a complimentary box of roses and a stuffed bear.

💰 ￥688 - 2018
📍 88 Middle Henan Road | 河南中路88号

THURSDAY

Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner @ The Westin Bund Center

The Westin Bund Center Shanghai will present you with sumptuous reunion feast with live performance, varieties of lucky draw prizes and God of Wealth to celebrate Chinese New Year with you together on Chinese New Year's Eve.

🕒 5:30pm
💰 ￥2688 - 3788
📍 88 Middle Henan Road | 河南中路88号

FRIDAY

Afternoon JAZZmine Tea @ Shangri-La

Jing An Shangri-La hosts an afternoon of music performances every Thursday to Saturday. Featuring one of South Africa’s finest music artists, Ralston van der Schyff will be performing a selection of Contemporary Jazz, Golden Standards and Broadway Classics.

🕒 3pm
💰 Free
📍 1 South Xizang Road | 西藏南路1号

SATURDAY

Very Best Piano Music from the Movies @ Cadillac·Shanghai Concert Hall

Listen to the most beautiful and amazing piano songs from wonderful movies, including music from The Legend of 1900, The Godfather, Hannibal, Schindler's list, The Sound of Music.

🕒 7:30pm
💰 ￥280 - 680
📍 523 East Yan'an Road | 延安东路523号

SUNDAY

Spring Festival Overture @ Shanghai Oriental Art Center

The Spring Festival Overture, composed in 1955-56 by Li Huanzhi, opens the program with a cheerful depiction of the Spring Festival, the term used in China for what is known in the United States as Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year. The piece has become immensely popular throughout China and has also made its way far beyond earthly borders; in 2007 it was one of 30 musical selections sent into outer space aboard Chang'e No.1, China's first lunar probe satellite, which beamed this music back to earth from a distance of some 236,000 miles.

🕒 7:30pm
💰 ￥120 - 660
📍 425 Dingxiang Road | 丁香路425号

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