Where to go, what to do this week in Shanghai
MONDAY
Mondays You Paint, We Pour @ Roxie
Every third Monday of the month, head to Roxie for the old paint and pour. You paint while sipping on some happy hour drinks.
🕒 6pm
📍 359 Kangding Road | 康定路359号
TUESDAY
Movie Night: Shakespeare in Love @ The Pearl
Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 American romantic film that depicts an imaginary love affair involving Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) while he was writing Romeo and Juliet.
🕒 8pm
💰 Free entry
📍 471 Zhapu Road | 乍浦路471号
Moonlight Jazz @ Cotton's
Cotton's Anting location hosts a live jazz combo every Tuesday night. Vocals, piano, and bass lighting up your evening a bit.
🕒 9:30pm
📍 132 Anting Road | 安亭路132号
WEDNESDAY
Will Vinson Quartet Ft. Alec Haavik @ JZ Club
Will Vinson has an international reputation as a leader and sideman. All About Jazz New York describes Will as playing “with a relentless force”. Thomas Michelsen of Denmark’s Politiken, hails this “very exciting saxophonist” with a “beautiful, softly modulating tone”, and John Fordham of The Guardian described a "superb solo of rugged leathery sounds turning into mellifluous high notes” with “secure control and storming energy". Time Out London calls will an "exciting young altoist with a lethal approach to writing and soloing”.
🕒 10pm
💰 ￥160 - 230
📍 158 Julu Road | 巨鹿路158号
Maximilian Hecker: Sea of Silence Concert @ Shanghai Centre Theatre
Maximilian Hecker is a German musician known for airy pop music. After performing as a drummer in a number of small German bands, and after one year of making music in the streets of Berlin, his demo tapes attracted the attention of famous Berlin based record label Kitty-yo Records, who released his debut album "Infinite Love Songs" in 2001. The album was very well received worldwide and even reached the top ten list of the New York Times’ album of the year contest in 2001.
🕒 7:30pm
💰 ￥100 - 380
📍 1376 West Nanjing Road | 南京西路1376号
THURSDAY
Wine Lips - Natural Wine Party @ RAC Bar
Wine Lips is this spring’s unmissable natural wine party. Attendees get to taste from 12 different wines from some of the big names in the natural wine world. Everything on the table is organic, sustainable, biodynamic, natural and/or all the above. Plus, eats from the talented team behind RAC are available for those feeling peckish. Well-stocked bar with beer, mixers and soft drinks at bar prices, and music China Social Club's DJ Frau and PCJ.
🕒 7pm
💰 ￥180 - 200
📍 322 Anfu Road | 安福路322号
Lydmor @ ALL Club
Danish singer-songwriter Lydmor has been gaining buzz recently after her powerful, provocative performance on 'Gaffa' (think the Danish Grammy Awards) just a short month and a bit ago. This April, she's back in Shanghai to promote her upcoming album, inspired by the 6 months she spent in the city in 2016. The evocative lyrics of her haunting, infectious electro-pop like Money Towers will be instantly relatable to anyone who's lived here for more than a minute. Here's a chance to see her up close in the intimate confines of All Club.
🕒 8:30pm
💰 ￥80
📍 17 North Xiangyang Road | 襄阳北路17号
FRIDAY
NOVA Shanghai presents Harvey McKay (Drumcode) @ Arkham
Harvey McKay has created a distinctive style with a name that is synonymous with driving, soulful techno. He has worked his way into the Drumcode stable with three top ten EPs and has gained support across the globe as one of the hottest techno producers around.
🕒 10:30pm
💰 ￥120 - 160
📍 168 Julu Road | 巨鹿路168号
Longines Global Champions Tour of Shanghai 2018 @ China Art Museum
The Longines Global Champions Tour is the world’s premier show jumping series, bringing together the top ranked athletes in the world to compete in prestigious locations for unprecedented prize money. From the sands of Miami Beach to the lights of Shanghai, under the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the breath-taking Stadio dei Marmi in Rome, it offers some of the most explosive and exciting competition of any equestrian series.
💰 ￥470
📍 205 Shangnan Road | 上南路205号
SATURDAY
Monologues: Revel's World of Shakespeare @ Shanghai Grand Theatre
A one-man show, performed by writer, director, actor and co-founder of Peking University's Institute of World Theatre and Film Joseph Graves, Revel's World of Shakespeare chronicles Graves' own experiences at London's Chelsea School for Boys under the tutelage of Clive T. Revel, a tyrannical, alcoholic professor who saw Shakespeare as a religion (if not a cult), pressing his young charges into terrified service.
🕒 7:30pm
💰 ￥100 - 300
📍 300 Renmin Avenue | 人民大道300号
Rooftop Lovers Vol.2 Party @ Lost Heaven Bund Lounge
Rooftop Lovers Vol.2 is co-organized by Wine&The City and Freelance Lovers. Under their belt, they have created some of the coolest events in Shanghai, as well as the sexiest pool parties in China. With their creative concepts, they successfully combine music, art, fashionable scenes and turn it into a new way of entertainment!
🕒 7pm
💰 ￥120 - 3800
📍 17 East Yan'an Road | 延安东路17号
2018 Spartan Race Presented by INFINITI @ Sunland Green
The Spartan Race is a leader in the sport of obstacle racing, offering open heats for all fitness levels, as well as competitive and elite heats for those with something more to prove. The first of its kind to feature timing and global rankings, the Spartan Race provides a proving ground for beginner and professional obstacle racers looking to test themselves in new ways across the world.
🕒 9am
💰 ￥469 - 529
📍 628 Qifan Road | 启帆路628号
SUNDAY
Tchaikovsky: Live Music from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker @ Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Tchaikovsky was a leading Russian composer of the late 19th century, whose works are notable for their melodic inspiration and their orchestration. He is regarded as the master composer for classical ballet, as demonstrated by his scores for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. Tchaikovsky’s three sumptuous ballet scores are also three of his supreme masterpieces, as remarkable for their emotional content as for the beauty of their melodies and orchestration.
🕒 7:30pm
💰 ￥120 - 660
📍 425 Dingxiang Road | 丁香路425号
Shanghai Soup @ Xin Che Jian
Shanghai Soup is a fun, non-profit, networking event that provides funding for small projects within Shanghai. At each event they serve soup, sustainably sourced from local businesses; each diner contributes 50rmb for their soup. Four local projects present to the audience and have four minutes to share their idea and answer four questions from the diners. At the end, diners can vote on which project is granted the money.
💰 ￥50
🕒 5:30pm
📍 28 East Yuyuan Road | 愚园东路 28 号
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