CULTURE \>\> IN CHINA

Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Beijing

The Caochangdi PhotoSpring is working in a three-year partnership with Les Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival. During this week of festivities, each of the partnering Caochangdi galleries will host different activities, such as exhibition openings, lectures, evening concerts, documentary film screenings, and slideshows.

Venue: Caochangdi Art Zone

Date: Till May 1

Contact: info@threeshadows.cn

Spanish Cinema: The Essentials, Beijing

This films series shows some of the best films produced in Spain during the last 15 years. The movies are essential in understanding the contemporary diversity of Spanish cinema and its evolution.

Venue: Beijing Cervantes Institute

Date: Till June 18

Contact: cult4pek@cervantes.org.cn

Peter Ritzen Concert, Beijing

Belgium musician Peter Ritzen is a pianist, composer and conductor and has been regarded as "Liszt Junior" since he was a teenager. His music is a representative of the golden age of European music of the 19th century.

Venue: Poly Theater

Date: May 6

Contact: polytheatre@163.com

Exhibition: Recycling Art, Beijing

The best artworks of the International Recycling Art Festival of Catalonia are introduced for the first time in China. Recycling Art is a fresh and imaginative contemporary art exhibition that underlines the need for new consumption habits and questions the final fate of everyday products and their possible reuse once their lifetime comes to an early end.

Venue: Beijing Cervantes Institute

Date: May 6- June 30

Contact: cult4pek@cervantes.org.cn

The Art of the Enlightenment, Beijing

It is an exhibition presented by the Berlin State Museums, the Dresden State Art Collections and the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, in cooperation with the National Museum of China.

Venue: The National Museum of China.

Date: Till March 31, 2012

Contact: service@smb.spk-berlin.de

CULTURE \>\> IN EUROPE

Shanghai-Paris Painting Exhibition, Paris

Placed side by side in the cultural landscape of the 20th century, Shanghai and Paris are two cities with many similarities and have respectively assumed the role of representatives for Eastern culture and Western culture for the past 100 years. Composed of three parts "From Shanghai", "Plural Charms" and "Force of Globalization", and through 40 works, the exhibition presents mostly pictorial compositions in ink, oil and watercolor.

Venue: Chinese Cultural Center

Date: Till May 16

Contact: cccparisinfo@gmail.com

Exhibition of Miao ethnic group

in Guizhou province, Paris

The Miao is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China. In the 2000 census, there were 8.94 million Miao people in the country, and half of them live in

Guizhou province. Miao costume is meaningful

and decorative motifs are of great beauty. Each creation is unique and of infinite variety. This exhibition shows the different styles of the Miao costumes.

Venue: Chinese Cultural Center

Date: Till May 8

Contact: cccparisinfo@gmail.com

2011 Spring Lecture Series: China Faces the World, Brussels

The Brussels Institute of Contemporary China

Studies launches the lecture series, featuring 10 renowned experts, to contribute to a more qualitative debate about China's rise and its impact on Europe.

Venue: Vrije University

Date: Till May 18

Events can be submitted by e-mail to:

events@mail.chinadailyuk.com.