JUE | Music + Art
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• Optimo: DJ Twitch + DJ Wilkes = Optimo; UK dance music legends, coming to China straight from Jamaica Street in Glasgow, where they are resident DJs at Sub Club’s weekly Optimo parties, spinning everything from electro to post-punk to ‘50s swing music.
Shanghai: March 19 @ Shelter, 70 RMB
Beijing: March 20 @ White Rabbit, 70 RMB
• St. Vincent:  Experimental folk rocker and indie crush-object from Houston, Texas.
Beijing: March 12 @ Yugong Yishan, 120 RMB
Shanghai: March 13 @ Yuyintang, 120 RMB
• Trippple Nippples: Japanese synth-punk freakazoids.
Shanghai: March 19 @ Yuyintang, 50 RMB
Beijing: March 20 @ 2 Kolegas, 50 RMB
• Dead Elvis & His One Man Grave: Zombie Rockabilly straight outta Disgraceland.
Beijing: March 12 @ D22, 50 RMB
Shanghai: March 20 @ LOgO, 50 RMB
• Julie Doiron: The fairy-godmother of Canadian indie rock, whose latest offering was the #1 album of 2009 on Canadian campus radio.
Shanghai: March 17 @ Yuyintang, 60 RMB
Qingdao: March 18 @ Qingdao Concert Hall, 50 RMB
Beijing: March 19 @ 2Kolegas, 60 RMB
• Bigger Bang! + Tookoo + The Disagree + RandomK(e)
Beijing: March 19 @ MAO, 50 RMB(presale)/60 RMB(door)
• Acupuncture Records: EP release party for Xiao Linfeng’s Cut Off,
Beijing: March 20 @ Lantern, Free Entry
• CrossTalk concert series, in which we take some of China’s most kickass live acts to new cities. The JUE CrossTalk bands are:
o Hanggai: Mongolian folk rockers/throat singers – Shanghai, March 12 @ Yuyintang, 50 RMB
o Omnipotent Youth Hotel: Mellow rockers from Hebei, with a traditional Chinese twist -- Shanghai, March 20 @ Dream Factory, 50 RMB
o Yufeimen: Indie-electronica from Guangzhou – Shanghai, March 28 @ MAO, 60 RMB
o The Mushrooms, Nu-metal from Shanghai, performing in Beijing for the first time – Beijing, March 26 @ MAO, 40 RMB

 

And the Sonicbids winner is:

We teamed up with Planetary Group and US-based artist-promoter matchmaking service Sonicbids to arrange an all-expenses paid, 6-city China tour for one artist. There were no barriers to entry – anyone from anywhere in the world could apply.

We sifted through an extraordinary 773 applications, and in the end we chose Icelandic experimental composer and neo-classical multi-instrumentalist, Olafur Arnalds.  Our mandate was simple - to choose a band/ artist that is well-positioned musically to use the Sonicbids tour as an entry into the China-market, an artist that really had a "fit" with China and that, at the same time, would bring something new to the audiences of this country. Olafur meats all these criteria in spades, not to mention that his music is gorgeous.

We’ll be announcing details of Olafur’s 6 China gigs after the Spring Festival, including anchor performances in Beijing and Shanghai as part of JUE.

JUE | Art Beijing
(Dates/details TBA on www.juefestival.com unless otherwise noted)
• Three Shadows Photography: “Home - Project: An Exhibition by Milla-Kariina Oja,” March 6-27.
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art: Zhang Yuan, H.H. Lim and Kehinde Wiley solo exhibitions, March 14-April 11.
• Chang Art Gallery: William Wegman exhibition, March 20-May2
• Red Gate Gallery: “Head On” multimedia exhibition, runs until March 18
• Xin Dong Cheng Contemporary Art Space: Wang Ningde Solo Exhibition, March 20-May 3
• Affordable Art Beijing: Pop-Up Art Store at The Orange, March 26-28.
• ChART Contemporary: Open House: A Room of One’s Own by Chen Ke, March 28 (location TBA)
• Yuanfen New Media Art Space: “Secret Language of Women.”
• Photography Exhibition from Steffi Jung and Ruben Malchow at Paper Asian Fusion Cuisine
• Film screening: Mancora at BED Bar
• Amelie Gallery
• Artist Village Gallery: Abiao's Mixed Media Show, March 1-28, 20 RMB
• Today Art Museum
• Lebottle Photography
• AnniArt
• Winnie Sidhartha, painter
• Zhu Yinghao, photographer.
• PINGOD COMMUNITY EVENTS; Art / Design / Film
o “Collecting Contemporary Art“ talk @  RedBox Studio 
o Book Design Workshop @ Paper Space
o Documentary Film Screening @ Today Art Museum Documentary Film Center  
• Events Co-Presented with The Bookworm International Literary Festival:
o Live showcase from Rastafarian writer and dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah and slam poet and actor Steve Connell at 2Kolegas, March 13, 8pm, RMB 50 (presale)/60(door).
o Songwriting workshop with Julie Doiron at Yishu 8, March 19, 3-5pm, RMB 250.

JUE | Art Shanghai
(Dates/details TBA on www.juefestival.com unless otherwise noted)
• NeochaEDGE x IDLE BEATS Screen Printing Workshop, March 13. 
• FQ Projects: Best of Time - Photography from Dai Mouyu, Guo Peng, Xu Shijun, Feb.-Apr.
• MOVING HOUSE! at Art Labor, March 5-26.
• Art + Shanghai Gallery – Xu Kong. Participating Artists: Fabria Alam, Fabrice Guyot, Huang Zhiyang, Wu Geng Zhen, March 5-April 28.
• Libido, Mortido at Island6, March 6-April 30.  
• Shanghai Photographer Night @ Dada bar – Curated by Tim Franco with special guest Matthew Niederhauser, March 24.
• Shanghai Repertory Theater presents Shakespeare’s King Lear, March 24-28 at the Ke Center for Contemporary Arts.
• Andrew James Gallery: “Daytime Eats Night” Miyuki Akiyama Solo Exhibition, March 20-April 25. 
• 5th Wall presents A Taste of Red at River South Art Center, March 20-21.
• Zuloo Theatre Productions.
• Shanghai Repertory Theater presents Shakespeare’s King Lear, March 24-28 at the Ke Center for Contemporary Arts.

As for that rumoured official JUE website, our web developers are still toiling away. We hope the site will see the light of day before Spring Festival. We’ll keep you posted on that…

During the festival, our English official web community partner QQ International will be displaying a handy daily schedule of events through their chat platform.

A big thanks to all of our wonderful media partners, who are helping to get the word out about JUE 2010:

Exclusive New Media Partner:
Card+MEDIA

Official English Media Partner:
City Weekend

Hit Magazine

Metroer

O2 Magazine

Official Web Community Partner:
QQ International – Get the best out of your life in China.

www.imqq.com

Soulfire

IndieChina

Wawawamusic store – China’s only music store offering St. Vincent’s music

Last but not least, a massive thanks to the official hotel of JUE | Music + Art 2010, for their support in housing all of the visiting JUE artists in Beijing.

About Hotel G Beijing

This retro-fabulous luxury hotel is the flagship of the Hotel G brand, which plans to roll out more hotels throughout Asia. Hotel G is all about sophisticated ‘60s glamour, with plush rooms from the mind of British designer Mark Lintott, plus fine nouveau-Japanese dining at Morio (by chef Morio Sakayori), and Scarlett wine bar & restaurant, which boasts a fine selection of wines along with tapas, cold cuts and showcasing a large variety of cheeses.

Get Involved:
Want to get involved in JUE? We welcome you with open arms. You can find more info about participating in the festival here, and drop us a line at shanghaijue@spli-t.com or beijingjue@spli-t.com