Get your talk on at the Beijing Debate Society

Hanging out with friends or having boozy parties is a common way for many young people to spend their after-work hours. But a small group of people has chosen a more somber though no less fun activity: debate.

Sailing running for a good cause

The Beijing Sailing Center (BSC), partnered with local charity shop Roundabout, is organizing a Great Wall Sailing Charity Challenge from October 15-17 to raise money for charity.

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JUMP! Foundation is organizing a daylong excursion throughout town. Attendees will visit the artistic, cultural and historic parts of Beijing from a new perspective.

Berlin’s Tresor club holds first party it town

The steady rain and monstrous traffic jam last Friday could not keep dance fans away from 798 Art District’s Centre d’art Au Nom de la Rose. Tresor, the legendary underground techno nightclub and record label from Berlin, was holding its first party in town with the top German disk jockeys such as Pacou, Tobias Thomas and Hans Nieswandt in attendance.

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Dulwich College Beijing is offering a basic course in Chinese conversation to be conducted by Isa Zang, a teacher from Chinese Classroom training center.

TED shares ideas about city and art development

Megan and KC Vienna Connolly, two gregarious sisters from New York City, and their Beijing-based “curatorial lab” ChART Contemporary were the highlights of the event.

Superleague racing on the streets of Shunyi

The Superleague Formula series is coming to the Asia-Pacific area for the first time. The three-day event will kick off on October 8 at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, with tracks set on the street both inside and around the park.

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To take advantage of the sunshine in the last days of summer and celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, Gaobeidian Antique Furniture Street is throwing a street fair and offering special end-of-summer sales and handicrafts made by local artists.

First Miss Laowai beauty contest forsters cultural exchange, community building

Intense and sweaty dance and catwalk trainings have constituted “nightlife” in the past two weeks for 25 foreign women who are vying for the title of Miss Laowai.

Second China sommelier competition begins Sunday

The mainland’s first sommelier contest last year sent two finalists to Japan to participate in the Best Sommelier of Asia-Oceania competition.