Photo festival held for first time outside France

A portion of Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival is being held outside France for the first time in its four-decade history. The honor of being its first overseas host goes to Caochangdi, the Beijing art village that festival organizers see eventually becoming an international art hub.

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The Beijing Sailing Center (BSC), located in Qinhuangdao beach resort, starts its 2010 sailing season this weekend. BSC is one of the country’s top sailing schools, with a team of instructors certified by the UK’s Royal Yachting Association.

French troupe stages new drama for charity

The Theater of Lanterns staged Forever Yours, Marie Lou at Star Theater yesterday to raise money for abandoned children and orphans in the rural south.

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Ashtanga yoga pioneers Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty will be in town for a nine-day workshop at Fine Yoga Club. The California-based teachers have been practicing and lecturing on yoga for a combined 50 years.

Beijing Playhouse stages musical about marriage next month

Beijing Playhouse’s spring offering this year is the Broadway musical I Do! I Do!, running from May 14 to 23 at Goose and Duck restaurant on East Fourth Ring Road.

NGO sponsors benefit concert for raptors

Don’t Eat Friends, a non-government organization promoting animal protection, sponsored a concert at Weibozhiyan Club last Sunday to raise funds for the Beijing Raptor Rescue Center.

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Gold Sailing Water Sport Club holds dragon boat training for rowers of every level at Houhai every Sunday. The club includes Chinese and expat members.
Where: Gold Sailing Water Sport Club, 1 Houhai Xiyan, Xicheng District
When: Every Sunday, 1: 30 pm
Tel: 6401 2664
Cost: 50 yuan

Local NGO maps culture of remote Guizhou village

Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center’s forum “Saving Gulou,” which would have discussed redevelopment of the Drum and Bell Tower neighborhood, may have been canceled by authorities, but the non-event managed to generate more publicity and sympathy for the campaign.

Cycling club says bikes solution to pollution, traffic jams

In a country where every household has at least one bicycle, you would think nobody would bat an eyelash at another cycling club.

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The Hutong is holding a one-and-a-half hour discussion on some of the ideas behind Asian health and longevity practices. Attendees will learn different models of health and medicine developed in the East and West, how people can combine Eastern and Western knowledge to improve their health and how to incorporate these into their daily lives.