May is here and as usual this will be a busy and exciting month.
The Norwegian pavilion at World Expo 2010 is at centre stage of much of the activity, particularly on Norway Day (28th of May). The exposition will run for a full six months and will be full of exciting activities.
Klubb Norge Beijing has done an excellent job organizing this year’s 17th of May festivities. Please note that the events will be held on Saturday the 15th of May.
We would also like to remind all that May is peak cultural season and a whole range of amazing opportunities are available. See below for more details.
After several years of preparation, on April 30 Shanghai is finally ready for the grand opening of the biggest World Exposition in history. Norway is one of 192 nations represented and our self built pavilion is now prepared to welcome more than 3 million visitors from all over the world!Read more >
Norway at Expo 2010 is proud to present “The Norwegian Evening” at Expo in cooperation with Secret Garden and I.M. Skaugen. Secret Garden front figure and composer, Rolf Løvland, has written an orchestral suite especially for Norway’s pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The suite can be experienced every evening as a multimedia performance in the Norwegian Pavilion. Read more >
The Norwegian Business Forum will be hosting an event on the 6th of May, on the topic of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and subsequent rebuilding efforts. Read more >
Trondheim soloists will be touring in China in May and June, performing music by Edvard Grieg and Tan Dun as well as traditional Scandinavian music. The tour includes a performance at the Shanghai Expo during Norway Day on the 28th of May.Read more >
The Trondheim based Symphony and Choir Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (TSO) will tour China from the 20th to 29th of May, as part of the orchestra's centennial celebrations. The tour begins at the Beijing Century Theatre on May the 21st.Read more >
The architectural exhibition ”Lost in Nature” by Norwegian Architects Jarmund/Vigsnæs will be on display at Tsinghua School of Architecture between 24. May and 4. June, with an official opening on Monday the 24th, at three in the afternoon. The exhibition highlights selected works of the Oslo-based firm. Read more >
Norwegian painter Håkon Gullvåg will be presenting his works to a Chinese audience in a series of exhibitions across the country in the period 2010-2011. The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of a new book documenting 20 years of his life’s work. Read more >
The Norwegian hard rock band Turdus Musicus returns to China for a three week tour across the country. The tour begins on the 3rd of May in Beijing where the band will play alongside Chinese rockers Tookoo at the well-known MIDI Festival. Read more >
Norwegian jazz band Parallax will be on tour in China in May to promote their debut album Live in The UK. They will be playing alongside the Chinese composer Li Tieqiao. Read more >
“Welcome to an academic lecture about goldfish, with total disregard to the narrow-minded formalities that hinders today’s intellectuals in bringing out the fruits of their truly expanding and illuminating work, to the wider public.” Thus we are introduced to Goldfish is meant for dying, a whimsical, yet strangely profound, piece of performance by Norwegian solo artist Rudi Skotheim Jensen, coming to Hong Kong in May. Read more >
The Norwegian rock bands K-Jell, Goldenboy, Desert Son and Steinar Hjelmbrekke will from April 24 to May 2 do an extensive China tour, performing in several Chinese cities. Read more >
”Breaking the Ice” will be the first topic of this newly started film festival, which opens the 27th of May. The film festival aims to present both Chinese and International films which focus on the topic of nature and environment.Read more >
