EventConcerts
La Fenice: Tosca
Venice’s Teatro La Fenice brings Puccini’s Tosca to Shanghai in a staging that moves the drama into the 1950s.
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PlaceCulture
Shanghai Film Museum
Shanghai’s screen history comes into focus through filmmakers, production stories and objects from a century of cinema.
EventExhibitions
Skate of the Art
Skateboarding becomes a way to read cities in a photography and video exhibition at Fotografiska Shanghai.
EventActivities
Schaubühne: The Marriage of Maria Braun
Thomas Ostermeier turns Fassbinder’s film into theatre through one woman’s life in post-war West Germany.
PlaceCulture
Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts
Carving, embroidery and traditional craft fill a white villa on Fenyang Road.
EventExhibitions
Thomas Sauvin: Beijing Silvermine
Discarded photographic negatives become a portrait of everyday life in Thomas Sauvin’s Beijing Silvermine project.
EventConcerts
Gergiev and Mariinsky: Shostakovich Symphony Cycle
All fifteen Shostakovich symphonies form a multi-concert cycle conducted by Valery Gergiev.
PlaceCulture
Shanghai Auto Museum
Classic cars, design and mechanical history make Anting’s automobile museum a focused day-trip destination.
EventExhibitions
Robert Zhao Renhui at Fotografiska
Robert Zhao Renhui uses photography and moving image to look closely at human relationships with the natural world.
EventActivities
Robert Wilson: Moby Dick
Melville’s white whale becomes music theatre through Robert Wilson’s visual staging and Anna Calvi’s score.
PlaceCulture
Powerlong Museum
Changing art exhibitions give this Caobao Road museum a reason to anchor a visit to Minhang.
EventConcerts
Made It Dance: TOKiMONSTA at Reactor
TOKiMONSTA leads SHFT’s first Made It Dance night at Reactor, with local selectors across the programme.
EventActivities
The Moonlit Spring: Yue Opera
A Yue opera about Fan Zhongyan’s exile puts public duty, corruption and moral conviction into conflict.
Free entry
PlaceCulture
Shanghai Children’s Museum
Interactive displays make science approachable for young visitors at this free Changning museum.
EventExhibitions
Wong Kit Yi: BANK-A-OKE / TEM-PLE-OKE
Karaoke, architecture and ritual connect two installations in Wong Kit Yi’s Rockbund Art Museum exhibition.
EventActivities
Rachid Ouramdane: Contre-Nature
Ten dancers bring aerial movement and close physical contact to a work about memory and absence.
Free entry
PlaceCulture
Tushanwan Museum
Woodcarving, painting and stained glass reveal the cultural history of the former Tushanwan orphanage and workshops.
EventExhibitions
Yangyun Donum Art Festival
Contemporary art moves through courtyards, gardens and interior spaces at Amanyangyun in Minhang.
EventActivities
Shudao
Sichuan’s historic routes inspire a dance drama linking mountain passes, waterworks and cultural memory.
PlaceCulture
Sihang Warehouse Battle Memorial
A historic warehouse beside Suzhou Creek houses an exhibition on the 1937 defence of Sihang Warehouse.
EventExhibitions
Zhang Meng: I Lost Half My Soul Here
Zhang Meng brings drawing, artist books, sound and textiles together in a presentation spanning ten years of work.
EventActivities
The Bolshoi Ballet Gala
Excerpts from Swan Lake, Spartacus and other classical ballets form a concentrated Bolshoi programme.
PlaceCulture
Shanghai Telecom Museum
Telegraph history adds a technology-focused stop inside a historic building near the Bund.
EventExhibitions
Xu Lishuang: Passing, gnissaP
Xu Lishuang turns everyday actions, industrial objects and spatial movement into an exhibition at ShanghART M50.