Beijing

Concert for women

Beijing Symphony Orchestra will stage a concert to usher in International Women's Day. The event will be led by women musicians, including conductor Chen Lin, pianist Chen Jie and erhu performer Yan Jiemin. On the program list are Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Chen Qigang's erhu concerto Reflections of Vanished Time, Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 in E Flat Major and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet.

7:30 pm, March 6. National Center for the Performing Arts, west of Tian'anmen Square. 010-6655-0000

Contemporary ink

Ink works by more than 100 Chinese landscape painters from across the country are on display at the Museum of the China Ink Landscape Painting Creation College in Songzhuang, an artists' village in Tongzhou district, eastern Beijing.

The exhibition marks the inauguration of the college, which is aimed at promoting the century-old traditional Chinese painting genre, its president and veteran landscape painter Long Rui says.

The exhibition is jointly organized by the China Foreign Culture Exchange Center and the college.

10am-5pm,until March 18. A101 Shangpu, Xiaopu, Songzhuang, Tongzhou district. 010-6057-3518

Shanghai

SugaMaMa recalled

SugaMaMa was an American singer who was active in Asia for almost 20 years. She was one of the chorus singers for the young Tina Turner. Later she came to Asia and lived in Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Chinese mainland. She kept up her stage performances even after being diagnosed with cancer in 2008. SugaMaMa died on July 14 in 2010. A memorial concert will feature more than 20 singers and musicians from China and abroad.

7:30 pm, March 6. Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang Lu. 021-6854-1234

Urban marriage

The play Revenge of the Wife takes a close look at the crisis of marriage in urban China. A beautiful woman starts an affair with a married man. At first she seems determined and full of purpose, but gradually she becomes lost, and the dark past of the married couple unfolds.

7:30 pm, March 16-April 10. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, 288 Anfu Lu. 021-6473-0123

Sights and sounds

Double Solo has been billed as an exhibition of sights and sounds, of elements that concern space and time. Artist Jun-Y Ciao will create an on-site wall painting while Tao Yi will present canvas works of various sizes. For the opening, musical pieces written by the two artists will be performed by cellist Wang Tian and flutist Ping Ping. The idea is to draw parallels between these seemingly independent activities.

10 am-5 pm, Feb 26-March 20. Stir Gallery, 2F, 1 Maoming Nablu. 021-2635-9535

Aboriginal art

As part of the Year of Australian Culture in China titled Imagine Australia, the exhibition Yarnangu Ngaanya - Our Land, Our Body will present artworks by the Ngaanyatjarra people from the Warburton arts community.

They will be presented in a way that demonstrates how indigenous cultural traditions passed down to the present can be cultivated in the future.

9 am-5 pm, March 13-April 5. Shanghai Art Museum, 325 Nanjing Xilu. 021-6327-2829