Conferences & Meetings \>\> In China

HKTDC Education & Careers Expo 2013

The HKTDC Education & Careers Expo 2013 targets academic and commercial establishments looking to recruit students and employees, as well as students and job seekers looking for information on education, careers and training.

Date: Jan 31-Feb 3

Venue: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

China International Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition, Beijing

An international tackle trade show dedicated to globalizing the trade of fishing products and outdoor gear.

Date: Feb 23-25

Venue: New China International Exhibition Center

Website: www.chinaexhibition.com

Conferences & Meetings \>\> In the US

Forecast 2013, Washington, DC

Join the US-China Business Council (USCBC) for a comprehensive projection of the business and political environment in China in the year ahead. This event is open to business executives from USCBC member and prospective member companies.

Date: Jan 31

Venue: The Ritz-Carlton Washington, 1150 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC

Website: www.uschina.org

Fashion Coterie/New York Women's Market Week, Winter

The Fashion Coterie/New York Women's Market Week is a major event for the clothing, footwear and fashion sector.

Date: Feb 1

Venue: New York

Website: www.ukti.gov.uk

IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging 2013, Burlingame

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging is the must attend event for all aspects of electronic imaging, from imaging systems to instrumentation to image processing to algorithms. Topics include digital imaging, sensors and applications, 3D imaging, multimedia, image processing, visualization and perception, and visual communications.

Date: Feb 3-7

Venue: Burlingame, CA, United States

Website: electronicimaging.org

Culture \>\> In China

Things From the Gallery Warehouse 5 Group Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

ShanghART is pleased to present Things from the Warehouse 5 as part of a continuing program at the beginning of 2013. Since 2009, a series of exhibitions have made it possible for large-scale installations that have been in storage to be viewed by the general public.

Date: Jan 20-Mar 4

Venue: ShanghART H-space, Bldg 18, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai

Website: www.shanghartgallery.com

National Theatre of China Big Family Classics in NCPA, Beijing

The Big Family is a legendary story about gratitude, resentment, life, death, love and hatred shown through a mixture of history and reality. It is both impressive and thought provoking.

Date: Jan 17-Feb 3

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: http://www.chncpa.org

National Orchestra Concert, Beijing

2013 New Year's Blessing.

Date: Jan 25

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: http://www.chncpa.org

Opera: Les Contes de Hoffmann, Beijing

NCPA's production of Offenbach's opera.

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Dates: Jan 31-Feb 3

Website: http://www.chncpa.org

Culture \>\> In the US

Alt.Comics, New York

Alt.Comics extends the conversation of Marvels & Monsters into the present, showcasing the efforts of Asian American artists to establish a new and authentic identity by subverting stereotypes and juxtaposing disparate images. The exhibition focuses on alternative and independent comic spaces, particularly in the hubs of San Francisco and New York.

Date: Jan 26

Venue: Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), 211 Centre St, New York

Website: http://www.mocanyc.org/

Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao, New York

The first major US exhibition of leading Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao, Bound Unbound surveys the past 20 years of her captivating installations and sculpture. Through exquisite handwork using thread winding, embroidery, and sculptural processes, Lin Tianmiao has explored her interest in the human form.

Date: Until Jan 27

Venue: Asia Society, 725 Park Ave

Website: asiasociety.org/new-york/events

11 Flowers, Houston

From Wang Xiaoshuai, the director of Beijing Bicycle and Shanghai Dreams, comes a poignant depiction of the Cultural Revolution through a child's eyes. An air of comedy arises from the mundane tasks and daily routines in the final years of Mao's socio-political experiment.

Date: Jan 26

Venue: 1370 Southmore Blvd. Houston

Website: asiasociety.org/texas/events/

Bernard Schwartz Book Award Luncheon, New York

Honoring Water: Asia's New Battleground by Brahma Chellaney, which was named winner of the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. Chellaney describes water stress as Asia's defining crisis of the 21st century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and imposing further hardships on the poor.

Date: Jan 23

Venue: 725 Park Ave, (at East 70th Street), New York

Website: asiasociety.org

Diplomatic pouch

US musicians Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and Barbara Lamb wowed audiences in Chengdu and Kunming with their new take on bluegrass and old-time music as a part of the US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the embassy-sponsored American Music Abroad program. During the first week of January, nearly 2,000 musicians, students of all ages, teachers, and professionals attended the group's four performances and three workshops. "Many students had never before seen a banjo or heard US folk music," the US consulate in Chendgu said on its website. "However, the trio had audiences in southwest China on their feet clogging to bluegrass, yodeling Appalachian style, and playing washboard to 1920s-inspired jazz."

After two years of preparation, the first round of exchanges between the Jianchuan Museum Cluster in Chengdu and the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii has kicked off in a State Department program announced last year. In the coming months, students from schools in Chengdu and Hawaii will use web-based platforms to communicate about the program.

US Consul-General for Guangzhou Jennifer Galt was in Nanning last week to introduce a US quilt show. "I am especially delighted to introduce these quilts to Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which with its beautiful textiles, embroidery and brocade is wedded in the similar tradition from which these American quilts come." Galt, US master quilter Carole Harris, and Qin Pu, deputy director-general from the GX Culture Department, opened The Sum of Many Parts at the GX Museum of Nationalities.

"Quilts are symbolic representatives of the evolving, diverse fabric of American society," she said. "Quilting began in the United States long before the European settlers arrived. Like people in many parts of the world, the indigenous Americans used padded and woven fabrics for clothing, bedding and even armor."

Yi Xianrong, China's deputy consul-general for San Francisco, recently visited the overseas Chinese community in California's capital, Sacramento. Yi shared New Year's greetings with the local overseas community and applauded their efforts to support China's economic and social development, represent Chinese culture, and promote China-US cooperation.

Send embassy and consulate news to michaelpeters@chinadaily.com.cn.

(China Daily 01/18/2013 page23)