Beijing Exploration Seminar 2006: Schedule

8/21 SUN
- 8:00 welcome dinner

8/22 MON
- 10:00 Xidan; Chang’an Avenue; the Forbidden City with Kent Guy
- 8:00 screening: On the Beat

8/23 TUE
- 10:00 Mao’s mausoleum; Urban Planning Hall; Dashalan’r
- 8:00 screening: I Love Beijing

8/24 WED
- 10:00 Prince Gong’s Mansion
- 3:00 Seminar with Ning Ying, film director
- 5:00 screening: Grandpa Jing and His Old Clients
- 7:30 modern dance performance: Snails

8/25 THU
- 10:00 Drum Tower
- 1:30 traditional and modernized courtyards
- 6:30 seminar with Yomi

8/26 FRI
- 10:00: Underground city
- afternoon: Wangfujing
- TV show: Super Girl

8/27 SAT
- Panjiayuan antiques market
- 12:30 Factory 798 Gallery
- 7:30 Screening: Xiao Wu

8/28 SUN
- 8:30 screening: The World
- 11:00 seminar with Jia Zhangke, film director
- 7:30 theater play: Scene of Life and Death

8/29 MON
- 10:00 Altar of Heaven
- 12:30 Lunch and seminar
- 2:00 Gold Fish Ponds
- 7:30 screening: Quitting

8/30 TUE
- 7:00 the Great Wall and Ming Tombs
- 7:30 screening: Shower

8/31 WED
- 2:00 Seminar with Zhang Yang, film director
- 5:00 visit to the studio of Ai Weiwei, artist
- Theater play: Still Haven’t Thought It Over

9/1 THU
- Lamasery and Confucius Temple
- 5:00 seminar with Yomi
- 7:00 screening: Concrete Revolution

9/2 FRI
- 7:00 Summer Palaces
- 7:20 Beijing opera

9/3 SAT
- 3:00 reception at Red Gate Gallery
- 7:00 Peking duck dinner

9/4 SUN
- project day
- evening: DVD shopping

9/5 MON
Taiyuan

9/6 TUE
Pingyao

9/7 WED
Wutaishan
Talk with Zhou Ying: Modern Chinese drama

9/8 THU
- 1:00 Minorities museum
- boating on Houhai

9/9 FRI
- 2:30: Teahouse rehearsal (director: Lin Zhaohua)
- 7:30 Seminar with He Chengyao, performance artist

9/10 SAT
- project day
- 5:30 SOHO
- 8:00 screening: Cala, My Dog (at Cherry Lane)

9/11 SUN
- morning free
- 1:00 seminar: presentations
- 7:00 farewell dinner