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An annual celebration of Chinese and international arts, the Jue Music and Art Festival will be held for the third time in Beijing and Shanghai. This urban festival inspired by creativity of regular individuals and organizations, focuses on the community. It will bring about three weeks of visual arts, music, theatre and a lot more. One of the most successful festivals in Shanghai to date, the Jue festival will commence on March 12 to go on till the 3rd of April of 2011 at Beijing and Shanghai, presenting a blend of eclectic entertainment.
The festival’s success of the previous years delivers a promise of diverse and delightful three weeks of entertainment paired with the fulfilment of being a community-driven celebration of China’s performance arts and creative scene.
This year the festival will take place on venues across China’s capital, such as Capital Theatre and MAO Livhouse featuring over 70 events with relatively a larger and wider selection of artists and musicians complemented with a diverse range of unique art events.
A list of local and international musicians from across the spectrum of genres will be performing, which includes everything from exuberant indie-pop to post-rocky neo-classical and Beijing’s iconic Carsick Cars. The participation of these great creative souls plus the fascinating art installations, live design battles and film screenings make Jue Music and Art Festival 2011, a promise of an abundance of excitement.
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