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Trance Mission, Ferry Corsten

Date: Aug 19－10 pm

Venue: M2 Club, Shanghai

Price: 150 yuan

Hailing from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Ferry Corsten's lustrous career is exemplified by a passion for music that began as a hobby and spiraled into a full-blown profession. Today, as it was in the beginning, Corsten's skills lie in his ability to coax the maximum emotional impact from electronic dance music of all genres, not just trance, but also progressive-house and electro. He remains and has always been ahead-of-his time, making music that becomes a template for others to follow. It was the album, Out Of The Blue, that started it all. As Corsten's sophomoric artist album under the alias, System F, the eponymous single became a worldwide hit and charted in the UK's Top 20 UK singles charts and Japan's Top 10 singles charts for three consecutive years after its release. Corsten's rapid success ignited a steady flow of releases including 'Gouryella' with Tiësto. It was during this time that Corsten's remix of William Orbit's 'Barber's Adagio For Strings' became a clubland anthem. And Ferry's success is just begin!

Contact: 400-610-3721

Animation film screenings: The Old Lady and the Pigeons

Date: Aug 7-4 pm

Venue: Meridian Space

Price: 30-60 yuan

While US citizen popcorn-eating tourists wobble around Paris and pigeons are too fat to fly, a starving French gendarme is desperate for food. Watching the birds feast on cakes and crumbs brought by an old woman, he slowly realizes that his best chance of survival is to dress up like a pigeon and try to trick the old woman into feeding him as well. The old woman doesn't seem to suspect anything and serves the oversized man-bird all kinds of food in her home, and while he slowly gets fatter and fatter, the line between man and bird is getting blurry. And when he at last finds out what he has gotten himself into, it's far too late to turn back. This first animated work by the director of the famed Triplets of Belleville (2003) won him a BAFTA, the Grand Prize at the 1997 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, as well as an Oscar nomination for best animated short film.

Contact: 010-8105-6788

Comrade Kim Goes Flying DPRK Film Screening, Q & A with Vicky Mohieddeen

Date: Aug 7－7:30 pm

Venue: Pop-up Beijing

Price: Free entry

Comrade Kim Yong Mi is a coal miner from the countryside who dreams of becoming a trapeze artist. When she is given the opportunity to audition for the circus in Pyongyang it is like a dream come true. But soon she finds her dreams of becoming a trapeze artist crushed by the arrogant trapeze star Pak Jang Phil who believes miners belong underground and not in the air. 'Comrade Kim Goes Flying' is a heartwarming story of trying to make the impossible possible. It is DPRK's first "girl power" movie and the story of a girl reaching for her own dream and carving out her own future. Join us for a special screening of 'Comrade Kim Goes Flying' at Pop-Up Beijing on Aug 7. The film will be followed by a Q & A with Koryo Tours' Creative Projects manager Vicky Mohieddeen, who will also talk about the Pyongyang International Film Festival taking place in September.

Contact: 010-6502-5725