Featured Events in Beijing in December, 2024 (February Updated)

This year's Light Festival is themed "Here We Shine", with passion as the "guide", using the light of art to illuminate a sustainable future, bringing a fantastic visual feast to citizens and tourists. This year's Light Festival is the first attempt to integrate the Baroque maximalist design style into the light and shadow art of the overall commercial district, and it will also be the first show of this style in North China.

Yanqing District has fully launched the 39th Ice and Snow Joy Season. The theme of the joy season is "Under the Great Wall, by the Gui River, Ice and Snow Yanqing is high", which will last from November 8, 2024 to February 28, 2025. More than 100 cultural and tourism activities will lead tourists to set off an ice and snow craze. More than 100 activities cover six major sections: playing in the ice and snow park, enjoying ice and snow sports, enjoying the beautiful scenery of lanterns, watching ice and snow events, enjoying private hot springs and beautiful accommodation, and enjoying the New Year's Eve in the intangible cultural heritage. In terms of ice and snow sports, Yanqing Olympic Park has newly built a single-board terrain snow track, and will open the "Ruixue Avenue", a downhill training track originally used for the Beijing Winter Olympics, to the public for the first time, providing ice and snow sports enthusiasts with an excellent experience opportunity. Vanke Shijinglong Ski Resort will have 10 sunny snow tracks and considerate services, allowing ski enthusiasts to enjoy ice and snow sports while also feeling the "heart-warming" care. Yudu Mountain, Yunpugou, World Expo, Wild Duck Lake, Longqing Gorge and other ice and snow parks have introduced new ways of playing to ignite the passion for ice and snow. Among them, the Longqing Gorge Ice Lantern and Snow Carnival will be themed "Time and Space Shine, One Glance for a Thousand Years", integrating tradition and trend, creating scenes such as "Pop Mart Ice Fantasy City", and launching mountain projection shows. Beijing World Expo International Tourism Resort will launch the World Expo Light and Shadow Feast, the China Pavilion will stage a 360-degree panoramic immersive light and shadow performance, the World Expo Lantern Art Festival will show dazzling lanterns, and the copper pot long table banquet will invite you to share the authentic hometown taste. During the Ice and Snow Joy Season, Yanqing District will also host a number of high-level events, including the 2024-2025 Snow Federation Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup (Yanqing Station), the National Skeleton Championships, and the Capital University College Alpine Skiing Competition. Homestay New Year's Eve, Flower Show Performance, Dream Back to the Great Wall, Golden Snake New Year Celebration and other activities will also be staged in turn, and the excitement will never stop.

The 2024-2025 Beijing-Zhangjiakou Ice and Snow Cultural Tourism Season covers important festivals such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, and Lantern Festival. Through the effective linkage between Beijing and Zhangjiakou, it integrates ice and snow tourism resources such as skiing, snow parks, ice and snow events, and festivals along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Sports and Cultural Tourism Belt to provide tourists with a diversified and immersive cultural and tourism experience.

This ice and snow festival covers an area of ​​23,000 square meters. Popular projects in previous years, such as snow drift, sled park, ice and snow castle, Longtan train, snow tank, fast ice track, ice sled, ice bicycle, simulated dog cart, will continue to appear one by one. In addition, many new innovative ice and snow sports projects have been added.

The group exhibition Another Tongue of Mine presents a series of paintings and video works by Li Ran, Liu Xiaodong, Laure Prouvost, Wael Shawky, and Shen Xin, exploring how the symbols and systems of language fundamentally shape our perception of the world, creating endless transformations in speaking, translating, listening, contemplation or even silence. The exhibition derives its title from a prose of the same title by Chinese writer Wang Meng, where he recounts his experience of learning Uyghur in Xinjiang during the 1960s. Wang regards language as a medium that bridges narratives and understanding between oneself and others. Through narration, learning, and listening, the image of the other is constructed, outlining the boundaries or touching upon the possibility of coexistence. Language is not a neutral, objective vessel; once filtered through it, consciousness and beliefs shadow every linguistic act and narrative. The similarities and differences in language flow and intersect between individuals, groups, and cultures, forming new constructs of discourse and power. In this presentation, the artists navigate between practices of painting and video, seeking medium specificity while crafting an intertextual system that achieves poetic resonance across forms and texts. Li Ran presents Life fo the Pilgrim (2017), a video that weaves together archival photos, including images of Xinjiang Construction Corps’ production practices in May Day pasture and news photography. Through a semi-fictional narrative, Li explores his perspective on history, which he describes as complex and shattered, from both third-person and first-person viewpoints. Alongside are four paintings created between 2023 and 2024, an extension of the artist’s 2023 solo exhibition Waiting for the Advent at Lisson London. These paintings, with symbolic motifs and satirical undertones, explore the themes prevalent in Li's work. Evoking the style of satirical cartoons, You People Are So Political (2023) prompts viewers to contemplate the omnipresence of politics; while Repeated Forward (2023) draws its title from Søren Kierkegaard's Repetition, where two figures breaking out from confinement are astonished by what they are confronted with – a form of modernism that somehow has been pre-determined.

The ice and snow season brings together more than ten activities under four major themes, including welcome check-in, ice and snow sports, parent-child fun, and entertainment interaction. On the basis of retaining classic projects such as flying saucers on the snow, it also adds a snow "cherry blossom viewing" train and a snow children's park. , snow rickshaw and other interactive content. At the same time, the environment in the ski resort is decorated with the main colors of "Ice and Snow Basket" and "Sakura Pink", creating a lively and cheerful feeling, making every visitor and friend who steps into the snow resort feel like they are in an ice and snow fairy tale.

Chaoyang Theatre Acrobatic Show is located at 36 East Third Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing City, close to Exit C1 of Hujialou Station of Beijing Subway Line 10. Watching acrobatics and going to Chaoyang has become a common occurrence in the Beijing performance market; this location hosts many well-known names in the acrobatics world both from China and elsewhere. The performers here are very talented, and each performance is difficult, awe-inspiring, and worth seeing.

The musical "Golden Mask Dynasty" tells a matchless tale about love. It integrates dance, acrobatics, costumes, and other artistic disciplines. It uses the theme of "love and harmony" to creatively use dance, lighting, videography, and stage presentation,tunts and other high-tech arts recreate the magnificent momentum of the Chinese civilization. The "Golden Mask Dynasty" is based on the ancient Sanxingdui civilization as the background of the time. It has adopted eight different chapters: "war", "history", "forging", "celebration", "under the moon", "flood", "commemorating the heavens" and "transforming". The story tells of the queen with a golden mask that created a glorious dynasty with wisdom, tolerance, trust and love.

Under the starry night sky, backed by the beautiful Simatai Great Wall, on Wangjing Street in the town, a visual feast is being staged. A crossover between art and technology, a collision between modernity and tradition. Stepping on the beat of the music, water and fire blend together, playing the love of water and fire, beautiful and romantic.

Japanese musicians Ohashi Trio, known as "musical all-rounders", are about to launch their new tour in China, "OhashiTrio Live Tour in China". Guangzhou on November 27, Shanghai on November 29, and Beijing on December 1. In this audio-visual feast, Ohashi Trio will shorten the emotional distance with the audience with its gentle and healing music style. He will perform many popular songs including "Sally", "Aoki Floating on the Sea", and "Wasurenai" to bring everyone an unforgettable music experience.

James Blunt"We used to be"Beijing Concert James Blunt, a British singer known as the "Captain Poet", is about to bring his tour "Who We Used to Be" to China to meet everyone. His music combines pop, rock and folk elements, and his live performances are also highly praised. In 2023, his new album "Who We Used To Be" was officially released, including songs such as "Saving A Life", "Some Kind Of Beautiful", "Beside You", "Last Dance", and "All The Love That l Ever Needed". His first album "Back to Bedlam" has achieved great success worldwide. Among them, "You're Beautiful" has topped the music charts in many countries. In 2004, "You're Beautiful", which became popular all over the world, topped the British Singles Chart for several consecutive weeks and topped the Billboard chart, and was nominated for 5 awards at the 49th Grammy Awards. Other popular songs include "Goodbye My Lover" and "Wisemen", all of which show his iconic lyrical style and deep insight into emotions. In the long river of time, each of us is constantly moving forward. Sometimes, we get lost in the busy life and forget what it was like when we set out. But in this noisy world, there is a voice that is always calling us. It is the "you in the past" deep in our hearts, reminding us not to forget our original intentions and find ourselves again. After a long absence, his voice is still gentle and firm when he returns, and the melody is full of youthful restlessness and the light of dreams. When the familiar melody sounds again, it awakens the true self deep in our hearts. Let us continue to sing the familiar songs, no matter where we go, we will never forget that we used to be so beautiful. Let's follow the footsteps of the "Captain Poet" and find our former selves.

NOLO•A Dream into the Tang Dynasty Immersive Exploration Experience Exhibition has a complete "hardware + operating system + content generation + end-cloud rendering" in the field of naked-eye 3D and XR, and provides cloud XR solutions for the Chinese space station. The company has been rated as a high-tech enterprise, Beijing's "specialized and new" small and medium-sized enterprises, and the 10th place in the 2023 Top 100 XR Enterprises selected by the China Enterprise Evaluation Association under the Development Research Center of the State Council. This experience season's "A Dream into the Tang Dynasty" is a fully immersive Tang Dynasty cultural exploration exhibition jointly launched globally by Lingyu Technology (NOLO) and Hunan Yezi Technology Company. Take you through the millennium Zhenguan prosperity, feel the brilliant cultural history, and experience the art and humanities of the great country of the Tang Dynasty.

The restoration of Notre Dame de Paris will be completed by the end of 2024 and will be reopened to the public. In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France and the rebirth of Notre Dame de Paris, the National Museum of China will present the "Rebirth from the Ashes - Notre Dame de Paris Augmented Reality Immersive Exhibition" together with the Notre Dame de Paris Restoration Institute, the French L'Oréal Group and the French Histoevery Company. Unlike other exhibitions in other countries in the world, the Notre Dame de Paris Restoration Institute has specially loaned four precious original sculptures from Notre Dame de Paris, including the famous gargoyles and gargoyles, allowing the audience to travel through time and space through digital technology to enter the past and present of Notre Dame, while experiencing the magical charm of those sculptures that once towered over the city and gazed at the changes in Paris over the centuries.