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Friday through Sunday: Thai Festival on Nanping Jie Thai Festival 2008 is being held daily this weekend on the Nanping Jie pedestrian street downtown. The event features Thai crafts and foods, including a booth catered by Moonlight Corner Thai Cuisine Friday and Saturday: Second Kunming Loft Creative Fair at TC/G Nordica Today and tomorrow TC/G Nordica in the Loft compound on Xiba Lu will be hosting the second Kunming Loft Creative Fair. Artists, designers and purveyors of different kinds of handicrafts will be displaying and selling their wares from 11:30 am to 10 pm today and tomorrow. Admission is free. Friday: Bananas party at Uprock Shanghai-based Bananas Sound System is throwing its first-ever Kunming party at Uprock tonight, featuring DJs Mr Stokes, Santo Chino and DSK plus MC Cool Disco Tenzin. The music starts at 10 pm and admission is free. Friday: English movie and discussion at Chicago Coffee Chicago Coffee will host its weekly English movie and discussion at 7pm. Admission is free with any purchase – call 5389288 for movie details. Friday: DJs Jezz and Christian at The Hump Bar The Hump Bar will be hosting an evening of music by DJs Jezz and Christian beginning at 10 pm. Admission is free. Saturday: Tantrum, Shonny and Echoo at Uprock Uprock will be hosting local DJs Shonny and Echoo plus UK import Tantrum on Saturday night beginning at 10 pm. Admission is free. Tags: Bananas Sound System, Chicago Coffee, DJ Christian, DJ DSK, DJ Jezz, Echoo, Kunming Loft Creative Fair, Moonlight Corner, Mr Stokes, Santo Chino, Shonny, Tantrum, TC/G Nordica, Thai Festival, Uprock
The old town of Dali has changed a lot over the last ten years, with one of the biggest changes being the emergence of Renmin Lu as a rival to the once-cool "Foreigner Street" (洋人街). A mere eight years ago, Renmin Lu was a quiet cobblestone road with barbershops, snack stalls, local restaurants and a host of other small businesses more geared toward the local market than the Chinese bohemians or foreign backpackers that now flock to the street's countless restaurants, bars, cafés, guesthouses and shops. Back then there was only one bar on Renmin Lu - The Bird Bar - comfortably perched at the top of the street. Owned by artists/entrepreneurs and Shandong natives Zhao Rongjie and Liu Xinmin, the Bird Bar is now the oldest fixture on the Renmin Lu scene. Since the early days, the Bird Bar has expanded, adding a guesthouse and even a villa across the street. On Thursday the Bird will celebrate its eighth birthday with a buffet dinner provided by Mo (another Dali institution), foosball competition and DJ Xiao Lin, plus DJs DSK and Shonny of Uprock and VJ K-108 playing late into the night. The buffet dinner is 35 yuan and will run from 6:30 pm until 8:30 pm. The foosball competition – winner gets an unspecified prize – runs from 8 until 10. Music and dancing commence at 10. Aside from the buffet, admission to the party is free. Disclosure: The Bird Bar is a paid advertiser on GoKunming Tags: backpackers, Bird Bar, Bird's Nest, Dali, DJ DSK, Liu Xinmin, Renmin Lu, Shonny, Zhao Rongjie This weekend around Kunming there is will be a good mix of events and activities from the opening of the city's newest club to folk and blues concerts, from Swedish art to free golf for women on International Women's Day. Here's a preview of some of the things to do around town this weekend: Friday: Exhibition opening at TC/G Nordica TC/G Nordica will host an opening for Swedish painter Per Johansson beginning at 8 pm. Johansson's exhibition, "Dance of Light" will be on display at Nordica's upstairs gallery from tonight until March 26. Nordica is located within the Loft (创库) art compound at 101 Xiba Lu, near the Baiyao Chang bus stop. Admission is free. Friday: Chinese neo-folk at Yuansheng Studio Chinese neo-folk singer Liu2 (刘2) will bring his guitar and quirky lyrics to Yuansheng Studio also inside the Loft art compound. The performance in Yuansheng's theater begins at 8:30 – tickets are 30 yuan or 15 yuan for students carrying their student ID card. Friday: Uprock Grand Opening Tonight is the grand opening of Kunming's newest – and perhaps most ambitious – club, Uprock. From 10 pm on, the new split-level club will feature the sonic stylings of DJ DSK in the downstairs lounge plus Mr Stokes, recently transplanted from Shanghai, playing upstairs to what may be Kunming's biggest dance floor. Both DJs will be cutting vinyl only. Tsingtaos and gin tonics will be on special for 10 yuan. Admission is free, and the first 50 guests to enter will receive a free Uprock mix CD. Saturday: Women's Day at Moonlight Corner Saturday is International Women's Day, and Moonlight Corner Thai Cuisine, itself owned by three Thai women, has a day of activities and specials for the ladies of Kunming. All women will be entitled to practice their golf swing at Expo Golf Center (located in the same building) from 1-4 pm, with special golf games and prizes. In the evening there will be a party with new set menus and games. Saturday: Women's Day at the Silver Spoon Cafe The Silver Spoon Cafe will also be celebrating Women's Day with 10% off all food and drinks for women. At 6 pm the Silver Spoon will also host a free concert by singer/songwriter Nathan Stokland. Reservations are encouraged for groups. Saturday: Blues band at Yuansheng Studio Saturday night Yuansheng Studio will host another night of music, this time featuring local blues band Fang (坊). Admission for the 8:30 pm show is 20 yuan. Saturday: Uprock All Stars Uprock's opening weekend continues with a nine-DJ party to showcase Kunming's top DJs. DJs Kris, Shonny, Echoo, Jezz, Jiang Nan and Mr Stokes will be playing upstairs with the dance floor while DJs Christian, Menace and DSK will be playing to the downstairs lounge. The free party starts at 10 pm, with Tsingtaos and gin tonics on special for 10 yuan. Admission is free, and the first 50 guests to enter will receive a free Uprock mix CD. Tags: DJ Christian, DJ DSK, DJ Kris, DJ Menace, Echoo, Fang, Jezz, Jiang Nan, Liu2, Moonlight Corner, Mr Stokes, Shonny, Silver Spoon Cafe, TC/G Nordica, Uprock, Women's Day, Yuansheng Studio Uprock aiming to put Kunming on Asia's club circuitWednesday, 5th March 2008 ~ Chris ~ Link ~ Comments (2)
Kunming is known around China for having nicer weather and bluer skies than most cities in the country, but visitors to the city often note that the city's club scene pales in comparison to cities like Shanghai and Beijing, where parties featuring top DJs from around China, Asia and the rest of the planet are commonplace. A group including Kunming DJs Shonny and Echoo is launching a new club – Uprock – this Friday. Uprock is Kunming's first attempt at a nightclub that eschews bolted-down stools and the ubiquitous whiskey and green tea for an open dance floor and a focus on DJ skills and… music. Uprock has also enlisted the assistance of Kunming-based UK native DJ DSK who is serving as the club's music and events director. Last year DSK was been cutting wax all over China and Asia, but this year he says he plans on staying in Kunming to focus on new projects, including turning Uprock – and Kunming – into established stops on the Asian club circuit. "I've been DJing around China and Asia the last few years, now I want to concentrate on doing things here in Kunming, including recording," DSK said over tea in the nearly complete Uprock. "Right now I want to be able to manage a place and record." The longtime Kunming resident said that Uprock is an attempt to do something different in a city filled with cookie cutter clubs that tend to copy the most successful club at any given moment. "Uprock is different because it's a venue that concentrates on the music instead of gimmicks," he said. "The only way to have a proper club is to have proper DJs and proper music. Our goal is for Uprock to be respected for the DJs that perform here and the music played here. I want to prove that you can play good music and make money." The two-level club is located above a row of piano stores about 50 meters south of the intersection of Xichang Lu and Xinwen Lu, just a stone's throw from Kundu, click here for a locator map (in Chinese). This weekend Uprock will celebrate its grand opening with two nights of parties featuring live turntablism by DSK and Mr Stokes, who moved to Kunming recently from Shanghai, where he was involved in the Bananas Sound System. The second night is being billed as the 'Uprock All Stars Party', in which DJs Kris, Shonny, Echoo, Jezz, Jiang Nan and Mr Stokes will play sets upstairs while DJs Christian, Menace and DSK perform in the downstairs lounge area. The first fifty guests each night will receive a free Uprock CD – click on the link below for a mix by Uprock DJs. Downloadable MP3: The Uprock Mix Click for Uprock contact and map Tags: Bananas Sound System, DJ DSK, Echoo, live music, Mr Stokes, Shonny, Uprock |
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