Woodstock of Eating has teamed up with M50 for Shanghai Urban Aesthetics Fair, a three-day festival that will unfold across the art district next to Suzhou River, pulling together a number of creatives from multiple cities across China.
The feel-good festival's varied line-up includes art exhibitions, craft and designer stalls, body painting, Time Out Film screenings and live music – with the likes of Little Teppanyaki, Shanghai-based producer Swimful and DJs B.O, Sacco and ollo-MAM taking the stage.
On the food and drink front there will be street-food vendors and stalls from Indonesian restaurant Bumbu, Mexican-favourite La Coyota, Mr Waffle, Vivi Dulce ice cream, Lizzy's All Natural and more. While Beijing's Farm to Neighbors farmer's market will be on hand with organic and fresh produce.
Photo: Aurelien Foucault
Entry to the Shanghai Urban Aesthetics Fair is 60RMB on the door (40RMB presale) and we have two pairs of tickets to give away for each day of the event. To be in with a chance of winning, send the message 'Urban Aesthetics Fair' with the day you'd like to go along with your name, WeChat ID and phone number to the official Time Out Shanghai WeChat account (timeoutshanghaien) by 11.59pm Wednesday 26. We will contact the winners Thursday morning.
Time Out Film screenings
As part of Shanghai Urban Aesthetics Fair, each night at 9pm we'll screen a film from Time Out's 100 Best Mainland Films (listed below). Spaces are limited, so to book your spot for the screening, message the film name to our official WeChat account*.
No 95 Drug War
Friday 28
The first of Hong Kong director Jonny To’s films to have won approval from Mainland censors, all roads converge in a climactic shoot-out that is as exhilarating as it is caustic in this drug-trafficking thriller – a ballet of bullets that effectively obliterates the line separating do-gooders and devils.
No 31 Hero
Sat 29
Released during the height of Hollywood’s fervour for epic martial arts fare, Zhang Yimou’s tale about a nameless drifter’s assassination attempt on the Emperor of Qin was, at the time, the most expensive film ever produced in China. Sumptuously shot and lavishly produced, the film’s elaborate set-pieces elevate swordplay to delirious ballet, and its impressionistic separation of chronology by colour culminates in a feverish fugue of a film.
No 13 Raise the Red Lantern
Sun 30
The film that cemented Zhang Yimou’s reputation in the West as one of China’s leading auteurs, beneath Raise the Red Lantern's meticulously composed frames is the bloodcurdling shriek of protest against China's history of systemic exploitation of women.
Shanghai Urban Aesthetics Fair M50, 50 Moganshan Lu, near Xi Suzhou Lu. Fri 28-Sun 30. 4pm. 60RMB; 40RMB (presale).
*The Time Out film screenings are free, but guests need to purchase a ticket to the Shanghai Urban Aesthetics Fair to enter.