FRIDAY
13-piece big band ensemble The Verse turns Yugong Yishan into Funkytown. The Saddle Cantina gets half of Beijing's expat populous borracho at Cinco de Drinko. And The Great Wall Sheraton Beijing plays host to a very special Free Wine Tasting.

SATURDAY
Three of beijing's brightest forces in hip-hop, the Beijing Live Hip-Hop Experience, IN3 and Young Kin with Project 010, stop by Star Live to show why they are Local Legends. Chilean tech mastermind Pier Bucci makes his Beijing debut at White Rabbit, alongside Acupuncture’s Huang Wei-Wei and Patrick Yu. And Art Beijing returns to the Agricultural Exhibition Center to showcase over 100 local and international galleries, as well as its first "Photo Beijing" art fair.

SUNDAY
Director Liu Hao discusses films from the My China Now collection, a selection of short films, documentaries and art house films, at Mainland Not Mainstream. And Jessica Meider leads the Quattrology Jazz Quartet through a set of jazz originals and standards, as well as a post-set jam session.