By year three, it seemed JUE had left a permanent mark on the Beijing\/Shanghai arts communities, with artists and musicians now proactively reaching out with mad, amazing and dazzling ideas for events that we could barely wrap our heads around.<\/p>\n
For year three the festival grew again. Thinking back, we guess it looked something like this:<\/p>\n
Almost 100 artists<\/p>\n
42 venues<\/p>\n
22 concerts<\/p>\n
22 art exhibitions<\/p>\n
5 live comedy events<\/p>\n
5 spoken word events<\/p>\n
4 theatre\/performance art productions<\/p>\n
4 workshops<\/p>\n
4 film screenings<\/p>\n
We partnered with awesome third-party organizers including the Bookworm Literary Fest, who helped bring together poets Omar Musa and Kelly-Lee Hickey for a \u201cpoetry battle\u201d with Chinese hip-hop artists at Dos Kolegas. The idea of the poetry slam has stuck with us ever since.<\/p>\n
Featured music acts included The Whitest Boy Alive, World\u2019s End Girlfriend, Vitalic (with Pet Conspiracy), Shanren (\u5c71\u4eba), The Besnard Lakes and The Black Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\t\t