Li Hu
Born in 1973, received his B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in Beijing and M. Arch. from Rice University in Houston. He joined Steven Holl Architects in 2000 and became a partner in 2005. He founded and LED SHA's Beijing Office and was the partner-in-charge for their award-WINNING projects in Asia, including Beijing Linked-Hybrid, Shenzhen Vanke Center, Art Museum and Chengdu Naijing Sifang Raffles City among others.
Li Lake left his partnership with SHA at the End of 2010 to Focus on his independent practice together with his partner OPEN Architecture Huang Wenjing. He was also the co-founder of the bilingual architectural journal 32: Beijing / New York together with Steven Holl and Yungho Factory. Li Lake is also the Director of Columbia University GSAPP's Studio-X in Beijing. He is currently a visiting professor at The University of Hong Kong.

www.openarch.com

Megan and KC Vienna Connolly: ChArt Contemporary
ChART Contemporary is a Beijing based curatorial lab dedicated to bringing together art & people. Our overarching goal is to establish cultural bridges between the East and the West through programs and activities that promote contemporary art and culture. We actively maintain an extensive network of artists, architects, designers, collectors, galleries, museums and academics. We are cultural producers fulfilling a global need by creating an open platform for artistic expression through research, education and curatorial integrity.

Art is Our Life & Art is What We Do
We are native New Yorkers with over a decade of experience working between China, Hong Kong and the United States. On the ground and plugged into China's booming contemporary art scene, we organize activities and offer services that educate, stimulate and cultivate a passion and deeper understanding of contemporary art.

KC Vienna Connolly – Chairman
I am a trained Sculptor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas and a strong background in American and European Art History. I caught the 'China bug' in 2004 when Megan lured me over to immerse myself in Beijing's art scene. I am a practicing artist who exhibits internationally and develops art education programs for youth and incentive groups. In addition to spearheading ChART Contemporary's Education initiatives, I acted as the Head of the Art Department at a prestigious International High School in Beijing from 2006- 2011.

Megan Connolly - Director
I graduated from Smith College with a degree in East Asian Studies and a concentration in contemporary art from China. I caught the 'China bug' as a foreign exchange student of Mandarin during the 1990s and have been traveling between the United States and Mainland China for over a decade. Prior to teaming up with my sister to establish ChART Contemporary, I managed a New York gallery specializing in contemporary Chinese art for three years. Since 2003, I have worked as a curator, writer, event consultant, and art advisor. I worked in Hong Kong and New York as a Consultant for Sotheby's in the Contemporary Chinese Art Department and for the Asia Art Archive in Beijing as the China Researcher.

www.chartcontemporary.com

Host : Anne Sophie Loewenberg
is the host and Creator of Sexy Beijing, a website and Internet TV Show about life in China. Design also hosts a documentary Series called Eco Hero, for Tianjin Television.

www.sexybeijing.tv

Is China’s one and only community school and performance group of Brazilian samba percussion and dance. The name SAMBASIA is a combination of the word “Samba” and “Asia”, representing two cultures laced together. SambAsia Beijing was established in Beijing in May 2006. At SambAsia Beijing, we hope to build a bridge of communication with Samba beyond boundaries of cultures and ages; spreading joy brought by the music; releasing tension within the body and mind; expanding capacity of body and mind coordination; as we let rhythm and expression bloom within. SambAsia Beijing is an open community group and most of our members are not professionally trained musicians. We welcome everyone to join us regardless of musical experience, and if you like it, if you enjoy it…you are part of the group!

Today, SambAsia Beijing has grown from small group of 15 to a school with almost 100 members. We have performed 300 live performances. In the year 2008, members of SambAsia Beijing were invited to participate in Carnaval of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

SambAsia Beijing has collaborated with musicians such as; Cui Jian, Hang Gai, and Pet Conspiracy in the past, and is always open for new opportunities and platforms to share joy of samba in China.

www.sambasiabeijing.com
www.weibo.com/sambasiabeijing
www.facebook.com/pages/桑巴亚北京-SambAsia-Beijing/87752959308

Shine Liu: Managing Director of D & S Management
The Great Wall Cup International Youth Tournament is a project held under China Sports Tour aimed at international culture exchange through the beautiful game. In 2011, the tournament welcomed Zico Soccer School from Rio de Janerio of Brazil. 18 delighted youngsters were selected from a social project based on the famous community called "Cidade de Deus" (In English: City of God) made famous by the movie of same name which was a blockbuster hit in 2002.

At The Great Wall Cup, Zico Soccer School were able to show off the Brazilian flair on the football field against several international teams. Relaxing from the football, there was a chance of visiting historical Chinese landmarks: The Great Wall, Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square . The boys also got their hands on with Chinese culture at "China Touch" event - Kung Fu, Opera Mask painting, Chinese Calligraphy and nunchuck skills were all on offer. Several of the boys used this opportunity to mimic a Chinese legend - Bruce Lee .

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Peng Li
Chinese documentarist and Press Attaché for the F rench Film Panorama and the Chinese-French Cultural festival "Croisement S "

The Zac Courtney Sax Trio is one of Beijing's hottest contemporary ensembles. Playing almost exclusively original jazz, the band constantly steps in and out of improvisation seamlessly while still being accessible enough for the non-hardcore jazz fan. Zac has brought together a trio using two of Beijing's youngest guys on the circuit: Wang Li Ming breezing through blistering lines on sax, and Yuan Ye creating beautiful melodies on the bass. The freestyle playing of the Australian jazz drummer ties it all together, and the result is one awesome ride.

"I normally don't like jazz, but I love this!" (Andy Deemer, 2010)

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