Make the most of your week with Time Out Beijing's essential guide to things to do this Monday through Sunday.

AROUND TOWN

Mentor Walks

Sat 14, Capital M

Mentor Walks are an opportunity for business-minded women to talk to leading female professionals working in Beijing to get valuable career advice. The last session of the season will be hosted at Capital M. Sorry gents, it's ladies only. RSVP required.

FILM

Spectre

Fri 13, cinemas across Beijing

In the latest Bond installment, MI6’s Double-0 program is under threat thanks to the machinations of a creepy surveillance agent and Bond delves deeper into the criminal organisation Spectre to reveal horrifying truths.

MUSIC

Hang on the Box + Me Guan Me + Secret Club + The Twenties

Sat 14, School Live Bar

The latest free gig in the Converse Rubber Tracks Live series sees the recently re-tooled Hang on the Box headlining. Credited with being China’s first all-girl punk band, the band first formed in 1998 with a Ramones-esque sound, then wound down after 2007 with singer Gia continuing the legacy with sporadic relaunches.

The latest such relaunch sees the band newly swelled to a five-piece and no longer an all-girl group, with Gia the only original member remaining. However, recent Beijing gigs have seen the band show off an impressively dense sound that suggests a future that both celebrates the past and justifies striving for a future.

Oddisee

Sun 15, Yugong Yishan

Washington DC rapper Oddissee, real name Amir Mohamed el Khalifa, has been in the hip hop game since 1999 and garnered high praise for his 2015 album The Good Fight.

NIGHTLIFE

Robot Koch

Sat 14, Dada

Robot Koch is an award-winning producer and composer originally hailing from Berlin. Known for his unique sound of organic electronic music, his music was best described by the late great John Peel as 'wonderful and strange – pop music from the future'. Don't miss the chance to catch him in Beijing this weekend.

CLASSICAL AND PERFORMANCE

Athol Fugard: The Island

Tue 10 - Wed 11, Penghao Theatre

Star director Chen Wencong brings South African award-winning playwright Athol Fugard's apartheid-themed plays to Beijing for the first time. The Island is based on a real incident, when two of Fugard's actors were arrested on their way to play Sophocles' Antigone. Inspiration also came from Mandela's own performance of Antigone on Robben Island. The broad comedy with serious undertones centres around two prisoners squabbling in a cell until they find one is facing early release. English with Mandarin subtitles.

ART

Bâton-Serpent II

Until Feb, Red Brick Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by Hou Hanru, the show collects several works from Huang, a former member of the avant-garde ‘85 New Wave Movement who then left the Mainland for Paris in 1989. The retrospective is a series of large, disquieting installations centring around death and animalism. At times it feels like visiting a hall of horrors themed around death, religion and humanity’s animal nature.