Maovember Set to End Today with The Beijing Beatles, DJ BB Deng

Today's the day: November, and more importantly, maovember, end today, with a double event featuring live music, and a chance to push the charity drive's total even higher than its current RMB 87,000.

The party kicks off at 3pm at George's Bar, where for a donation of RMB 100, you can sing onstage with The Beijing Beatles. Others may wish to donate to try to get you off that very same stage. Eighteen-inch Kro's Nest pizzas will be available for RMB 75, Heineken and Tiger beers for RMB 25, and La Cava Chilean wine for RMB 25, with all proceeds going to maovember.

At 6pm, activities shift a few doors down to Fubar, DJ BB Deng will provide the soundtrack to the Two Guys pie-eating contest, entries to which are RMB 100. Also available are 96 bottles of special maovember-label Vedett Extra White from Duvel-Moortgat for RMB 25, People's Series Wine for RMB 25, and maovember Fu shots for RMB 20. Again, all proceeds from those items and activities benefit maovember. Maovember's signature pins are also still available for RMB 50 each.

One hundred percent of donations and funds raised by this local variant of Movember will benefit Orbis China, this year's maovember charity partner. Every increment of RMB 800 pays for one sight-restoring cataract operation for a person in China in need, hence the RMB 80,000 goal, which would mean fully funding 100 surgeries.

The inaugural, 2013 Maovember raised over RMB 22,000 and furnished a small library at a migrant children’s school on the outskirts of Beijing.