Friends' Events

Friends' Events

 

This Saturday, one of eRenlai's editors Julia (under the artist name Blackbells) is doing a sound art performance with Taiwan's up-and-coming sound artist Betty Apple. Julia will be sampling old vinyl records while Apple jams on her synthesizer. In addition, Betty Apple will also work with didgeridoo artist Chen Pei-yuan on an...

Read more: DJ - Didgeridoo - Synth combo at Lacking Sound Fest 68

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Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies welcomes applications from Chinese art historians for a new Summer Seminar in Florence (29 June to 20 July 2013) on “The Unity of the Arts in Renaissance Italy.” 

This offers a limited number of scholars in Greater China the opportunity to study Renaissance...

Read more: Call for Applications: I Tatti Summer Seminar in Florence, July 2013

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Soundfarmers (耕聲人) is a new electronic music team that concerns itself with combining electronic music with social observation (one of our staff editors, Julia, happened to be a member). Their first project, I Love Nuclear!?, is a music compilation that focuses on anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan. The album release...

Read more: "I Love Nuclear ?!" Album Release Party

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"Hi-Life Wedding is pleased to announce our ALBUM RELEASE!It's been a long time coming.... and we want you to join us to help celebrate!Performing with Hi-Life Wedding will be Howie, guitarist from young rockers Macbeth and a new large wooden bassy instrument.The glamourous and effervescent Drag Queens, DaJieDa Divas, will be performing their...

Read more: Hi-Life Wedding CD Launch Party!

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Following the extraordinary "Electronica Truck" and “Rock Truck” anti-nuclear demonstrations held on April 30th, the NoNuke Cultural Activism Group went back to their community (around Shida Gongguan) to seek out other people who might be interested in making this area an anti-nuclear one. They visited indie bookshops, live houses, cafés...

Read more: 2011.11.05 "NoNukers' street party"

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Bendu (Benoit Vermander) exhibits around sixty of his paintings in Shanghai from November 5th to 30th at DPARK (see details below). On the day of the opening (November 5th), from 2pm on, he also signs his books (click here to access his bibliography).

Opening on November 5th - From 2pm to 5pm, books dedication with Benoit Vermander, cocktail at...

Read more: Bendu's exhibition in Shanghai

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After the 430 Sunflower NoNuke Demonstration, NO NUKE is back in our neighborhood -- Wen Luo Ting (Shi-Da and Gonguan area). We hope to (re)encounter and (re)discover anything that may be helpful to the cause, carving out our own anti-nuke roadmap that relates to each and every family and friend in the Shi-Da neighborhood.

Bring your own...

Read more: No Nuke Returns

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On October 27, 28 and 29,  we will welcome Christophe Dejours, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, chair professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris.

Since the suicides that struck Foxconn factories in China, there has been a tough debate in Taiwan not only about suicides at work, but more generally speaking, about...

Read more: Work and health