| DATE: | Saturday, September 10, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM |
| PLACE: | 145 Dwinelle Hall |
| FORMAT: | Film screening |
| SPONSORS: | Cal Performances, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Music, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley Consortium for the Arts |
Organized in conjunction with the performance of Sheng Xiang & Band on Friday, September 9, 2005 at Hertz Hall. In his first United States appearance, composer, musician and social activist Sheng Xiang brings his distinctive musical hybrid of folk and contemporary sounds to UC Berkeley. The performance will be based on Sheng Xiang's newest album Getting Dark, this year's winner of three Golden Melody Awards, the Chinese equivalent of the Grammy Awards. The songs will be sung in Hakka, a dialect of Chinese; Sheng Xiang, popular in Taiwan for his support of social and environmental causes as well as his music, will provide commentary between songs in Mandarin and English.
Screening of East of County Road 184, a documentary about Taiwan folk band Sheng Xiang and the environmental movement that prevented the construction of the Meinung dam in southern Taiwan, will be followed by a discussion with Guo-Juin Hong, Asian & African Languages, Duke University; poet and activist Yongfeng Zhong, member of Sheng Xiang & Band; and Aviva Imhof, Campaigns Director, International Rivers Network.
