Local Attractions

The Tour of Historial city: Tainan

Within Kaohsiung City

Kaohsiung is known as Taiwan's Maritime Capital.

http://w4.kcg.gov.tw/~english/index.php?strurl1=tourism&strurl=tour-pick.htm

Southern part of Taiwan

This is a one day visit for family travel (summer resort with sea and natural ecology). Kenting is the most southern Taiwan. It takes about 3 hours to there from Kaohsiung. The website is http://www.ktnp.gov.tw/eng/home/index.asp.

Taipei

If one wants to visit Taipei city, he/she can take flight from Kaoshiung airport to Taipei airport about 50 mins and cost about NT 2,000. or you can take bus about 5 hours, which costs NT 1,000.

For more than 2 days, please check the website: http://www.interlink.com.tw/english_website/bus_tour.htm.

Social and Tour Events

Tour to National Palace Museum (http://www.npm.gov.tw/english/index-e.htm)

Theme of the Museum: Protecting and preserving the 7000-year cultural legacy of China with advanced technologies; Cooperating with private connoisseurs and ushering in exhibitions from the Mainland; Bringing the Museum's collection to the global community and welcoming arts of the world to the Museum.

The National Palace Museum

Highlights:

• Great National Treasures of and for the People
• From an Imperial Art Collection to a National Museum
• The Exhibitions of the Museum: Shows of Originality and Beauty
• Towards the Realization of a Classroom of Art and Culture for All

Imperial Art Collections

Tour to the Yangmingshan National Park (http://www.cpami.gov.tw/ymsnp/ymshome1.htm)

Yangmingshan National Park is renowned for its wealth of unusual volcanic features and topography. Being so accessible and close to Taipei City, the park attracts a very large number of visitors despite its small size compared to Taiwan 's other national parks. For this very reason it faces greater and more complex pressures for man-made development. Over the years the National Park Headquarters has put considerable energy into managing the park's resources, and has launched an educational and publicity effort aimed at creating a distinctive "small is beautiful" image for the park.

The Yangmingshan National Park

• 60 minutes from the conference venue

Music Performance

The National Taiwan Academy of Arts Experimental Chinese Orchestra (http://192.192.14.59/default.htm )

The National Chinese Orchestra was originated from the "National Taiwan Academy of Arts Experimental Chinese Orchestra", set up by the Ministry of Education in 1984 and basically attempting to focus on such academic research subjects as nation vs. culture, race vs. music, theory vs. practice, teaching vs. performance, etc. Therefore, it is referred to as being "experimental" in nature. Later, in order to carry out Chinese music related cultural activities under national art education development program of the Ministry of Education, and Art Festival held by the Council for Cultural Planning and Development, etc., the Executive Yuan approved the "Key Points of National Chinese Orchestra Setup" in 1990 to facilitate the operation. Then, from 1992 to 1994, it was further expanded to be a large racial symphony orchestra with 93 members. Relatively, the nature of the Orchestra goes beyond "experiment" and extends to a comprehensive Chinese music medium, endeavoring to collect, study, exchange, create, demonstrate, perform, record and produce final video product, and publish academic journal, etc. which are hard spiritual cultivation works, contributing to national cultural construction campaign. Therefore, the Orchestra has, through strict business administration, precision specialized training, loyal collaboration and strong ambition, created teamwork morale for continued self -upgrading, in order to fulfill the public prospect for the Orchestra in conformity with national class.

The National Chinese Orchestra