CowParade is an international public art exhibition which featured in major cities worldwide, where fibreglass sculptures of cows decorated by local artists would be distributed over the city centre. The cows are normally auctioned off after the exhibition at each city with proceeds donated to charity.
Taipei City is the 65th venue for the parade; the exhibition has just ended in early February… a pretty fitting event to welcome the Chinese New Year of Ox.
The 45th Golden Horse Awards were presented at Zhongshan Hall in Taichung City, Taiwan, on Saturday (Dec 6). The Golden Horse is arguably the most prestigious award in the Chinese film industry.
Taiwanese movie “Cape No 7″ managed to scope 6 awards, albeit not the major ones… but there’s plenty to celebrate for the host considering how gloomy Taiwanese film industry was for the past decade or two.
Some of the major winners of the 45th Golden Horse Awards…
Best Feature Film – The Warlords
Best Director – Peter Chan (The Warlords)
Best Leading Actor – Zhang Hanyu (Assembly)
Best Leading Actress – Prudence Liew (True Women for Sale)
Best Supporting Actor – Ma Ju Long (Cape No 7)
Best Supporting Actress – Mei Fang (Orzboyz)
Refer to Golden Horse official website for complete list of winners. Check out some red carpet pics via Cfensi, Cri and Chinadaily.
The 43rd Golden Bell Awards were presented in Taipei on Friday (Oct 31); Golden Bell is Taiwan’s most prestigious radio and television broadcasting awards.
“Fated to Love You” won the best drama series as expected; Ariel Lin was crowned the best actress (in drama series) with “They Kiss Again”; while Jacky Wu and A-Ya claimed the best variety show hosts award with “Guess Guess Guess”.
Other winners are relatively unknown; couldn’t recognise most of the names to be frank. Sharing a few red carpet pics (from Sohu) instead…
The emcees – Patty Ho, Jacky Wu and Tian Xin
A total of 918 saxophone players performed simultaneously at the Taichung City Plaza in the city of Taichung, Taiwan, on October 18 in a bid to break the world record for the largest saxophone ensemble.
The attempt was held in conjunction with the 6th annual Taichung Jazz Festival. The oldest saxophonists involved was 72 of age, while the youngest just three; Taichung deputy mayor Hsiao Jia Qi also took part in the event.
The current world record for the largest saxophone ensemble was set by Toronto in 2004 with 900 players.
