Theatre and Music Groups Join Le Sheng Movement
劇場、音樂團體加入樂生運動
Source: “Music · Life · Under the Big Tree” Action Series — First Wave, 28 August: Music Action in Support of Losheng Sanatorium
From: Taiwan Association for Human Rights
Date: 2005-08-15
The “Music · Life · Under the Big Tree” action series was launched by the “Losheng Preservation Self-Help Association” and the “Youth Losheng Alliance,” with organisation handled by the “Big Tree Group” formed from members of an international cooperative workshop. Groups including Underground Society (地下社會), Liuchunchun Theatre (柳春春劇社), Difference Theatre (差事劇團), and Sea-Pen (海筆子) subsequently joined as co-sponsors. Held in 2005 at Losheng Sanatorium in Sinjhuang — on the hillside grass beneath a big tree on a hill that had already been half cut away — participating bands and musicians included: Freckle Band (Freckles), Taka-nao (達卡鬧), Jia Tzu Too Hard! (小應 + Lala), Blackhand Nakasi Workers’ Band, 929 Band, and Losheng Nakasi, formed from Losheng Sanatorium residents.
The first wave of the “Music · Life · Under the Big Tree” music action united musicians with concerns about the Losheng issue, using the power of live music to draw young people who love music, life, and freedom into the sanatorium — to come to know the old trees, the old buildings, and the old people there. These elderly residents, confronted by the deliberate disregard of powerful state machinery and money-and-power politics, by the unfair demand that social progress be bought at the sacrifice of the few, by a Cultural Heritage Act too long powerless to invoke — even as their bodies slowly faded, their resolve to stand or fall alongside Losheng Sanatorium would not waver.
“Preserve All of Losheng Sanatorium” banner (Source: Wikipedia)
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External Links
- “Music · Life · Under the Big Tree” — Silence · Action · Protecting Losheng — Event Flyer
- Losheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement (Coolloud)
- Arts and Culture Community Calls: Preserving Losheng Is a Reflection on Humanity (Environmental Information Centre)
- Step Inside Losheng and Listen — Music · Life · Under the Big Tree (Coolloud)
- Ministry of Health and Welfare Losheng Sanatorium (Wikipedia)