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"There is nothing in the West which has not come from the East." - F. J. FÉTIS, 1856
CULTURE + IMAGINATION + DIALOGUE + EXPERIENCES
文化、想像、對話、經驗
TEN DRUM CULTURAL CREATIVE PARKS 十鼓文創園區
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group was founded in 2000 by composer Shih HSIEH with the aim of keeping alive as well as renewing the great Taiwanese drumming tradition and training future percussionists. Since then, the group has evolved into an institution in Taiwan whose ambition reaches far beyond being a mere performing arts group.
Ten Drum actively contributes to preserving several ancient sugar factory sites in Southern Taiwan by breathing new life into them, turning them into innovative cultural parks where industrial heritage meets the arts, with concerts, workshops, artist residencies and interdisciplinary projects.
Their first album Drum Music Land was nominated at the 2010 Grammy Awards in the category Best Traditional World Music Album.
 Date: 2015.2.19~2.25 Venues: - Ten Drum Rentan Creative Park, Tainan - Chimei Museum, Tainan - Ten Drum Ciatan Creative Park, Kaohsiung - Wei-Wu-Ying National Centre for Performing Arts, Kaohsiung |  Date: 2015.2.19~2.25 Guests: - Pan à Paname (FR) - 舞太鼓飛鳥組 (JP) - GONNA (JP) - BONTEN (JP) - 上海絳州鼓樂團 (CN) - Ten Drum Art Percussion Group (TW) |  Location: Tainan, Taiwan Opening time: Daily 9:00AM~5:00PM Evening Tue/Wed/Thu/Sun 6:00PM~9:00PM Fri/Sat 6:00PM~9:30PM |
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 photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  The old smokestack, that visitors see long before they enter the village, now bears the words "Ten Drum" in English and Chinese. The interior has been cleaned and fitted with lights; visitors can step in, touch the old bricks, and gaze up at a tiny circle of blue sky, 67 meters above. photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |
 Retan Park Box office is located in the entrance of the Park. This wooden building is made from recycling material of different abandoned buildings in the area of Rende Sugar Refinery. Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  Sugar Refinery & Molasses Tank Rende sugar refinery was closed in 2003 and used to belong to Taiwan Sugar Cooperation, that operated this refinery since 1900. Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  An one-hundred-year-old Banyan Tree stays as the core of Retan Skywalk. This tree is a wishing tree now. Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |
 Three old molasses tank were served at the refinery for 100 years and closed in 2003. They turn into a new page: Rende Sugar Refinery Culture & History Hall, Playground for Kids, SkyBar cafe. Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  Opening time: 9:00AM ~ 9:30PM Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |
 Opening time: 9:00AM ~ 9:30PM Photo credit: Yu-Wen Yang, 2014 Ten Drum |  Old sugar train still serves at Retan Park for roundtrip tour through whole park. |  |
 |  Little egrets are local bird species in Taiwan. They were quite often seen in sugar cane fields in the past. You can still see them in Retan Park. |  North Grassland Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan Opening time: Daily 9:00AM~5:00PM |
 |  Ten Drum Silent Music 2013 Artist: Robin Minard |  Sugar Cane Lane 2014 Artist: Jacqueline Delpy |
 Archisony#6 - Life of Drums 2014 Artist: Zoe Benoit Associated curatorial collaboration with Grame - Centre national de création musicale, Lyon France |