Performance: Saturday 21 June, 2008
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

  • Time: 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
    (meet at 6.45 pm outside Temperate Palmhouse)
  • Location: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  • Venue: Enter by East Gate, Inverleith Row
    or North Gate, Inverleith Place
  • Price: Free
  • Age: Suitable for all
  • Booking: No booking required, however spaces for the Temperate Palmhouse performances are limited. If you want to guarantee a place, you can collect tickets in advance from the North Gate.
   Brief Description of the Event:
The live performance on 21 June starts in the Temperate Palmhouse when Edinburgh experimental pop band FOUND exchange improvisations with Shanghai Jazz Project. From there a musical journey of discovery unfolds as Thai bamboo percussion ensemble, Korphai, lead the audience to the Chinese Hillside for traditional music with Harmony Chinese Ensemble, and dance with Anne-Marie Culhane and Chang Zhang, before returning to a new kind of ‘modern reality’ in the Palm House. Look and listen for surprises on the way.
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Act 1: Palm House: "Modern Reality"
Musicians: FOUND, Shanghai Jazz Project and guests collaborate in live improvisations of each other's songs.

Act 2. Outside Palm House: "Living Bamboo"Musicians Korphai – Thai Angkalung Ensemble wake up to the natural force

Act 3. Bamboo Tao: "The Route"
Musicians: Pupils from Perth High School the new generation is led by the Bamboo god and Korphai Taichi action led by Bob Lowey

Act 4. Chinese Hillside: "Ideal Landscape"
Musicians: Harmony Chinese Ensemble. Cheng-Ying Chuang, Law Mei Chi, Eddie McGuire at one with nature, music and dance in imaginary landscape and soundscape of China

Intermission at the T'ing:
Chinese Tea and Music meet members of the Chinese community in Scotland

Act. 5 Sculpture Garden: "Enlightenment"
Dancers: Anne-Marie Culhane; Chang Zhang prepare to bring the message back to 'modern reality'

Act 6. Epilogue at the Palm House
Musicians: FOUND, Shanghai Jazz Project

   Maps of the two journeys:
Journey One Journey Two
Click on the maps for larger versions