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The 2013 Craft, Music, Dance & Theater Art Festival (CDMT Art Festival), an event combining performing arts and crafts, will kick off in October and run for three months at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute (NTCRI) in Nantou County.
The CDMT Art Festival is a series of cultural and art promotional programs that will take place on every Saturday between Oct. 5 and Dec. 28 at the NTCRI. Featuring a wide variety of performing arts, from hand puppet theater, dance and symphony orchestra to Chinese orchestra and a spike fiddle performance, a total of thirteen performances are scheduled for this year.
Alongside each performance will be a related DIY event that will allow visitors to make their own music instruments, including the ocarina, the rainstick and the bamboo recorder.
Notably, the bamboo recorder was developed by Taiwanese musician Cheng Jui-hsien when he visited New Zealand in 2012. The eight-centimeter-long instrument with five holes is made of bamboo grown in Nantou, portable and plays an octave.
The festival this year will also feature a violin performance by students of Nantou County's Chin Ai Elementary School, where the schoolchildren began making their own violins by cutting the wood, carving the instrument and decorating their handiwork by painting aboriginal totems.
Co-organized by the NTCRI, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Nantou County and the Caotun Township Office, the annual CDMT Art Festival combines Taiwan's innovative crafts, performing arts and local culture, and aims to attract more art lovers to learn about crafts.
