- Event: Semaine des cultures etrangeres a Paris
- Date: Sept. 25 - Oct. 4, 2015
- Location: Paris, France
- Site:www.ficep.info
Prominent Taiwanese writer Lee Ka-hsiang (劉克襄) spearheaded a series of 'Green Formosa' lectures, concerts, and film screenings at the 2015 Week of Foreign Cultures in Paris (Semaine des cultures étrangères à Paris).
Lee, a nature writer and bird watcher who has been nicknamed "Bird Man,” was chosen to present a Taiwanese angle on this year's theme - our environment (nos environnements). The theme also heralds the 2015 Climate Conference hosted by Paris.
Although he is best known as a writer, Lee has embraced nature as an ornithologist, environmentalist, and advocate as well. In recent years, he has organized campaigns for national park construction, stray dog protection, and bird conservation.
Sept. 28 | Song of Light and Shadows
- Type: Performance
- Featuring: Author Lee Ka-hsiang, saxophonist Lee Shyen, dancer Wu Wen-qin
- Repertoire: Waterwings, Ode to the Murdered Poplar Tree, Bird, Sacred Tree
- Venue: Bureau de Representation de Taipei en France
Sept. 29 | The Ecology of a Big Island
- Type: Artist talk
- Time: 7pm
- Featuring: Author Lee Ka-hsiang
- Venue: Bureau de Representation de Taipei en France
Sept. 30 & Oct. 2 | A Voyage through Music and Literature
- Type: Performance
- Featuring: Author Lee Ka-hsiang, saxophonist Lee Shyen, pianist Lee Wen-hui, soprano Wei Tsui-ping
- Sept. 30 @ 5pm: Henri Selmer Paris
- Oct. 2 @ 2pm: L'Atelier-Conservatoire de Bordeaux Jacques Thibaud
Other Taiwanese presentations at the Week of Foreign Cultures in Paris included:
- A screening of "A Year in the Clouds (司馬庫斯),” a documentary that follows the Atayal highlanders of the Smangus Village and their system of common ownership;
- A screening of "The Lost Sea (刪海經),” a documentary using horseshoe crabs as an allegory for the ecological, economic, and political conflicts of Taiwan on Sept. 30;
- And an academic forum on the origins of Austronesian languages on Oct. 1.