Celebrating Leith and North Edinburgh Dialogues of Wind & Bamboo: Midsummer 2008
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Leith & North: Please email any news items to: news@leithandnorth.org.uk Dialogues of Wind and Bamboo: Midsummer Magic (continued) Line of people with blue, red, black and purple umbrellas waiting outside the Glass House Well over an hundred people (waterproofed and umbrellaed pictured queueing, above) were guided on a Midummer's Eve tour of Edinburgh's Royal Botanical Gardens.

Artists and performers included, FOUND, The Shanghai Jazz Project, The Korphai Ensemble, The 7 Stars School of Taijiquan and Chinese Martial Arts, pupils from Perth High School, .the Harmony Chinese Ensemble, Butoh inspired dancer Anne-Marie Culhane, and Chinese traditional dancer, Chang Zhang. Kimho Ip, creative director of iMAP (Intercultural Music and Arts Project,) brought the event together with funding from the Scottish Arts Council.

A young man stands among the roots of a banana tree , looking up, whilst people pass through the greenery chatting Three seated musicians and a standing guitarist in a stone slabbed area surrounded by tropical vegetation Left <<<: Visitors admire the banana trees in the Glass House as music accompanies their walk.
Right >>>: Four musicians play traditional Chinese instruments. Kimho Ip shared with Fay Young, “You know, all the performers agreed with me. If this had been happening in Taipei or Hong Kong as soon as it started to rain all the audience would have gone home and the musicians and dancers would have been moaning and complaining. But here, we all stayed and everyone did their best, including the audience, and we all had a wonderful experience.”

 Four musicians stand playing under a coniferous tree as visitors apporach along the path behind them Dancer in black conducts teenage pupil from Perth Left <<<:Four members of Korpahi.
Right >>>:The Bamboo God conducts Perth High School representing the Next Generation.

 Tai Seated Leithers watch the show Left <<<: Tai Chi action led by Bob Lowey in black
Right >>>: A member of the Harmony Chinese Ensemble plays.

 A white and gold clad woman dances with two little girls with other dancers in the background A gold and white clad man with golden feathers dancers with his caduceus as blue and white dressed men drum in the background Left <<<: Solo Tai Chi practitioner in the Chinese Garden.
Right >>>:Bob Lowey (third from left leads Tai Chi on the bridge in the Chinese Garden.
Visitors were guided though the Chinese Hillside Garden, which represented an ideal landscape. Musicians played, (including The Harmony Chinese Ensemble, guests Cheng-Ying Chuang and Law Mei-Chi, and Eddie McGuire,) as people walked slowly through, watching Tai Chi practitioners who were scattered throughout. The green tea handed out afterwards, for the interval, by the T’ing pavilion, by Fooklan Szeto, was a welcome warmer in the summer rain.

 View photos of Chang Zhang, Anne-Marie Culhane, Cheng-Ying Chuang, and others performing at Susie Brown's bamboo installation, Natural Progression >>>

Seated woman plays a percussion instrument of bamboo pipes under a coniferous tree, as three women stand beneath their umbrellas watching on