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The 46th Golden Bell Awards ceremony, Taiwan’s equivalent to the Emmy’s, will take place tonight 

at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall with nearly 151 TV productions competing for 32 awards 

Last Sunday, the opening party or the2011 Young Designers’ Workshop(YDW) took place amid throbbingcrowds at the Taipei World Design

Expo (臺北世界設計大展), igniting ve dayso intense creation that will take place at 30workshop locations across Taiwan.

 With grooving beats in the background,design students and lecturers rom Taiwanand more than 20 countries — includingthe Netherlands, Canada, the U.S., Korea,and Japan — mingled amongst a smartlyplaced matrix o wooden crates and whiteballoons. Handsome waiters in white dressshirts went around serving attendees bub-ble tea and other ne snacks on silver mir-ror plates. Alternative band Mrs. This (這位太太樂團) provided rereshing minstrelsy

 just beore the speeches began.During the ve-day YDW, 900 rising de-

signers aged 32 or under are dispatchedto universities all over Taiwan to work ona variety o projects developed bridge theconcepts o sustainability and technical in-novation with local culture and real-liechallenges.

For instance, Kun Shan University (崑

山科技大學) and the National Taiwan Nor-mal University (臺灣師範大學) coincidentallychose the night market as their topics.

Students o landscape architecture andstudents o textiles and applied arts at FuJen Catholic University (輔仁大學) are o-cusing on ashion and living spaces or theelderly. Also, students o interactive mediadesign at the National Taipei University o Technology (臺北科技大學) are exploring the

protean variations o Han Chinese charac-ters, while students o industrial design atTatung University (大同大學) are makingintelligent toys or kids. Students o inte-rior design at Tainan University o Technol-ogy (台南科技大學) are working on modularshelters or disaster relie.

Other topics o include cloud computing,green architecture, and tourism branding.

Guests at the launch party include Britisharchitect Mark Lintott, programmer HongQu who contributed to the early core devel-opment o YouTube, Dan Formosa who is aounder o Smart Design, various govern-ment ocials and presidents o the partici-pating schools.

They wrote down their “design wishes”on long strips o paper, which were sub-sequently tied to the balloons. The partyculminated with the balloons being sym-bolically released into the air, evoking theboundless fight o the designers’ dreams.

The works produced at YDW 2011 arepresented at TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 (世貿展1館) as part o the Taipei World DesignExpo (臺北世界設計大展). ■

 T onight belongs to television ans andeveryone in the local TV industry asthe 46th Golden Bell Awards (金鐘

獎) will be presented to top enter-tainers, hosts and producers to etch theirnames in Taiwan’s history.

The Golden Bell Awards is Taiwan’sequivalent to the Emmy Awards in theU.S. This year a total o 151 TV produc-tions compete or 32 awards, including thisyear’s most promising mini-series “Days

 We Stared at the Sun” (他們在畢業的前一天爆炸) and TV-series “The Fierce Wie” (犀利人妻), which received eight and seven nomi-nations respectively.

The ormer is a Public Television ServiceTaiwan (PTS, 台灣公共電視) production thattells the story o a group o high school stu-dents who ace studies, romance and amilyissues; the latter centers on the complexity o relationships, marriage and human nature.

Such complexity has been displayedacross local media in recent weeks regard-ing model-turned-actress Sonia Sui (隋棠),who plays the leading role in “The Fierce

  Wie,” and is a leading contender to winthis year’s Best Actress in a TelevisionSeries Award. The leading actor in the

same series, James Wen (溫昇豪), also acesstrong competition against other our nomi-

nees, including Jo-seph Chang (張孝全),who was nominatedor Golden Horse

  Awards twice, andJin Shi-jye (金士傑),an actor, scriptwrit-er and director, or his

role in “The InvaluableTreasure, 1949” (瑰寶1949).

  Writer, singer andMC Matilda Tao (陶晶瑩) will be the solohost o the awardceremony tonight atthe Sun Yat-sen Me-morial Hall in Tai-pei. She is also nom-inated or Best Hostin a Variety Programthis year. However, herprogram “Matilda’s TalkShow” (陶子藝言堂) hasrecently been cancelled. ■

► You can sit back athome and watch thisyear’s Golden Bell Awards ceremony andred carpet event liveon The China Televi-

sion (中視 ) and CtiTV(中天娛樂台 ).

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Leading Taiwanese glassware brandtittot (琉園) will join the Taipei

  World Design Expo (台北世界設計大展) starting tomorrow with “Crossover”

(越限), presenting classic works o theirown, as well as works rom internation-ally-acclaimed designer Michael Young,and rom Guan Donghai (關東海), head o Glass Art Studio (玻璃藝術工作室) and as-sociate proessor in the Academy o Artsand Design o Beijing’s Tsinghua Univer-sity(北京清華大學美術學院).

“With “Crossover,” tittot likes to showthe breakthroughs in terms o material,cratsmanship and creation in glass art,”

  Wang Yung-shan (王永山), CEO o tittot,told The China Post yesterday in Taipei.

Besides tittot classics such as “Windand Light” (風光) and “Soaring into theBright Future” series (鵬飛翔天), “The QinClassic” series (磬典系列), a collaborationbetween tittot designers and Guan, is con-sidered to take glass art to a new level.

Because not only visitors can appreciatethe work with eyes, they get to experiencethe masterpiece with their ears.

“My creativity comes rom one time,when I knocked on a ormer work o mine, the sound it made was just wonder-ul,” said Guan, who calls “The Qin Clas-sic” series his “precious.”

“Working with tittot has been delight-

ul and we look orward to make a glassGuqin (古琴) — ancient stringed instru-ment — together,” he added.

From tomorrow until Oct. 30, there willbe seminars, lm screening or do-it-your-sel sessions every day at the “Crossover”exhibition at the Nangang Exhibition Hall(南港展覽館). ■

Crossover (越限 ) ► From tomorrow untilOct.30 / Enterprises Area, Nangang Exhibi-tion Hall (南港展覽館企業區 )/ MRT NangangExhibition Center Station/ Free Admission/ 

http://www.2011ida.com/english/ 

Design Expo features tittot’s 

classic, creative works 

(Below) Guan’s “Qin Classic” series is a

collaborative work with titott designers.Courtesyoftittot

Discover the art of 

Bharatanatyam 

Learn Indian Classical Dance and culture with  Anupriya Guha 

 Anupriya Guha, 22 year old, a math-ematics graduate rom Delhi Uni-versity in India, started learning

Bharatanatyam rom the tender age o 5under the tutelage o legendary Indianclassical dancer Dr. Yamini Krishnamur-thy. For the last 12 years, she has beenunder the able guidance o PadmashreeGuru Dr. Saroja Vaidyanathan.

 Anupriya was born into a musical amilyo Kolkata, India. Her maternal granda-ther late Dhiren Bose was the legendaryRabindra Sangeet and Nazrul Geeti singero Bengal. Anupriya has given several soloperormances in India, Malaysia and Sin-gapore over the last 5 years.

In the month o March this year, Jeery

  Wu ounder o IMC went as a Taiwanesedelegate to India, where ater attending

  Anupriya’s lecture demonstration, he in-vited her to perorm in Taiwan in the8th Indian Festival. Since her arrival inTaiwan on Sept. 15, she has had manysolo recitals in Taiwan, including in CKSMemorial Hall, Kinmen Island, Kaohsiungand more.

She also conducted workshop on Oct. 2in the Dream Community in Xizhi and gotan overwhelming response, where over 40students attended the ull day workshop.She was really amazed to see the eager-ness o the Taiwanese people to knowmore about Indian Classical Dance andculture. Anupriya likes Taiwan a lot andsays the people here are very warm na-tured and kind.

On Oct. 23, she will be conducting an-other workshop in Dream Community Xi-zhi rom 10 a.m. onwards. Anupriya willbe leaving Taiwan later this month andhave her last perormance on Oct. 22,

based on Buddhism. For details o events,please contact 0981-743-131. ■

Foreign Community

B y Priya L. Purswaney 

Special to The China Post

on the edges Hundreds of rising designers are working until today on a variety of projects aimed at bridging the concepts of sustainability and technical innovation with local culture and real-life challenges 

2011 Taipei World Design Expo

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The China Post

2011 Young Designers’ Workshop

B y Lin y uTing

The China Post

(Top) Featuring three heads and six arms each,

the Master D mascots createrd by eight local andinternational designers attract much attention from

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Interior design students from the Netherlands,

from left Elselien Praisman, Dewi Braaksma, Linde

Buitelaar and Linda Groenewold, relax at the YDW

launch party. They will be working on the "100km

 Away from Design" project hosted by Tatung

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 And the Golden Bell Awardgoes to …