The Red House in Taipei is celebrating its 103rd birthday this month by inviting a lineup of 10 creative groups to participate in a joint exhibition titled “Each Year on This Day, a Birthday Toast” to showcase their works and mark the birth of the Red House. There will also be other offers, such as discounts through Facebook, quizzes with prizes, and codebreaking games. There will also be freebies available, such as restaurant coupons and limited-edition calendars.
Built in 1908, the Red House will celebrate its 103rd birthday next Monday. The Red House is collaborating with the western district creative coffee shop management group 26 Creative (aka Somebody Cafe) to hold the “Each Year on This Day, a Birthday Toast” joint exhibition. A total of 10 groups were invited to participate in an exhibition in which they exercise their ingenuity and create images of birthday wishes for the Red House. One of the groups, Foufou Design, uses the theme of baby rabbits in a newborn nursery to symbolize birth, while another group called Nong Li, a creative apparel shop, uses cherry blossoms and salmon. Salmon, which is known to swim upstream, represents swimming against the stream.
The birthday party will be held at 1pm on the second floor of the Red House Theater in Ximending next Monday. Candy Wine, winner of the Biggest Fans Award at the Ho-Hai-Yan Gongliao Rock Festival, and the Emotional Machine dance team, known for their performance at the Taipei Lantern Festival’s Public Art Exhibition, will give live performances at the party to celebrate the Red House’s 103rd birthday.
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY LIN YA-TI)
Photo courtesy of the Red House
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台北市西門紅樓本月歡度一○三歲生日，邀集十家文創團隊舉辦「每年的這一天。敬生日」聯展，畫下生日祝福。同時舉辦「臉書打卡享打折」、「有獎徵答」與「通關密語」活動，贈送餐飲優惠與限量月曆。
一九○八年興建的西門紅樓，下週一將歡慶一○三歲生日。紅樓與西區文創咖啡經營團隊「貳拾陸巷」合作，舉辦「每年的這一天。敬生日」聯展，邀集十家創意團隊運用巧思畫下生日祝福。例如受邀團隊中，「福福好創意」，以在產房新生的兔寶寶們呈現誕生意涵；創意服飾品牌「農麗」則以櫻花鉤吻鮭逆流而上的意象。
下週一生日當天，下午一點在西門町紅樓二樓劇場舉辦生日派對。曾獲海洋音樂祭「最佳人氣獎」的「糖果酒」，及曾在台北燈節公共藝術展大展舞藝的「Emotional Machine」舞蹈團隊現場演出，一同替一○三歲的西門紅樓喝采。
（自由時報記者邱紹雯）
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1. freebie n.
免費品 (mian3 fei4 ping3)
例: You don’t need to pay for that. It’s a freebie.
(你毋須付款。這是免費品。)
2. ingenuity n.
巧思 (qiao3 si1)
例: We can’t solve this in the usual way, we need to apply some ingenuity.
(我們無法以平常的方法解決它，我們必須運用一些巧思。)
3. newborn adj.
新生的 (xin1 sheng1 de5)
例: Kate was born just last week, so she’s still a newborn baby.
(凱特上週才誕生，所以她仍是個新生兒。)
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