Audiences can expect a 45-minute virtual show and splendid fireworks at the opening of the World Games 2009 Kaohsiung to rock their sensations in July this year, the organizer said in a press conference in Taipei yesterday, with 112 days to go in the countdown of the game."Unlike the more competitive Olympics, the World Games focus more on the concept of friendship, community cooperation and unification that involves more people to demonstrate the special aspect of sports," said Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu, who is also the president of the organizer Kaohsiung Organizing Committee (KOC) at the conference.
The KOC hosted the news briefing in Taipei to make public the details of the grand opening ceremony slated for July 16.
"We wish to show the world a biodiverse, multi-cultural Taiwan," said KOC Art Director Chen Yu-chiou. "The combination of technology and art, tradition and innovation is the main concept of our design," she said.
Award winning director Li Shao-ping is the director of the opening's most eye-catching part - a 45-minute virtual show. "Ocean, folk culture, and earth are the three themes in my work," he said. Li also invited Kevin Lin, the athlete who completed the Four Deserts Race covering Gobi, Atacama, Sahara and Antarctica to be his jogger in the third part of the show.
Hayley Westenra, a 22 year old singer from New Zealand will perform in front of some 10,000 spectators as part of the ceremony.
The other expected highlight at the opening is a three-minute firework show. Tickets for the games are available from 12 p.m. April 1 at all 7-11 convenient stores through the iBon Convenience Life Station system.
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