In addition to academic discussions at the conference, scholars and performers of Taiwanese Opera from Taiwan and the PRC traveled to Yuanshan Rural Township in Ilan County to see the old tree where "gezai Chu" first sang gezai xi nearly a century ago. While there, they took in a performance of "local gezai," the earliest form of Taiwanese Opera, at a park in Yuanshan Rural Township.
除了學術研討，兩岸歌仔戲學者與演員更前往宜蘭縣員山鄉，尋訪歌仔戲鼻祖「歌仔助」當初教唱地的那棵古樹，並在員山鄉戲曲公園欣賞了一場最原始的「本地歌仔」。