Little Mermaid
● Cultural Affairs Bureau of Nantou County (
● Tonight at 7:30pm
Children's Drama -- Undersea Adventures
● Novel Hall (
● Tonight at 7:30pm; tomorrow and Sunday at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:30pm and 7:30pm
My First Wives
● Taichung Zhongshan Hall (
● Tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm; Sunday at 2:30pm
The 2nd Treasury of Young Musicians 2005 Concert Series -- Xu Geng-lun Piano Recital
●National Recital Hall (
● Tonight at 7:30pm
Yuan Wei-ren Piano Recital
●Taichung County Cultural Center (
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● Tomorrow at 7:30pm
TCSO Summer Concert 1812 Rhapsody (
●National Concert Hall(
● Sunday at 3pm
Set Beauty Free: Chang Lin-lin Recital Theater (
●National Recital Hall (
● Sunday at 2:30pm
Global Bras Band by Atlantic Brass Quintet
● Novel Hall (
● Aug. 16 at 7:30pm
Homeland Famous Music for the Family
● National Concert Hall(
● Aug. 17 at 7:30pm
Joy in Music for Harp and Violin
● National Recital Hall (
● Aug 18 at 7:30pm
Lap Dance presents A Night of Indie and Alternative as part of the 80's Party series.
● Nowhere (
● Tonight at 10pm
Witch House
●7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd, Sec 3, Taipei (新生南路三段56巷7號). Entrance NT$300.
Call (02) 2362 5494.
● Tonight and tomorrow at 9:30pm
Taipei Artist Village
●7, Peiping E Rd, Taipei (
● Tomorrow at 7:30pm
The Living Room
● 3F, 8, Nanjing E Rd, Sec 5, Taipei (
● Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:30pm; tonight and tomorrow at 10pm
Riverside Cafe
● B1, 2, Ln. 244, Roosevelt Rd, Sec 3, Taipei (
● All shows begin at 9:30pm
NTU Corridor Cafe
● NTU Sports Center 1F (
● Tonight and tomorrow at 8pm; Sunday at 3pm
The Wall
● B1, 200, Sec 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei (
●Tonight and tomorrow at 9pm; Sunday at 2pm
Magic Pencil Exhibition
● Taipei Story House (
● Until Oct. 16
Free From Resistance -- Wu Ping's Gallegraphy and Painting
● National Museum of History (國立歷史博物館), 49, Nanhai Rd, Taipei (台北市南海路49號). Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. (02) 2361 0270.
● Until Sept. 4
2005 Gung Wen-yi Artwork Exhibition
● Pacific Cultural Foundation (
● Until Aug. 27
Clinic Path of the Sphinx -- Lu Shi-fen Solo Exhibition
● Eslite Gallery (
● Until Aug. 28
Taiwan Established and Rising Artists' Joint Exhibition
● Home Gallery (
● Until Aug. 31
Valley of Love, Convolutions of Taiwanese Contemporary Painting
● Taipei National University of the Arts -- Guandu Arts Museum (
● Until Sept. 11
A Solo Exhibition of Ceramics by Shi Fu-qi
● Juming Museum (
● Until Sep 11
Lightscape -- Between Mind and Matter
● Taipei Fine Arts Museum (
● Until Sept. 4
Pursuing Good Fortune -- Taiwanese Folk Cultural Artifacts
● Museum of World Religions (
● Until Feb. 10, 2006
Full-Surface Bronze Rubbings Exhibition(深宮重寶墨影留形 -- 青銅器全形拓特展), showcasing a collection of full-surface bronze rubbings along with pictures of original bronze rubbing instruments from the National Palace Museum.
● Museum of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (中央研究院歷史語言研究所歷史文物陳列館) at 130, Yanjiuyuan Rd, Sec 2, Taipei. (台北市研究院路二段130號).
Sept.16 to Sept. 22 The “anti-communist train” with then-president Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) face plastered on the engine puffed along the “sugar railway” (糖業鐵路) in May 1955, drawing enthusiastic crowds at 103 stops covering nearly 1,200km. An estimated 1.58 million spectators were treated to propaganda films, plays and received free sugar products. By this time, the state-run Taiwan Sugar Corporation (台糖, Taisugar) had managed to connect the previously separate east-west lines established by Japanese-era sugar factories, allowing the anti-communist train to travel easily from Taichung to Pingtung’s Donggang Township (東港). Last Sunday’s feature (Taiwan in Time: The sugar express) covered the inauguration of the
The corruption cases surrounding former Taipei Mayor and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) head Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) are just one item in the endless cycle of noise and fuss obscuring Taiwan’s deep and urgent structural and social problems. Even the case itself, as James Baron observed in an excellent piece at the Diplomat last week, is only one manifestation of the greater problem of deep-rooted corruption in land development. Last week the government announced a program to permit 25,000 foreign university students, primarily from the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, to work in Taiwan after graduation for 2-4 years. That number is a
In a stark demonstration of how award-winning breakthroughs can come from the most unlikely directions, researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anuses. After a series of tests on mice, rats and pigs, Japanese scientists found the animals absorb oxygen delivered through the rectum, work that underpins a clinical trial to see whether the procedure can treat respiratory failure. The team is among 10 recognized in this year’s Ig Nobel awards (see below for more), the irreverent accolades given for achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” They are not
This Qing Dynasty trail takes hikers from renowned hot springs in the East Rift Valley, up to the top of the Coastal Mountain Range, and down to the Pacific Short vacations to eastern Taiwan often require choosing between the Rift Valley with its pineapple fields, rice paddies and broader range of amenities, or the less populated coastal route for its ocean scenery. For those who can’t decide, why not try both? The Antong Traversing Trail (安通越嶺道) provides just such an opportunity. Built 149 years ago, the trail linked up these two formerly isolated parts of the island by crossing over the Coastal Mountain Range. After decades of serving as a convenient path for local Amis, Han settlers, missionaries and smugglers, the trail fell into disuse once modern roadways were built