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
This year’s Michelin Gourmand Bib sported 16 new entries in the 126-strong Taiwan directory. The fight for the best braised pork rice and the crispiest scallion pancake painstakingly continued, but what stood out in the lineup this year? Pang Taqueria (胖塔可利亞); Taiwan’s first Michelin-recommended Mexican restaurant. Chef Charles Chen (陳治宇) is a self-confessed Americophile, earning his chef whites at a fine-dining Latin-American fusion restaurant. But what makes this Xinyi (信義) spot stand head and shoulders above Taipei’s existing Mexican offerings? The authenticity. The produce. The care. AUTHENTIC EATS In my time on the island, I have caved too many times to
Many Taiwanese have a favorable opinion of Japan, in part because Taiwan’s former colonial master is seen as having contributed a great deal to the development of local industries, transportation networks and institutions of education. Of course, the island’s people were never asked if they wanted to be ruled by Tokyo or participate in its modernization plans. From their arrival in 1895 until at least 1902, the Japanese faced widespread and violent antagonism. Things then calmed down, relatively speaking. Even so, between 1907 and 1916 there were eleven anti-Japanese revolts. A map in the National Museum of Taiwan History (國立臺灣歷史博物館)