Soma plays rock and pop covers tonight at Tone 56 Live Bar. Tomorrow it’s house band Loaded, which plays everything from “rock classics to today’s hits.” Every Sunday features a regular rotation of groups: this week it’s a solo set from keyboardist Jasper.
▲ 1F, 56, Minquan E Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市民權東路三段56號1樓), near the corner of Fuxing North (復興北) and Minquan East (民權東) roads
Call (02) 2517-3869 for more details
▲ Music shows go from 9:30pm to 12:30am tonight and tomorrow, and 7:30pm to 9:30pm on Sundays
▲ No admission fee
Every Wednesday night at the Cosmopolitan Grill there’s a blues open mic, held by the Blues Society on Taiwan and hosted by Torch Pratt. All are welcome to bring their instruments and sit in on guitar, bass, or drums.
▲ 1F, 218 Changchun Rd, Taipei City (台北市長春路218號1樓). Call (02) 2508-0304 or visit www.cosmo.com.tw for more information
▲ 8pm to 11pm every Wednesday
▲ No admission fee
DANCE
2008 Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Festival 3. Taiwan’s modern dance pioneer Tsai Jui-yueh (蔡瑞月) will be remembered this weekend with five performances at the rebuilt Japanese-style building in Taipei City that once housed her school. One of the great attractions of this series is that the audience sits outside, while the dancers perform inside and in front of the studio building. The six works on the program include pieces by Tsai, her daughter-in-law Ondine Hsiao (蕭渥廷), the late American choreographer Eleo Pomare and Zhang Xiao-xiong (張曉雄). The dancers have been drawn from the Grace Hsiao (蕭靜文）Dance Theater and the Taipei Crossover Dance Theater (台北越界舞團) and other companies.
▲ Tonight and tomorrow at 8pm; tomorrow and Sunday 3:30pm and Sunday at 8pm
Internationally acclaimed German director Wim Wenders is on a swift visit to Taipei this week to scout locations and pick a cast for First Page Taipei, the first Taiwanese project he has undertaken as executive producer. Set entirely in Taipei, the film is the feature debut by American-born Taiwanese director Arvin Chen (陳駿霖) and was developed from his film school thesis production Mei, which won the Silver Bear in the short film category at 2007’s Berlin International Film Festival. Wenders said it was Chen’s script that drew him to the project. The revered filmmakers also said he particularly liked the idea that the film would be mostly shot at night and that Chen could represent the city from a non-local perspective. Wenders will today hold a panel discussion along with Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢), followed by a workshop led by the German director, who will talk about his works and artistic career over the past four decades.
▲ College of Communication, National Chengchi University (政治大學傳播學院劇場)
▲ The discussion is from 3pm to 5pm and the workshop from 7pm to 9pm
▲ Though seats are fully reserved, fans can wait at the door to fill possible vacancies. For more information, visit www.atomcinema.com/wenders
▲ Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Research Institute/Rose Historic Site (蔡瑞月舞蹈社), 4F, 40-1, Zongshan N Rd Sec 2 (台北市中山北路二段40-1號4樓)
▲ Tickets are NT$600, available through artstickets.com.tw
EXHIBITIONS
Philosophy and Poetry — Li Tsai-chien (哲理與詩情—李再鈐八十雕塑展) celebrates the 80th birthday of the esteemed artist and educator with an outdoor exhibition of 15 large-scale sculptures that are representative of Li’s signature style of abstraction and his interests in Greek geometric forms and East Asian philosophy.
▲ Taipei National University of Arts — Kuandu Museum of Arts (台北藝術大學關渡美術館), 1, Xuenyuan Rd, Beitou Dist, Taipei City (台北市北投區學園路1號). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10am to 5pm. Tel: (02) 2896-1000 X2432
▲ Until March 31, 2009
Masao Kinoshita Solo Exhibition (木下雅雄個展) features 15 sculptures the artist has created since 2001. Kinoshita is known for his series of human-bodied chimeras with animal heads.
▲ Eslite Gallery (誠品畫廊), B2, 245, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段245號B2). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 2775-5977 X588
▲ Until Nov. 2
Philippine Contemporary Art — Jose Legaspi Solo Exhibition (菲律賓當代藝術 — 荷西拉嘉斯比個展). Legaspi’s pastel drawings are often described as nightmarishly erotic and bestial. His subjects are mangled bodies, menacing faces, sexual exploits, burning houses and fetuses flushed down the drain.
▲ Soka Art Center Taipei (台北索卡藝術中心), 2F, 57, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段57號2樓). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11am to 9pm. Tel: (02) 2570-0390
▲ Until Nov. 16
Madam Rose and Her Pets (蘿絲夫人與她的寵物們). This solo exhibition by Huang Pei-ying (黃沛瀅) features the young artist’s new paper sculptures of house pets, plants and insects in a garden setting that invites visitors to reconnect with their inner child.
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