Theater
Women Write History, Our Spoken Culture (女人寫歷史，自己說文化！) is part of The Voyeur Theater’s (窺視者劇團) “Herstories Project” and combines the stories and experiences of 10 women.
▲Crown Art Center Theater (皇冠小劇場), B1, 50, Ln 120, Dunhua N Rd, Taipei City (台北市敦化北路120巷50號B1)
▲Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$250, available through NTCH ticketing
A hubristic engineer attempts to create a purification system to eliminate pollution in RU-XU Pithead (如徐礦坑). But the problems he encounters threaten the health of the citizens in the city where he lives.
▲Eslite Bookstore, Tainan (台南誠品書店), B2, 181, Changrung Rd Sec 1, Tainan (台南市長榮路一段181號 B2)
▲Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$300, available through NTCH ticketing
The Little Matches Girl (賣番仔火的小女孩) by Taiyuan Puppet Theater Company (台原偶戲團) tells the story of a greedy grandmother who forces her granddaughter to work in a factory that makes matches. The girl befriends a little boy and together they discover that the matches are alive. One night, a disaster threatens the lives of both children and their match friends.
▲Nadou Theater (納豆劇場), 79 Xining N Rd, Taipei City (台北市西寧北路79號)
▲Tomorrow at 3pm
▲Tickets are NT$200, available through NTCH ticketing
Classical music
Between Black and White — Pascal Roge Solo Piano Recital (遊藝黑白 － 帕斯卡.羅傑鋼琴獨奏會) sees the celebrated interpreter of French composers perform a program featuring the works of Faure, Satie, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc.
▲Sunday at 7:30pm (Taichung) and Tuesday at 7:30pm (Taipei)
▲Taichung Chungshan Hall (台中市中山堂), 98 Hsuehshi Rd, Taichung City (台中市學士路98號) and the National Concert Hall, Taipei City
Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and Brett Anderson, former frontman of Suede, headline 2008 Urban Simple Life (簡單生活節), which takes place on Dec. 6 and Dec. 7 at Taipei’s Huashan Culture Park (華山文化園區). Also scheduled to perform at the combination music festival/street fair are local acts 1976, Sodagreen (蘇打綠), Chang Chen-yue (張震嶽) and Free 9, Tizzy Bac, and Lin Sheng-xiang (林生祥). Simple Life, which will also feature a T-shirt market, a “street market” for vendors selling original designs and handicrafts, and a market for organic products, is organized by Neutron Innovation (中子創新), the outfit behind the taike (台客) TK Rock (台客搖滾嘉年華) festival. See next Friday’s Around Town section for a full preview.
▲2008 Urban Simple Life
(簡單生活節)
▲Noon to 10pm Dec. 6 and Dec. 7
▲Huashan Culture Park (華山文化園區), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市八德路一段1號). Call 0800-612-168 or visit www.SimpleLifeTW.com for more information
▲NT$1,500 a two-day pass or NT$900 for a one-day pass when purchased in advance online at tickets.books.com.tw or at 7-Eleven stores; NT$1,200 for a one-day pass purchased at the door
▲Tickets are NT$400 to NT$2,000 for both venues, available through ERA ticketing
2008 Taiwan Taiko Association Concert — A World of Harmony (2008鼓動台灣 － 韻響世界) brings Taiwan’s taiko practitioners together with Japanese drummers to celebrate the perennial appeal of taiko drumming. Over the next two weeks, three joint concerts, in Kaohsiung, Taichung and Sinjhuang, will take place featuring drummers from the Taiwan association and their sister association in Japan.
▲Wednesday at 7:30pm (Kaohsiung)
▲Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Center (高雄市立社會教育館), 115 Hsuehfu Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市學府路115號)
▲Tickets are NT$300 and NT$500, available through ERA ticketing
As part of the 2008 Taiwan International Piano Festival (2008台灣國際鋼琴藝術節), Oxana Yabloskaya and Andrei Yeh (葉孟儒) will perform with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (國立台灣交響樂團) in a program that includes Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 and Shostakovitch’s Piano Concerto No.1.
▲Tomorrow at 7:30pm
▲National Concert Hall, Taipei City
▲Tickets are NT$400 to NT$2,500, available through NTCH ticketing
Ju Percussion Group Winter Concert — Percussion Happens Daily (朱宗慶打擊樂團冬季公演 － 擊樂進行式) features works by a host of international composers including Emmanuel Sejourne, Eric Sammut, Gerard Lecointe, Aurel Hollo, Toshimitsu Tanaka and Chang Yi-hui (張玉慧), which have been written specifically for the Ju Percussion Group and which are a showcase for its unique sound and stage presence.
▲Today at 7:30pm
▲Sun Yat-sen Hall of the National Sun Yat-sen University Art Center (高雄中山大學逸仙館), 70 Lienhai Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市蓮海路70號)
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