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San Diego Asian Film Festival Taiwan Film Showcase Lineup Revealed |
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The 25th San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF), the best international film festival in the United States that focuses on Asian Americans, will kick off from November 7 to 18. The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles (TECO-LA) is thrilled to collaborate with SDAFF to present “Taiwan Film Showcase.”
The lineup includes the comic terror “Dead Talent’s Society,” directed by John Hsu, a box office hit in Taiwan, depicting a horror comedy movie with the theme of urban legends. It tells the story of ghosts who strive to develop their acting careers in the underworld and aspire to become superstars in the spiritual world. A Taiwan, Singapore, and Poland co-production, "Pierce," is Nelicia Low's directorial debut following two recently reunited Taiwanese fencing-enthusiast brothers whose mesh masks conceal as much as they protect. “Mahjong,” a classic directed by Edward Yang, deftly reveals the conflict across generations and hierarchy in society. “Abiding Nowhere” is the tenth film in Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker series and features his long-time collaborator Lee Kang-Sheng as the character inspired by a Tang Dynasty monk who in the 6th century traveled on foot to bring Buddhist teachings from China to India. “Light of the Setting Sun” is Taiwanese-American Vicky Du’s self-exploration of her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949.” Among the shorts are “Tayal Forest Club,” “The Stag," "Bird-Window Collisions,” and "The Horse.” And more Taiwanese shorts spread throughout different programs are “Is this now the time I should let you go?" “The Horse,” “Euphoria,” "Limbo,” “Hey Day, “and “Watercolor Piggie.”
For more information, please visit
https://sdaff.org/2024/schedule/
For Spotlight Taiwan, please visit
https://sdaff.org/2024/guides/taiwan-showcase/ |
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Kicks Off “13 Tongues” 2024 North American Tour |
Photo Credit: 13 Tongues / Performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan / Choreographer: CHENG Tsung-lung / Photo by LIU Chen-hsiang |
With the support of the Ministry of Culture, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan embarks on a North American tour in October 2024. The featured performance, 13 Tongues, is choreographed by Cloud Gate’s Artistic Director Cheng Tsung-lung and brings together a remarkable creative team, including musician Lim Giong, Tsai Pao-chang, Ho Chia-hsing, Ethan Wang, Lin Bing-hao, and Shen Po-hung. Inspired by Cheng’s childhood memories of Taipei’s oldest district, Bangka, 13 Tongues is full of the vivacity of street life and the imagination of people living there.
Founded in 1973 by internationally renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-min, Cloud Gate is acclaimed as “Asia’s leading contemporary dance theater” (The Times), and “One of the best dance companies in the world” (FAZ).
To know more about the creative process and Taiwan’s culture used in 13 Tongues, welcome to see the documentary “Behind the Scenes: Creation of 13 Tongues” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoL-KJdIMLQ)
Event and Ticketing Information:
♦ Nov 2: Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, California
https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/events-tickets/events/24-25/cloud-gate-dance-theatre/
♦ Nov 7: Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, California
https://www.mondaviarts.org/whats-on/cloud-gate-dance-theatre-of-taiwan/
♦ Nov 12: Jenny Belzberg Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
https://www.banffcentre.ca/events/13-tongues
♦ Nov 23 & 24: Gates Concert Hall, The Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
https://newmancenterpresents.com/cloudgate |
Ongoing Event |
Watch“Huang Yi & KUKA” at PRAx and Warren Miller Performing Arts Center |
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Supported by Ministry of Culture of Taiwan (Republic of China), "Huang Yi & Kuka" by Huang Yi Studio will be performed at California Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, and Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in October 2024.
“Huang Yi & KUKA” is a piece where humans and robots dance poetically, and converse tenderly. Throughout the rhythms and exchanged gazes between the dancer and KUKA, human behaviors have become mechanical and rigid, while KUKA has turned ingenious like a human. With Huang Yi’s elaborate design, robots, under the condition of inability to improvise, can interact with dancers, and through interaction, express heartwarming affections. “Huang Yi & KUKA” is not just a product that integrates arts and technology. Moreover, it allows the audience to reexamine the relationship between “humans” and “tools.” Don’t miss the last two shows at Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts and Warren Miller Performing Arts Center.
Event information
Oregon State University, Oregon
Location: Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx)
Date: Oct. 24 7:00 pm
Ticket: https://prax.oregonstate.edu/events/huang-yi-and-kuka
Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Montana
Location: Warren Miller Performing Arts Center
Date: Oct. 29 7:00 pm
Ticket:https://ci.ovationtix.com/35512/production/1213308?performanceId=11523093 |
2024 Grant for the Publication of Taiwanese Works in Translation Open Call Now |
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Grant for the Publication of Taiwanese Works in Translation (GPT) is set up by the Ministry of Culture to encourage the publication of Taiwanese works in translation overseas, to raise the international visibility of Taiwanese cultural content, and to help Taiwan's publishing industry expand into non-Chinese international markets.
GPT 2024 is now calling for submissions online: October 1 – October 31,2024 ( according to Taiwan time GMT+8). Applicants shall visit the Ministry’s official website (https://grants.moc.gov.tw/Web_ENG/) to complete the application process.
GPT invites legally registered or incorporated foreign publishing houses (legal entities) to take this opportunity to submit your project aiming at Taiwanese works in translation to be published. The maximum grant available for each project is NT$600,000.
The so-called Taiwanese works must meet the following requirements：
(1) Use traditional characters;
(2) Written by a natural person holding an R.O.C. identity card;
(3) Has been assigned an ISBN in Taiwan.
All genres will be considered. Priority consideration is given to books that have received the Golden Tripod Award, the Golden Comic Award, the Taiwan Literature Award or books on Taiwan’s culture and history. Check https://booksfromtaiwan.tw/ and https://gca.moc.gov.tw/home/en-us for shortlists and abstracts of aforementioned award-winning books.
If you require further assistance, please feel free to contact us by Email books@moc.gov.tw. |
Update Information |
Su Yu Hsin, the Taiwanese artist in residence at the 18th Street Art Center |
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| Su Yu Hsin is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves archival research and fieldwork where she creates essay films and video installations, thinking with the intricate entanglements between humans, non-humans, and the technosphere, and exploring the possibility of critical infrastructure. Her recent work investigates the political ecologies of water. During the residency and research from October to December 2024 in the 18th Street Art Center, she will focus on further developing her research-based fiction film, Particular Waters. By rendering sensitivity and mapping through matter, her artistic research materializes the environmental impact of the semiconductor industry and interrogates the global AI supply chain’s control of local water policy. |
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