Taiwanese American Cultural Festival in SF

TaiwaneseAmerican.org and the 2nd generation community of the SF Bay area will have a booth showcasing our events and organizations. Stop by, watch performances on the main stage, and buy delicious Taiwanese foods offered through many of our 1st generation organization booths! It's an event not to be missed! Be sure to join us during the 12:30 lunch hour to meet other 2nd gen folks! No need to RSVP, since this will be a huge community event, but it sure would help! Please pass this evite address on to others! http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/hochie@hochie.net/heritagefest Location: Union Square, San Francisco Time: 10 am - 5 pm Also Appearing... Our community's very own Tyson Mao will be present at the festival doing Rubik's Cube demonstrations and autographing TaiwaneseAmerican.org Logo Cubes! Read more about him from a previous Spotlight "Conversation with Tyson Mao."

SEMISCON in Los Angeles!

Voices Gone Wild- SEMISCON from Taiwan! Winner of International A Cappella Competition and Asia's top music award, this "east meets west" ensemble whirls movie themes, Taiwanese melodies, golden oldies and pop favorites into an ecstasy of sound and motion. The highly anticipated event in partnership with Los Angeles County Arts Commission to feature Semiscon from Taiwan is officially on Ford Theater's home page: www.fordtheatres.org. Tickets are selling very fast, $40 and $25, and can be purchased on-line or call Taiwan Center at 626-307-4881 Date/Time: Saturday, May 19 at 8:00 p.m. Presented by: Taiwan Center and TUF in celebration of Taiwanese American Heritage Week Cost: Tickets $40, $25, Students and Children $12 Directions to the Ford Amphitheatre, Click Here! To sample some SEMISCON YouTube clips, Click Here!

AZN Asian Excellence Awards to Benefit TUF

The most prestigious awards show in HOLLYWOOD celebrating the outstanding achievements of Asians and Asian Americans in film, television, and music. See it first before it is televised to over 100 million homes across the U.S. on E! Entertainment and AZN Television. Come LAUGH with the funniest comics, ROCK with the hottest performers, and CHEER for your favorite TV and movie stars. Come see LIVE your favorite HEROES honored at the 2007 AZN ASIAN EXCELLENCE AWARDS. Taiwanese American Broadway and television actor, singer, producer Welly Yang founded this event in conjunction with Second Generation, while he was in New York. Now in Hollywood, he continues to break new ground for the Asian American community! Partial proceeds from this event go towards supporting various Asian American non-profit organizations. The Taiwanese United Fund was selected to be one of the recipients this year! Time: Show Begins at 7:30pm, Red Carpet Opens at 5:45pm Location: Royce Hall on the UCLA Campus (enter on Royce Drive off Sunset Blvd.),Los Angeles, CA 90024 Purchase your tickets now! Only limited seats available. Click HERE for more info! Note: TUF and TAP members and affiliates can receive a 30% off discount code. Contact TUF or TAP directly.

Author Charles Yu at LA's Asian Pacific American Book Festival

The first ever Asian Pacific American Book Festival will be held in downtown LA. TAP will be having a Dinner Group featuring three authors from the festival, one Taiwanese American author (Charles Yu), who recently published the book "Third Class Superhero" and the authors of the book "China Dolls" Blossom Kan and Michelle Yu will be there to discuss their work FESTIVAL INFORMATION Time:11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Japanese American National Museum and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 369 East First Street (corner of 1st and Central in Downtown LA/Little Tokyo) Cost: Free Admission TAP DINNER INFORMATION Time: 7:30PM Location: RA Sushi, 3525 Carson St., Suite 161, Torrance, CA (inside the newly remodeled Del Amo Fashion Center) To join the Dinner Group, please contact Ben Ling at ben.ling@tacl.org For more info provided by TAP, click HERE.

Kelly Tsai "Infinite Breaks" CD Release Party in SF

KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has featured at over 200 performances worldwide including three seasons of HBO’s award-winning “Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry.” Current projects include her recently released CD “Infinity Breaks” and her solo show “The Grieving Room.” For more info, visit Kelly at Yellowgurl or on Myspace. Time: 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm Location: Space180 - 180 Capp St (b/t 16th & 17th), 3rd Floor Admission: $5-10 sliding scale Also featuring: Sahra Nguyen & Denizen Kane SF Screening of By-Standing: The Beginning of An American Lifetime (The Video Project by filmmaker & producer Karen Lin, partially financed by TaiwaneseAmerican.org, Taiwanese American Foundation, and the Taiwanese United Fund) Visit www.locusarts.org for more information.

Taiwanese Movie: Eternal Summer at VC Film Fest in LA

Queer cinema with a coming-of-age twist? Or a coming-of-age film with the twist of queer cinema? With college looming ahead, relations between childhood friends Jonathan, Shane, and Carrie, undergo subtle changes. While Jonathan comes to realize his love for Shan… Mandarin with English subtitles. (TAIWAN, 2006) Director: Leste Chen. Click here for more details at the VC Film Fest website.

Short Film "Mei" at VC Film Fest in LA

Taiwanese American director Arvin Chen is a fresh face on the scene and creates a wonderful short love story set in the Night Markets of Taipei, entitled "Mei". See the movie website at meimovie.com. Date/Time: Sunday, May 6, 2:15 pm Click HERE for more details, location, info. NOTE: I have a DVD copy of Arvin's film "Mei" that I will raffle off. Send an email to admin@taiwaneseamerican.org with Mei DVD in the title, and I will randomly pick an entry out of a hat on April 22 and send you the DVD, courtesy of TaiwaneseAmerican.org! *EDIT* Congratulations Naomi H. of Hercules, CA on winning the DVD!

Karen Lin's "Bystanding" Video: Poet Kelly Tsai

Filmmaker / Music Video Producer Karen Lin's new video entitled "Bystanding" features poet Kelly Tsai in a spoken word performance filmed in a music video style in the streets of New York. TaiwaneseAmerican.org, the Taiwanese American Foundation, and the Taiwanese United Fund were proud to financially support this project. The video will make its West Coast debut at the VC Film Fest in Los Angeles during the week of May 3-10. The first showing will be part of the "Hey! Listen Up" music video series on Friday, May 4 at 9 pm, repeated again on Saturday, May 5 at 8:15 pm, and the second showing will be part of "Taking Charge/ Letting Go" short films series on Tuesday, May 8 at 9:45 pm. Check the website for more details!