Volunteer Opportunity: 2011 Happy Kids Day

Hey Everyone,

As the end of August draws closer, so does Happy Kids Day!

Happy Kids Day is an annual Taiwanese fair held in the Cupertino Library field. It’s a huge collaboration between multiple Taiwanese and Taiwanese American groups in the Bay Area. It will be on August 28, 2011.

Teen volunteers are being accepted for the fair now, so if you’re interested, please leave a comment with your email. We won’t share it, but you will receive an email from this year’s teen coordinator!

If you can’t come volunteer, please feel free to come enjoy the fair!

Have a wonderful summer!

MSJJTASA/Alicia

MSJ JTASA 2011-2012 Officer Election Results!

We would like to thank everyone who applied for a position; you all had some very impressive ideas and we hope that you will continue to contribute and participate in JTASA. It was a very difficult decision to choose our officers for next year, as it was apparent that the overall level of dedication and commitment was very, very high and quite remarkable.

The MSJ JTASA officers for 2011-2012 are:

Diane Yang, President

Alicia Chang, Vice President

Valerie Tsai, Treasurer

Kelly Chu, Secretary

Hilary Yen, Publicity Officer

Yu-Chien Kuo, Activities Coordinator

Clare Hsu, Activities Coordinator

Again, many thanks to everybody, and congratulations to next year’s officers!

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Your MSJ JTASA Officers

JTASA 2011-2012 Officer Applications!

Attached below is the application form for next year’s JTASA officers. Applications must be emailed to msjjtasa@gmail.com by Wednesday, May 11th, 9 PM! 

After 9 PM we will assemble and send out a list of all applicants and their interview times, which will be held during lunch and after school on May 12th and 13th.

Please don’t hesitate to send in an application!

APPLICATION >>> JTASA 20112012 officer app97 <<< APPLICATION

“Taiwan in the Gardens” Performance

Where: Yerba Buena Gardens, San Franciscov (Mission between 3rd and 4th Streets)

When: May 15, 2011; 1 to 2:30 PM

What: The Keelung Chung Cheng Folk Sports Troupe, direct from Taiwan, will be performing for FREE! Presented in association with the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California.

For more info, visit www.YBGF.org or call (415) 543-1718!

ITASA ‘Footprints’

ITASA is launching an exciting, interactive project that will serve as a way to celebrate the intergenerational stories in the Taiwanese American community. You are encouraged to submit visual art, short videos, music, and essays about yourpersonal connections with family and friends from other generations. Learn more at http://footprints.itasa.org/.

According to the guidelines, Footprints is open to individual and group submissions. Please  submit entries between April 1st, 2001 12:00am to April 17th, 2011 at 11:59pm PST.

The Vision:
The vision is to create an interactive community project that will serve as a way to celebrate the intergenerational stories in the Taiwanese American community. Everyone is welcome to participate in submitting entries in different categories as long as they fall into our theme and guidelines. Entries will then be uploaded onto this site and be opened to a week-long voting period. Winners for categories will be announced during Taiwanese American Heritage Week in May.

The Categories

1. Visual Art
2. Essay
3. Short Video
4. Music

The Awards

1. Overall
2. By Category
3. Student Organization
4. Community Organization
5. Sponsored Awards

Taiwanese Baking Lesson, “Tiger Mom” Discussion!

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From Stephanie Lai, Taiwanese cellist @ the Youtube Symphony 2011

G’day mates!

Greetings from Sydney! I wish I could have brought you all along to this amazing city. If you’re curious to learn what the YouTube Symphony musicians and I have been up to since March 14, please feel free to read my blog for Strings magazine, who has asked me to write daily to share about my experience. You can also view videos posted every day on the YouTube Symphony channel, youtube.com/symphony, until March 20.

My fellow musicians and I have been busily preparing for a wonderful Grand Finale concert for you. Streamed live on YouTube on March 20, this concert will be a multimedia extravaganza of soaring music accompanied by extraordinary projections on the interior Concert Hall and the exterior sails of the iconic Sydney Opera House.

Please tune in at 8pm AEST (Sydney time) on March 20 to the YouTube Symphony channel.

Local live broadcast time:
Sydney – 8pm, Sunday, March 20
Tokyo – 6pm, Sunday, March 20
Hong Kong – 5pm, Sunday, March 20
London – 9am, Sunday, March 20
New York – 5am, Sunday, March 20
Los Angeles – 2am, Sunday, March 20
Find out the local time of the live broadcast where you are: http://goo.gl/qdmz5

If you can’t make the broadcast, don’t worry! The concert video will be uploaded fully and made available as quickly as possible after the live stream on the YouTube Symphony channel.

Thank you again for sending me to Sydney!

Musically yours,
Stephanie

Check out Stephanie’s blog for Strings magazine at http://www.allthingsstringscommunity.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0wcddcjgdh1gr!

2011 NCSALT Culture Camp

When: 7/18/2011 – 7/22/2011

Where: Fremont Taiwan School (42080 Osgood Road, Fremont, CA)

What: Grades K through 7 can attend this camp hosted by the Northern California School Association for Languages of Taiwan (NCSALT); activities include calligraphy, Chinese yo-yo, Taiwanese dances, arts and crafts, and Taiwanese/Mandarin/Hakka classes (plus delicious bento boxes and snacks throughout the day!)

All students in grades 8 and up can volunteer as counselors (leading a class of students, passing out food, setting up rooms, teaching dances, etc.) and earn service hours (exact number TBA, but past years’ camps were 3 days long, and each counselor earned 10 hours per day). And you get free bento boxes everyday, hurrah!

**IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER, EMAIL “fts820@gmail.com” with your name and grade and the following form: 2011NCSALT_KidsCampVolunteerRegForm071811

http://www.fremonttaiwanschool.org
http://fremonttaiwanschool.blogspot.com

2011NCSALT_ KidsCampRegFormC071811 <<Camp Registration form (Chinese)

2011NCSALT_KidsCampRegFormE071811 <<Camp Registration form (English)

Lecture on Taiwanese Music in the 1930s

Speaker: Professor Ping-hui Liao (廖炳惠教授)

Date: March 15, 2011 (Tuesday)  7:00 -9:00 pm

Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Library (150 East San Fernando Street, San Jose, CA 95112)

(408) 808-2000

Sponsors: San Jose-Tainan Sister City Association, San Jose State University, Chuan-Lyu Foundation

Admission: Free

Parking: Convenient parking across the street from the library at the Fourth Street Garage (E. San Fernando Street and 4^th Street); flat rate $3 after 6 pm.

Contact: Pam Tsai (510) 559-8702 or tsai4344@gmail.com

Abstract

The lecture will be based on a recent documentary “Viva Tonal – The Dance Age,” dedicated to Taiwanese music in the 1930s.  The film uses private lives of several singers, composers, and collectors to offer a nuanced and sensible interpretive account of Taiwanese music and cultural history.   “Viva Tonal-The Dance Age” is an important contribution to the understanding of colonialism and modernism in East Asia. Emergence of new acoustics in recording industry and the phonographic sound reproduction technology will be used to examine music as a system of selection and signification, of signs and social meanings that are complicated by personal and transnational destinies as well as local and global cultural coding.  The documentary can be viewed as an archival project to suggest that Taiwan has been a hub of transculture across the Pacific.  The discussion will touch upon multiple sources of music and modernity in early twentieth century Taiwan linking it to the rest of the world.  Film clips will be shown to enhance the presentation and to illustrate speaker’s viewpoints.

 

About the Speaker

Professor Ping-hui Liao was born in Taiwan in 1954 and received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of San Diego (UCSD) in 1987.  He was a visiting scholar or professor at Princeton University, Harvard University and Columbia University. Professor Liao won numerous awards such as the May Fourth Prize and the Wu Yung-fu Prize. He has served as Director General of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of the National Science Council, President of the Comparative Literature Association in Taiwan.  He served as a committee member and editorial or advisory board member for many journals and scholarly associations in Taiwan as well as abroad.  Professor Liao was a Distinguished Professor of Literary and Critical Studies at the National Tsinghua University in Taiwan.  He is internationally renowned in Taiwan Studies.

In 2009, Professor Liao returned to UCSD serving as the Chuan-Lyu Endowed Chair Professor.  His ambitious plans include an extensive collaboration with faculty members across disciplines throughout the UC system as well as develop new undergraduate and graduate courses in Taiwan literature, cinema, and modernity in East Asia.

ITASA WCC 2011 @UC Berkeley

The Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Student Association 2011 West Coast Conference is being held at UC Berkeley (tasa.berkeley.edu), April 7th to 9th!

Conference Highlights:

1. Keynote speakers: Charles Huang, Developer of Guitar Hero, is the co-founder of RedOctane & David Chiu, President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors

2. Night market Taiwanese styled and with delicious Taiwanese street food and games

3. Talent Show, “Taiwan’s Got Talent” featuring Johnny Hi-Fi, Cynthia Lin, and Ziru Productions as our judges. We welcome you to join the contest and witness Taiwanese American talents. Submit entry videos to wcc2011@itasa.org through February 21st, 2011.

4. Soiree de Formosa: Formal banquet at Pauley Ballroom complete with reception and full course meal and performances. Christine Chen, two times Emmy Award winning journalist, reporter and anchor to numerous new channels will be our emcee for our banquet (Stephanie Lai, cello finalist of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in Australia in late March will be performing!)

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At University of California, Berkeley ITASA 2011 West Coast Conference, you will witness an ITASA conference as never before: Inspiring keynote, entertaining workshops, interactive activities, wowing performances, enticing delicious food, and much more. Our schedule and professional guest lineup with fun-packed activities throughout the event, the UC Berkeley ITASA Conference will have everything you ever wished for in a conference. Don’t miss out on chance to take part in the largest Asian American Conference in the West Coast region and meet awesome college students from all over including UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, USC, UCSD, UC Irvine, UC Davis, University of Oregon, University of Washington, CSUs, State colleges, and many more campuses. Anyone can take part in the conference. Join the group if you are interested to get more update about the conference. Please help us spread the word!

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Thursday, April 7 09:00 PM – 11:00 PM     Registration Friday, April 8 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM     Registration 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM     Keynote Speaker: Charles Huang 11:30 AM – 12:00 AM     Small Group Ice Breaker 12:00 AM – 01:00 PM     Lunch 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM     Workshop Session 1 – Political 02:30 PM – 04:30 PM     Team Competition 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM     Workshop Session 2 – Cultural 06:15 PM – 08:00 PM     Night Market 08:00 PM – 10:30 PM     Talent Show: Taiwan’s Got Talent Saturday, April 9 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM     Taiwanese Breakfast 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM     Small Group Activity 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM     Lunch / Free Time 01:30 PM – 02:30 PM     Keynote Address II: David Chiu 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM     Workshop Session 3 – Having a Voice 04:00 PM – 05:00 PM     Workshop Session 4 – The Next Stop 06:30 PM – 10:00 PM     Banquet: Soiree de Formosa 10:30 PM – 02:00 AM     After Party

Keynote Speaker Charles Huang, co-founder of Guitar Hero, will present on Friday, April 8th.

Keynote Speaker David Chiu, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District Three will present on Saturday, April 9th.

WORKSHOPS

Political

Martin Luther King Student Union,
April 08, 1:00-2:00 PM

Current US-Taiwan Politics	⇒	FAPA-YPG (Tilden Room)
Historical Prespective of US-Taiwan Relations	⇒	Terry Giles (Tan Oak)
What Does It Mean to be Taiwanese American	⇒	Teddy Liaw (Madrone)

Cultural

Martin Luther King Student Union,
April 08, 5:00-6:00 PM

Opportunities in Taiwan	⇒	TBA (Tan Oak)
Intricacies of Tea	⇒	Thomas Shu & Josephine Pan (Tilden Room)
Taiwanese Traditional Food Culture	⇒	Taiwanesecooking.com (Madrone)

Having a Voice

Martin Luther King Student Union,
April 09, 3:00-4:00 PM

Stephanie Lin & Stephanie Chuang, reporters	⇒	Tilden Room
Cynthia Lin, singer	⇒	Madrone
Ed Lin, author	⇒	Tan Oak

JTASA members can have the option of staying at Hotel Durant (sharing a room with 4 people at the rate of $50 per person per night) or housing with a UC Berkeley Student Host.

Registration is $40 if you register before March 25th at berkeley.itasa.org.

First 100 people to register will receive a special prize!

Purchase a conference T-shirt with this year’s theme, “Next Stop: Taiwan”! Sample depicted in the icon above. All T-shirt are American Apparel brand, and they are US sizes. ($10)

Visit berkeley.itasa.org and join the “UC Berkeley ITASA 2011 West Coast Conference April 7-9″ Facebook Group for more info!