2012 JULY No.6
3 young women travel around Taiwan to clean up and share their trip on Facebook
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Segen, Freude, Taiwan
Taiwan Frauenverein In Deutschland E.V. Photo: 鄭洵, 薛芮哲 and 蔡佩姍
Also inside this issue: 3 Young Women’s Cleaning Trip around Taiwan Yilan Int’l Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival Wedding Photographer Dresses Grandma up in Gown Dragon Boat 2012 Hamburger Taiwan Cup Nylon Cheng Memorial Museum Photography Exhibit Events
July 26, 28
Future Event
Right after X’mas
Reports
Tainan Folks Religious Dance Germany Tour
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Taiwan Film You Are the Apple of My Eye: In Those Years, the Girl We All Went after 6th Annual Fünf Seen Film Festival @ Starnberg Page 2
8-day Taiwan Cultural & Modern (Democratic) History Tour co-host with Taiwan’s Tsunah Educational Foundation Page 5
Calligraphy Lesson with Master Cheng Chin-Fa Taiwan Documentary & Film Festival
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Hand-drawing from the students
“Don’t throw trash everywhere. Lead a simple life.”
3 Young Women’s Cleaning Trip around Taiwan “A simple yet beautiful thing to do for Taiwan” Three university students 鄭洵, 薛芮哲 and 蔡佩姍 began their cleaning trip on July 9th. “We ‘test-drove’ it for 4 days to see if we have the ability to realize our dream,” 鄭洵 said during our exclusive interview. Their trip is one of the many funded by governmental 青 輔會 the National Youth Commission’s annual 青年壯遊 點 Youth Travel Spots Program. “We were considering a few different things to do. Our list contained environmental protection and animal issues. Eventually, we decided that we can help make Taiwan cleaner. It’s a simple yet beautiful thing - it’s what we can do for Taiwan,” the young women said. They went to Gongliao Rock Festival to clean the beach on the 11th. On the 16th, they made the United Daily News headline in a report titled「女大生背垃圾桶環島 被沙灘辣妹趕」(lit. “College Women Travel around with Trash Bins, Chased away by Bikini Girls”). When asked about this incident, they answered that the reporter had misinterpreted. They didn’t get chased away - they heard bikini girls whispering to each other that they「有 礙觀瞻」(don’t fit into the scene, are unpleasant to look at). “Every girl has her place in this world. Bikini girls look nice and make guys happy. We are kinda pretty too, but we like to clean Taiwan more.”
This year’s Gongliao Rock Festival has left an recordbreaking amount of trash behind, according to Taiwanese news reports. Yet the girls said that is not the dirtiest place they’ve been to. “基隆 Keelung is hands down the Nr.1 so far. Way too few trash bins! And people just accidentally dropped their trash when there was no trash bins around.” The most frequent trash type the girls have seen is cigarettes packagings and wrappings, and Nr.2 is beverage packagings and straws. They also picked up many plastic bags. “We want to ask our fellow Taiwanese - especially smokers and beverage drinkers PLEASE wait until you see a trash bin to throw away your trash!” The young women’s trip is scheduled to end on the 30th. Then, they will write an report for the Commission. They will remain active in social work after this program. Their Facebook Fan Page (source of photos): http://www.facebook.com/simplebeauty2012
Website of the Youth Travel Spots Program: http://www.facebook.com/taiwantrekkerfans (Interviewed and reported by Shining Chen.)
6th Annual Fünf Seen Film Festival Plays
You Are the Apple of My Eye: In Those Years, the Girl We All Went after July 26 @ 21:45 July 28 @ 17:15 @ Kino Breitwand, Starnberg Tickets reservation: http://www.fsff.de/home/cm/fff-2012-filme/index. 3615.html
Director and author: Giddens Ko Starring: Ko Chen-tung, Michelle Chen Genre: Romantic Comedy Based on author’s semi-autobiographical novel with the same name, it describes a Taiwanese high schooler’s romance and into his adulthood. A must-see for contemporary Far-East teenage romance and relationship among peers!
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From July 07 to August 19 The Y.I.C.F.F.F. is a registered annual artistic festival in Yilan, Taiwan. Since 1996, the festival places its emphasis on: • Local Yilan culture • Adult-and-children activities • Learning by playing • Exchange with other cultures around the world
Guatemalan ambassador with Rondalla de Marimba Gerardo
Each summer, Yilan invites art groups around the world for performance and provide opportunities for Yilan’s schools and children to interact with them. This year, Guatemalan ambassador William Manuel Tapia Aleman paid a surprise visit during his countrymen Rondalla de Marimba Gerardo’s performance. He played guitar spontaneously with them.
France’s Lous Menas d’Empi et Riaume
Although very popular in 2010 and 2011, the number of entries did not reach the expected figure of 600K. As a result, the Yilan Government has lost NTD $45M (approx. 1.125M Euro) in the last 2 years. Photos taken from official website and blog: https://www.yicfff.tw/ http://folkgame.org/ http://folkgame.365net.tw/life.asp
Isarel’s Halleluya Folklore Dance Group
Wedding Photographer Dresses Grandma up in Wedding Gown Granddaughter won 雲林 Yunlin War-Time Buildings 三小棟’s Photo Contest 25-year-old wedding photography assistant 陳瑩‘s 80-year-old grandma had never worn a wedding gown before. Grandma explained that she and Grandpa were too poor. So when the local 斗六 township celebrates the transformation of the buildings and hosts a photo contest, 陳瑩 decided to help Oma fulfill her wedding dream with Opa’s picture, who passed away 10 years ago.
The winning photo (on Apple Daily)
陳瑩 & Oma (by 黃淑莉/Liberty Times)
The buildings 三小棟 were built after WWII during the Chinese Civil War against the Communists, consisting 3 brick rooms for soldiers and an airraid shelter. In 2011, 4 Creative Design students and 2 local young men renovated and integrated them into the community. Now there is a farmer’s market every Sunday. Video introduction by the students: http://youtu.be/2kUESVEs_eE
Farmer’s market (by台灣農夫市集地圖)
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Demon at opening ceremony by Taiwanese team
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Hamburger Taiwan Cup 2012 4th annual dragon boat competition in Hamburg
Official website: http://www.hamburger-taiwan-cup.de
The Hamburger competition began as the 800-year-old birthday celebration of the Port of Hamburg in 1989. Taiwan presented 2 hand-made traditional wooden boats by Master Liu (劉清正) as gifts. In 2009, the competition was renamed “Hamburger Taiwan Cup.”
P h o t o s : h t t p : / / w w w. t a i wa n e m b a s s y. o r g / c t . a s p ? xItem=294681&ctNode=2221&mp=1
Reports: http://www.macroview.com.tw/mag/macroview/ article_story.jsp?ART_ID=128722
Nylon Cheng Memorial Museum Photography Exhibit “Rebel, Freedom!” Exhibit now extends to July 31 In memory of the 25th year of Taiwan’s Feburary-28th Massacre, the Museum displays precious historical photographs of 8 photographers. The photographs describe important social movements and events from 1986 to 1989.
Museum also has design backpacks and T-shirts on sale for interested audience. Photos from Museum website and event blog:
http://nylon.org.tw http://nylon2012.pixnet.net/blog/post/29559190
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June & July Event Reports Tainan Folks Religious Dance Tour
Taiwan Documentary & Film Festival
June 17-24 @ Achern, Bühl, München & Ingolstadt
July 13-15 @ Trier, Heidelberg, Tübingen & München Tsai Ruei-Yue: the Dance Pioneer in Taiwan, Lost Youth: the Story of the Oasis Village, A Burning Mission: Rescue Political Prisoners of Taiwan, Dear Taiwan (director 陳麗貴 Lih-Kuei Chen) No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (director 戴立忍 Leon Dai) How Are You, Gongliao? (director 崔愫欣 Shu-Hsin Tsui)
Photo from Liberty Times on June 25. Read more on: http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2012/new/jun/25/todayart2.htm h t t p : / / w w w . t a i w a n f r a u e n . d e / a c t i v i t i e s / 2 01 2 / Achern_Kinderkulturtag.pdf Discussion with Lih-Kuei Chen & Yung-Chuan Lee on anti-nuclear power movement in Taiwan
Calligraphy with Master Cheng Chin-Fa June 28 @ Ingolstadt
Participants during discussion Photo provided by member. Read more on: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/phesha0822/13786852 http://deartaiwan.blogspot.de
Photo provided by member.
Right after X’mas 8-day Taiwan Cultural & Modern (Democratic) History Tour
info@taiwanfrauen.de
Registration starts in August. Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/
www.taiwanfrauen.de
events/425898930783476/
EDITOR: SHINING CHEN
Previous tour info: http://www.taiwancenter.com/ tsunah/tour_info_n/tour_Info.html