SWACT
Enjoying TAIWANfest? Have you experienced something new and exciting in our Dialogues with Asia series? Do you have ideas to share, or want to be a part of the development process….
Month: July 2018
Pinoy Love in Taipei
Alone and far away from home, migrant Philippine brethren and sistren in Taiwan are always lonely and homesick. Gen Huang, who married into a Taiwanese family, founded the PhilTai platform online, developing a platform for compatriots in different countries around the world to provide support for their Philippine sistren in Taiwan..
Tidal Traces
Tidal Traces is a 360° video VR dance piece that places viewers in the centre of the performance. In it, three characters explore a new and uncertain world—moving between tranquility and ominousness, beauty and peril….
Blind Vaysha VR
Vaysha is not like other little girls: she was born with a left eye that sees only the past and a right eye that sees only the future, and she cannot live in the present. Should she poke out one of her eyes so that she can live in the other’s temporal reality? Or is she doomed to perceive the world from this perplexing perspective…
Frogpile
Frogpile, composed of frontman Jordan Heaney, guitarist Brian Tancredi, drummer Chris Marriott and bassist Bartek Danel, are slyly posing as an alternative rock group made up of (mostly) good, Canadian kids….
CRAS
CRAS is a four-piece Blink-182-like Pop Punk band from Vancouver. Just released their debut EP Morning Wood in 2018; CRAS’s music is diversified from catchy melody pop punk songs to gang vocals with emotional turbulence….
Dead End Drive In
Bolstered by aggressive guitar riffs and gut-wrenching gangers, Dead End Drive-In are a punk rock five-piece from Vancouver, Canada. Taking after such acts as Titus Andronicus, Diarrhea Planet and The Replacements, this band has no problem mixing meaningful lyrical content with relentless lead lines….
Chelsea’s Tail
Chelsea’s Tail is a three-piece rock band from Vancouver, BC. Their wall of sound is made up of dynamic riffs, powerful choruses, and melodic harmonies. Taking influence from various artists such as Coheed and Cambria, Incubus, and Queen, the band forms its own sound with style….
Tribe Alive
The indigenous people of Taiwan have been living there for thousands of years, their multifaceted tribal culture and their unique ways of life are sources of amazement to the rest of the world….
Kids Zone
Crafts and arts that no one can keep their hands off – whether young or old! Don’t miss out on the magic of breathing life into these arts through your very own hands – what unique wonders will you create….