Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010
Time: 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Location: Taiwanese American Community Center
Address: 7838 Wilkerson Court, San Diego, CA
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151149938261989

Hosted by Taiwanese American Professionals – San Diego (TAP-SD)

Need a test run for you and/or your kids’ costumes before the big day? Stop by the Taiwanese Center to trick or treat and play a few games. For those families out there that have been waiting for a family appropriate TAP event, please drop by for a few minutes in between all the other Halloween activities for some free games and candy. Those without families are more than welcome also. Best costume will win a prize and the Halloween Hot Pot Dinner will immediately follow starting at 6 pm. Please RSVP even if it is a maybe so we can buy enough treats for all. Adult volunteers are needed so let us know if you want to help with a booth.

Game: Oakland Warriors v.s. LA Clippers
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Location: Oracle Arena/Oakland Coliseum
Address: 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA 94621
Price: $28
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163843136966499

Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco/Bay Area is supporting the Golden State Warriors for Asian Heritage Night – an evening of fun and exciting Warriors basketball at Oracle Arena!

Join TAP-SF and other area Asian Pacific American organizations for a night out at the Oracle Arena!

We’ll be cheering on Warriors guard and Bay area native Jeremy Lin, the first Asian American player in modern day NBA! Also see teammates Stephen Curry, Monta Ellis, David Lee, and the Warriors take on Baron Davis and the Clippers. Enjoy cultural performances and group seating in our special Asian Heritage sections, plus an exclusive post-game Q&A with Jeremy Lin!

Check out the Facebook event page for instructions on how to purchase discounted tickets as part of our block of seats!

Showtimes: Tuesday, Oct 26, 5:40 PM and Thursday, Oct 28, 5:20 PM
Location: UltraStar Theater, 7510 Hazard Center Drive, located off Friars Road at 163, San Diego, CA

Purchase tickets: http://sdaff.bside.com/2010/films/voicesintheclouds_sdaff2010_sdaff2010

Film website: http://www.voicesintheclouds.com

Run time: 77 min. | Taiwan | Language: English and Mandarin with English subtitles

Deep in her heart Tony Coolidge’s mother always had a desire to bring her family back to Taiwan to meet their relatives. Born to a Taiwanese mother and American soldier he’s never met, the gentle, soft spoken Tony was always bothered by the fact that his mother “made a concerted effort to shield (her children) from her culture and from her language” If there was to be a family reunion in Taiwan, Tony was going to have to be the one spearheading it.

Not long after graduating college Tony’s mother was handed a death sentence. After loosing her battle with cancer, her oldest son begins to delve deeper into his cultural heritage. After successfully organizing an international cultural and heritage celebration in the United States, a festival member invites him back to Taiwan.

With his wife and brother by his side, Tony embarks on a personal journey to his homeland where he soon discovers that his family are descendants of an indigenous tribal culture called the Atayal. After settling on the island of Taiwan over three thousand years ago, indigenous people now comprise less than 2% of the island’s population. Tony is so moved by the plight of his ancestors and a culture living on the brink of extinction that he gradually becomes a staunch advocate for his people.

We follow Tony as he traverses his native soil embracing each person he meets and every cultural breakthrough he encounters as a springboard to enlightenment. – Scott Marks

Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Almansor Court
Address: 700 Almansor Street, Alhambra, CA
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127868177262938

Hosted by Friends of Taiwan

“Taiwan -The Crucial Keystone of Asia”: Why Freedom, Identity, and Democracy Must be Preserved

Keynote speaker:

Dr. Jerome Keating is an educator, trainer, consultant and writer who currently lives in Taipei Taiwan. With diverse degrees and certificates from universities such as Michigan, Notre Dame, and Syracuse, he has worked as a professor, human resource specialist, technology transfer manager on the Taipei and Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Projects, and author.

Though recently retired from National Taipei University, he is still active in many fields. His co-authored book, Island in the Stream, a Quick Case Study of Taiwan’s Complex History is now in its 4th edition (2008). A second work, Taiwan the Struggles of a Democracy was published in 2006; it has a Chinese translation. A third book Taiwan the Search for Identity came out in early 2008 and is in a bi-lingual format. Likewise he has had numerous articles published on the many aspects of Taiwan’s political and international status. In his writings, Keating is pro-democracy and uses the African proverb, “Until lions have their historians, the tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” which he applies to the history of Taiwan. As Taiwan is buffeted about by the desires, whims and greed of the hegemonic powers surrounding it, the world has never asked the Taiwanese what they want for their country and their lives.

Keating speaks regularly to Taiwanese groups in the United States and participates in conferences. In October 2007, he visited seven European capitals, Brussels, Paris, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and London with four other scholars. They met with members of parliaments, think tanks, university professors and students and discussed the need of the twenty-three million people of Taiwan to have space and recognition in the world.