Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Time: 10:00:00 AM
Location: Barnes Park
Address: 350 S. McPherrin Ave, Monterey Park, CA
Hosted by: Los Angeles area Taiwanese American organizations & the TAHW Committee
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116044091761998
For more information: http://taiwancenter.org/
The largest Taiwanese American festival in Southern California features musical performances and traditional dances and serves as one of many events scheduled throughout the month. There will be more than 30 booths at the park, so come on out and join in on the fun!
The Taiwan Center has celebrated Heritage Week annually since 2000. It is held in conjunction with Asian Pacific American Heritage month every May.
Ho Chie Tsai is a founding Board Member who also wears many hats in the Taiwanese American community. As a frequent speaker on the collegiate conference circuit and youth summer camp programs, a past Program Director and current Board Member of the Taiwanese American Foundation, and a founder of the Taiwanese American Professionals chapter in San Francisco, he hopes to inspire a renewed sense of pride in personal identity and to increase activism and involvement within the greater Asian American community. Ho Chie holds an Electrical Engineering BS degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Bioengineering MS and an MD degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In his spare time, he works as a pediatrician. 
