FAPA-YPG SF/Bay Area Meeting

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Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011 Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Eon Coffee Address: 24970 Hesperian Boulevard, Hayward, California Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120474681383905 It's time again for another meeting of the FAPA-YPG SF/Bay area chapter! If you are passionate about getting involved at the grassroots level on issues surrounding Taiwan, then c'mon out! We are a group of like-minded Taiwanese-Americans who advocate for Taiwanese democracy and freedoms.…

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TAP 7th Annual Banquet & Casino Night

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This glamorous banquet event has quickly grown to become the event that brings together all segments of the Taiwanese American community and its national organizations, most of which are based around Los Angeles. If you're picking a weekend to visit southern California from out-of-state, this would be the weekend! TaiwaneseAmerican.org is proud to be a community sponsor! Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011 Time: 6:00pm - 11:30pm Location: Cicada Restaurant Address: 617 South Olive Street, Los Angeles,…

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Beach Getaway with TAP in NY

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Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011 Time: 11:00am - 4:30pm Location: Long Beach NY Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107634692672142 Please NOTE: If you want to attend, PLEASE EMAIL athena.chang@tap-ny.org!! FB RSVP doesn't guarantee your spot. Only a short train ride from Penn Station, Long Beach has the ambiance of a seaside resort, with white sand, superb ocean swimming and a two-mile-long boardwalk. Come enjoy the last days of summer with some fun in Long Island!…

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Hike at Rattlesnake Ledge with Taiwanese American Professionals Society of Seattle

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Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011 Time: 9:30am - 2:00pm Location: Rattlesnake Ledge, Seattle, WA Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132380410185166 Please join Taiwanese American Professionals Society of Seattle (TAPS) for a summer hike at Rattlesnake Ledge on Saturday, August 20th. If you are interested in carpooling, please meet 9:45AM at the Eastgate Park and Ride. Otherwise, we'll meet you at the Rattlesnake Lake parking lot at 10:30 AM. Please RSVP via Facebook…

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Indie Band Extra Arms Opens for Danish Band Figurines in NY

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Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Time: 8:00pm - 11:30pm Location: Knitting Factory Brooklyn Address: 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=243444379013848 Indie band Extra Arms, fronted by Dave Yang, opens for an international touring band, Figurines. It's also their first all ages concert. Check out Extra Arms at http://www.facebook.com/extraarms or at http://extraarmsmusic.com/ Tickets: $10 in advance; $12 day of show Advanced…

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Su Beng’s 2011 US Tour: Reconnecting with Taiwanese America

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Follow along as Su Beng, author of "Taiwan's 400 Years of History," makes his first trip across the U.S. in nearly 20 years! Dates: June 27 - August 15, 2011 Location: Major cities across the USA Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215792018462011 Su Beng, is a ninety-two year old Marxist revolutionary, formerly an undercover Chinese Communist agent, would-be assassin of Chiang Kai-shek, historian, author of "Taiwan's 400 Years of History" and lifelong Taiwan independence…

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Why Taiwan? We Ask Blogger Jade Star of Wai-Taiwan.com

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We recently discovered an interesting website “for friends of Taiwan to get together and discuss how much they love the island, the language, and all parts of Taiwanese culture.” Launched in June 2011, the site caught our attention because of the breadth of content that has been posted in such a short time by its twenty-something creator Elena T. aka “Jade Star.” As a foreigner living “outside” (“wai”) of Taiwan, yet a fan of Taiwanese culture and identity, Jade is of Liberian…

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Taiwan Night at LA Dodgers vs Houston Astros Game

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Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium Address: 1000 Elysian Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226474114053862 The LA Dodgers want to celebrate Taiwan Night with you! Come out for a night of baseball when they take on the Houston Astros. Here are some other related opportunities: Want to get on the field and show the crowd your moves? Volunteers are being recruited to do the 三太子…

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TW Bookmarks and Outreach in New York

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Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm Location: Union Square, New York, NY (look for the Taiwanese people on south side) Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156731011068191 Members of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs YPG New York/New Jersey group and Taiwanese American Next Generation summer camp will be handing out bookmarks and talking to people about Taiwan around Union Square. Join them in helping promote Taiwan's visibility in a…

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