TAPpy Hour at The Crocker Club in LA

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Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010 Time: 6:00pm - 9:30pm Location: The Crocker Club Address: 453 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA The event is FREE for members & $5 for non members Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115715361776259 Join Taiwanese American Professionals in LA for an evening of networking and mingling. Catch up with old friends, make new ones, and have a good time! Cheers! RSVP through: Evite: http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/EZVQHKPWSRHVGCTCUTPD/crocker2010 Eventbrite:…

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Taiwanese Americans Presenting at New Communities Symposium at Purdue

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If you're in the area, be sure to check out some of these Taiwanese American artists who are breaking ground in their respective fields: singer-songwriter Dawen, filmmaker and founder of TurtlistMedia.com Jason Lee, and spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai! The New Communities Symposium is an event intended to: raise awareness of the growth and reconceptualization of the field of Asian American Studies in the Midwest; explore unique characteristics of Asian American Midwestern identity; discuss…

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TUF Salon Series: The Business of Cars

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Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Phantom Gallery at Pacifica Address: 150 The Promenade North, Long Beach, CA Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109132329115911 What is your perspective, your opinion about cars? Is it a form of function, to get you to and from work? Is it a hobby, just something to play around with? Your functional needs and your hobbies feed an automotive industry and provides careers for hundreds of thousands of people.…

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Spring BBQ/Picnic at Mission Bay with TAP in San Diego

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Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010 Time: 3:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Mission Bay, 2600 Bayside Ln. San Diego, CA Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107310315969487 Join Taiwanese American Professionals in San Diego for a Spring BBQ/Picnic at Mission Bay! We found a perfect spot surrounded 270 degrees by water, has well manicured green grass, bathrooms, BBQs, and easy access to the beach in case we want to play volleyball or do a firepit in the evening. The cost is $5…

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Formula Drift 2010 with TAP in LA

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Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010 Time: 2:30pm - 6:30pm Location: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA Come hang out with Taiwanese America Professionals in Los Angeles and watch the hottest vehicles this side of the pacific slide sideways at 80+mph. Join us for the first race of the 2010 Formula Drift Series! Tickets are available for TAP attendees at a special discounted rate of $32! Please Pre-Pay/RSVP through eventbrite: http://fd2010.eventbrite.com As…

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Jen Shyu Solo in LA: INNER CHAPTERS @ Café Metropol

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Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Café Metropol Address: 923 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA Cost: $12 cover Metropol is small, so it's best to order tickets online here: http://www.inticketing.com/events/85262/Jen-Shyu (one tree planted per ticket bought!) This solo project “Inner Chapters" is a personal offering of original music for voice, piano, dance, moon lute, and er hu, in languages including English, Portuguese, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Mandarin,…

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Taiwanese Competitor Lin Yu Chun Amazes with “I Will Always Love You”

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In the video above, Lin Yu Chun (aka Eric Lin) performs a Whitney Houston favorite on the Taiwanese singing competition show "One Million Star" one of Taiwan's versions of American Idol. OK, so this isn't quite "Taiwanese American," but this young man is Taiwanese and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" is American... and together this combination is gathering a whole lot of steam on the internet. Even CNN has reported on this young sensation: Web Pulse: Has Taiwan found the new Susan…

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Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Bay Area Strait Talk Symposium

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Founded in 2005 at Brown University, the Strait Talk Symposium is a non-partisan, student-organized conference that seeks to improve Taiwan Strait and U.S.-China relations. Strait Talk is the first program in the world that directly and effectively encourages political and civil dialogue across the Taiwan Strait. This is the 2nd year that Strait Talk is being hosted in the San Francisco Bay area. Date: Monday, April 5, 2010 Time: 5:45 PM Location: Fromm Hall, University of San Francisco…

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The 2010 Census “Write in Taiwanese” Campaign

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Can you donate today to support our campaign? TaiwaneseAmerican.org's goal is to raise at least $10,000 to augment our campaign and to purchase TV broadcast airtime on ethnic media channels to reach the wider Taiwanese American audience. We are severely underfunded for this effort, but we recognize that this is our one chance this decade. Will you help us? As 2010 approaches, it's yet another year for the US Census Bureau to gather data on residents in the United States. One major issue…

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