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Come join Taiwanese American Professionals - Los Angeles (TAP-LA) on Saturday, June 11th for a hike at Escondido Falls, a 3.8 mile out-and-back trail in Malibu, California. We will be meeting at the trailhead at 10:00 AM, and for those of you who are free afterwards, we will be having lunch with our new hiking buddies (location TBD)! Remember to invite your friends! Please RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/wmdOLb6QTJj8Y4JR2 Address: Escondido Canyon Trail, Malibu, CA 90265 Time: 10 AM Weather: 72 Degrees High Parking:…

Join Taiwanese American Professionals - San Francisco (TAP-SF) as we visit Facebook! Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. The program will be: 11:30-11:45 Check-in 11:45-12:45 Lunch 12:45-01:45 Facebook Building Tour We want this to be a close-knit event, so you…

Come take a load off and join Taiwanese American Professionals - Los Angeles (TAP-LA) for our TAPpy Hour this month! Do you have brilliant ideas for events? Are you interested in getting more involved with TAP-LA and the TA Community? TAP-LA hosts a plethora of events throughout the year for networking and community building, and we want you to be a part of our team! Come meet the current TAP-LA board and find out more! We'll see you on June 23rd!

Rediscover LGBT classics at the Taiwan Cinema Spotlight, June 25-26! This partnership between Pacific Arts Movement, the Taiwan Academy, and the Museum of Photographic Arts is an annual program at MOPA that focuses on a different aspect of Taiwanese cinema each year, which could be a genre, director, era, or theme. This year's series highlights the pivotal role that LGBT themes have played in the development of recent Taiwanese cinema, and the number of memorable films, as diverse in their…

The Bay Area has the privilege again to host the 2016 Taiwanese American Conference West Coast! We have an exciting lineup of major guests this year including... Room Syracuse 8:30 am Challenges facing and Priorities of TSAI Administration w/ Kharis Templeman 9:20 am Global Taiwan Institute/Taiwan Advocacy w/ Chieh-Ting Yeh葉介庭 10:10 am The Taiwanese American Next Generation: Where are we now? w/ Hochie Tsai 11:00 am Archiving Taiwanese American History: The Time is Now w/ Joanna Cham 1:20 pm Room…

Come help out people in need this year with Taiwanese American Professionals - San Francisco (TAP-SF) and Second Harvest Food Bank. TAP-SF Community Service Team welcomes all of you to join and help out the hungry at the Second Harvest Food Bank Volunteer Event in San Jose! We will be sorting and packaging food for one of the largest food banks in the nation, established in 1974, providing food to nearly a quarter of a million people each month. Space…

Experience The Getty Cave Temples of Dunhuang on a special curated-guided tour with Taiwanese American Professionals - Los Angeles (TAP-LA) on Sunday, July 17th! Admission and cost of tour is FREE but spots for the TAP-LA group tour is limited to the first 20 who sign up so please e-mail jeanette.low@tap-la.org to reserve your spot. Tour details and meet up information to be provided upon RSVPing. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: The Mogao Grottoes, located near the town of Dunhuang in the…

Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition, Sleep Mode, presenting works by New York-based Taiwanese artist Hao Ni. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, featuring an eclectic series of mixed media installations, sculptures and video, from August 9 – September 23, 2016. The title of the exhibition – Sleep Mode – describes the power-saving mode of operation that most electronic devices today assume automatically when idle. While in this mode…