By Owain Mckimm, Special to The Wild East In the small circle of Taiwanese poetry buffs, Steve Bradbury must be the most talkative; and thankfully so, because if Taiwanese poetry needs anything at the moment, it’s a talker. An associate professor at National Central University and editor of pan-Asian journal
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Writer Richard Saunders: How He Caught The Taiwan Travel Bug
Richard: I originally came to Taiwan in 1993 to get a job for three months! I was made redundant in England, and rather than sign on for unemployment came out here to find work teaching English for a few months until I regained enough fighting spirit to start searching for a job. In the end I got a great job up in the mountains an English teacher in Puli, Nantou County, in the center of the island, and never left!
Read moreTough questions raised about hiker’s unnecessary death
By Hannah Hornsby, Special to The Wild East Friends and family claim Taiwan police, search-and-rescue operations were negligent after failing to use critical information to find a hiker who spent nearly two months lost on Baigu Mountain Many in Taiwan have seen the recent news regarding Rudy Zhang’s (張博崴) disappearance
Read moreBallots NOT Bullets – Debut Live Show @ The Wall
The Wild East news staff Thursday, May 5 • 8-9pm @ The Wall, 200 Roosevelt Road, Taipei Ballots NOT Bullets, the newly minted band of lead singer Torch Pratt, Dmitry Sergeev, Fabrice Maes and “Ant”, land their first gig this Thursday – at Taipei wondervenue, The Wall. As for the
Read moreSunday Potluck in DaAn Park: A Fine Tradition
For over a year now, on the first Sunday of every month in DaAn Park (3-6+pm) the Taipei Potluck & Music Circle (大安公園共享音樂餐會) has gathered for vegetarian potlucks and music/drum circles.
Read moreScott Prairie to perform @ Riverside Live House
Wild East News staff On Friday, April 29, · 8:30-10:30pm, Scott Prairie, creative artist from New York, will personally tell you the love story in his music and writing, in a concert called “Who Is Julie Ann?” Co-founder with his wife Mia Hsieh of the influential world music group A
Read moreStrange Harmonies: Chilean Flirts with ‘Non-folklorized’ Music
By Trista di Genova, The Wild East Tonight I spotted a ‘foreign people’ nursing an iced coffee at 85-degree Café in Wanhua District, and called out my standard Chinglish greeting, “Hello how are you!” to no response. It turned out this was Leonardo Garcia, Chilean composer and flutist who just
Read more'VERMILION STORIES’ art opening tomorrow @ The Sugar Factory
The Wild East news staff The opening for British artist Tim Nathan Joel’s latest exhibition, ‘THE VERMILION STORIES SHOW’ (and 40th Birthday Party) is taking place at the Grand Exhibition Room of the Dulan Sugar Factory in Dulan, Taitung, at 4pm on Saturday, April 23rd, 2011. The Vermilion Stories are
Read moreDispatch from Japan: Untold disaster stories
By Ry Beville, East Asian Languages and Cultures | UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Ry Beville has been in Japan as a researcher for four years, studying early modern Japanese literature as part of the East Asian Languages and Cultures program. He has lived a total of 11 years
Read moreDutch Era in Taiwan to be discussed April 29 @ Alliance Francaise
By Wild East news staff A free AFT-sponsored seminar, “Conférence sur l’époque hollandaise à Taiwan: perspectives contemporaines“, will be held at the Alliance Francaise in Taipei on April 29, 7-9 pm, 2F, #107, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd. The speaker is Ann Heylen, Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan
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