By Boston Paul, for The Wild East WHEN: Saturday, June 18 at 6:00pm – June 19 at 2:00am WHERE: The Refuge Community in Taichung @ Dakeng DongShan Paradise 東山樂園! 台中市北屯區東山路二段151之2號 東山樂園 Taichung Taiwan The Written Word is Solace, A Sword, A Universe in a World. Fellow Earthlings that spend a
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7th LUVstock coming up July 8-10
Wild East news staff “More than just a Festival, it’s a way of Life,” says Boston Paul, LUVstock’s (and the Taichung Refuge Community’s) founder. “In a world full of haggard politics we should all be thankful for another day that we are all still alive and reasonably well. Money may
Read moreRED ROOM literary gathering meets in Taipei
Stage Time and Wine @ The Red Room is a space where every month artists, writers, poets may gather and read aloud, sing, hear the words and music of others, and of all things, listen. You can bring something you have written or choose a passage from somewhere else that
Read more'The Pleasure Behind the Poem': Steve Bradbury, poetry translator
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
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 moreSkaraoke: The band most likely to make Taipei party
By Trista di Genova, The Wild East I first fell in love with this band’s music in November when they played the after-party at Peacefest. Makes you wonder, ‘Who the heck is this extraordinary band, playing with such zeal and unbelievably infectious energy?’ It begged for some serious questions on
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