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The multi-platform project Small Island Big Song allowed the Penn State community to help celebrate Pacific Islander cultures through a historical and ancestry experience.
An opera dealing with a resistance movement to Japanese occupation by Hakka-speaking Taiwanese in 1895 is striving for authenticity by using all languages involved — Hakka, Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), Japanese and Paiwan, said Chen Sheng-fu (陳勝福), an opera director working with the Ming Hwa Yuan Arts and Culture Group. The piece, titled Bu Yueh, Huo Shao (步月．火燒), is based on the true story of the “Liudui” Hakka self-defense alliance, Chen said. It is to be staged in Pingtung City’s Millennial Park tomorrow, he added. The four languages involved would give the ...
Nineteen indigenous women from southern Taiwan received identical small wooden boxes earlier this year. With no specific instructions, they were asked to decorate them and tell a story. “Almost none of our participants are artists, and most are traditional women from the village who are not used to expressing themselves,” says Maital Takiludun, who spearheaded and curated the project for Women’s Nest (女窩), a women’s group based in Kaohsiung’s Namasia District (那瑪夏). “We worked very hard to learn how to put our stories in the boxes.” They are now the latest addition to t...
Indigenous model Quannah Chasinghorse is among those reclaiming traditional face tattoos. Vogue meets the Indigenous women reclaiming face tattoos in Alaska.
Jane Cornwell speaks with Tim Cole and BaoBao Chen, the producers of the Indo-Pacific collective Small Island Big Song, about their second project, which focuses on our troublesome relationship with nature