ZiXuan says that the band’s name was inspired by the close connection between trains and the Hakka population of Taiwan.
Demaladas, a former member of Taiwan’s Council of Indigenous Peoples, will perform with the Nanwang Sisters at Toronto TAIWANfest.
Toronto architect Ron Shieh collaborated with Taiwanese professor Li Chien-lang on The Red Brick Era of Northern Taiwan.
Liao pioneered farm-to-table, vegan Hakka cooking at his Michelin-recognized restaurant in the heart of Taiwan’s Silicon Valley equivalent.
Toronto TAIWANfest will screen Mata – The Island’s Gaze for free at 5 p.m. on August 29 in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre.
P!SCO guitarist Rachel Hsu is an LGBTQ icon in Taiwan for championing same-sex marriage and for publicly sharing her transgender journey.
A 2021 Pew Research Center study on where people in different countries find meaning in life revealed something interesting about Taiwan.
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street shines a light on kids who’ve been largely overlooked by the Canadian literary world.
Jacq Teh, Tennyson King, Violet Ziyi Grace, Chinyi C, Eunice Keitan, and Aiko Tomi will also perform at Jade Music Fest in Asia.
The director of A Chip Odyssey, Hsiao Chu-Chen, spent five years working on her documentary, which will be screened at LunarFest GTA.
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