Taiwan Academy in Houston to host Taiwan arts event
Staff writer, with CNA, WASHINGTON
The Taiwan Academy in Houston is to host arts and cultural events this fall, featuring award-winning films from Taiwan and performances that showcase the nation’s gender identity and equality values.
The academy said it would be collaborating with arts institutions and universities in Texas until November to present a fall-themed showcase, tentatively titled “Taiwanese Sensibility in Texas.”
It would include screenings of five films by renowned Taiwanese directors Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢) and Ang Lee (李安), and Taiwan-based Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮).
Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind, center, talks to the media before the Second Taipei International Drag Festival on May 25, 2024.
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba, AFP
Drag queen Nymphia Wind on Sept. 24 is to speak at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts to discuss her formative years in Taiwan, including her early exposure to the performing arts, and training in theater and movement, and how she uses performances and social advocacy to express her identity.
A pioneer of Taiwan’s road to gender equality and identity, Nymphia Wind was in December 2024 the inaugural recipient of the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative’s “Changemaker of the Year” award.
Hong Kong writer Gigi L. Leung (梁莉姿), whose work Everyday Movement (日常運動) has won several awards in Taiwan’s literary world, would also be featured in the showcase.
After completing a part of her US book tour at the end of next month, she is to participate in speeches and discussions with academics from Houston’s University of St Thomas.
Award-winning musicians would also hold recitals as part of the showcase.
Vibraphonist Yuhan Su (蘇郁涵) and her jazz trio are to bring their unique sound to the Asia Society Texas Center on Nov. 21 to music from her album Over the Moons.
Pianist Lu Yi-chih (盧易之) is to tour several universities in Texas with his “Bridging Horizons: From Taiwan to Texas — crossing oceans through the power of music” concert series, the Taiwan Academy said.
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