To celebrate Tainan Cultural Center's 35th Anniversary, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government spent almost one year to prepare and edit a picture book named "Salute to the Theatre (敬劇場)" to share its story with readers. Tainan Cultural Center was established in 1984. To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Cultural Affairs Bureau invited the video worker Tseng Yi-jen(曾怡甄), the writer Tsao Ting-ting(曹婷婷), illustrators Chang Ching-yuan(張瀞元) and Chang Jui-feng(張瑞峰) to cooperate with the staff of Tainan Cultural Center. This book introduces the different kinds of arts and different venues and equipment by creating an adventure story of a boy in Tainan Cultural Center. At the press conference of this book publishing on January 10th, the Director-general Yeh Tse-shan(葉澤山) highly valued this book and its educational meaning. The Chief of Tainan Cultural Center Fang Min-hua(方敏華) said, "this book tries to invite readers to open it, to know its past, to be a part of its present, and to imagine its future." This book was published in Chinese version and English version at the same time. Tainan Cultural Affairs Bureau will send it to join in some international book fairs and competitions to share the cultural achievement of Tainan with more countries.

The Taikang Cultural Center (TKC), the first multifunctional cultural center which contains a performing theater, a library, and a community university, is founded in response to the local need and call of neighborhood communities, educational & cultural professionals and temples, and is initiated and organized by them from bottom to top. Located at the intersection of An-ji Road and An-zhong Road in the Annan District, having competed after three years’construction, the TKC is scheduled for its trial run during the months of January and March and will be officially in operation on April 13, 2019. During the trial run period, Taikang Performing Theater, outdoor square, and the library will open to the public with a variety of multiple and colorful programs being organized. For example in March, at the theater, the performing program on March 2-3 is the “Love Tale of Anping” by the joint presentation of the Scarecrow Contemporary Dance Company and Hsieh Ming-you. The main content and theme are adopted from the lyrics written by Chen Da-ru in 1951 and the song entitled “Anping Memories Reverie,” composed by Xi Shi, that depicts the An-Ping in end of 19th Century about the love story about Mother of Miss King’s and a medical doctor met with each other in a Dutch ship. Also the native Tainan music composer and teacher Hsieh Ming-you has specially written the lyrics and composed the song made for the singing part. And to go with the dancing theatre combined with inventive multiple media images to demonstrate the changing sense of alternating time and space between reality and fantasy in dancing. On March 9 in the “Wukong: Before the Journey to the West” performed by FOCA Formosa Circus Art is an all brand-new program made by the group in 2019, featuring Wu Cheng-en’s “The Journey to the West” as the base blue-plan, and recreating the adventurous story of Monkey King Sun Wu-kong. The entire drama will be presented by such playing schemes or skills as satin thread suspension, huge rings, earth circles plus high degree of difficult somersault and other stunts, thus interpreting the stories told by the Monkey King in his continuously challenging his own self and the authority. For more information on the TKC programs or activities, please visit the official website (https://tkcc.tnc.gov.tw/) and Facebook page(https://www.facebook.com/TaikangCulturalCenter). Event: Love Tale of Anping Time: March 2-3 Event: Wukong: Before the Journey to the West Time: March 9 Venue: the Theater in Taikang Cultural Center Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government Source: Yonghua Cultural Center Management Division, YANG,CHIEN-FANG (楊倩芳) Tel: 06-2558136 ext.105 E-MAIL: 760930@mail.tainan.gov.tw

There is one very special space in the basement of the Performance Hall of Tainan Cultural Center - Art Salon. In addition to providing comfortable reading space and abundant reading media, you can enjoy a cup of afternoon tea on the weekend every month. To encounter with Art and literature, audience can open up the imagination of the senses through various intellectual and arts events. This year, Art Salon will celebrate its anniversary. In the first half of the year, it will be planned for the "Arts and Literature Lecture Hall". The six lectures which will invite different types of artists in terms of traditional drama, paper-cutting and music. Moreover, they have close chats with citizens. Plus, they will share their creative experience in the field of artistic. On January 5th and February 23rd, "Best Male Lead in Taiwan Kunqu - Yang Khan-ru(楊汗如)" who praised by Mr. Pai Hsien-yung(白先勇) will bring the wonderful Kunqu Opera. On March 9th, the paper-cut artist "Yang Shi-yi(楊士毅)" came to the audience with a beautiful heart. On April 6th, May 25th and June 1st, "Chen Hui-mei(陳惠湄)" who is the flute musician will introduce the classical music. These artists not only "speak" but also "play", let the audience immerse themselves in the theater atmosphere during the sharing process, enjoy a cup of afternoon tea full of artistic taste, and feel contented on the weekend. Posted: 2019-01-13 Source: Yonghua Cultural Center Management Division, Yang Shao-wei(楊劭暐) Tel: 06-2692864 ext.511 E-MAIL: weiyang0625@mail.tainan.gov.tw Yang Khan-ru(楊汗如) Yang Shi-yi(楊士毅) Chen Hui-mei(陳惠湄)

Taiwan Soloist Symphony Orchestra (TSSO, 台灣獨奏家交響樂團) was founded in 2000 by conductor Hsiao Pang-hsing (蕭邦享). It was their ambition to continue working together and pursuing parallel careers as soloists, members of orchestras, tutors and professors of music conservatories. In this concert, TSSO will cooperate with the famous Russian violinist, Ariadna Anchevskaya, to interpret many classic works, including "Tchaikovsky : Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture," "Sarasate : Zigeunerweisen Op. 20 for Violin and Orchestra," "Saint-Saens : Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra," "Sarasate : Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra," and "Rimsky-Korsakoff：Capriccio Espagnol Op.34." These classic works will bring you different experience and imagination of Spain and Russia. Please come and join us to enjoy the wonderful performance and celebrate a new year! For more information about this concert, please visit the website: http://www.taiwansoloists.org/ Event: Capriccio Espagnol-New Year Concert 2019 (西班牙綺想—2019新年音樂會) Time: 19: 30, Sunday, January 13th, 2019 Venue: Tainan Cultural Center Performance Hall(臺南文化中心演藝廳) Ticket: 300/500/800/1200/1600/2000    

Taijiang Cultural Center is the first cultural center in Taiwan that functions as a performance hall, a library, and a community university at the same time. It is also the first cultural facility in Taiwan established in response to the call of local communities, educators, and temple committees through a bottom-up process. Yonghua Cultural Center Management Division of Cultural Affairs Bureau in Tainan is responsible for the operation of Taijiang Cultural Center. Because it was local organizations that assisted in the birth of the Center, culture localization will be Taijiang Cultural Center’s main target of operation in the future. The site of Taijiang Cultural Center is located at the crossroads of Anji Rd. and Anjhong Rd. in Annan District. The center, covering approx. 1.6 hectares, will have two steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) buildings – the theater building and the classroom building. The theater building will have 4 floors above ground and 1 floor under ground, with a professional multi-functional theater that can accommodate an audience of 400-600, along with a theater hall, exhibition space, professional rehearsal space and an outdoor stage for various kinds of performances. The theater building’s total floor area is 2,111 pings (ca. 75,116 ft²). On the other hand, the classroom building will have 3 floors above ground and 1 floor under ground, with 2 standard classrooms, 4 specialized classrooms, an NGO meeting room, office space, a light meal café, etc. The classroom building’s total floor area is ca. 279 pings (ca. 9,927 ft²). Also, a library will be built on the basement level, covering approx. 280 pings (ca. 9,963 ft²), with an audiovisual area, book collection area, and office space. The Center will be one of the few multi-functional cultural centers that help preserve nature, advocate education, and provide artistic space for exhibitions and performances all at the same time. In the future, we expects that more people in different villages of Taijiang can join in so that the Taijiang Cultural Center can further help the residents learn locally and better their life and communities with the power of knowledge and culture. Most of all, we have a schedule for trial run programs in the theater of Taijiang Cultural Center. Wish you join us. For further information about the programs, please visit the website at https://www.tmcc.gov.tw/. Event: A trial run of Taijiang Cultural Center Time: 2019/1-2019/3 Venue: the Theater in Taijiang Cultural Center Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government   Source: Yonghua Cultural Center Management Division, Chen Guang-Hua(陳冠樺) Tel: 06-2692864 ext.110 E-MAIL: tnhua@mail.tainan.gov.tw  

When you’re talking about Cloud Gate, magic is not too strong a word. ------------Time Out Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan (雲門舞集) is one of the most important contemporary dance groups in Taiwan. Lin Hwai-min(林懷民), founder and Artistic Director of Cloud Gate, was named as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in the World by Jaycees International in 1983, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Department of Culture of New York City in 1996. He was ever acclaimed by the New York Times as having “succeeded brilliantly in fusing dance techniques and theatrical concepts from the East and the West.” After leading Cloud Gate for 45 glorious years and making it one of the finest dance companies in the world, Lin Hwin-min announced to retire from the artistic directorship of Cloud Gate at the end of 2019. This season, Cloud Gate specially presents 45th Anniversary Gala Program, featuring a retrospective highlight of his classic works that had mesmerized audiences worldwide, such as "Portrait of the Families," "Moon Water," "Cursive," "Pine Smoke," "Rice," and so on. This program will be performed at the Tainan Cultural Center on Dec. 15 and 16. Enjoying the glamour of Cloud Gate’s dance and you will find a different arts experience.   Event: 45th Anniversary Gala Program (雲門45週年--林懷民舞作精選) Time: 19:30, Dec. 15 (Sat.) and 14:30, Dec. 16 (Sun.), 2018 Venue: Tainan Cultural Center Performance Hall(臺南文化中心演藝廳) Ticket: 300/600/900/1200/1600/2000