In partnership with Asiania, we are thrilled and honored to invite you to Symphony 47, a multi-media festival in commemoration of the February 28th Incident in Taiwan. The festival is available live and on-demand from February 27 to March 13, 2022. Experience musical and drama performances as well as a variety of panels with front-line activists and influencers from across the globe as

For the past 2 years, a group of artists from across the Pacific and the Indian Ocean have been meeting to share their concerns about their environment, about climate change, and also to connect their cultures, their songs, and their stories. Meeting regularly, writing songs together. The result is Small Island Big Song‘s second album, Our

Saturday, January 29, 2022, 7:30PM The Great Hall at Town Hall Seattle & Online *Masks and proof of vaccination are required for in-person attendance. Tickets are free for youth (22 & under), and you can receive 25% off the general admission price with promo code ISLAND25. In partnership with Town Hall Seattle, we are thrilled and honored

Happy turn of the year!! Join Chantelle Lin (Director, Dream Flare Film Festival), Ellen Chang (Director, UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture), and Naoyuki Ikeda (Director, Japan Film Festival Los Angeles) for an after-hour party with Director Hiroshi Okuhara and Producer Xiaoguai Wang of Hotel Iris (2021). During this holiday season, you’re invited to watch the behind-the-scenes

Taiwan Film Day is here! Join UW Taiwan Studies’ very own Arts & Culture Program and its partner Dream Flare Film Festival for a curated selection from the Taipei Film Festival featuring three Taiwanese cinematic productions, plus interviews and roundtables,  available exclusively on Asiania from November 10 to November 21, 2021. A Leg 腿 (Yaosheng Chang, 2020): https://dfff-aleg.asiania.me/ Hotel

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program is delighted to welcome Ellen Chang（張雅倫）as the first director of our Arts and Culture Program.  Ellen is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.  She holds M.A. degrees in Cinema Studies from both NYU and Ohio University, and a B.A. in English from National

B. Dance, a contemporary Taiwanese dance group, presented its production Rage, from May 26 – 30. An interview with B. Dance’s Founder and Director, Tsai Po-Cheng was held to discuss Rage and other topics. The video is now available for viewing on our YouTube channel and below.   Founded in 2014 and led by Artistic Director

The 47th annual Seattle International Film Festival will run from April 8th through April 18th. UW-TSP is happy to partner with SIFF in presenting the Taiwan Films Roundtable, taking place on Tuesday, April 13th, from 6:30 – 8pm Pacific Time. Ellen Chang of Cinema & Media and Taiwan Studies will be moderating the discussion with Directors Chen Ming-lang (The Teacher) and

June 29, 2018 7PM Kane Hall, Room 210 University of Washington Professor Yomi Braester, Ellen Y. Chang, and Belinda Qian He Yomi Braester is professor of comparative literature and cinema studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published extensively on modern Chinese literature, film, and visual culture, as well as on architecture,

A great island off the coast of China, Taiwan has had an eventful history: as a Dutch entrepôt, a Chinese frontier, a Japanese colony, and as a Cold War redoubt for the Chinese Nationalist Party.  Today, Taiwan is a prosperous democracy with a thriving civil society.  How did it come about?  This exhibit tells the epic story.