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The concept of “saudade” is one that cannot be translated from the original Portuguese, but a feeling that can be…
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Cultural traditions that remain through the erosion of time and those that are lost through the rise and fall of…
2023 News
When the Dutch East India Company (VOC) left Taiwan in 1662, 38 years of Dutch Colonization forever changed the island…
2022 News
When Indonesia left Dutch colonization and Malaysia left Great Britain… what happened to the world? After generations of cultural evolutions…
2021 News
Culture is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious,…
2020 News
Civilizations progressed because people learned from the misdeeds of the past. What went wrong? Is our world a better or…
2019 News
Survival for many is an act of courage; to live is to find meanings in the suffering. When people are…
2018 News
What does it mean to be culturally diverse? What does it mean to be part of any one community? What…
2017 News
The festive staple of toasting is ubiquitous and nearly every culture has its own variation on this gesture of goodwill.…
2016 News
A Cultural Tango － Appreciation of the roots and respect for the heritage has been probably one of the most…
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Vancouver TAIWANfest is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered here, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples of this land while we engage in meaningful conversations of culture and reconciliation.