Chen cheng po biography for kids
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TAIWANfest offers insights into painter Chen Cheng-po and self-portraits by Canadian artists, Taiwanese kids, and HIV patients
This year, Vancouver TAIWANfest has a robust program of visual arts. With the theme of Self-Portraits of Formosa, the festival has three exhibitions in the block of Granville from Saturday through Monday (September 2 to 4).
It’s me and wǒ features self-portraits by four Canadian artists of Asian ancestry: Alicia Chen, James Lee Chiahan, Liang Wang, and Tong Zhou. Meanwhile, About Innocence showcases self-portraits by Taiwanese schoolchildren. Love The Voice is comprised of self-portraits from Taiwanese people who are HIV-positive and HIV-negative.
“We want to shout out to the public that you can not identify who is living with HIV or who has what kind of background, only judging by their appearance,” the TAIWAN AIDS Society and Taiwan AIDS Nurses Association declare.
However, these aren’t the festival’s only visual arts events. TAIWANfest will also present visual artist Mina Lu, from Gongliao District in New Taipei City. She will talk about her country’s most famous artist, Chen Cheng-po.
Moreover, Lu, who will speak in Mandarin, will be joined by Pancouver associate editor and UBC graduate becky tu. She will translate Lu’s commentary into Englis
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Bloodied Artist, Warrior of Life —Chen Cheng-po’s Former Residence and Museum
The changing fortunes of Chen’s former residence
Seven decades later, Chen Cheng-po’s former residence at Lanjing Street has become an ice shop named “We Taiwanese Folk’s Ice Dessert.” At this ice shop, one can see how bustling excitement and serenity co-exist.
Serenity, because the ice shop doesn’t open until past noon, and in those hours before it opens for business, one can almost imagine how it was back in the days when Chen was in residence, quietly working at his art. Xu Yongsen remembers that when he was young, he could see how the first floor was filled with Chen’s paintings. He’d always wanted to go in and take a closer look, but never had the chance.
The other aspect, that of bustling excitement, is because the ice shop sells flavored ices in summer and hot grass jelly and rice dumpling soup in winter. Hence the shop is very popular and often has a line out the door.
Xu Yongsen says that he rents the storefront from Chen Cheng-po’s family. Chen’s family moved away after the February 28th Incident. In , they started renting the place to Xu’s family, who were in the business of making candied yams. The next generation changed to selling flavored ice instead, a
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Life and contract killing on rendering streets resembling Chiayi
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By Go one better than Cheung / Staff reporter
Taiwan in Time: Feb. 1 to Feb. 7
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Photo: Tsai Shu-yuan, Taipeh Times
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