Thursday, October 11, 2007

Press Release -- Taiwan Cultural Festival brings Taiwan to Utah

For Immediate Release
October 2, 2007

Taiwan Cultural Festival brings Taiwan to Utah, Oct 15-20

Salt Lake City, UT – Starting mid-October, the Salt Lake County and the Utah Taiwanese community will host a Taiwan Cultural Festival at various locations. This festival will captivate all your senses with Taiwanese films, art, music, and cuisine - all especially flown in for this weeklong celebration.

The Taiwan Cultural Festival includes some of Taiwan’s leading contemporary non-fiction and narrative filmmakers, the internationally recognized Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company, Taiwan’s premiere pan flute artist, Chung Li Chang, tea masters Mr. and Mrs. Hsien Tong Lin; and the retired chef of world famous Din Tai Fung Restaurant, Mr. Chang Jui-Ching. Throughout the week, there will be tea ceremonies, pan flute concerts, dumpling demonstrations, film screenings, and puppet shows to will enchant the young and old alike.

The film screening portion of the Taiwan Cultural Festival consists of two sets of films. The Contemporary Film Series, part of the 2007 Taiwan Film Festival (http://2007tff.blogspot.com), will showcase feature and documentary films that reflect the quality, range and vitality of contemporary Taiwanese film-making, while Taiwan Masters will focus on classic Taiwanese movies since the New Wave, featuring works from world renown directors Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. In addition, directors Cheng Wen-tang, Monika Treut, Chuan Chung, and famous Taiwan documentary producer Sylvia Feng will be in attendance.

The festival is the first comprehensive cultural celebration of Taiwanese Culture in Utah. Utah’s Taiwanese community formed in the early 1960’s as students came overseas to attend Utah’s universities, many remaining after graduation. Four decades later, a generation of Taiwanese Americans calls Utah their home and strong sister city and sister county ties have formed between different regions of Utah and Taiwan.

For more information, please check: http://2007tff.blogspot.com/2007/09/taiwan-cultural-festival-in-salt-lake.html.


Media Contacts:

Max Chang
maxchang11 AT aol.com
801-554-5824

Geralyn Dreyfous
gdreyfous AT slcfilmcenter.org
801-746-7000

Jennifer Jordan
jjordank2 AT hotmail.com
801 -230-4579

Press Release -- 猶他州台灣文化節

駐舊金山台北經濟文化辦事處新聞組新聞稿

日期:2007年10月5日
聯絡人:吳秘書芬滿
電話: 415-364-5602
猶他州台灣文化節

猶他州「台灣文化節」將於10月15日至20日熱烈展開。文化節的活動將包括電影、布袋戲、台灣美食、茶藝和排笛。這一週的活動將為猶他州帶來極具台灣特色的美麗文化。

這次文化節的緣起推手,是長居鹽湖城逾40多年的台灣鄉親張李效群,在她努力奔走,以及舊金山經文處新聞組全力協助下,獲得台灣行政院新聞局大力支持贊助,文建會及觀光局等共襄盛舉;也爭取到猶他州縣市各級政府機構和文化團體積極贊助支援。鹽湖縣政府、西谷市政府、鹽湖城電影中心更是重視台灣文化節,以此系列活動,為大鹽湖區帶來一場文化盛宴。

鹽湖城電影中心的執行長、奧斯卡金像獎得主Geralyn Dreyfous指出,在電影節活動部份,將於10月15至17日在猶他大學、楊百翰大學、猶他社區學院、西敏學院及日舞戲院等,放映台灣甚受國際矚目的新銳導演新作,18至20日則在Rose Wagner Center,放映侯孝賢、李安、楊德昌及蔡明亮等台灣電影大師的經典作品。為讓觀眾透過影像深入了解台灣電影及社會文化,在川流基金會的贊助下,文化節也邀請到知名導演鄭文堂、鍾權、Monika Treut、製片人馮賢賢及劉毓雯,加州大學洛杉磯分校影劇教授Brian Hu親臨放映現場,與觀眾、學生及教授進一步暢談及討論。

布袋戲泰斗李天祿的門生黃武山,將率領台原偶戲團表演「台灣偶戲之美」,介紹這個綜合音樂、雕塑、服飾、刺繡、彩繪、手藝及口語藝術的台灣布袋戲,除了兩場正式的公演,台原偶戲團將特別為小學生及兒童醫院的小孩,作兩場溫馨感人的義演,傳送來自台灣親切的關懷和愛心。

台灣美食將由前任鼎泰豐主廚的張瑞慶師傅領軍,率領陳文欽師傅及兩位助理獻演小籠包、燒賣、蝦餃、燒餅為主的點心美食。加州Santa Barbara的知名廚藝師Peter Chen也熱心的拔刀相助,專程到鹽湖城支援,精製多種可口的台灣小菜,以與點心美食相益得彰。另外國際知名的排笛音樂家張中立將演奏台灣及古典樂曲、來自南投鹿谷的茶藝師林獻堂夫婦也將展演台灣茶藝的緻微之美。

在政府及民間戮力合作下,如此大型的台灣文化節得以在猶他州熱烈展開,大鹽湖區的鄉親和企業,出錢出力,共襄盛舉,希望藉這樣的活動,使大家更進一步了解台灣的文化歷史,爭取他們的友誼,在國際上支持台灣。

猶他州台灣文化節活動內容,請見http://2007tff.blogspot.com/2007/09/taiwan-cultural-festival-in-salt-lake.html.