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Taiwanese Cultural Festival
Today, Kay, Jas and I headed out to the Taiwanese Cultural Festival! We try to make it out to this event every year. It usually lands on the September long weekend and goes on for three days. This year, there was a cover charge for this event! WTF? $9.00 to be exact. Wow, I couldn'’t believe it. Well, luckily we were able to sneak in because they did not have secure gateways nor the volunteers had full control of the crowds. This year, there are two parts to the festival, food/shows/little stands (like the Chinese Nightmarket) were set up at Plaza of Nations and the second part the art exhibits and history presentation were set up at the Roundhouse Community Center in Yaletown (years before the festival was set up at the Plaza of Nations but the building is now being occupied by a casino). First, we headed for the food and little shopping stalls. We didn'’t stay to watch any of the activities happening on stage. We wandered around a bit and then off to the Roundhouse. We managed to get a stamp for entry at the RH, funny thing is we didn'’t pay but I didn'’t feel too bad because really they should not be charging a cover fee for this event. Every cultural festival that I have been to in Vancouver has not charged me an entry fee. That'’s ridiculous! Off to the RH (free bus shuttle service) but the RH is only about a 7 minute walk (5 blocks away) so we decided to walk it there and back (with some grumblings from the little one). At the RH, the theme of the centre was Taiwanese Arts. One room had photographs of different places in Taiwan taken by Taiwanese photographers, another room displayed the paper lanterns which were amazing and my fave room set up like an art museum displaying arts from Taiwan. This is def. my fave. part of the festival, looking at all the original Taiwanese art in the make shift gallery which always impresses me. These pieces are not for sale, display only and there was no sign up saying we couldn't take photos. Even though I wanted to take photos, I felt that these were original pieces of art and are somewhat copyrighted. But I saw many people taking photos but couldn't bring myself to do it without permission of the artist. Oh well. Also displayed in another room were photos of different parts of Taiwan taken by Taiwanese photographers. Those were really nice images, almost felt like I was there. It was a pretty good day only one thing missing.... R....
Today, Kay, Jas and I headed out to the Taiwanese Cultural Festival! We try to make it out to this event every year. It usually lands on the September long weekend and goes on for three days. This year, there was a cover charge for this event! WTF? $9.00 to be exact. Wow, I couldn'’t believe it. Well, luckily we were able to sneak in because they did not have secure gateways nor the volunteers had full control of the crowds. This year, there are two parts to the festival, food/shows/little stands (like the Chinese Nightmarket) were set up at Plaza of Nations and the second part the art exhibits and history presentation were set up at the Roundhouse Community Center in Yaletown (years before the festival was set up at the Plaza of Nations but the building is now being occupied by a casino). First, we headed for the food and little shopping stalls. We didn'’t stay to watch any of the activities happening on stage. We wandered around a bit and then off to the Roundhouse. We managed to get a stamp for entry at the RH, funny thing is we didn'’t pay but I didn'’t feel too bad because really they should not be charging a cover fee for this event. Every cultural festival that I have been to in Vancouver has not charged me an entry fee. That'’s ridiculous! Off to the RH (free bus shuttle service) but the RH is only about a 7 minute walk (5 blocks away) so we decided to walk it there and back (with some grumblings from the little one). At the RH, the theme of the centre was Taiwanese Arts. One room had photographs of different places in Taiwan taken by Taiwanese photographers, another room displayed the paper lanterns which were amazing and my fave room set up like an art museum displaying arts from Taiwan. This is def. my fave. part of the festival, looking at all the original Taiwanese art in the make shift gallery which always impresses me. These pieces are not for sale, display only and there was no sign up saying we couldn't take photos. Even though I wanted to take photos, I felt that these were original pieces of art and are somewhat copyrighted. But I saw many people taking photos but couldn't bring myself to do it without permission of the artist. Oh well. Also displayed in another room were photos of different parts of Taiwan taken by Taiwanese photographers. Those were really nice images, almost felt like I was there. It was a pretty good day only one thing missing.... R....
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These picture are beautiful
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