Weiwuying Anniversary 2.0 Open Bookstore
"Open Bookstore" invites artists in various fields, TaKaoBooks, and Little house bookstore / Dandelion Organization of Storytelling as Literacy Advocacy to have a chitchat of arts, issues, and picture books with publics.
Let's choose a book and enjoy the intellectual reading time on the lively Weiwuying Anniversary 2.0!
Reading Zone
Date and time：10/09 (Fri.)-10/11 (Sun.)、10/17(Sat.)-10/18(Sun.) 11:00-18:00
Location：3F Reading Corner
TaKaoBooks
TaKaoBooks is a vibrant independent book store that sells books and provides insights to inspire readers to discover and explore beyond pages. Located in Central Kaohsiung, TaKaoBooks serves as a cultural hub that shares news and information about the city, to help local or international visitors from all walks of life to get to know Kaohsiung inside and out. The book store is also the go to place for event planning/hosting, books for specialized topics such as agriculture, environmental issues, literature, history and art. The book store is widely known by artists across genres, businesses, educators and communities as a refined venue to experience personal reading space, vintage dining experience and selected events of interest. This is the powerhouse that has always attracted like-minded individuals to come together to meet and share what they have learned through reading. The movers and shakers of this collected strength are always in the look out to better help and serve community. This book store and community joint-venture has created many chapters of inspiring and heartfelt stories, waiting for you to discover. TaKaoBooks is in the forefront of being a new breed of indie by helping a new generation of Civil Culture Group to grow organically, sharing and caring what they love about Kaohsiung, Taiwan and life.
Littlehouse Bookstoe
Littlehouse Bookstoe is a bookstore offers picture books and children's literature for all ages.We also have library and gallery ,holding exhibitions of the Taiwanese picture book maker.
Talking Zone
Ventriloquist Little John and stupid bird
Date and time: 10/09 (Fri.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：CHANG Yu-han
This December, Kaohsiung ventriloquist CHANG Yu-han will kick off The Bear and Peter & Wolf Live in Concert by “performing” picture book The Bear using ventriloquy.
Through ventriloquy, CHANG brings a parrot doll named “Stupid Bird” to life. Stupid Bird subsequently becomes CHANG's “crime partner” in a comedy duo, where CHANG tells fascinating stories while Stupid Bird busts on Chang, entertaining children in the audience and offering them an unforgettable experience.
Performing a Gorgeous Assemble Within Picture Books
Date and time: 10/09 (Fri.) 16:00-16:40
Location：CROWN HALL (West) - Crown Terrace (West)
Speaker：WANG Yi-feng
Readers theater is a type/part of performing arts/theater, where performers present readings of narrative materials to convey emotions and tell stories. Among all book types, picture books are most commonly and frequently read aloud. For this performance, readers theater and picture books are brought together for a picture book “assemble.”
The Visionary Path to Palaces
Date and time: 10/10 (Sat.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：HO Yi-fan x WU Ming-lun
This performance introduces a creative conversation with Our Theatre playwright WU Ming-lun and drama consultant HE Yi-fan, where they share with the audience the roles that playwrights and drama consultants play in theaters, and how they help performance teams create and deliver performances. The creative conversation reveals the division of labor in theatrical performances, and the roles that different performers play.
WANG Guo-ren’s Creative Sharing
Date and time: 10/11 (Sun.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：WANG Guo-ren
Unlike most middle-aged artists who have received their aesthetic education in schools, WANG Guo-ren studied art mostly on his own. Independently, he learned art, explored art and transcended existing boundaries and limitations. He is an artist, galvanizer, and spiritual teacher who produces a variety of art including outdoor street art and indoor brush paintings. He often hides symbols and codes (clues) in his paintings and introduces art to communities, using his passion and creativity to touch everyone.
A dream of dramatic life: the story of Huang Chi-Kai and Story Works
Date and time: 10/11 (Sun.) 16:00-16:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：XIAO SHUANG
Story Works uses its passion for and devotion to dramas to deliver performances to the public. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Story Works has successfully created The World Between Us, where an act of indiscriminate killing is utilized to explore the origins of good and evil in humans, the nature of media news, and how public opinions affect social consensus.
Those who enjoy the works of Story Works will surely be fascinated by director/artistic director HUANG Chi-kai’s latest drama A Dream of Dramatic Life. Furthermore, Story Works volunteer Xiao Shuang will share with the audience the untold stories of theater performers and the journeys that they must embark on before shows are performed.
OK Broken Heart Karaoke
Date and time: 10/17 (Sat.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：WU Ting-kuan
Dangdut has a long history in Malay Archipelago. As a grassroots music genre, Dangdut not only reflects the reality of society, but also embraces various of cultures to shows its tolerance. The speaker will briefly introduce the development of Dangdut in Indonesia, and Dangdut scenes among Indonesian migrants' communities in Taiwan.
All about inspiration
Date and time: 10/17 (Sat.) 16:00-16:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：JEN Ming-hsin
Learn about the art and techniques involved in art creation and the art that is connected to people’s daily lives. Furthermore, through the ideas generated from and experience given by “words,” learn to interpret and appreciate art.
The Mystical World of Folktales
Date and time: 10/18 (Sun.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：YANG Yu-chiao
Anecdotes, gossips, and even urban legends pervade people’s daily lives. Although these tales contain fictional components to them, one can find the similarity. That is, they emerge because people are trying to answer the questions “what happened to this person” and “why did the thing/event turn out this way?” In oral literature worldwide, these fictional stories are like oral “dictionaries/encyclopedias” that provide answers to the aforementioned questions. However, unlike dictionaries, these fictional stories offer eventful explanations. Let us explore the mystical world of folktales.
Theatre on Paper: Utilizing Picture Books
Date and time: 10/18 (Sun.) 16:00-16:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：HSIEH Pei-ni
The Littlehouse Bookstore housekeeper uses picture books, the most popular type of books, to share with the audience how picture book authors use this medium to tell readers stories.
Flash Mob
Our Theatre’s Palaces Preview: 10 Minutes Sneak Peak of “Sheng Goes to Taiwan”
Time：10/10（六）15:00-15:10、16:00-16:10、17:00-17:10
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Production Team: ShiuKim Taiwanese Opera Troupe x Our Theatre
Weiwuying Anniversary 2.0 Open Bookstore
"Open Bookstore" invites artists in various fields, TaKaoBooks, and Little house bookstore / Dandelion Organization of Storytelling as Literacy Advocacy to have a chitchat of arts, issues, and picture books with publics.
Let's choose a book and enjoy the intellectual reading time on the lively Weiwuying Anniversary 2.0!
Reading Zone
Date and time：10/09 (Fri.)-10/11 (Sun.)、10/17(Sat.)-10/18(Sun.) 11:00-18:00
Location：3F Reading Corner
TaKaoBooks
TaKaoBooks is a vibrant independent book store that sells books and provides insights to inspire readers to discover and explore beyond pages. Located in Central Kaohsiung, TaKaoBooks serves as a cultural hub that shares news and information about the city, to help local or international visitors from all walks of life to get to know Kaohsiung inside and out. The book store is also the go to place for event planning/hosting, books for specialized topics such as agriculture, environmental issues, literature, history and art. The book store is widely known by artists across genres, businesses, educators and communities as a refined venue to experience personal reading space, vintage dining experience and selected events of interest. This is the powerhouse that has always attracted like-minded individuals to come together to meet and share what they have learned through reading. The movers and shakers of this collected strength are always in the look out to better help and serve community. This book store and community joint-venture has created many chapters of inspiring and heartfelt stories, waiting for you to discover. TaKaoBooks is in the forefront of being a new breed of indie by helping a new generation of Civil Culture Group to grow organically, sharing and caring what they love about Kaohsiung, Taiwan and life.
Littlehouse Bookstoe
Littlehouse Bookstoe is a bookstore offers picture books and children's literature for all ages.We also have library and gallery ,holding exhibitions of the Taiwanese picture book maker.
Talking Zone
Ventriloquist Little John and stupid bird
Date and time: 10/09 (Fri.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：CHANG Yu-han
This December, Kaohsiung ventriloquist CHANG Yu-han will kick off The Bear and Peter & Wolf Live in Concert by “performing” picture book The Bear using ventriloquy.
Through ventriloquy, CHANG brings a parrot doll named “Stupid Bird” to life. Stupid Bird subsequently becomes CHANG's “crime partner” in a comedy duo, where CHANG tells fascinating stories while Stupid Bird busts on Chang, entertaining children in the audience and offering them an unforgettable experience.
Performing a Gorgeous Assemble Within Picture Books
Date and time: 10/09 (Fri.) 16:00-16:40
Location：CROWN HALL (West) - Crown Terrace (West)
Speaker：WANG Yi-feng
Readers theater is a type/part of performing arts/theater, where performers present readings of narrative materials to convey emotions and tell stories. Among all book types, picture books are most commonly and frequently read aloud. For this performance, readers theater and picture books are brought together for a picture book “assemble.”
The Visionary Path to Palaces
Date and time: 10/10 (Sat.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：HO Yi-fan x WU Ming-lun
This performance introduces a creative conversation with Our Theatre playwright WU Ming-lun and drama consultant HE Yi-fan, where they share with the audience the roles that playwrights and drama consultants play in theaters, and how they help performance teams create and deliver performances. The creative conversation reveals the division of labor in theatrical performances, and the roles that different performers play.
WANG Guo-ren’s Creative Sharing
Date and time: 10/11 (Sun.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：WANG Guo-ren
Unlike most middle-aged artists who have received their aesthetic education in schools, WANG Guo-ren studied art mostly on his own. Independently, he learned art, explored art and transcended existing boundaries and limitations. He is an artist, galvanizer, and spiritual teacher who produces a variety of art including outdoor street art and indoor brush paintings. He often hides symbols and codes (clues) in his paintings and introduces art to communities, using his passion and creativity to touch everyone.
A dream of dramatic life: the story of Huang Chi-Kai and Story Works
Date and time: 10/11 (Sun.) 16:00-16:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：XIAO SHUANG
Story Works uses its passion for and devotion to dramas to deliver performances to the public. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Story Works has successfully created The World Between Us, where an act of indiscriminate killing is utilized to explore the origins of good and evil in humans, the nature of media news, and how public opinions affect social consensus.
Those who enjoy the works of Story Works will surely be fascinated by director/artistic director HUANG Chi-kai’s latest drama A Dream of Dramatic Life. Furthermore, Story Works volunteer Xiao Shuang will share with the audience the untold stories of theater performers and the journeys that they must embark on before shows are performed.
OK Broken Heart Karaoke
Date and time: 10/17 (Sat.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：WU Ting-kuan
Dangdut has a long history in Malay Archipelago. As a grassroots music genre, Dangdut not only reflects the reality of society, but also embraces various of cultures to shows its tolerance. The speaker will briefly introduce the development of Dangdut in Indonesia, and Dangdut scenes among Indonesian migrants' communities in Taiwan.
All about inspiration
Date and time: 10/17 (Sat.) 16:00-16:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：JEN Ming-hsin
Learn about the art and techniques involved in art creation and the art that is connected to people’s daily lives. Furthermore, through the ideas generated from and experience given by “words,” learn to interpret and appreciate art.
The Mystical World of Folktales
Date and time: 10/18 (Sun.) 14:00-14:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：YANG Yu-chiao
Anecdotes, gossips, and even urban legends pervade people’s daily lives. Although these tales contain fictional components to them, one can find the similarity. That is, they emerge because people are trying to answer the questions “what happened to this person” and “why did the thing/event turn out this way?” In oral literature worldwide, these fictional stories are like oral “dictionaries/encyclopedias” that provide answers to the aforementioned questions. However, unlike dictionaries, these fictional stories offer eventful explanations. Let us explore the mystical world of folktales.
Theatre on Paper: Utilizing Picture Books
Date and time: 10/18 (Sun.) 16:00-16:40
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Speaker：HSIEH Pei-ni
The Littlehouse Bookstore housekeeper uses picture books, the most popular type of books, to share with the audience how picture book authors use this medium to tell readers stories.
Flash Mob
Our Theatre’s Palaces Preview: 10 Minutes Sneak Peak of “Sheng Goes to Taiwan”
Time：10/10（六）15:00-15:10、16:00-16:10、17:00-17:10
Location：3F Crown Hall (west)
Production Team: ShiuKim Taiwanese Opera Troupe x Our Theatre
