Time: 5/10/08, Saturday, 4 pm
Place: Parking Lot, TACC

The Taiwanese Culture Association presents "Taiwanese Culture & Food Fair". The fair features selections from traditional Taiwanese cuisines. Good music, performance and information for the young and old alike will add to the food fair fun.

Will Present High School Scholarship, Taiwan Trip Award, Mother’s Day Special Award, and Mao-Chun Memorial Fund. Taiwanese traditional hand puppet performed by Master Ho.

The Ten Percussion Group was formed in March of 2000. The group is lead by Hsieh Shi. Since its culmination, the group has traveled to perform several times outside of Taiwan. In June of 2002, Ten-Percussion performed in Sydney, Australia. In 2001 the group performed their ‘Ten Thousand Drum’ show, with 250 drummers
performing together, at the Yi Zai Jin Cheng, in Tainan. And in May of 2002 the group performed in Korea at the opening of the World Cup soccer finals. The school also organizes a national drum competition in Taiwan, every August. This competition includes several performances by original drum composers.

Up till now, the Ten Percussion group has put out more than 300 performances around Taiwan. We have videos of the group performing at National Holiday Festivals in Taiwan and at International Concerts around the island. Besides performing and preparing for performances, Hsieh Shi teaches regularly and continually works on his own compositions. The Ten Percussion School has its own performance hall and art museum. We anticipate that Ten Percussion

School will continue to grow on to our next generations. The statement of this drumming group and school is to develop and spread knowledge of our traditional drumming, percussion music, and worldly culture. We look forward to performing more on international stages, and becoming an internationally recognized group, both inside and outside of Taiwan.

To sign up for competition, please contact Taiwan Center.
1-858-560-8884. Great Prizes!!!

Dr. Tsai was from Taipei, Taiwan. He received his M.D. from Taipei Medical University in 1974. He came to Yale University in 1976 for his internship and residency training in internal medicine.

Currently Dr. Tsai is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of
BooK Clubthe Section of Hepatobiliary Disease in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

Various Asian Pacific ethnic communities will present stage performances at TACC to showcase their unique culture and heritage. Come to Enjoy this entertaining and colorful evening.