Avant Garde Political Art and the Indigenous Taiwanese Struggle

Community Leaders Community Organizations International Community Organizing Organizers Forum

            Taipei        The day began with a subway ride to Treasure Hill, an artist community, near the river.  A sweltering walk was relieved by an undulating, elevated pathway through the forest that disgorged us at a temple at the entrance of Treasure Hill.  The morning was juxtaposed with the afternoon, where rain gear and …

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New Bloom

Organizers Forum

            Taipei         New Bloom was a fascinating operation on so many different levels.  Mainly, it is an on-line newspaper covering Taiwan and Southeast Asia.  It is also an all-volunteer social enterprise supported largely by coffee and liquor sales at its bar, because it is also an event space in the basement, hosting cultural events …

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