News Release

2009. 06. 29
Registration of 2009 Youth Culture Summer Camp extends to July 20. For more info please contact Carl at taiwanhuang@hotmail.com.

2009. 05. 18
Youth Chinese Culture Camp (July 27 to July 31, 2009)

Tallahassee Chinese School – Taiwan (TCS--- Taiwan ), a registered non-profit organization with Department of State, was founded in 1986. Several classes are held at the campus of Florida State University every Sunday afternoon .

TCS--- Taiwan is hosting a week long Youth Chinese Culture Camp (from July 27 to July 31, 2009) at FSU campus. Tallahassee is the ONLY city in the State of Florida to have the privilege to host this wonderful event. Three teachers from Taiwan will visit us to teach the students arts and crafts, traditional Chinese and Taiwanese dances, kung fu, and folk sports (diabolo, jump rope and others).

This is the fifth year in a row we have been chosen for the cultural camp. We are inviting any student who is five to six years old to experience the enchanting Chinese and Taiwanese cultures.

The registration fee is $140.00 (Lunch is included). The deadline for registration is June 30, 2009.

2009. 02. 02
Thank you all for joining the Year of the Ox Festival. Hopefully everyo Designne had a great time. We greeted guests who are not only from Tallahassee but also from Canada, Alabama, Georgia and Panama City Beach. It was truly a community celebration.

Although TAA did not have any meeting to prepare for this event the task did require lots of volunteers and wonderful performers to make this event successful.

Here's the list of volunteers and performers

• Stan, Olivia and Taiwanese Student Association at FSU for serving the food and cleaning up the facilities
• Fran, Salim, TS, Brooke, Daniel, David, Aubrey, Clark and Mrs. Inoue for the decoration of Grand Ball Room
• China Delight, MASA on N. Monroe and Lucy Ho’s Oriental Bistro for the delicious foods
• Dr. John Ho and Dr. TS Wu of TAA for the hon bao
• Taoist Tai Chi Society and Mrs. Lucy Ho for the generosity –student scholarship awards
• Steve Cannon of Tallahassee Democrat for taking wonderful pictures
• Many local merchants and individuals for donating the door prizes
• Miguel Tsao and Michelle Yang
• TS, Alice and Masa san for helping the ticket sale – we sold out all the tickets and plus
• AV manager---Isaac (Grand Ball Room) and Chi-Valry (Moore Auditorium)
• Our sincere appreciation also goes to individuals who prefer to remain anonymous. Thank you!

2009. 01. 15
A Youth Folk Sports Troupe from Taiwan is visiting Tallahassee from Wednesday, March 25 to Sunday, March 29, 2009. This invitation has been supported and sponsored by Tallahassee Community College , Tallahassee Community College Foundation and Taiwanese American Association of Tallahassee. The troupe will visit TCC and perform at several local schools. They will also attend the 41st Springtime Tallahassee Parade and present a performance on Saturday night, March 28 at location to be decided later.

Their presentation include traditional Chinese and Taiwanese dances, dazzling diabolo spinning, wonderful rope skipping and magnificent tops swirling. It will be a great cultural exposure to our students and local residents.

This Taiwanese Youth Delegation is 40 people strong. All the performers (8th graders) and teachers in the troupe serve as the Taiwanese Cultural Ambassadors by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan . Their mission is to provide lively cultural exchanges and to improve friendship between Taiwan and United States.

Our sincere hope is through this visit and performance we learn to appreciate more about cultural diversity and understanding of each other.

One of their requests is to have the students stay with the American families so they can learn more about American culture and customs.

We are inviting you, SAIL, SAS, Gilchrist, TCC, Flagler, FSU, Taosit Tai Chi Society and TFwAC, to consider serving as American Cultural Ambassadors for the teachers and students. We would like for you to be a host family to this wonderful troupe from Wednesday, March 25 through Sunday afternoon, March 29.

As today there are fifteen families already sign up but we need more. If you are interested, please contact Carl Huang (taiwanhaung@yahoo.com) or 443-1613 to sign up. Please consider this unique, short term, cultural opportunity to serve as a host family.

For a better tomorrow we work together today.