A R O U N D T O W N 發光的城市 15 TAIPEI TIMES • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT BY HO YI FILM ■ Today at 7:30pm advance). Tickets can be purchased closed on Mondays. Happy hour on ■ National Concert Hall, Taipei City online by visiting www.thewall.com.tw Tuesdays and Thursdays before midnight Theater & dance ■ Tickets are NT$400 and NT$1,500, or tickets.books.com.tw ■ Entrance is NT$300 tonight and Now showing: your available through NTCH ticketing or tomorrow and includes one drink, Department of Fun (笑傻樓) by online at www.artsticket.com.tw Acoustic guitarist Su-jer (舒吉吉) and NT$100 on Wednesday Taipei Quyi Troupe (台北曲藝團) keyboardist Anie Fann take to the stage features renowned cross-talk (相聲), or NSO Classics: Mahler No. 9 tonight at Witch House (女巫店). Metamorphosis Jazztet performs tax dollars at work Chinese stand-up comedy, artists who (NSO精選 — 馬勒第九) has conductor Happy punks Children Sucker (表兒) tonight at Sappho de Base. find humor in everyday-life situations. Gunther Herbig leading the National and psychedelic alt-rock band Flat Club Tomorrow Jo Jo Ma Quintet, a group all the film festivals in Taiwan, Alternation hits the big screen next month. The lineup includes theater veteran Symphony Orchestra (國家交響樂團) in (假文藝青年俱樂部) play tomorrow night. led by saxophonist Joseph Marchione, Film Festival (交替影展) is the most • Ho Wi-ding’s (何蔚庭) technically polished Fan Guang-yao (樊光耀) and cross-talk a performance of Mahler’s Symphony The venue hosts a special show on takes the stage. On Tuesday, pianist Of unpredictable. Four years after its inaugural black-and-white Summer Afternoon (夏午). Set comedians Liu Tseng-kai (劉增鍇) and No. 9 in D Major. Tuesday with Xiaojuan and Residents Andrew Page and his band The edition, the festival has returned and will inside a car, this short charts the capriciousness Chu Te-kang (朱德剛). ■ Thursday at 7:30pm of The Valley (小娟 & 山谷裡的居民) of Flock play acid jazz and funk. On showcase 34 short films and animations by of emotion and desire between a man and two ■ Novel Hall (新舞��), 3-1 Songshou Rd, ■ National Concert Hall, Taipei City China. On Thursday, it’s solo acoustic Wednesday the venue hosts David emerging Taiwanese filmmakers at Spring women with five masterfully executed long Taipei City (台北市松壽路3-1號) ■ Tickets are NT$400 and NT$1,500, artist Easy, followed by singer-songwriter Foster and Friends. On Thursday, it’s Cinema Galaxy in Ximending starting today. takes. Ho is currently working on his feature ■ Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at available through NTCH ticketing or Zulin (志寧). the Sea Journey Jazz Combo (海洋 Why the wait? The festival screens short debut, Taipei Sunday (台北星期天), a film about 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday online at www.artsticket.com.tw ■ 7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei 知音爵士樂團), a four-piece group with films made with subsidies issued annually by Filipinos in Taiwan. at 2:30pm City (台北市新生南路三段56巷7號). vibraphone, bass, drums and guitar. the Government Information Office (GIO), Other films worth seeing include the surreal ■ Tickets are NT$400 to NT$1,000, Classical Chamber Music of Tel: (02) 2362-5494. On the Net: ■ B1, 1, Ln 102, Anhe Rd Sec 1, Taipei and it takes years before there are enough love story A Flight to Yesterday (飛往昨天的 available through ERA ticketing or Taiwan Series — Pro Arte Trio (藝 www.witchhouse.org City (台北市安和路一段102巷1號B1). finished movies to make a presentable festival, CI006) and The Tunnel (隧道), a lyrical take on online at www.ticket.com.tw 像台灣經典室內樂系列 — 伯牙三重奏) ■ Performances start at 9:30pm. Tel: (02) 2700-5411. On the Net: according to the Chinese Taipei Film Archive a father-son relationship. presents the well-regarded local trio Restaurant/bar with queer/feminist www.sappho102.biz (國家電影資料館), the event’s organizer. Human Condition IV — The performing a program that includes bookstore and large collection of ■ Music shows start at 10:30pm on All films are shown in the original 35mm Same Moonlight? (人間條件四 — Tyzen Hsiao’s (蕭泰然) The Formosa Trio board games open 11am to midnight weekends, 10pm on weekdays. Sappho or high-definition digital format. Many of them 一樣的月光) is the latest installment of (福爾摩沙), Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B- Sundays through Wednesdays, 11am is closed on Sundays and Mondays receive limited public exposure, so the free Green Ray Theater’s (綠光劇團) Human Flat Major, Op. 97 and Chausson’s Piano to 1am Thursdays through Saturdays ■ Entrance is free screenings are a good chance for taxpayers to Condition series. Written and directed Trio in G Minor, Op. 3. ■ Entry fee for music shows is NT$300 see how the GIO is spending their money. by Wu Nien-jen (吳念真), the play ■ Today at 7:30pm Every Wednesday night at the Among the highlights at the second centers on the lives of two sisters, one ■ National Concert Hall, Taipei City Tonight at Riverside Cafe (河岸留言) Cosmopolitan Grill there’s an open Alternation Film Festival: who works as a cleaner, the other at an ■ Tickets are NT$400 and NT$600, singer Mickey Huang (黃子佼) and the mic hosted by keyboardist Andrew international company. available through NTCH ticketing or Wen Jazz Band (文Jazz Band) perform Page, with the music mainly covering ■ Metropolitan Hall (城市舞台), 25, online at www.artsticket.com.tw “classic romantic jazz songs.” Folk rocker blues and jazz. Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市八德 Connie Lu (呂莘) is among several ■ 1F, 218 Changchun Rd, Taipei City 路三段25號) Area51 Harp & Violin Duo musicians appearing tomorrow for a (台北市長春路218號1樓). Tel: (02) 2508- ■ Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at (Area51 小提琴與豎琴二重奏) features benefit concert for victims of Typhoon 0304. On the Net: www.cosmo.com.tw 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday violinist Li Hsuan (李瑄) and harpist Morakot. Mando-pop singer Chi Hsin- ■ 8:30pm to 11pm on Wednesdays Above: Suicide Pact, directed by Liao Ming-i. at 2:30pm Chen Shu-hsing (陳淑杏), who enjoyed pei (季欣霈) plays two sets on Sunday. ■ No entrance fee Left: Pain of Others, directed by Lin Shu-yu. ■ Tickets are NT$500 to NT$3,000, huge success with a similar concert Monday is the venue’s weekly open jam. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TAIPEI FILM ARCHIVE available through NTCH ticketing or last year. The program they will ■ B1, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, EZ5 Live House hosts Mando-pop online at www.artsticket.com.tw present includes arrangements of Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷 singers backed by a live band every Paganini’s Sonata Concertante, Louis 2號B1), next to Taipower Building (台電 night. Highlights this week include pub FESTIVAL NOTES: A collaboration between Taiwanese Spohr’s Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 16, 大樓). Tel: (02) 2368-7310. On the Net: legend and songstress Tiger Huang artist Sun Chuo-tai (孫梲泰) and Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango and www.riverside.com.tw (黃小琥), who performs every Monday. 交替影展 • Lin Shu-yu’s (林書宇) The Pain of Others WHAT: Alternation Film Festival ( ) American choreographer Casey Avaunt, Bosch’s Passacaille. ■ Shows start at 9:30pm tonight and Julia Peng (彭佳慧) is another major (海巡尖兵). Lin made this short about cruelty WHEN: Today to Sept. 27. The festival Electron (電子) by 8213 Physical ■ Monday at 7:30pm 9pm tomorrow, on Sunday and on draw who appears every Tuesday. in the military before helming his acclaimed will tour Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan and Dance Theater (8213肢體舞蹈劇場) ■ National Recital Hall, Taipei City Monday. Open jam starts at 9pm. For a ■ 211, Anhe Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北 feature debut, Winds of September (九降風). Kaohsiung from next month to December addresses the alienation brought about ■ Tickets are NT$250 and NT$400, list of standard songs and ground 市安和路二段211號). Tel: (02) 2738- • Waterfront Villa Bonita (水岸麗景) by Lou WHERE: Spring Cinema Galaxy (絕色影城), by technology through simplified and available through NTCH ticketing or rules, visit the venue’s Web site 3995. On the Net: visit www.ez5.com.tw Yi-an (樓一安). This short examines the absurdity 9F, 52 Hanzhong St, Taipei City (台北市漢中 functional movements and dance online at www.artsticket.com.tw ■ Entrance fee is NT$400 tonight and ■ Music shows run from 9:45pm to of urban life through the eyes of people living 街52號9樓) techniques. [See story on Page 14.] tomorrow, NT$350 on Sunday and 12:30am on the margins of society. Audiences may find ADMISSION: Free ■ Guling Street Theater (牯嶺街小劇場), NT$150 on Monday ■ Entrance fee (includes two drinks) a similar sensibility in Lou’s first full-length 2, Ln 5, Guling St, Taipei City (台北市牯 ranges from NT$600 to NT$850, ON THE NET: alternation.pixnet.net/blog feature, A Place of One’s Own (一席之地), which 嶺街5巷2號) Contemporary Tonight Riverside Live House (西門 depending on the performer ■ Tonight at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 紅樓展演館) hosts Moshi Cup 2009, 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday Tomorrow night VU Live House which features a lineup that includes Franz and Friends (城市舞台藝文沙 at 2:30pm hosts two parties, Drum and Bass 101 indie-pop musicians Peggy Hsu (許哲 龍), an upscale restaurant and ■ Tickets are NT$280, available and From Old Skool to Nu Skool, 珮), Nylas and 929 and Mando-pop performance space in Taipei’s East through NTCH ticketing or online at featuring DJs JD and MOS, Elemence singer Shadya (藍又時). All proceeds District, hosts music shows every night. www.artsticket.com.tw and Coffeepot, as well as MCs Babble from the event go to If Kids Theater’s (如 The music tends to play it safe, ranging THE VINYL WORD On and Shaman.