Dear TANG Parents and Adults,
 

We are so excited to welcome everyone to this year’s TANG conference.  Each year we continue to grow and this year is no exception. We continue to be the fastest growing program within TANG. This year you will see new things in our program as well as time tested favorites. 

 

One new thing for this year is that we’ve rebranded ourselves TANG Parents and Adults (TPA) to be more inclusive of those participants who are not parents. We are going paperless with an online  program book. You can access the schedule, short descriptions of each session, speaker bios and more at tangeneration.org/tpa2024. 

 

Highlights for this year’s program include a screening of Invisible Nation, a groundbreaking film of President Tsai-Ing Wen’s last year’s of her presidency, followed by a Q&A session with the producers.  We are honored and fortunate to host  Taiwan’s former Vice President Chen Chien-Jen who will  share his perspectives on the sustainable development of Taiwan.,  and Taiwanese American community builder Ho Chie Tsai, MD  will talk about the future of the Taiwanese American community.  We are also “Bridging the gap” in an inter programming session with High School. 

 

Just like years past, we continue to  offer many  optional activities so choose your own adventure.  Please feel free to explore TACEC programming as well; the TACEC schedule is available at this link.  For early risers, there will be  pickleball, tennis and Qi-Gong.   We did not forget to include time to relax and have fun connecting at the welcome reception, Taiwan night rehearsals and performance, ribbon dancing, game night, and an expanded night market. New to our program this year is a DJ karaoke/dance party so bring your favorite tunes and dancing shoes! 

 

Our 2024 conference communication platform is Slack; we recommend that all participants download the app and join our tpa2024 channel to keep up to date and communicate with each other using Slack on your mobile device.  We will be posting announcements to the channel so make sure you add notifications when you sign up.  If you can, please try and use the email address that you registered with for seamless sign in to the tpa2024 channel. The link to the online program will also be pinned to the Slack channel. We would like to keep our community connected after TANG and throughout the year on this virtual platform. A link to join the channel has been sent to the email you registered with.

 

This year’s outing will be held at SkyZone Trampoline Park at 9am on Friday July 5th; our time there will be before the park opens to the public, so we will have the place to ourselves for the majority of the time we are there. Please use the link below to sign up and sign the waiver.  There’s no additional charge for this event.  All are welcome to join this off campus field trip even if you prefer not to jump;  just come and hang out! 

 

https://forms.gle/rB53ohKdqUEJrewq6 

 

This year, TANG staff is putting together a family photo wall in the dorm lobby composed of pictures of staffs' family to coincide with this year's theme. They would really love some pictures from TPA. Showcase your kids, agong, ama, or pets! If you're interested please send Kevin your photos by midnight on Sunday, June 30th at kchang@tangeneration.org.

 

TANG is an all-volunteer organization. Special thanks to all of the donors, speakers, workshop leaders, and back-up medical support volunteers for making our conference a success. We appreciate you! TANG has always been an opportunity to connect with old friends, make new ones, and enjoy being immersed in the Taiwanese American community. So dive in, engage, and enjoy the conference. 

 

Sincerely, 

 

TANG Parents and Adults Program Committee

 

Ru-fong Cheng        Rolla Chng        Mary Chu    

SuAnn Chen        Godwin Chen        Jen Yang

Maurice Chen