Bartlett Village President Michael E. Kelly, middle left, and Perry Shen, director general of the Taipei Economic Cultural Office in Chicago, cut the ribbon to open the photo exhibit Thursday at the village hall. The exhibit is on display until July 26.
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After a group of Bartlett residents last year visited Taiwan, their counterparts from the sister city of Miaoli City returned the favor on Thursday.
A crowd gathered for the unveiling of a photo exhibit, “Enchanting Taiwan,” at the new Bartlett Center for the Arts. Open houses with refreshments will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
The exhibit, which runs through July 26, features art loaned by members of the Arts in Bartlett.
A related photo exhibit, “Retracing Our Steps: A Photo Journey Through 100 Years of the ROC,” celebrating Taiwan's centennial, will be on display at village hall, 228 S. Main St., during the same period.
The members of the arts group in February 2010 traveled to Miaoli City, Taiwan, as part of the Bartlett International Chorus concert tour. The chorus performed songs in both English and Hakka, the native language of Miaoli City in northwest Taiwan. During the reciprocal visit to Bartlett, the Hakka were accompanied by a Taiwanese television crew filming a documentary on Hakka people in the U.S. and Canada.
The “Enchanting Taiwan” exhibit is at the new location for Arts in Bartlett. The 1,300-square-foot space is at 118 W. Bartlett Ave. #2. and features gallery and lesson spaces, as well as artist studios.
Treasurer for Arts in Bartlett Sue Stocks, left, and Alice Johnson-Refvik, from Bartlett, look at many photographs of the Taiwan landscape. The Bartlett Center For the Arts is hosting a photography exhibit in honor of the sister city Miaoli City.
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Bartlett Village President Michael E. Kelly, right, receives an explanation from Perry Shen, director general of the Taipei Economic Cultural Office in Chicago, about one of the many photographs being exhibited at the Arts in Bartlett Center on Thursday. The center is hosting a photo gallery in honor of the sister city Miaoli City.
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A photography gallery called Retracing Our Steps: A Photo Journey Through 100 Years of the ROC is on display in the Bartlett Village Hall until July 26.
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Members of the Bartlett International Chorus and the Chicago Hakka Chorus join to sing traditional Hakka songs Thursday afternoon at the Bartlett Village Hall. Hakka is the language of the people in Mialoi City in northwest Taiwan.
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