Professional Development Workshop: The “Brain-Voice Connection”

Posted on April 30, 2009

May 14, 2009
6:30 pm	to	9:00 pm

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn how to make impressive and organized speech, overcome fear of public speaking, and even reduce accents! We have invited voice trainer expert Anna Bernstein, Anna Bernstein, founder of The Brain-Voice Connection®, to present an interactive workshop about voice improvement. Anna will include tips about taking your voice to its most professional. Anna will lead us to do interactive practice in small group exercise as well as provide us knowledge and skills in speaking professionally. This is a rare opportunity!! Anna usually charges a corporation $6500 for a workshop like this! Hope to see many of you taking this opportunity to learn from her expertise! Please prepay OR RSVP to reserve your spot. Space is limited!!

Topics will include:

• Learning how to project your voice with warmth and power
• How to sound like a leader and expert
• Influencing clients and prospects with your voice
• Accent reduction
• Learning how to make The Brain-Voice Connection®
• Understanding how the audience listens to you with The Three Ones®

Time: 5/14 Thursday 6:30-9pm

Cost:
Prepay online by noon 5/14
TAPS members: $10 prepay link
non-members: $15 prepay link

OR

Pay at the door: $20

Location: Taiwan Center in U district
4307 11th Ave. NE
Seattle WA 98105

Presenter:
Anna Bernstein  has been helping executives, employees and entrepreneurs get what they want with her unique method of voice skills improvement. Her goal is to help people speak like leaders. Speaking like a leader increases their ability to improve sales, profit and influence. We focus on communication skills, voice improvement, and presentation skills.  Her expertise includes: overcoming fear of public speaking, improve overall speech communication professionally, accent reduction, and voice techniques with the neuroscience research of how the brain influences the voice.  She has been featured as a voice expert in Working Woman, Men’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Entrepreneur, and Self magazines.

Website: http://www.brain-voice.com/
Current and former clients include:

• The Boeing Company
• Starbucks Coffee Corporation
• Seattle University
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Microsoft
• Riddell Williams P.S.
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Consolidated Edison
• The New York Times
• Lavasoft
• Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Senior executives from Fortune 100 companies

TAPS Lim Jiu (Happy Hour) at See Sound Lounge

Posted on April 26, 2009

May 8, 2009
6:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

Come and chill at one of Seattle ultra-slick lounges

Friday, May 8^th, 6 – 10 PM
TAPS has reserved a private room (Deep Room) and happy hour is extended from 6 - 10 PM.  Woo Hoo!  Take a sneak peak at http://seesoundlounge.com/
Invite your friends & colleagues, and let’s have some fun together. Bonus – There will be an art show for the art enthusiast at the See Sound Lounge

Like surprises?  Be there to find out…

Please RSVP so we can accomodate our all guests.

Got questions?  Please contact Mikii Liu at (206) 898-0168 or Huey Sung at (425) 802-7821.

Cheers! 乾杯!

Celebrate Taiwanese American Heritage Month – TAGS Concert Featuring Artists from Taiwan

Posted on April 26, 2009

May 3, 2009
7:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

7 PM at Kirkland Performance Center – 350 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland, WA 98033

Ticket Price – $10 - Contact 425-736-8476 for tickets

O-Kai A Cappella 

O-Kai is a contemporary a cappella group that is composed of members from a diverse background.  The six member group is composed of three students, a bubble tea shop owner, a deep-mountain mushroom harvester, and a winner of the Golden Timepiece Award.  Their musical creations have crossed cultural divides and were performed in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States for competitions and showcases.

 

Displaying the uniqueness of Taiwan, O-Kai will be singing in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Tai-Ya aboriginal dialect.  Although homegrown in Taiwan, O-Kai A Cappella Group draws their inspiration from the world wide music genres including jazz, pop music, classical music, rock and roll, Peking opera, techno, and musicals.

Hsieh Yu-Wei’s Band 

Hsieh Yu-Wei, a Hakka raised in one of Taiwan’s great metropolis, is constantly searching for the life’s ideals and life’s root experiences.  Upon getting to know Yu-Wei, he would elucidate and share his recollections of childhood memories, love’s sensitivity, life’s relational connections as well as family ties.

 

Not wanting the Hakka culture to become the limitation to music and conversely not wanting music to bound Hakka identity, Yu-Wei’s music is a harmonization of both cultural identity and music beauty.  Upon hearing his songs, the realization is instant that Hakka music is graceful and emotionally expressive.  For his work, Yu-Wei has garnered 15 Best Hakka Language Performer Awards in Taiwan.

 

Celebrating Taiwanese American Heritage Month in May Over the past 40 years, three generations of Taiwanese Americans have weaved their unique culture into the fabric of the American society.  Coming from an island nation and planting a new beginning in this country, immigrant Taiwanese have found the United States a place of worthy ideals, opportunities, and the perfect place for their future generations to live and prosper.  In their efforts to create a better future for themselves and their family, they have disseminated into all walks of life in this nation, thickening the texture of the American social fabric.  Day in and day out, they have strived for a brighter future but not forgetting their root as Taiwanese and the beautiful island that they came from. In 1999, President Clinton designated the month of May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.  To recognize the contributions made by Taiwanese Americans and to celebrate their heritage, one week out of this month was formally designated as Taiwanese American Heritage Week.  Since 1999, Taiwanese communities around the United States have taken this special week to showcase and share their heritage to fellow Americans. In Seattle we will be celebrating this year’s Taiwanese American Heritage Month through the following events: 

• Music performances from O-Kai A Cappella and Hsieh Yu-Wei’s band at the Kirkland Performance Center on May 3^rd, 7:15pm.  Contact: 425-736-8476

 

• Taste of Taiwanese Cuisine, Bites of Asia on the University of Washington HUB Lawn on Sunday, May 7^th, 11AM ~ 3PM.  Contact: tosa@u.washington.edu

 

• Taiwanese Night Market on the University of Washington HUB Lawn on Saturday, May 16^th at 6pm.  Contact: www.areyouhungry.org

 

• Visit the Taiwan Information Booth at the U-District Street Fair, May 16^th & 17^th 10AM~6PM.  Contact: 206-633-1211

Note: API (Asian Pacific Islander) Heritage Month Celebration Event at the Seattle Center on May 3rd,  12 – 5 PM, featuring Tatum Jones.  For details go to http://www.seattlecenter.com/events/festivals/festal/detail.asp?EV_EventNum=6

Upcoming Events in May

Posted on April 26, 2009

Please join us in May for the following social, personal development, and community service activites -

• May 3rd at 7 – 9 PM - Celebrate Taiwanese American Heritage Month – TAGS kick off with Concert at Kirkland Performance Center
• May 8th at 6 – 10 PM – Lim Jiu at See Sound Lounge
• May 14th at 6:30 – 9 PM – TAPS Professional Development presents “The Brain Voice Connection” at Taiwan Center

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