Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle TAGS (大西雅圖區台灣同鄉會)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle TAGS
- Chinese: 大西雅圖區台灣同鄉會
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle (TAGS, 大西雅圖台灣同鄉會) is a chapter of the Taiwanese Association of America (TAA, 全美台灣同鄉會), the national umbrella organization of Taiwanese American community associations. TAGS serves the Taiwanese American community in the greater Seattle area and the state of Washington. The chapter is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Role in the Community
- TAGS is documented in TAH’s community story corpus as the Greater Seattle chapter of TAA — see TAIWANESE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (TAGS), a community record dated 2015-12-09.
- A dedicated chapter history, written as community history by the community itself, is held at Brief History of TAGS 大西雅圖區台灣同鄉會簡介 (published 2017-10-04).
- An affiliated seniors’ group, the Senior Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle (大西雅圖台灣同鄉松年會), is recorded at 大西雅圖台灣同鄉松年會 (record dated 2014-10-12), indicating an established elder-membership wing by the mid-2010s.
- Cross-community recognition: community-activity leader David Chen credits TAGS, alongside the UW Taiwanese Student Association and Seattle Formosan Christian Church, as foundational to his Taiwanese-language learning — see David Chen Taiwanese handbook interview.
- Seattle ecosystem: TAGS operates alongside the Greater Seattle community-center network — the 大西雅圖台美基金会 secured the Seattle Taiwanese Community Center (西雅圖台灣會館, opened 2004-02-28, donated by the 林正南 and 陳紹紀 families at a nominal $1/year rent) as recorded in the community memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys30|Our Journeys #30]], with its inaugural magazine at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/547-e8-a5-bf-e9-9b-85-e5-9c-96-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e6-9c-83-e9-a4-a8-e5-89-b5-e5-8|TAH #547 西雅圖台灣會館創刊號, 2005]].
- Shared community programming: the Greater Seattle Taiwanese American Community Scholarship Awards record ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/7-taiwanese-american-community-scholarship-awards-pta-seattle|TAH #7, 2015-07-21]]) and the affiliated 大西雅圖台灣婦女會 (Greater Seattle Taiwanese Women’s Club, 2014-10-12) document the chapter’s scholarship and women’s-club layers.
- Sister-chapter context: the parallel 大鹽湖區台灣同鄉會 (TAGSL) is recorded at TAGSL, confirming the TAGS-name chapter pattern across the TAA network.
- 2021-02-28 — chapter president 林奕宏 led TAGS’ online 228 commemoration 「1947交響曲－二二八事件74週年線上紀念活動」, a partnership with 僑務委員會 and the Asiania platform featuring 大支, 老莫, and 楊舒雅’s theme song 「1947序曲」; 林奕宏: 「透過音樂去溝通理解，讓音樂成為時空的橋樑」 (TJJ 轉載中央社記者, 2021-02-27) — the chapter’s 228 programming builds on the 蕭泰然 1947 Overture tradition.
- 2023-11-07 — TAGS co-hosted the University of Washington screening of Vanessa Hope’s documentary Invisible Nation with the UW East Asia Center and the Seed Kite Foundation / UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program (Invisible Nation coverage), showing the chapter active in film/culture programming into the 2020s.
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