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Past Events 2026.08.14

The Catch | Yilan

The Catch follows the Kuroshio Current that carries elvers from the Philippines to Taiwan each winter, drawing eel catchers from across the country to the mouth of the Lanyang River in Yilan.

📍 Island Documentary Studio (No. 17, Minsheng E. Rd., Luodong Township, Yilan County) 🏛️ Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival, Island Documentary Studio, Street Corner Guerrilla

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Past Events 2026.08.08

March of Happiness | South East Bay Taiwanese Church

Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng, March of Happiness is set in the months between the end of Japanese rule and the outbreak of the 228 Incident, centred on the celebrated Tien-Ma Tea House in Taipei's Dadaocheng.

📍 South East Bay Taiwanese Church (788 Lewelling Blvd., San Leandro, CA 94579) 🎫 USD 15 🏛️ Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival, SEBTA

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Past Events 2026.08.08

March of Happiness | Taiwanese American Center of Northern California

Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng, March of Happiness is set in the months between the end of Japanese rule and the outbreak of the 228 Incident, centred on the celebrated Tien-Ma Tea House in Taipei's Dadaocheng.

📍 Taiwanese American Center of Northern California (4413 Fortran Ct., San Jose, CA 95134) 🎫 USD 10 🏛️ Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival, KLSI

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Past Events 2026.08.01

Film Screening | “Inside the Red Brick Wall”: The Aesthetics of Violence in Resistance

Film | Inside the Red Brick Wall Why would a university become a battlefield? In November 2019, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University became a site of resistance watched by the world. Police besieged the campus, firing tear gas and rubber bullets for days on end while hundreds of protesters were trapped inside. Some tried to […]

📍 International Lecture Hall, Cultural Heritage Park (2F, R04 Vision Hall, No. 362, Sec. 3, Fuxing Rd., South Dist., Taichung City) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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JUN 4

Past Events 2026.06.04

“Memory Knows No Borders, Resistance Knows No Bounds” — June 4th 37th Anniversary Memorial Vigil

“Memory Knows No Borders, Resistance Knows No Bounds” — June 4th 37th Anniversary Memorial Vigil The June 4th incident of 1989 laid bare the nature of totalitarian rule. For 37 years the Chinese Communist Party has continued to persecute dissidents through Hong Kong’s National Security Law, the re-education camps in Xinjiang, and transnational repression abroad. […]

📍 Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 29

Past Events 2026.05.29

Opening Press Conference: “Memory Knows No Borders, Resistance Knows No Bounds” — June 4th 37th Anniversary Vigil and the Human Rights Photography Exhibition “Tracing Light and Shadow: The Noise of Freedom”

The June 4th incident of 1989 laid bare the nature of totalitarian rule. For 37 years the Chinese Communist Party has continued to persecute dissidents through Hong Kong’s National Security Law, the re-education camps in Xinjiang, and transnational repression abroad. Beyond that, this authoritarian force is expanding globally, and Taiwan stands on the front line […]

📍 Conference Room 102, Chung-Hsing Building, Legislative Yuan (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 25

Past Events 2026.05.25–2026.06.11

Tracing Light and Shadow: The Noise of Freedom — June 4th 37th Anniversary Human Rights Photography Exhibition

Tracing Light and Shadow: The Noise of Freedom — June 4th 37th Anniversary Human Rights Photography Exhibition In 1989 the call for democracy in Tiananmen Square was put down in blood, and countless people who had sought freedom and reform were forced into silence. Over 37 years the Chinese Communist Party has not only tried […]

📍 Central Corridor, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (No. 21, Zhongshan S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 13

Past Events 2026.05.13–2026.06.20

Back to the Square: Us After June 4th — Photography Exhibition

Some memories do not truly disappear, even when they are suppressed. June 4th, 1989 changed how an entire generation understood freedom and state violence. More than three decades on, with China continuing to seal off that history and the public spaces for commemoration in Hong Kong steadily disappearing, we still hope to use images to […]

📍 Moqi Cafe, Taichung 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 13

Past Events 2026.05.13

Back to the Square: Us After June 4th | Exhibition Opening Talk

Back to the Square: Us After June 4th | Exhibition Opening Talk Time｜Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 18:30–21:30 Venue｜Moqi Cafe, No. 902, Sec. 2, Taiwan Blvd., Xitun Dist., Taichung Speakers｜Zhou Fengsuo, Kacey Wong, Chang Lung-chiao (張龍僑), Lin Fang-ju (林芳如) About the event｜ On June 4, 1989, the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing shocked the world. For more […]

📍 Moqi Cafe (No. 902, Sec. 2, Taiwan Blvd., Xitun Dist., Taichung) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association, Moqi Cafe

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Past Events May 12, 2026

Witnesses to History: The Scene of June 4th and Taiwan’s Memory

The June 4th events of 1989 were not only a historical episode that unfolded in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square — they profoundly shaped how the whole world understands freedom, democracy, and state violence. A Conversation on Witness, Memory, and Continuity Some were there in person; others kept watch from afar. Different vantage points together make up […]

📍 2F, No. 1, Lane 25, Sec. 3, Xinsheng S. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 20

Past Events 2025.05.20

Press Conference: June 4th 36th Anniversary Memorial Vigil and the “Kintsugi” Human Rights Photography Exhibition

The June 4th incident of 1989 laid bare the nature of totalitarian rule, and for 36 years the Chinese Communist Party has continued to persecute dissidents through Hong Kong’s National Security Law, the re-education camps in Xinjiang, and repression reaching across borders. For this June 4th the New School for Democracy Association linked memory to […]

📍 Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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JUN 11

Past Events 2024.06.11–2024.06.13

Life | Death | Presence | Oblivion: June 4th 35th Anniversary Art Exhibition

Running alongside the programme marking 35 years since June 4th, this exhibition was built by curators from Taiwan and Hong Kong around the idea of a “warehouse of memory,” bringing together 18 artists from around the world in a shelved, rack-like display space to explore, through the transformations art makes possible, the delicate relationships between […]

📍 Central Corridor, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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JUN 4

Past Events 2024.06.04

Pursuing Democracy Without Fear — June 4th 35th Anniversary Vigil

Following the passage of Hong Kong’s domestic national security legislation earlier that year, June 4th gatherings were banned in Hong Kong and Macau, and on the eve of the anniversary the authorities used the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (Article 23 of the Basic Law) for the first time to arrest six people: former Hong Kong […]

📍 Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association, Hong Kong Outlanders

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JUN 2

Past Events 2024.06.02

Life | Death | Presence | Oblivion: June 4th 35th Anniversary Art Exhibition — Artists’ Talk

Life, Death, Presence, Oblivion: June 4th 35th Anniversary Art Exhibition was curated by curators from Taiwan and Hong Kong around the idea of a “warehouse of memory,” bringing together 18 artists from around the world in a shelved, rack-like display space to explore, through the transformations art makes possible, the delicate relationships between death, existence […]

📍 Central Corridor, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 30

Past Events 2024.05.30

June 4th 35th Anniversary Lecture Series (Closing Session): The June 4th Massacre and China Today

Co-organizer: Professor Kuan Chung-hsiang (管中祥)Event & livestream page: https://www.facebook.com/events/988021798982091 Closing Session: The June 4th Massacre and China Today The closing session of the series. June 4th witness Wu Renhua described how, after the 1989 massacre, the Chinese Communist Party set about controlling Chinese society through both institutions and law, and how it still imposes “stability […]

📍 Room 227, College of Social Sciences Building 1, National Chung Cheng University (Chiayi) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 10

Past Events 2024.05.10

The Suppression of and Resistance by Artistic Free Will, Seen Through Democratization in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Co-organizer: Hao Min Cultural Action Association, TaichungEvent & livestream page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1510622039667076 Second Session: The Suppression of and Resistance by Artistic Free Will Exiled Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong spoke about his own life, his practice as an artist, and the state of the creative environment in Hong Kong today along with the silencing of speech […]

📍 Hao Min Cultural Action (No. 10, Lane 53, Minquan Rd., West Dist., Taichung) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association, Hao Min Cultural Action

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MAY 2

Past Events 2024.05.02

Young Activists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China in Conversation

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1123376962313587 Opening Session: A Decade on the Streets in Three Places The opening session of the series marking 35 years since the June 4th massacre brought together Huang Yen-ju (黃燕茹), chief marshal in the chamber during the Sunflower Movement, exiled Hongkonger Fu Tang, and Yang Ruohui (楊若暉), the Chinese youth organizer who founded […]

📍 Left Turn Books (No. 3-1, Zhenjiang St., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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JUN 4

Past Events 2023.06.04

“Defending Democracy Against Authoritarian Expansion, Gathering Sparks to Uphold Freedom” — June 4th 34th Anniversary Memorial Vigil

Under the National Security Law, June 4th gatherings were banned in Hong Kong and Macau, and in the days beforehand the Hong Kong authorities detained large numbers of people who intended to commemorate the anniversary or were carrying related items. June 4th had become taboo in Hong Kong, leaving Taiwan the only place in the […]

📍 Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 20

Past Events 2023.05.20–2023.06.13

Contemporary Democracy Art Exhibition — History Turned a Corner Here

Running alongside the programme marking 34 years since June 4th, this exhibition used art as a medium for actively connecting the region’s democratic forces. Through the creative freedom the works embodied, it broke through silence and the boundaries of language, and paired the art with newspapers from the period and a timeline of major world […]

📍 Central Corridor, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 20

Past Events 2023.05.20

Press Conference: June 4th 34th Anniversary Memorial Vigil and the Contemporary Democracy Art Exhibition

The press conference announced this year’s programme marking 34 years since June 4th, held under the theme “defending democracy against authoritarian expansion, gathering sparks to uphold freedom.” It set out the running order for the memorial vigil, the 3D Pillar of Shame initiative, the first Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival, the memorial pavilion on Liberty […]

📍 Central Corridor, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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APR 23

Past Events 2023.04.23

June 4th 34th Anniversary Lecture Series: Chinese Society and the Control of Religion After June 4th (Tainan Barclay Memorial Church)

Co-organizer: Church and Society Committee, Tainan Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in Taiwan Closing Session: Chinese Society Under Religious Control The closing session of the series. June 4th witness Wu Renhua described how, after the 1989 massacre, the Chinese Communist Party set about controlling Chinese society through both institutions and law — particularly after the State Council […]

📍 Elizabeth Chapel, Tainan East Gate Barclay Memorial Church (No. 180, Sec. 1, Dongmen Rd., East Dist., Tainan) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association, Church and Society Committee, Tainan Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in Taiwan

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APR 18

Past Events 2023.04.18

June 4th Lecture: China’s Predicament

Co-organizer: Dialogue China Asia HeadquartersEvent & livestream page: https://forms.gle/odEWj3jmKVc6nSZ19 Second Session: China’s Predicament Three Generations On Led by 1989 student leader Wuer Kaixi. Starting from how Taiwan and China have diverged in the 34 years since June 4th, the session discussed China’s present situation through the lens of three generations, examining the connections and divergences […]

📍 Taipei (venue announced after registration) 🏛️ Dialogue China Asia Headquarters, New School for Democracy Association

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APR 15

Past Events 2023.04.15

June 4th 34th Anniversary Lecture Series: Contemporary Social Movements in China After June 4th — The White Paper and White Hair Movements (Taichung)

Co-organizer: Hao Min Cultural Action Association, TaichungEvent & livestream page: https://www.facebook.com/events/228419923071096 Opening Session: China After the White Paper and White Hair Movements The opening session of the series marking 34 years since the June 4th massacre. June 4th survivor Wu Renhua shared his own experience and set it against the state of contemporary social movements […]

📍 Hao Min Cultural Action (No. 10, Lane 53, Minquan Rd., West Dist., Taichung) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association, Hao Min Cultural Action

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JUN 4

Past Events 2022.06.04

Democracy Resists Totalitarianism, the World Stands for Freedom — June 4th 33rd Anniversary Memorial Vigil

With June 4th gatherings banned in Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan had become the only place in the Chinese-speaking world where a commemoration could be held freely and with legal protection on June 4th itself. To comply with pandemic restrictions, the vigil was held in person alongside a simultaneous livestream, running from 6pm to 9pm […]

📍 Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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JUN 4

Past Events 2022.06.04

June 4th 33rd Anniversary Film Screening — May You Stay Forever Young

Part of the programme marking 33 years since June 4th, this event screened May You Stay Forever Young, a film connected to the June 4th massacre and the Hong Kong protests, followed by a post-screening discussion with young people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Through the film and the speakers’ own experiences, the audience […]

📍 Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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JUN 1

Past Events 2022.06.01–2022.06.12

Refusing to Be Silenced, Metaphors of Resistance — June 4th 33rd Anniversary Cross-Border Art Exhibition

Held as part of the programme marking 33 years since June 4th, this exhibition used art as a medium for actively connecting the region’s democratic forces — using the language of art to break silence and to resist politics imposed from above. It was paired with an escape-room experience built around China’s system of “residential […]

📍 Central Corridor / Liberty Square, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAY 20

Past Events 2022.05.20

June 4th 33rd Anniversary Lecture Series: Democracy and Human Rights in China Through the Lee Ming-che Case (Taichung)

Co-organizer: Hao Min Cultural Action AssociationEvent & livestream pages: https://reurl.cc/gMWq1Q　https://reurl.cc/jG8nEq Democracy and Human Rights in China Through the Lee Ming-che Case Beginning with the historical evolution of China’s bureaucratic system, this session reviewed how democracy has developed across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since June 4th, and used the Lee Ming-che case to discuss where […]

📍 Hao Min Cultural Action (No. 10, Lane 53, Minquan Rd., West Dist., Taichung) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association, Hao Min Cultural Action

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APR 21

Past Events 2022.04.21

June 4th 33rd Anniversary Lecture Series (Taipei)

Co-organizer: Left Turn BooksEvent & livestream page: https://reurl.cc/ZbG6oW Hong Kong and Taiwan, 33 Years After June 4th Starting from the history of the June 4th massacre, this session looked at how Taiwan and China have diverged in the 33 years since, discussing where both stand today across three generations, along with the connections and divergences […]

📍 Left Turn Books (No. 3-1, Zhenjiang St., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei) 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAR 26

Past Events 2022.03.26–2022.03.27

Art as Cross-Border Resistance — Forbidden Art * Residential Surveillance * Operation 415

This experiential exhibition on China’s machinery of human rights abuse centred on “residential surveillance at a designated location” (RSDL), the Chinese Communist Party’s foremost instrument of one-party rule. Produced with Safeguard Defenders, founded by Peter Dahlin, it used a large tent and movable set pieces to stage an escape-room experience, presented the accounts of people […]

📍 Warehouse C8-1, Dayi Warehouses, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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MAR 10

Past Events 2022.03.10

For Democracy, For Freedom | 3D Reconstruction of Hong Kong’s Pillar of Shame — They Tear It Down, We Build It Up

The Pillar of Shame, created by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt to mourn those killed and injured on June 4th, stood on the University of Hong Kong campus for 23 years until the university had it dismantled and removed overnight on December 22, 2021, citing the National Security Law. The New School for Democracy Association launched […]

📍 Online crowdfunding campaign 🏛️ New School for Democracy Association

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