Tai Pei, Taiwan next week, meeting with some of the performers who will be featured at Lunarfest, taking place in Vancouver January 22-Feb. 28 and coinciding with the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Among the performers are Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Chai Found Music Workshop, U Theatre and LaFa & Artists Dance Company. Lanterns will be a big component of Lunarfest, whose presentations will be outdoors and free. It should be a spectacular festival that adds greatly to the city’s 2010 party atmosphere.

Perhaps she’ll stop in at Dhaka, Bangladesh to meet me for lunch.