Busking in Kaohsiung

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How to apply for a street performing license in Taipei/Yilan

Ahoy-hoy. My friend and I are street performers and fire dancers–me with hula, him with staff and drum. We’ve got a pretty good act and tend to attract decent sized crowds wherever we spin. This was great, until a few weeks ago a cop kicked us out of Danshui for lack of license. Being foreigners, neither of us had a clue we even needed a license prior to this. I sought information from locals on how to obtain said license. They provided me with half the puzzle pieces: namely that you need to au…