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2017-02-10
ISSUE #196
Ongoing
Taiwanese performers and artists celebrate the Year of the Rooster at the 15th edition of Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts taking place in Singapore's Theatres on the Bay.
'Guetteurs – Focus France – Taiwan' offers audiences a brand-new experience in how sound can be redefined, deconstructed, and reformed by artistic creativity.
A collaborative exhibition on earthquakes in the history of Taiwan and Japan is being showcased at the National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku).
'Elsewhere is Nowhere,' an international joint exhibition curated by Taiwanese and German artists, is on view at Vienna's Kunsthalle Exnergasse (KEX).
'Europe Connexion,' a play featuring Taiwan's Party Theatre Group and French group Cie du Veilleur, begins a three-month tour in France.
The colorful menagerie sprung from the fertile imagination of artist Hung Yi has taken up residence at New York City's Garment District in Midtown Manhattan.
Ministry Updates
President pledges support for audiovisual industry
The Ministry of Culture held a spring party for local audiovisual professionals on Feb. 7 at the Taipei Grand Hotel. The guest of honor, President Tsai Ing-wen, pledged financial support for Taiwan’s film and television sectors.
Lineup for the 2017 Taipei book fair unveiled
Under the theme 'Sharing the Joy of Reading' this year, the Taipei International Book Exhibition returns for its 25th edition with more international publishers, independent bookstores, editing forums, and e-books.
Grants offered for holding events on Taiwan culture
The Ministry of Culture's 'Spotlight Taiwan' project, a cooperative program seeking partnership with professional arts and culture organizations and leading universities, is open to new applicants for the year 2017.
Cultural Features
As one of the filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave Cinema movement in the 1980s, Wang Toon specializes in depicting the nuances of human emotion from a historical context.
Filmmaker | Wang Toon
Tsou Yung-shan is a Berlin-based novelist and artist who has made writing her way of making art. She explores the connections between image and text, cognition and meaning, and communication and interpretation from different cultural perspectives.
Writer | Tsou Yung-shan
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