The 2017 budget for the Ministry of Culture has been confirmed as NT$19.45 billion. The allocation represents NT$2.81 billion more than last year's budget, reflecting a total increase of 17%.
The National Taichung Theater, a world-class performance venue ten years in the making, was officially handed over to the Ministry of Culture to help ensure the equal distribution of cultural resources across all of Taiwan.
The 2016 Youth Go! Village Cultural Development Project Competition offers grant money of up to NT$1 million (US$31,500). All local residents and foreign nationals residing in Taiwan aged between 20 and 35 are eligible to apply before Oct. 11, 2016.
To foster deeper and more diverse collaboration in the arts among the cultural communities of Southeast Asia and Taiwan, a grants program offered by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China will accept proposals through Oct. 31, 2016.