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2024-07-26
ISSUE #672
Ongoing
The 23rd New York Asian Film Festival will take place from July 12 to 28, featuring the "Taiwan Transcendent" program with the screening of 11 Taiwan-produced films. The program includes "The Horse," "The Time of Huannan, "Be with Me." 
The "Tradition and Innovation - Pili Glove Puppetry Exhibition" was inaugurated at the Taiwan Cultural Center in Tokyo on June 20. The exhibition features classic characters, along with costumes from the Taiwan-Japan production "Thunderbolt Fantasy."
The Toronto International Film Festival, set to take place from July 4 to 30, will host the screening event "Edward Yang's Taipei Stories." This event invites cinephiles to experience late 20th-century Taipei through the perspective of director Edward Yang.
Ministry Updates
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Celebrating the upcoming Paris Olympic Games and Cultural Olympiad, the Ministry of Culture invited several noted traditional performing art groups to jointly perform the show "As You Like It." The rehearsal of the show was held on July 18.  
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The National Museum of Taiwan Literature announced the lineup of the 2024 Taiwan Literature Base's Writers-in-Residence program on July 18. The lineup includes 16 writers, comprising three from Taiwan and 13 from overseas.
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The Ministry of Culture is launching the 2024 National Languages Development Convention from July to September, organizing public forums across the country to facilitate public discussion on the crisis of national language loss. 
Cultural Features
Tong Wei-ge is a Taiwanese novelist. He studied at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University and the Graduate Institute of Theater Performance and Playwriting at the Taipei National University of Arts (TNUA). Currently, he serves as a lecturer at the TNUA School of Theater Arts.
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Kuo's Astral Bookshop, open in November 2022, is located on Dihu Street in the area of Dadaocheng, an important trading port in the 19th century and a major historical tourist attraction nowadays in Taipei. The bookshop was formerly Kuo Yi-mei Store established by businessman Kuo Wu-long about a hundred years ago.
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