The ICOM COMCOL 2023 Annual Conference is taking place from Oct. 24 to 27 in Taipei City and Yilan County with 25 international participants including scholars from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Jointly presented by the ICOM International Committee for Collecting (COMCOL), National Taiwan Museum (NTM), and the Chinese Associations of Museums (CAM), it is the first international gathering focused on museum collections organized in Taiwan.
To establish an international training and exchange mechanism in art-related fields, and to foster talents in arts and design with international insights, the Ministry of Education has carried out Scholarship Program for Overseas Study in Arts and Design (SPOSAD) since 2005. Those who are selected will be studying abroad for a year under MOE’s sponsorship on tuition fees and living expenses. As of this year, 363 students benefited from the program.
Echoing the New Southbound Policy initiated by the Executive Yuan in 2017, the Ministry of Culture (MOC) started to expand its overseas offices in the Indo-Pacific region such as in Bangkok, Sydney, and New Delhi, integrating with the existing office in Kuala Lumpur to form a larger cultural network.
Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), Ministry of Health and Welfare hosts “2023 APEC Communication Platform for Analytical Techniques - Food from Biotechnology-Derived Crops Workshop” on October 17th at the GIS MOTC Convention Center in Taipei. The workshop aims to improve the exchange of analytical techniques and testing expertise for food from biotechnology-derived crops in the Asia-Pacific regions. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation has supported the workshop, which was formally endorse
“The Brotherhood (同棲時間) ,” a collaborative production between the Cultural Division of the Taipei Representative Office in Malaysia and renowned figures in the Malaysian theater scene, brings together Taiwanese playwright Lin Meng-huan (林孟寰), Malaysian director Loh Kok Man (羅國文), and producer William Yap (葉偉良). The play features actors from both counties, including Lawrence Ong (翁書強), Noah Yap (葉國文), and Wang Chao-yang (王肇陽), among others.
Curated by Taiwanese curator and Alice Ko Nien-Pu (柯念璞) and hosted by Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects, the contemporary art exhibition titled “Singing in Unison, Part 8: Between Waves,” opening on Oct. 7, is taking place at lndustry City in Brooklyn through Jan. 12, 2024.
Taiwan’s Formosa Circus Art (FOCA) is scheduled to stage performances of two shows Oct. 11-15 at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe, spotlighting the vibrancy of the country’s performing arts sector, according to the Ministry of Culture Oct. 4.
The Ministry of Education held a ceremony Oct. 4 in Taipei City to honor 60 students who won gold medals for Taiwan at 13 international invention competitions over the past two years.
On September 5, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) held an orientation at National Sun Yat-sen University to welcome the 2023 International Higher Education Scholarship Program recipients.
India’s new representative to Taiwan Manharsinh Laxmanbhai Yadav is hoping the two sides’ complementary strengths and shared values and interests will provide a solid foundation for deepening ties and cooperation for years to come.
