Taiwan Week 2023, a biannual conference held by the National Theater & Concert Hall (NTCH), began on April 9, featuring a week of performances by Taiwanese performing arts troupes while playing host to 44 international curators representing prominent performing arts theaters of 14 countries/regions. The event, which runs until April 15, is the largest international gathering of its kind in Taiwan.
To highlight the openness, diversity and queer culture of Taiwanese society, the 2023 Queer East Festival, in collaboration with the Cultural Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK, will showcase a selection of Taiwanese audiovisual works at eight venues in London from April 18 to 30. The festival will then continue to tour 10 cities throughout the UK during the autumn season, and popular films from previous years will be screened online as part of the festival.
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture, Mark Teh (鄭家榮) and Lee Ren-xin (李人欣), members of the renowned Malaysian contemporary art group Five Arts Center (FAC), visited Taiwan to engage in a cultural exchange in the middle of April.
“Lost in Forest (山中森林),” a film starring award-winning actor Lee Kang Sheng (李康生), is scheduled to premiere on April 16 as part of Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) season 16. Taiwanese writer/director Johnny Chiang (姜寧) and Lee will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A session afterward.
Spanning nine days beginning April 7, the 2023 Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival (GHFFF) is back in Taipei with a series of film screenings, featuring a diverse range of genres, including Sci-Fi, horror, thriller, musical, comedy, Wuxia, animation, romance, and cult films.
The 51st National Book Fair took place at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center from March 30 to April 9 in Thailand. The Cultural Division of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Thailand, in collaboration with the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand (PUBAT) and the Thai Cartoon Association (TCA), launched a series of events titled “2023 Taiwan-Thailand Comics Exchanges (臺泰漫畫交流).”
The moda’s Deputy Minister Herming Chiueh visited Sydney, Australia, and attended The Sydney Dialogue on April 5 to share Taiwan’s experience on the impact of IT development on the market mechanism and the spirit of democracy, as well as how to strengthen digital resilience in the face of increasing cyber security threats.
Taiwanese boxer Huang Hsiao-wen (黃筱雯) won a gold medal at the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, India on Sunday.
A Maori team from New Zealand will take part in Taiwan’s 2023 National Indigenous Games slated to open Friday, according to the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP).
GO SMART (Global Organization of Smart City) will be exhibiting with it’s own pavilion at the Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE) from March 28 to March 31, featuring 22 outstanding smart city projects from around the world. The theme of the Pavilion is “A Smart City with Sharing and Openness,” reflecting GO SMART’s mission to create a platform dedicated to sharing international resources, bringing stakeholders together, and facilitating exchange to accelerate smart city development.
