“Isle to Isle: Taiwan Design Week (島嶼島：臺灣設計週),” organized by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia, will be launched at the George Town Festival in Penang. As part of the festival, Taiwanese design projects will be displayed at a design exhibition titled “Beyond Aesthetics,” which will run from July 16 to 24.
With the support of the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, Taiwanese films “Mama Boy (初戀慢半拍),” “The Funeral (頭七),” “My Best Friend’s Breakfast (我吃了那男孩一整年的早餐),” “Terrorizers (青春弒戀),” “Life for Sale (售命),” “Tank Fairy (桶妝仙女),” and “Reclaim (一家之主)” will be featured at Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and Asia Society from July 16 to 29, as part of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival.
The United Nations hosts the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York every July, where it invites leaders and civil society groups from various countries to jointly review the progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and propose corresponding strategies. The meeting is now in its 10th year (2022) and will be held from Tuesday, 5 July, to Friday, 15 July 2022.
After bagging three awards at the Taipei Film Festival on July 9, “Demigod: The Legend Begins (素還真)” went on to win the Audience Award for Best Asian Film at the 21st Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), which took place in Switzerland.
Organized by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia and curated by INXO Arts and Culture Foundation, Tea Philo (哲學茶席) invited the General and Artistic Director of National Theater and Concert Hall (NTCH) Liu Yi-ruu (劉怡汝) to give an online talk on the theme of “The Journey to Inclusiveness” on June 25. The event was hosted by the Assistant Artistic Director and senior dancer, Lim Hong-jie (林弘捷), from Dua Space Dance Theater (共享空間舞團).
There are many attractive opportunities for Taiwan and India to collaborate bilaterally. That came from Indian Council of Social Sciences Research head Virendra Kumar Malhotra on Monday.
The Taiwan Film Festival in Australia will return from July 28 to August 13 this year with a lineup of feature and short films set to be screened in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra.
Taiwan joined fellow Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members Australia, Canada and New Zealand in celebrating the recent launch of the co-founded Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Arrangement in Ottawa.
In order to encourage Indonesian college students to study abroad, last year Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology established the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA). The first scholarships will be awarded in September this year to four hundred students of technical and vocational colleges and universities to promote their internationalization.
To echo with the upcoming "International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 ROC (國際版畫雙年展)," the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) invited members of the jury of the exhibition to give keynote speeches on Taiwanese and international printmaking trends at the seminar on June 25. The speakers included Professor Lesley Duxbury from Australia and Professor Lu Yen-ching (呂燕卿), who serves as the Taiwanese representative of the jury.
