The Ministry of Culture recently announced that it has registered “Amis Malan Macacadaay (阿美族馬蘭Macacadaay),” “Paiwan Kinavatjesan traditional embroidery (排灣族Kinavatjesan傳統刺繡),” and “Paiwan tjemenun traditional weaving (排灣族tjemenun傳統織布)” as important traditional performing arts and crafts of the Taiwanese indigenous people, and has designated Chu-Yin Culture and Arts Troupe (杵音文化藝術團), Lavaus (陳利友妹), and Ljumiyang (許春美) as their respective preservers.
The Youth Cultural Gardeners: Taiwan-Southeast Asia Grants Program for Culture Exchanges and Collaboration is part of the Ministry of Culture's latest southward bound policy. Youths in Taiwan are chosen on the Taiwan-Southeast Asia cultural exchanges since 2016.
Taiwan’s Indonesian community paid tribute to one of its national heroines who fought for women’s equality, Raden Ajeng Kartini, by organizing cultural activities and a children’s parade in Taipei on Sunday.
As part of the campaign to turn Taiwan into a bilingual nation by 2030, the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Saturday said it is subsidizing the hiring of more foreign English-language teachers for local public schools starting this year.
The annual Dajia Matsu Pilgrimage will set out from Jenn Lann Temple in Taichung City on Friday, and for the first time the start of the procession will be live streamed in 11 languages by Radio Taiwan International (RTI).
The 2021 Asia Pacific Social Innovation Summit will be held on April 10 and April 11 in New Taipei City. The summit will include speakers that are experts in the field. Through the two-day summit activities, people can understand important international trends and interact with people who are experts in the social innovation field. There would also be a market featuring more than 60 social innovation organizations.
The Cultural Affairs Department of New Taipei City Government organized a “2021 Culture Festival in New Taipei City”(新北市多元文化節), to help new immigrants assimilate into Taiwan culture. The festival starts on April 1st and ends on April 30th. This year, the theme of the festival is “Who lives in New Taipei City?” New immigrants are invited to record their cultural stories, and the audio stories will be shared with the public during the festival.
The NIA Kaohsiung Service Center (移民署南區事務大隊高雄市第一服務站) organized an activity to help new immigrants understand family education and laws (新住民家庭教育暨法令宣導). The event aims to help new immigrants assimilate into Taiwan culture.
The New Southbound Policy has been adopted to identify a new direction and a new driving force for a new stage of Taiwan's economic development. Through economic and talent exchange, the policy hopes to develop a friendly relationship with the Indo-pacific regional.
More than a dozen artists will exhibit works inspired by Yuguang Island’s coastal scenery, at a biennial arts festival that starts March 27, Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) said Wednesday.
