Entries to the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts’ Kaohsiung Awards are open through Nov. 12, the museum said yesterday.
Submissions to enter next year’s 26th edition of the annual competition opened on Sunday, the museum said.
Established in 1997, the Kaohsiung Awards are one of the most representative art awards in Taiwan, it said.
The awards uphold a spirit of diversity and openness, and look forward to artists using original media and innovative thinking in their work, it said.
In the initial stage of the selection process, submitted works would be reviewed separately according to the media category in which they were accepted to
Donating Quintuple Stimulus Vouchers will help disadvantaged children and families who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families said in a statement on Friday last week.
The fund offers support to about 48,000 children and adolescents from 28,000 families across the nation, the fund said.
Nearly 9,000 of these families have been struggling financially because of the outbreak, it said, citing statistics from the end of last month.
The pandemic has exacerbated their financial troubles and they need help, the fund said.
Social workers at the fund keep in touch with the families, and provide emergency relief
More than 50 sites are to participate in the inaugural edition of the architectural festival Open House Hsinchu, which is to take place on Dec. 11 and 12, organizers said.
For 48 hours, members of the public can visit a selection of private spaces in the Greater Hsinchu area that are usually unnoticed, the organizers said in a statement on Thursday.
The event, which is free of charge, would give people a glimpse of a life in Hsinchu unknown to others, they said.
The festival is to feature places from private residences and architecture studios to religious sites, historical buildings and independent music
The two sides of the Taiwan Strait in their interactions should respect Sun Yat-sen’s (孫逸仙) founding of the Republic of China (ROC) 110 [sic] years ago, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday.
Chu made the remarks at a flag-raising ceremony at the KMT headquarters in Taipei to mark Double Ten National Day.
Over the past 110 years, the ROC has remained unshakable in the midst of turmoil, said Chu, who assumed the role of KMT chairman on Tuesday last week.
“From establishing the Republic of China to defending Taiwan and building Taiwan, the KMT has always stood at
“Be Brave!” is to be the theme of Taiwan’s pavilion at next year’s Angouleme International Comics Festival in France, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency announced on Wednesday.
The 49th edition of the festival is to return from Jan. 27 to 30 next year, after this year’s in-person event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite the cancelation, Taiwanese artists have not stopped creating, the agency told an information session at the Taiwan Comic Base in Taipei’s Datong District (大同).
With the help of funding from the Ministry of Culture, the creative energy of local comic artists has increased and excellent works have