臺北市新住民專區網站英文版

Taipei City Government Civil Affairs Bureau Press Release

Issued by: Population Policy Section

Released date: February 17, 2023

Contact person: Wu Chongxin Section Chief Luo Xiangyun

Contact number: 1999 ext. 6258, 6375, 0966590813, 0935265759

  The 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taipei is closing on February 19, 2023. New immigrant lanterns located in the Fount of Light Display Zone of the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park are created through co-creation workshops. The co-creation workshops invited artists, new immigrants, and second-generation immigrants to participate in the creative process together. By drawing on the imagination of different cultures, many inspiring works were created. These lanterns are not the personal artistic creations of the artists, they are vessels that carries the stories and hearts of new immigrants.

  All good things come to an end, but inspiration is forever. To continue the inspirations brought by these works that tell the stories of new immigrants, the Taipei City Government plans to exhibit the lanterns around Taiwan after the lantern festival event ends, allowing more people to see these beautiful co-created stories.

  The lantern About Taipei that contains stories written by new immigrants and second-generation immigrants about their impressions of Taipei, will be exhibited at the Shilin New Immigrants’ Hall in Taipei City. The New Year luminous mural, which is made up of paintings of traditional dishes from various countries, will be preserved and continue to exhibit at the Wanhua New Immigrants' Hall. A Home of One‘s Own, co-created by French artist Margot Guillemot and Chiu Chieh-sen, will be exhibited at an outdoor plaza in the Longsheng neighborhood of Da'an District. Other works that will be exhibited in various corners of Taipei include Under the Stars (Xingya neighborhood in Xinyi District and Jiaoer Square in front of Taipei-Fu Chenghuang Temple), and Grow the Taipei Tastes (Ludi Park of Wanhua District). Grow the Taipei Tastes will be dissembled, with some parts exhibiting in Wanhua District, and another part moved to Jiji Township in Nantou County, so that more people can appreciate new immigrants’  experiences after they started living in Taiwan.

  In addition, Hito Bito, co-created by Japanese artist Daisuke Nagatomo and Taiwanese artist Chan Ming-ni will be moved to the New Taipei City Hakka Museum. As for the The River of Memory, which represents the traditional Philippine culture of Bayanihan (community spirit), will continue its journey of memories to Chishang Township in Taitung County. The continuous exhibition of the lanterns echoes the theme of having new immigrant works in this year's Taiwan Lantern Festival. The exhibition aims to promote the concepts of "co-existence," "co-prosperity," and "co-creation," with the hope of continuing to inspire and share new immigrant stories while illuminating different parts of Taiwan.