Taiwan to be featured at 5th Made in Asia festival in France

The annual art festival in the southwestern French city, to be held this year from Jan. 25 to Feb. 10, will be the first time a Taiwan art festival has been held in the European Union, said Chen Chih-cheng, the director of the Taiwan Culture Center in Paris.

The festival this year is one of the biggest to date and much bigger than the 2011 show that honored South Korea, Chen added.

Performance troupes set to appear include the Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group, YiLab., the Shangchi Move Theater, the Ten Drum Group,the Flying-Group Theater, and Hsin Sing Nanguan.

Artists attending the festival include Taiwanese circus artist and modern dancer Huang Ming-cheng, contemporary artists Tseng Yong Ning, Yu Cheng-ta, Charwei Tsai, Chuang Che-wei and Luo Jing-zhong, and photographer Wu Chi tsung.

In addition, the Government Information Office will screen the films “Buddha in God Man Dog” and “A Place of One's Own” by young female director Singing Chen at the festival, and it has invited Chento Toulouse to discuss her movies with the audience.

Other movies by young Taiwanese directors to be shown will be “Beautiful Crazy” by Lee Chi yuarn, Kangsheng Li's “Help Me Eros,” and Chang Tso-chi's “Soul Of A Demon.”

Another component of the festival will be a calligraphy exhibition organized by Taiwanese publisher Hong Fei Cultures and featuring works by calligraphy masters Xu Dishan and Shih Pei-chun. The works will be translated into French.

To coincide with the festival, many venues in Toulouse will be presenting Taiwanese art, including theaters, cultural centers, libraries, movie theaters, and universities.

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