2012 Wooden Handicrafts Exhibition

Nan Ying Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center has arranged “2012 Wooden Handicrafts Exhibition” from July 14 to November 18, 2012 at its Red Brick Exhibition Hall, which invited 35 mature wooden handicrafts designers along with their 86 pieces of great works.

Assistance Professor Huang, who works in Department of Wood Science and Design, NPUST, and serves as the CEO of Luban Wooden Craft Class, indicated that the mortise and tenon joint is a very representative and traditional technique in wooden furniture and art works, which fixes every parts together closely and firmly without using any screw, nail, or glue. The handiworks created with the technique often give the feel of delicacy to people, as some of the exhibition halls in Tsung-Yeh Cutural Center built with the same technique do. The stably standing old exhibition halls will be the best promotion for 2012 Wooden Handicrafts Exhibition, making every of you touched by the creative and passionate of the wooden works Handicrafts Exhibition, making every of you touched by the creative and passionate of the wooden works of Taiwanese handicrafts masters.

Except the wooden handicraft exhibition, on August 11th and October 6th, there will be DIY wooden work activities, teaching you how to do wooden handicrafts. Moreover, during August 22nd to 26th, there will be another wooden handicraft activity limited to 20 persons. For more information please head to the page: http://tyart.tnc.gov.tw/ or dial 06-5718123.http://tyart.tnc.gov.tw/ or dial 06-5718123.

2012 Tainan Top 10 Creative Products Calling for Submissions

In order to discover the potential of Tainan in reflecting its local specialties onto the cultural products, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Tainan, organized the event “2011 Tainan Top 10 Creative Products” last year. After scoring by the professional referees, there were 10 outstanding works now commercialized and sold at the vending shops of Tainan’s historical sites. In addition, Tainan City Government also promoted these new products at several events and activities, making them more visible to the public and more convenience to be purchased!

Standing on last year’s succession, Tainan City Government decided to continue the submission call this year (2012) to even encourage the talents within the field of developing and designing these cultural creative products. Thevision is to set a starting point and a platform of Tainan’s cultural creative industry by nourishing its market of culture! The products which are already in or prepared to be in mass production are also welcomed to participate in the event. For more information:

http://culture.tainan.gov.tw/news/index-1.php?m=9&m1=3&m2=12&id=3269

Tainan Cultural Tour

The Bureau of Culture Affairs and the Cultural Association of Tainan City are now holding “2012 Eye Tainan – Tainan Story of Cultural Living Circles” which uses “Touring Tainan by Bikes” as its main theme. The tour starts from May to October, presenting the “Story of Tainan” by the way of “Cultural Tours” and taking people to discover the stories behind the historical and cultural attractions of Tainan.

“We went to the sites like Confucius Temple, Koxinga Shrine, Fahua Temple, Wufei Temple, Great South Gate, National Museum of Taiwan Literature and the Jheng Ancestral Shrine.” said Mr. Pan, the Project Manager of Bureau of Culture Affairs, “We are able to experience the different Tainan by riding bikes between them and through alleys of the city.” He reminded us that each group is limited to 20 persons so people interested in should take early movement to book for the tour.

Mrs. Lin, who came from Kaohsiung to visit Tainan, indicated that her family has been in the similar tours at Zuoying and Fengshan, Kaohsiung and they have also visited Tainan’s historical attractions by bus tour in the past. This time, they travelled the city by bikes and led their children experienced the cultures of Taiwan, the land they lived in, personally.

Tainan Coffin Toast

Sometimes in Taiwan you may hear of the snacks with their weird names, which are

most likely to make them inedible in some cases, such as STINKY tofu, PIG BLOOD

cake, and more. However, today we are going to introduce you another Tainan’s snack

with famously delicious contents but a horribly weird title – the “Coffin Toast”.

Maybe it sounds like an unfavorable choice for most people; however it is actually

just pieces of toast. The toast is cut, or dug, with a shallow pit on the surface,

in which the essence, different stuffing, chicken and various vegetables, will be

put in. In the final step, the pit with the stuffing will be covered by the dug-out

toast piece, which is the reason it got this creepy name.

Though it is similar to the western-style stuffed bread bowls, the taste is

definitely going to amaze you in Taiwanese way! In most cases, it is better to have

the toast before it gets cooled, while the traditional first step is to eat the lid

with the stuffing, then the sides. Now leave your seat, come to Tainan and enjoy

the ‘edible coffins’!

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

-John F. Kennedy

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