‘Study in Taiwan’ Promoted at Australian National Multicultural Festival -Ministry of Education Republic of China (Taiwan)

‘Study in Taiwan’ Promoted at Australian National Multicultural Festival

Date: 2016-02-29

‘Study in Taiwan’ Promoted at Australian National Multicultural Festival

The National Multicultural Festival (NMF) is an annual 3-day event held in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory which unites the community in a celebration and sharing of culturally diverse traditions, food, performances, exhibitions, concerts. and information. This year’s festival was the 20th and it attracted record crowds. The ACT government said that close to 280,000 people participated this year.

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Australia (TECO) has a long history of participating in the festival by setting up a stall with a Taiwanese theme to reach out to the community. This year, TECO invited a Sydney-based Taiwanese calligrapher, Kuan Te-Chi, to demonstrate calligraphy and promote the traditional culture maintained in Taiwan.

In addition to the calligraphy demonstrations, materials giving the latest information about Studying in Taiwan, about various scholarships offered by the Ministry of Education, about Chinese Learning Centres in Taiwan’s universities, and about Taiwan as a tourism destination were provided. The stall also displayed publicity material promoting the Taiwan Experience Education Programs (TEEP), a new program giving students to undertake short-term professional internships in Taiwan in conjunction with a number of universities there.

The Taiwan Stall at the NMF was organised by the Education Division at TECO in Australia and set up for one day on February 13, 2016 at the Civic Centre, where thousands of people and a selection of TECO’s officials, including Mr. William Lin, Taiwan’s Deputy Representative to Australia; Mr. Andy Bi, the Director of the Education Division at TECO; and education leaders such as Ms. Veronique Canellas, from the ACT Government’s Department of Education and Training, and Mr. Kenny Huang, Director of the Sydney Chinese Culture and Education Centre enjoyed the festival together.

Photo:Mr. Kenny Huang, Director of the Sydney Chinese Culture and Education Centre (right) with Taiwanese calligrapher Mr. Kuan Te-Chi (centre right), Mrs. Kuan (center left), and Mr. Andy Bi, Director of the Education Division at TECO in Australia (left).