“Playing” in Taipei, an Experience of Myriad Fun and Color!

Lighting of Lanterns: Daily 18:00~23:30Places: National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Sec. 4 of Ren'ai Rd.), and Civic Plaza

in front of Taipei City HallTel: 1999 (outside Taipei City, please dial 02-2720-8889)

ext. 6237 Website: www.2012taipei-lantern-festival.com

Public Transport

CKS Memorial Hall/ Take the MRT Xindian Line to CKS Memorial Hall

Station and leave the station by Exit 5; EXPO Dome of Taipei Expo Park/

Take the MRT Tamsui Line to Yuanshan Station and leave the station by Exit

1; Taipei Botanical Garden/ Take the MRT Xiaonanmen Line to Xiaonanmen

Station and leave the Station by Exit 3; from there walk for about 10 minutes;

Fuyang Eco Park/ Take the MRT Wenhu Line to Linguang Station and leave

the station by Exit 1; from there it’s 6 minutes by foot.

City Tours Though your first hour in Taipei will tell you this is a very fast-paced city, there are many places within city limits where the pace slows down and you can leisurely explore hot springs, eco-reserves, mountain trails, fine foods, cultural attractions, history, and fashionable living. Fox News has chosen Taipei as one of the world’s Top -10 Budget Travel Destinations for 2012. Spectacular Taipei now takes you on three specially designed tours to show you why.

Beitou’s Yinguang Lane is much like an eco-reserve footpath, a rich mini-world of ferns/brakes and other plant life. Upon entering you’re greeted with a cliffside of little-leaf lemmaphyllum ferns, and a great Beitou hot-spring area vista awaits at lane’s-end Shanguang Temple.

1E A Break Enjoying Brakes on Yinguang Lane（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

Floral landscaping, solid flower-display walls, an orchard area, special flower exhibits…. Expansive Yuanshan Park is a veritable sprawling carpet of floral beauty, slow walks immersing you in a soothing carnival of colors and scents.

2B Yuanshan Park Sea of Flowers at Taipei Expo Park（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

1B Beitou Hot Springs Museum Cultural Tour（Suggested Time: 1 hour）Explore all the phases of the development of Beitou’s precious hot-spring resources via this heritage site’s exhibits: photos, illustrations, ar tifacts, films, architecture, and much more. The famed Japanese-

installed “Beitou hot-spring culture” is brought to vivid life.

2A The World of Chiang Kai-shek Unveiled at CKS Shilin Residence （Suggested Time: 1 hour）

3A Romantic Campus Ambles at TNUA（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

3B Immersion in the Japanese Era at Marshal Zen Garden（Suggested Time: 1.5 hours）

3C Breezy Bicycle Jaunts by the Keelung River（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

3D Scenic Witnesses to Love atop Taipei 101（Suggested Time: 30 minutes）

3E Songshou Park Poetic Talks（Suggested Time: 1.5 hours）

3F The Sweet Joys of Liaoning St. Night Market（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

The second floor of CKS Shilin Residence is now open for public visit. In the main building, visit the private rooms, then the living and dining rooms and

Madame’s art studio. Interior and grounds are a mix of West and East, and the pretty landscaping and flower gardens dazzle the eye.

Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) was featured in the Taiwan movie “Love” in scenes where a key character asks fellow students to witness his passionate professions of love. The red-brick buildings, egret-dotted lawns, forest paths, and installation artworks call out for hand-in-hand lovers’ strolls.

This heritage complex was used for par ty scenes in “Love.” The Japanese-built complex, once home to Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang, today has hot-spring facilities, the gourmet

marshal’s favorite culinary delicacies, and a pleasurable tea menu.

The Taipei City section of the Keelung River has riverside bike paths on both sides. The nature-friendly section from Dajia Riverside Park to Meiti Riverside Park was featured in “Love,” a main character racing the winds with biking friends.

In “Love” the main character is shown at the observatory of sky-scraping Taipei 101, deep in meditation. There’s no better place to bring

your true love than this, where the 360-degree panorama encourages romantic love to take flight and soar.

The characters of everyday life fill this park by day speaking of life’s dramas, with a touch of lamplight romance added at night. From the park it is not far to Vieshow Cinemas films, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi shopping, and Xiangti Boulevard decorative flourishes and street performers.

Though small in scale, this attraction has a big menu of traditional Taiwan snack treats and stir-fried seafood dishes. Enjoy oyster omelets, oden, mushroom and meat congee, and duck meat with green-bean noodles, sharing a fresh-blended fruit drink with your significant other.

2D Reading Heaven at Zhongshan Underground Book Street（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

This special place is a favorite spot for book-lovers hunting treasure, featuring great range and reasonable prices. Crowds are also drawn by the irregular schedule of cultural-arts shows.

2F Huayin Street’s Bargain Snacks and Knick-Knacks（Suggested Time: 1.5 hours）

Huayin St., in the area behind Taipei Main Station, is a grand emporium of new goods at great prices – decorative items, leather goods, and much else. It’s also known for delicious beef noodles and deep-fried pork-rib noodles.

1D Thermal Valley’s Curling Mists（Suggested Time: 30 minutes）

Thermal Valley, also called Hell Valley, is a key Beitou hot-spring font. Steam and mist rise from the wide, bubbling pool, the smell of sulfur hangs in the air, and sunlight struggles to enter, creating an otherworldly fairyland atmosphere.

1A Savoring Installation Art at MRT Beitou Station （Suggested Time: 1 hour）Today some of the most iconic expressions of Beitou life are found at its MRT station: impactful public-ar t installations, vividly painted metro trains, and hot spring-theme displays and decorations. In nearby Beitou Park is Taiwan’s first green library, where book-lovers soak up sun and knowledge at the same time.

2C Great Eats at Great Prices in Qingguang Shopping Area（Suggested Time: 1.5 hours）Taipei knows no bounds when it comes to culinary choice, and Qingguang Shopping Area gives you a world tour -- north China’s wheat-based foods, traditional Taiwan snacks, international cuisine, afternoon tea, etc.. Morning to midnight, whatever you crave.

2E Ultra-Modern Meditations at MOCA Taipei （Suggested Time: 1 hour）The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei is housed in a splendid heritage building. From February 11 to April 15, take in “Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia,” an exploration of this land of extremes in paintings, photos, and sculptures.

1F Healthy Hot-Spring Bathing on Wenquan and Youya Roads（Suggested Time: 2 hours）Beitou has three types of hot-spring sulfur waters: blue, white, and iron. Along Wenquan and Youya roads are public baths, private baths, and hot-spring hotels, and don’t miss out on the tasty local hot-spring cuisine.

Route1 City Oasis Hot Springs Outing 1-Day Tour

Budget Travel with Maximum Reward 1-Day Tour

Love in Bloom – Love” Movie Shoot Locations 1-Day Tour

In spring the “flower” becomes an iconic image seen throughout the city. Check out the Jianguo Holiday Flower Market and Neihu’s Taipei Flower Market, buying bouquets of fresh fragrance and the materials for DIY dried and pressed flowers. Good travel of course also means food adventures and souvenir hunting, so what better adventure than trying floral teas and flowers as food ingredients, and buying daily-use items made from floral-print fabrics?

In Taipei, flower-viewing excursions can be had right in the city’s heart, not just on its outskirts. Though not matching Yangmingshan’s hillside carpets of color, there’s still great f loral beauty, in smaller doses. A splendid example is Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (MAP-B4). Few know of its Japanese cherry-blossom areas, with 11 cherry-tree types, which blossom mid-February. Check near the Dazhong Gate, Daxiao Gate (both sides), and parallel to Sec. 1, Hangzhou S. Rd.

Until April 8, catch the 2012 Taipei Bloom Art at Taipei Expo Park’s EXPO Dome (MAP-B3). The show features nine separate f loriculture-design themes, and changes its look with the different flowering seasons of its stars. Nanhai Road’s Taipei Botanical Garden (MAP-A4) and

Fuyang Eco Park (MAP-C5), in the lanes off Wolong St., each has its own distinctive “nature,” with easy strolls bringing pleasant floral discoveries.

�The Joys of Flower Viewing in the City

The Jianguo Holiday Flower Market (MAP-B4) is on Jianguo S. Rd. under the Jianguo Elevated Expressway. It runs, and is packed, every weekend. There’s everything you need – bonsai plants and flowers, seeds and seedlings, pots vases, gardening equipment, and much more. Extra value is added by sellers giving buyers expert advice on cultivation, so buy your “ingredients” and head back home for DIY flower arranging, “greening” your life by adding pretty natural colors. For weekday buying sprees, head to the Taipei Flower Market (MAP-D3) in Neihu, which runs from early morning to noon. This is a big wholesale-oriented market with great variety and reasonable choices, superb for treasure hunting and flower-appreciation outings.

Hunting Floral Serendipity at Flower Markets

�Creative Flower Teas & Foods

When f lowers and fashion meet, what will be the result? At Anewei (MAP-B5) the focus is on traditional blue-dye flower-print designs – notably plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum – on clothing, laptop bags, lampshades, and other daily-use items of elegant

character.

Chang-Yi-Fang (MAP-B5) on Yongkang St. brings classic Taiwan red floral cloth to handmade backpacks, pillows, and other goods, an expansion of its original line, the making of traditional theater puppets and their costumes. The elaborate, bright creations dazzle the eye.

Section Nine (MAP-A4) in Wanhua brings the creativity and vitality of youth fashion to the design of floral-motif goods. Their specialties are printed and dyed traditional Chinese attire with lotus and other floral patterns, hibiscus-theme backpacks, and f loral-print scarves. Elsewhere, Yongle Market (MAP-A3) on Dihua St. is a famed fabric market, offering myriad traditional Taiwanese and imported floral patterns.

Flower-Print FashionIf it’s not convenient to take fresh bouquets home, well, then, become a DIY flower-presser! Buy your materials from flower market or store, prepare your drying mat and facial tissue, press your flowers in between, and place in a plastic bag. Your flowers must not come into contact with air, so be sure to squeeze all air from the plastic bag, and place heavy books on the bag. Your pressed beauties will be ready in two to three days.

If looking for exper t guidance on pressed f lowers, proceed to the Taipei Expo Park ’s Pavilion of Future (MAP-B3). The first f loor features pressed-flower arts, with instructors from the United Pressed Flower Art Society,

winners of countless awards, on hand each Saturday afternoon 2pm to 4pm with advice. The second level is a more formalized pressed-flower art-display showcase. Visitors gain access to this exhibition with their Pavilion of Future tickets.

The Flower’s Exotic World

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The Chinese New Year holidays are just over, but the festive seasonal spirit will linger in the air through February and March. With the Lantern Festival the city is donning a fantastic costume of resplendent decorated lanterns, and the blaze of color continues afterwards with the bloom of spring Flower Festival, driving away lingering winter chills and brightly showing the new spring is here to stay. This is Taipei’s prime flower enjoyment season, the bonus of flowery lantern ar t adding that much more to the tourist’s experience.

During the Lantern Festival period there are related events all around the city, including the Taipei Lantern Festival, a symphony of beloved traditions and modern high-tech light and sound. The Year of the Dragon is dawning, so the big theme lantern at National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall will thus be a boisterous, auspicious dragon. On Civic Plaza in front of Taipei City Hall, you’ll find the bedazzling lantern displays, majestically lighting up what seems the whole city. All the city’s big temples will also have their own traditional lantern displays, adding to the city-wide atmosphere of fun.

After breathing in the cultural atmosphere in the city’s heart, head to its borders to feast on its natural delights. In February, Yangmingshan’s different flowers begin bursting into successive bloom. Floriculture Experiment Center’s Camellia Show starts things off, followed by the Yangmingshan Flower Festival. As March fades, the Festival of the Calla-Lily bursts in, the mists, sea of calla-lily white, and emerald-mountain valley backdrop a

veritable painter’s canvas.

Spectacular Taipei invites you to come with us now to revel in the Lantern Fest i v a l ’ s co lor s and traditions and ride the waves of our spring-flower seas as the city blooms with the vitality of another new spring.

Public TransportJianguo Holiday Flower Market/ Take the MRT Bannan Line to Zhongxiao-Xinsheng Station and leave the station by Exit 6; from there it’s 10 minutes by foot; Taipei Flower Market/ Take the MRT Wenhu Line to Gangqian Station and leave the station by Exit 2; from there it’s 2 minutes by foot.

Taipei Flower Dance – “Flower Love” Touring

2012 Taipei Camellia Show 2012/2/13~2012/2/26

The camellia, with glossy dark-green leaf and countless flower y appearances, comes in over 10,000 varieties. Each year as winter leaves and spring settles in, the blooming camellias and cherry blossoms engage in a vibrant beauty contest at the Yangmingshan Floriculture Experiment Center. On Feb. 13 the Taipei Camellia Show begins, with a focus on the center’s 10,000 different on-site cultivated camellias, Christmas camellias, and “original strain” potted landscapes. The goal is to bring the aesthetics of flower and potted-plant art into everyday life. During the event’s 14 days, get to know the camellia more intimately, in a magnificent setting.

Place: Yangmingshan Floriculture Experiment Center (32, Lane 175, Sec. 4, Yangde Blvd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2861-6361Website: pkl.taipei.gov.tw

Public TransportPavilion of Future, Taipei Expo Park (02-2827-7130)/ Take the MRT Luzhou Line to Zhongshan Elementary School Station and leave the station by Exit 4; follow Minquan E. Rd. and Jilin Rd.; it’s about 10 minutes by foot.

Public Transport

Dihua Street/ Take the MRT Tamsui Line to Shuanglian Station and leave the station

by Exit 2; transfer to bus No. 518 and get off at Nanjing W. Rd. bus stop; from there

it’s 10 minutes by foot; Teapot Restaurant First Floor (02-2939-5615)/ Take the

MRT Wenhu Line to Taipei Zoo Station; from there take Maokong Gondola to

Maokong Station; from the station it’s 10 minutes by foot to the restaurant.

1C Plum Garden Ink Painting Feast（Suggested Time: 1 hour）

Plum Garden was once the hideaway villa of famed calligrapher Yu Youren. To celebrate the tourist site’s second anniversary, an exhibit of master Li Qimao’s ink paintings is now being staged.

Dihua St . (MAP-A3) is famed as a Taipei conservatory of old-time looks and customs, l ined with shops sell ing classic regional specialty goods, with Chinese medicines and f loral teas in abundance , notably the rose, roselle, lavender, jasmine, and chrysanthemum teas. You can also ask shops to mix your floral ingredients.

If interested in further exploring the taste of flower and tea in marriage, head to Maokong on the city’s outskirts, where at Teapot Restaurant First Floor (MAP-D7) osmanthus, rose, violet, and cosmos are creative culinary elements, letting you “savor” flowers in a way perhaps never before imagined.

Public Transport

Anewei (02-2364-3155)/ Take the MRT Xindian Line

to Taipower Building Station and leave the station by

Exit 3; from there it's 5 minutes by foot; Chang-Yi-Fang

(02-3393-7330)/ Take bus No. 253 to Jinhua Junior High School bus

stop; from there it’s 10 minutes by foot; Section Nine (02-2302-5841)/

Take the MRT Bannan Line to Longshan Temple Station and leave the

station by Exit 2; from there it’s 5 minutes by foot; Yongle Market/ Take

the MRT Tamsui Line to Shuanglian Station and leave the station by Exit 2;

transfer to bus No. 518 and get off at Nanjing W. Rd. bus stop; from there

it’s 10 minutes by foot.

◆Taipei City Alight – Cool and Dazzling Lantern Festival◆Taipei Flower Dance –

Let's Go on a Flower-Gazing Tour◆Fine Foods from Military Dependents’

Villages – Warm Nostalgic Flavors

Spectacular Taipei

Bimonthly Feb. ~ Mar. 2012

Spring Taipei Touring - Romantic Lantern Art

and Flowers

Mayor of Taipei

2012 Yangmingshan Flower Festival 2012/2/17~2012/3/18

This year’s festival will be launched on Feb. 17. At this time of year Yangmingshan is alive with bright, swaying color. Driving along Zhongshan N. Rd., then heading up Yangmingshan on Yangde Blvd., you’ll pass the Chiang Kai-shek Shilin Residence, Shuangxi Park, Lin Yu-tang House, Floriculture Experiment Center, Qianshan Park, and Hushan Green Space. The quieter attire of winter is exchanged for the bright pastels of spring, with a bevy of beauties vying for your attention and affection, led by cherry blossoms, azaleas, and Chinese hydrangeas. There is also a long line-up of cultural-arts shows to bedazzle you on weekends and holidays.

Places: Yangming Park (26, Sec. 2, Hushan Rd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2861-6533, (02) 2861-3388Website: pkl.taipei.gov.tw

2012 Folk Arts Festival

Following traditional folk customs and ancient rites, starting March 7 this year Dalongdong Bao’an Temple is staging the “2012 Folk Arts Festival,” combining the Baosheng Cultural Festival and the Jiao Ceremony, staged to celebrate the restoration/completion of a temple. The Jiao Ceremony will have sacrif icial offerings and related lectures, and the Baosheng Cultural Festival features family-surname plays, battle-array formation shows, deity inspection parades, fire lions, fire walking, birthday rites for the god Baosheng Dadi, history and arts tours, choral performances, a Chinese-medicine exhibit, and more. The big draws are the firewalking rituals and passage of deity sedan chairs through a long fire dragon. The event spans three months and is set up like a colorful temple-arts carnival.

Place: Dalongdong Bao’an Temple (61, Hami St., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 2595-1676 Website: www.baoan.org.tw

2012/3/7~2012/6/20

2012 Spring Worship – Revitalizing ConfucianismThe practice session for the Taipei Confucius Temple Spring Worship ceremony is at 3:30pm on Feb. 25, and the formal event is on Feb. 26 at 8am. A lively expression of spring’s vitality, into the respectful presentation of the ways of the ancients – sacrificial rites, music, dance, delicacies, and costume – are mixed elements denoting the modern and spring itself. This year’s prayer rituals will encourage student diligence as they embark on the year’s studies with the new spring, and after the ceremony there will be cultural-arts performances. After receiving a visitor pass you can experience this classical Confucian worship ceremony.

2012/2/25~2012/2/26

Rebirth of the Graceful Grass Mountain ChateauGrass Mountain Chateau, completely destroyed by a fire, was reopened last year after 16 months of renovations. Its historical appearance has been faithfully restored, and the site now also serves as a venue for art exhibits. The front exhibition area introduces visitors to the chateau, while the back exhibition area features an exhibition with historic documents of late President Chiang Kai-shek. The chateau's restaurant presents many of Chiang Kai-shek’s favorite foods and drink, giving you an authentic taste of history. It also serves up fresh and innovative cuisine made with local produce. Visitors enjoy free entry until March 31.

Hours: Tue.~Sun. 10:00~17:00 (closed on Mondays) Add: 89, Hudi Rd., Taipei CityTel: (02) 2862-2404 Website: www.grassmountainchateau.com.tw

Permanent Exhibition

Place: Taipei Confucius Temple (275, Dalong St., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 2592-3934 ext. 13Website: www.ct.taipei.gov.tw

2012 Taipei Literature Festival

The 2012 Taipei Literature Festival is looking down the city’s lanes and alleys for cultural groups long ensconced deep in local neighborhoods. The ambitious program includes many theme activities, including a series of lectures at bookstores starting in February. In March comes a two-week book exhibition at Zhongshan Hall Art Gallery with works and portraits of over 100 literary writers. In April, SPOT-Taipei Film House will screen 20 classic literary films, with film critic Mai Joyu explaining the similarities/differences between films and original works. Nature travel writer Liu Kexiang will be taking groups on in-depth city walking tours with literature themes.

2012/2~2012/5

Places: Independent bookstores around Taipei , Zhongshan Hall Art Gallery, SPOT-Taipei, and other locations

Tel: 1999 (outside Taipei City, please dial 02-2720-8889) ext. 3599

Website: 2012tlf.culture.gov.tw

2012 Festival of the Calla-Lily

This year’s festival will be launched with promotional events on March 10 and 11 at the Jianguo Holiday Flower Market, the highlight a large-scale calla-lily landscaping and floriculture display and creative floral-arts contests. The formal opening ceremonies are on March 23 at Huagu Calla Plantation in Zhuzihu, followed by creative landscaping and floriculture design exhibits, street performances and musical shows, “Aesop’s fables” stage plays, calla-lily picking, DIY classes, and guided ecology and culture tours to scenic spots in Zhuzihu and Yangmingshan. Everyone is invited to dress up as an Aesop’s fable character for a big parade, and there will also be weekly activities based on other stories.

Place: Zhuzihu, YangmingshanTel: 1999 (outside Taipei City, please dial 02-

2720-8889) ext. 6586Website: www.doed.taipei.gov.tw

2012/3/23~2012/4/29

2012 Neihu Strawberry Festival

Neihu’s strawberry season stretches from December to the end of May. This year’s Neihu Strawberry Festival starts March 10 at strawberry farms on Bishan Road with a big show, featuring lion dancing, traditional Chinese music, dance shows, and other arts complementing the great fresh farm vegetable and strawberry buying rush. There will also be a giveaway of 1,000 NT$50 farm-produce coupons at the Baishihu Suspension Bridge. Another bonus at local farms is a gift of one cup of strawberry ice-cream when picking strawberries worth NT$500 or more. Off the farms, take in the area’s Bihu Trail, Baishihu Suspension Br idge , Chunqiu Trai l , Tongxinhu Wetland, Longchuanyan, and other places.

Place: Along Bishan Rd. and Dahu St. in Neihu District, Taipei City

Tel: (02) 2790-7263, (02) 2790-0138 Website: www.tfa.org.tw

2012/3/10~2012/5

2012 Taipei Express Marathon

This will be the 17th running of this race, being staged March 18, with runners from Taiwan and abroad par ticipating. There’s a full and half marathon and a 10KM race. All are welcome, from competitive runners to kids and seniors, and can sign up online until Feb. 16. This event presents the rare experience of running on an elevated expressway. Runners also get to take in the city’s close-up and distant scenic attractions along the way.

Place: Freeway No. 1 between Wugu and Xizhi (Huanhe N. Rd. ring road and Dunhuang Rd. entrance, Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2585-5659 ext. 17Website: www.sportsnet.org.tw

2012/3/18

2012 Taiwan International Festival of ArtsThis year’s festival, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the National Theater & Concer t Hall, has “Heritage and Development” as its theme. The program includes works by some of the world’s best stage impresarios. Enjoy “Shadows of Love” with the Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company, “Taipei Dad, New York Mom” with Mr. Wing Theatre Company, an interpretation of “The Tempest” by acclaimed British director Declan Donnellan, and “A Magic Flute” by international theatre maestro Peter Brook. Among the many other highlights is “YogeeTi,” by French choreographer Mourad Merzouki and Johan Ku, Taiwan-born fashion designer, combining dance and fashion in brilliant, previously unknown ways.

Place: National Theater & National Concert Hall (21-1, Zhongshan S. Rd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 3393-9888Website: tifa.ntch.edu.tw

2012/2/16~2012/4/1

2012 Taipei Lantern Festival This year is a Year of the Dragon, and the Taipei City Gov't has the main theme lantern at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in the shape of this especially auspicious beast. On Civic Plaza in front of Taipei City Hall will be the 3D Auspicious Dragon Theater, with the world’s biggest diamond-shaped 3D projection, fusing creative high-technology, lighting, handicrafts, and public art-installation concepts. In the Traditional Lantern Area you’ll see traditional lanterns and cute modern lanterns in the shape of dragons. There are 10 large lantern-display areas matched with 10 big activities, including lantern-riddle contests, kid-theme activities, and photo competitions.

Until 2012/2/12

The Public Spirit．Beauty in the Making－Shui-Long YenTime: Until 2012/2/26Place: 3A~3C, 3F, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

(181, Sec. 3, Zhongshan N. Rd., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 2595-7656 ext. 106Website: www.tfam.museum

Dinosaurs Dream Park Time: Until 2012/3/4Place: Warehouse No. 1, Songshan Cultural

and Creative Park (133, Guangfu S. Rd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2833-7060Website: www.dinosaurs-dreampark.com

A Captivating Animation of the Great Dunhuang Exhibition Time: Until 2012/3/11Place: Warehouses No. 4 & 5, Songshan Cultural

and Creative Park (133, Guangfu S. Rd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2833-7060 Website: www.dunhuangart.com.tw

Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney’s Classic Fairy Tales Time: Until 2012/3/14Place: Rooms 101~103, 1F, National Museum

of History (49, Nanhai Rd., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 2361-0270 ext. 107Website: www.nmh.gov.tw

Art Supply IV: AIR Group Exhibitions Time: Until 2012/3/18Place: 29, 3830, 69, Baocun, Cross Gallery,

Treasure Hill Int’l Artist Village (2, Alley 14, Lane 230, Sec. 3, Tingzhou Rd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2364-5313 Website: www.artistvillage.org

The History and Culture of the Ketagalan Special ExhibitionTime: Until 2012/4/29Places: Ketagalan Culture Center (3-1, Zhongshan Rd., Taipei City)

Beitou Hot Spring Museum (2, Zhongshan Rd., Taipei City)

Tel: (02) 2898-6500 ext. 512, (02) 2893-9981Website: www.ketagalan.taipei.gov.tw,

beitoumuseum.taipei.gov.tw

Watch Me Move: The Animation ShowTime: Until 2012/5/6 Place: Exhibition Hall 1, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial

Hall (21, Zhongshan S. Rd., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 2509-1695 Website: www.cksmh.gov.tw

Mythes et Legendes en Occident: Collection du Musee du LouvreTime: Until 2012/5/14Place: Exhibition Area II, 1F, Library Building, National Palace Museum (221, Sec. 2, Zhishan Rd., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 2881-2021 Website: mediasphere.tw

Taipei-Explore the Endless Possibilities Time: 2012/2/8~2012/4/8Place: 2F, Special Exhibitions Hall, Discovery

Center of Taipei (1, Shifu Rd., Taipei City)Tel: 1999 (outside Taipei City, please dial 02-

2757-4547) ext. 3342 Website: www.discovery.taipei.gov.tw

Art Revolution Taipei 2012Time: 2012/3/22~2012/3/25Place: Taipei Show Hall 2 (original TWTC Hall

2) (3, Songlian Rd., Taipei City)Tel: (02) 7743-7788Website: www.arts.org.tw

Theme Plan

2012 Taipei Traditional Market Festival

Traditional markets are quintessential expressions of native Taiwan culture and emporiums for its fresh seasonal produce. They are also traditional forums of info exchange and concentrated showcases of a city and people’s character. March is “Taipei Traditional Market Month,” and this year’s theme is “Local Ingredients, Local Lifestyle, Local Culture, Zongzi,” with eco-friendly green themes at front and center. Activities will be at one primary and four secondary venues. Other draws will be “2012 World’s Best Vendor” balloting, children’s painting contests, and the “Great Local Food Markets” slogan contest.

Places: Traditional markets around Taipei CityTel: (02) 2341-5241 ext. 2106Website: www.tcma.taipei.gov.tw

2012/3/1~2012/3/25

Photo courtesy of Red Gold Fine Art

(Photos courtesy of Honto Production)

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