Ketagalan Culture Center

Ketagalan Culture Center
The 2nd Taiwanese aboriginal students’ posters Tour
Opening ceremony
In order to encourage the exchange among museums and promote the beauty off aboriginal culture, Taipei Indigenous Peoples Commission has invited Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines to provide 50 excellent works of 2008 The 2nd Taiwanese aboriginal students’ poster competition for the exhibition in Ketagalan culture center from 2008/11/15 to 2008/12/14. At the first day of this exhibition, there will be an opening ceremony with singing and dancing form aboriginal students at 1F, Ketagalan culture center. This exhibition not only accentuates the feature of aboriginal culture integrating with modern creation of posters, but also leads the trend of cultural creative design in folk style. The success of this activity is contributed not only by Taipei Indigenous Peoples Commission’s pushing forward the exchange among museums, but also by Bureau of Cultural Park, Council of Indigenous Peoples, and Executive yuan’s holding the activity titled ”Continuance of aboriginal culture, aboriginal museums tour” which is one of the series activities”2008 Promoting aboriginal culture museums scheme”. The poster competition held by Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines which is famous for its own aboriginal antiques integrated the creativity form aboriginal youth with aboriginal culture, which lets this exhibition be more refreshing and provides another way of getting acquainted with aborigines as well.
In order to gain the judges’ favor, the contestants not only focused on the creativity, but also tried to put the elements of aboriginal culture into their works, which surprised the judges a lot. The gold medal work titled “Listening” is the combination of magnificent mountains and piano keyboard with totems of tribes shown on; the birds fly beside the mountains as if they are just listening to the wonderful melody from the mountains. While we are appreciating this work, it seems that we also heard the voice form the mountains. The silver medal work named “Paean of culture” builds up the image of guitar by inspiration of clothes and ornaments of Bunun. This work seems to tell the audience that the guitar is playing the music about that the Bunun work in the mountains.
The contestants converted the elements such as, Taiwanese aboriginal custom, mystery, tribal pattern…etc. into the visual design of modern aesthetics. Moreover, every work reflects not only the contestants’ realization on Taiwanese aborigines, but also the contestants’ providing the public with the educational opportunity of reflection and being interested in such issues.
The exhibition will start its tour from July and the last show will take place in Ketagalan Culture Center. The opening ceremony will be held at 10:00 a.m., November 15th, and there will be the dancing performances from aboriginal club of National Taiwan University and aboriginal class of Tamkang senior high school, which echoes the design concept of poster contest which is based on the aboriginal countryside. Welcome everyone to come to visit this exhibition.
Organizer： Taipei Indigenous People Commission
Theme：2008 The 2nd Taiwanese aboriginal students’ posters Tour
Time：2008/11/15~2008/12/14
Opening ceremony：10:00a.m., Saturday, Novermber 15, 2008
Venue：Ketagalan Culture Center, B1 Arts-display space ( B1, No.3-1, Zhongshan Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City 112, Taiwan )
Works：50 pieces of works including 1st prize, 2nd prize, 3rd prize, merit prize, stunning performances…etc.
Opening ceremony：
10:00~10:30 Guest registration
10:30~10:45 Opening performance
10:45~10:55 Chairman address
10:55~11:20 Guest address
11:20~12:00 Tour guide
12:00 Lunch time
Release Unit：Taipei Indigenous Peoples Commission
Release date：2008/10/16
Tel.: (02)2720-8889 ext.8338, Mr. Chen


Sponsors：Indigenous Peoples Commission ,Taipei City Government
Organizer：Ketagalan Culture Center
Information Contact on Exhibitions：( 02 ) 2898-6500 exit 512
Date：97/11/15~97/12/14
Time：2008/11/15~2008/12/14
Location：Ketagalan Culture Center, B1 Arts-display space