Arts and Culture Development
Taishin Arts Award
In 2001, Taishin Bank sponsored the establishment of the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture and founded the "Taishin Arts Award" to support visual arts, performing arts and cross-disciplinary artistic creation. Out of the 108 nominees' works that participated in the 2021 Taishin Arts Award, following two rounds of eliminations, three outstanding works won in total a prize of NT$3.5 million.
Over the past 20 years, the Taishin Arts Award has invited 192 domestic and foreign judges, selected 67 award-winning works and 310 shortlisted works, and 170 nomination observers wrote more than 500 observation reports and more than 1,700 exhibition and performance reviews; through the operation of the award mechanism, combined with the promotion of professional art criticism writing, it has become a force that continues to drive the development of Taiwan’s overall arts and culture ecology.
By the end of 2022, the accumulated page views of the ARTalks website exceeded 3 million, and the column “Art and Mind” was launched to expand public art participation in an easy and interesting way, so that the dialogues on art discussions can reach from the elite to the masses.
The Foundation Created an Art and Culture Promotion Platform
Since 2006, Taishin has long been committed to arts and culture development activities. For more than 10 years, Taishin has continually promoted multiple high-quality art exhibitions and performances through Taishin Tower lobby exhibitions, Friday Noon Concerts, and by holding Employee Arts Courses. By investing resources in art, Taishin aims to create an art-friendly space for its customers, communities, and employees
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Taishin Tower Lobby Exhibition
Due to the impact of the pandemic in 2022, a pandemic prevention passageway was set up in the lobby on the first floor of Taishin FHC. In the limited space, the foundation still continued to launch 4 exhibitions, including Teng Chao-Ming’s "Human Nature Study" and the satellite exhibition of “Love and Hope” – 2022 World Women’s Art Festival; other than that, with the theme of "sustainability", the foundation invited artist Hsi Shih-Pin to curate the solo exhibition "Start from Here and Now" and sound art creator Cia Himiân Lí to lead the workshop "Listen. It’s the Sound of Energy". Responding to sustainability and environmental protection initiatives through artistic creation.
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Friday Noon Concerts
Friday Noon Concerts are held every other Friday. For these concerts, famous Taiwanese and foreign musicians are invited to perform different types of music. The concerts are also open to the public for free, and have accumulated a total of 372 performances in the past 16 years. The 25 concerts originally scheduled for 2022 were suspended due to the impact of the epidemic and resumed in the second half of the year. A total of 13 performances were performed throughout the year, including the Taipei Percussion Orchestra, Judy Harmonica Ensemble, Xu Chongyu & Soy La Ley Cuban Jazz Orchestra, etc., which are still popular with the audience.
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Employee Arts Courses
Employee arts courses have been introduced with contents ranging from art appreciation, theatrical performance, and parental activities, to human culture. In 2022, physical activities were suspended due to the epidemic, and Cloud Gate Dance School Online Rhythm courses were provided; in the second half of the year, the epidemic was slow down, and 25 events will be planned in 6 stages, including the exhibition "Lumière : The Enlightenment and Self-Awakening of Taiwanese Culture" and the Taipei Performing Arts Center Opening season performances, watching the documentary “The King of Wuxia”, and the Taishin Arts Award 20th Anniversary Exhibition , etc.
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2020
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1
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- 9 sessions of short online music appreciation/27,315 online views
- 13 in-person performances/2,340 audience at the venue
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11 sessions/508 participants
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2021
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3
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13 sessions/1,950 participants
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9 sessions/392 participants
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2022
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4
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13 sessions
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6 stages/ 25 events
Arts and Culture Sponsorship
Taishin FHC is committed to enriching the artistic vision of Taiwanese people and lowering the threshold of art appreciation, so that the public can come into contact with art from daily lives, cultivate the vision of art, and enrich their soul and life. It continues to introduce diversified, international, classic and high-quality art performances in the form of art sponsorship, so that people in Taiwan can all enjoy classic art from all over the world.
Make arts and culture appreciation opportunities available to all: promote the combination of art and public welfare, so that disadvantaged groups can gain strength through appreciation of art exhibitions and performances. A total of 2,690 persons from disadvantaged groups have been benefited. Enrich the artistic vision of Taiwanese people: Since 2006, Taishin has sponsored international art and culture to perform in Taiwan in a large-scale manner, with a total investment of more than NT$265 million, attracting up to 6.2 million people to participate.
