Pingtung festival to celebrate Czech arts and cultureStaff writer, with CNAActivities celebrating Czech music, literature and cinema are to be held in Pingtung next week as part of the “Czech in Pingtung” festival, the first big event organized by a foreign institute in Taiwan. In cooperation with the Pingtung County Government, the Czech Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei is to stage the festival from Wednesday to Sunday next week, sharing arts and culture from the Czech Republic with the people of southern Taiwan. Officials from the Pingtung County Government and Czech Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei yesterday tour Pingtung Civic Park in Pingtung City ahead of next month’s “Czech in Pingtung” festival. The Pingtung County Government in a statement on Monday thanked the office for “taking the Czech Republic to Pingtung,” praising it for giving locals the chance to enjoy Czech culture without having to travel abroad. Rumlar was eager to travel to Pingtung again as soon as he learned of the Taipei Chamber Players’ concert, which inspired the five-day “Czech in Pingtung” festival, the statement said.

Source: Taipei Times November 24, 2021 22:02 UTC