The 2018 International Arts and Culture Festival of Southern Taiwan University of Technology was launched on May 9. The festival invited approximately 300 students came from Morocco, Denmark, Colombia, Egypt, France, South Korea, Germany, Indonesia, Peru, India, Czech Republic, Mongolia, El Salvador, Vietnam, Mexico, Malaysia, Iraq, Germany, Thailand, Switzerland, Japan, the Philippines, and China to participate in the exhibition, offering 17 exotic food stalls on site. All the stalls were well decorated to present the cultural features of various countries. The cultural “fruit poke” campaign allows students from all over the world to recognize Taiwan’s peculiar music and sweet fruits with much more joy.
【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology held the 13th International Arts and Culture Festival: the Drum Club was having the opening show.】
【Indian students perform their worshipping dance.】
At the beginning of the event, the thunderous Drum Cub performed to the shock of the audience. The Martial Arts Clubs offered a variety of performances, including flags in formation, nunchakus, golden eagle fist, and double knives. 9 groups of international students participated in the show with their performances to demonstrate the unique style of their countries; include El Rey, which is well known to every household in Mexicans; worshipping dances and king dances often seen in various Indian celebrations; the Danish song “Svantes Lykkelige Dag” (Svantes Happy Day); Indonesian harvest festivals and the traditional Indonesian martial arts; songs by the 1976 legendary singer in France—Claude François—which have been repeated reinterpreted by many young singers in recent years; the international groups formed by students from Peru, Mongolia, Russia, and Indonesia—a rare cooperation indeed over the past few years in the international arts and culture festival. These foreign students also demonstrated their abilities and introduced their cultural aspirations to Taiwan in a timely manner. The guests and teachers and students were pleasantly surprised. One of the most pleasant surprises was that President Deng-Maw Lu also sang the song “The Moon Represents My Heart,” a song that international students are all familiar with. The song moved the audience to resonate on the stage, just like a small concert, with applause from the beginning to the end.
【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology held the 13th International Arts and Culture Festival: President Deng-Maw Lu (center) and Mongolian students.】
【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology held the 13th International Arts and Culture Festival: President Deng-Maw Lu (third from left) and students from Morocco.】
The festival featured 17 exotic food stalls, which were all decorated to present cultural heritage of various countries, with the addition of a variety of hot exotic dishes, such as hot and sour, spicy and spicy dishes, and colorful local traditional drinks. Exotic cultures drew a big crowd to the site. Through multicultural integration, whether it is a food feast or an exotic cultural show, international students who participated in this event all greatly enjoyed the unique customs and performances of various countries, as well as their exotic cuisine. To their university life here, all these added a lot of flavor.
【Taiwan's local activity "fruit poke" enabled students from various countries to understand Taiwan's peculiar poking culture and sweet fruits, adding much more joy to the show.】
【President Deng-Maw Lu and Dean Ming-Tsai sang “The Moon Represents My Heart” with international students.】
The enthusiastic participation of international students were coupled with the enthusiastic response of teachers and students of the school. While President Deng-Maw Lu sang, he demonstrated his sincerity and affiliation with students in having fun and singing together with the teachers and students in the audience, which became the highlight of this event. President Deng-Maw Lu stated that through the joyful and rich exotic activity of the 2018 International Arts and Culture Festival, Taiwanese students and international students should have mutual recognition in culture, which is a way of communication, distinguished from the academic one, to help them learn about mutual respect and thereby expand their International perspectives. This also showed the sincerity of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology in promoting international cultural exchanges.
【President Deng-Maw Lu (third from right) presented prizes for stall layout design and had photos with winning students from Malaysia (left to left third), India (second right) and Indonesia (first right).】
【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology held the 13th International Arts and Culture Festival: all the participants in the show.】
【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology held the 13th International Arts and Culture Festival: students from Vietnam.】