March- Taipei Film Festival
Several movies directed by Hou-Xiao-Xian and Li-an have been recognized through many awards, bringing Taiwan's movie industry to the forefront of the international film world. The objective of the Taipei Film Festival is to use films as a medium to reflect city culture and to improve communication and understanding between Taipei and other cities around the world. Beyond this, the Festival opens a window to foreign and local films and stimulates an appreciation for the art of film making. The Taipei Film Festival also receives support from a host of schools and enterprises each year inm an effort to encourage young and alternative film and video artists and to provide a platform for their work.

April~ Birthday of Bao Shengr Ta-Di, God of Medicine
The Bao-An Temple in Da-Long has enjoyed a certain success in promoting Taipei's temple culture through Bao-Sheng cultural worship in recent years. The Birthday Celebration of the God Bao Sheng, on March 15th in the Chinese calendar, has incorporated worshiop activities and ceremonies with conventional theater, fire walking, lion dancing and firecrackers. It has become the most proliferate traditional temple cultural activity in northern Taiwan. The purpose of holding the BaoSheng cultural worship event is to preserve and dignify this traditional folk art.

May ~ Taipei Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Festival
In older to meet their daily living needs, aboriginal people migrate to Taipei to seek work opportunities and a new way of life. Consequently, the values and culture of the indigenous tribes have become diluted and are not automatically passed down from one generation to another. For this reason, the Indigenous Peoples' Commission of Taipei City Government has been holding a series of artistic activities from Aprilto October every year to display and preserve the art and iustoms of our aboriginal people. Through the Taipei Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Festival, we want to demonstrate how harmoniously people form different cultures can live together.