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Big Congrats! The exhibits of the Penghu International Bay Light Festival earned consecutive recognitions from major international design awards!!
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To promote Penghu’s low season for travel during fall and winter, the Penghu National Scenic Area Administration, Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communication, has hosted Penghu International Bay Light Festival for the past two consecutive years, winning positive reviews and experiencing a record-breaking number of visitors. Recently, we have also learned that the 2018 Penghu Arts Festival – The Rising Wind from last year and this year’s (2019) light installation art – Hidden Sea have, respectively, received the honor of Germany’s 2019 Red Dot Award: Brands and Communication Design, and the nomination for the 2019 Brisbane Design Awards.
 
During the 2018 Penghu International Light Festival events, young artist Fan Cheng-tsung’s curatorial team, Penghu’s local businesses and young people returning to their hometown cooperated for the planning and hosting of the Penghu Arts Festival. Based on the curating theme of “The Rising Wind,” the Festival led the visitors to explore all the wonderful experiences Penghu has to offer in fall and winter via the four major aspects of arts, handcrafts, cuisine and travel. The Rising Wind’s deeply local and extremely creative planning content has earned acknowledgment from the world’s largest and most influential award, 2019 Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design of Germany.
 
The 2019 Penghu International Light Festival, which grandly opened on August 17 of this year, invited the design team of Golden Eagle Lighting Engineering, which has worked on the 2019 Taiwan Lantern Festival – Coral Heart to create a design with the central theme of the “Sea Dragon King” legendary theatrical play. Integrating lighting art, musical theater, large scaled machinery and interactive technology, the team created an interactive underwater world. One thing especially worth mentioning is that the Hidden Sea from this year’s lighting installation art was nominated for the 2019 Brisbane Design Awards on September 4 – adding even more glory to the second Light Festival.
 
The Hidden Sea is a legendary theatrical play interpreted collaboratively by the respected pioneer of Taiwan’s musicals – Master Chen Ming-chang, light and shadow artist – Master Sammy, former lead dancer at the Circque du Soleil – Master Billy Chang, and the dance troupe led by Chang. The installation materials are sheets of plastic that would sway in the air with the breeze, resembling the ocean waves. The visitors would notice that these are all made of plastic, reminding everyone about the immediate need for our efforts towards the conservation of the oceanic environment – a concept that the light and shadow artist Master Sammy would like to tell us through his work.
 
The Penghu National Scenic Area Administration noted that, this year’s Light Festival events will continue through November 2, 2019. Everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the “Expanded Taiwanese Citizen Fall and Winter Travel Reward Project” that the Tourism Bureau has been promoting recently and to take this opportunity to jump on the bandwagon of the government-provided travel subsidy. Come visit Penghu yourself, so that you can explore this unprecedented feast of lighting visuals and go on an excursion in the extraordinary underwater fantasy world.
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