Taipei City Arts Promotion Office

Taipei City Arts Promotion Office is a general promotional institution for arts and cultures, with responsibilities covering a broad scope of services and activities. In response to a rapidly changing society, the Office is determined to achieve constant innovations to meet the evolving needs of citizens. For the future, the Office will strive to continue its efforts to promote arts and cultural activities and thereby enhance the overall cultural literacy of Taipei citizens.

Taipei City Arts Promotion Office (including The Metropolitan Hall, DaDaoCheng Theater, Wen-Shen Theater and Family Theater) has decided on three major directions for future development: transforming into a professional performing theater, promoting art education, and integrating culture with industry. The main office on Ba-de Road will focus on the first two functions of a professional performing theater and art education promotion. The DaDaoCheng Theater on the other hand, develops itself into a place for carrying on the important legacies of arts and cultures, strive to integrate community development with local industrial cultures such as the cloth industry culture, and recruit folk artists. The Wen-Shen Theater is concentrate on the development of a children’s theater and related promotional affairs. The Family Theater, located on 2nd floor of Taipei City Hall, as a multi-functional theater, it offers venue for Taipei city government and municipal schools to host performances and assemblies.

Taipei City Arts Promotion Office is position itself as a center for art and cultural development for both professional and amateur artists as well as a platform for community-based cultural exchanges, in order to facilitate art exchanges at the Taipei Arts Village, and to serve as a hub for art and artists development as well as a base of the culture industry in Taipei. Looking into the future, the Office shall continue to strive to do the best possible job in promoting and deepening arts and cultures of the city under the direction and guidance of the Department of Cultural Affairs.