2023 Belize Culture Month & Women’s Month Exhibition Launched at NCL-National Central Library-News & Events

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2023-06-05

2023 Belize Culture Month & Women’s Month Exhibition Launched at NCL

On March 1, 2023, the National Central Library, the Embassy of Belize in Taiwan and the Central America Trade Office came together at the National Central Library on the eve of International Women’s Day and formally unveiled a prologue, the 2023 Belize Culture Month & Women’s Month Exhibition. The purpose of this exhibition was to promote social progress through the power of women. The National Central Library and the Embassy of Belize in Taiwan jointly organized the Culture Month and Women’s Month themed exhibition, deepening bilateral exchanges. In addition to Belize Ambassador to Taiwan Candice Pitts and Director-General Shu-hsien Tseng of the National Central Library, the event was attended by many diplomatic envoys and ambassadors to Taiwan as well as Taiwan Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Tah-ray Yui, celebrating International Women’s Day through cultural exchanges.

On the opening day, it was arranged for hand-woven tablecloths by artists of Belize’s indigenous Maya people to be presented at the scene to six outstanding women in Taiwan from various countries, including Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Sandra Oudkirk, Representative Jenny Bloomfield from Australia, Ambassador Andrea Bowman of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Saint Vincent for short), Ambassador Pitts of Belize, Director-General Shu-hsien Tseng and Ch’en-i T’ien, President of Welcome to Taipei International Club. On this occasion, the Embassy of Belize arranged for that country’s National Institute for Culture and History to invite sculptors to produce creative work on the theme “Inspiration: the Soaring of Six Belizean Women,” to show-case the power, beauty and spirit of the country’s women, to present women in relation to their outstanding contributions to their national culture, history and development, and, transcending great distances, transported the fruits of their labors to Taiwan by air to strengthen the cultural friendship between Taiwan and Belize.

The exhibition was shown from March 1 to March 31 in the second floor reading room of the National Central Library, presenting the unique charm of Belizean culture and the beauty of the nation’s women. The exhibition area was divided into four large sections, including: Introduction to the Accomplishments of Outstanding Women in Various Fields in Belize, the themed sculptures of Inspiration: the Soaring of Six Belizean Women, Painting in Taiwanese and Belizean Cultural Styles, Exhibit of Woven Handicrafts and Mayan Tablecloths, as well as the Exhibit of Books from Belizean Research Series.

Last Update Time：2023-06-06

Group photo of distinguished guests, opening ceremony, 2023 Belize Culture Month & Women’s Month Exhibition
Belizean ambassador to Taiwan Candice Pitts presents Mayan tablecloths to five outstandingly accomplished representatives of women’s power