Yunlin Community Picture Books New Release Event Invites You to Explore Yunlin Through Reading

To promote the development and preservation of local culture, the Yunlin County Government held the "2018 Yunlin Community Picture Books New Release and Reading Yunlin Press Conference" yesterday (the 4th) at the Yunlin Story House. Four newly published picture books were unveiled one by one along with sharings by amateur authors. Lai Ying-chun, Section Chief of Arts and Culture Promotion of the Cultural Affairs Department, Lin Wen-pin, Mayor of Huwei Township, the Malaysian Picture Book Rainforest Association, the Pingtung County Story Society, the Yunlin Puppet Theater Museum, Yongcui Pavilion, Yunlin Memory Cool, and representatives of other units attended together, inviting everyone to ride bicycles to visit the story sites and share the good local stories of Yunlin.

Lai Ying-chun, Section Chief of Arts and Culture Promotion of the Yunlin County Cultural Affairs Department, said that under the cultivation of the county government and the Yunlin Storytellers Association, the "Community Picture Book Creation Training, Promotion and Publication Project" has entered its 10th year, with more than 100 local picture books published cumulatively. After a one-year training period, amateur authors produced picture books of local stories uniquely belonging to Yunlin. In addition to the authors' life reflections, the contents also convey positive values such as friendliness to the earth, emphasis on cultural preservation, and the passing down of family bonds; more friends are welcome to join the training, turn memories belonging to Yunlin into picture book content, and together share Yunlin's abundant vitality.

Tang Li-fang of the Yunlin Storytellers Association said that this year's "Reading Yunlin - Traveling with Stories" will tour 9 townships, including Citong, Douliu, Erlun, Lunbei, Yuanchang, Baozhong, Shuilin, Beigang, and Tuku. The reading tour lineup includes Yunlin's own Yunlin Puppet Theater Museum mobile vehicle, the Yunlin Memory Cool team, the Erlun Story House, and the Yunlin Story House, as well as teams from Pingtung such as the Pingtung County Story Society, the Malaysian Picture Book Rainforest Association, the Seeing Eighteen Dinh Community Organization, and Japanese paper theater performer Tsunekatsu Suzuki. Everyone is sincerely invited to come listen to stories, visit the story sites, and feel the vitality of Yunlin's story culture!