Amis Music Festival
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Taiwan
| Amis Music Festival 阿米斯音樂節 | |
|---|---|
 Indigenous group dance at the 2016 festival | |
| Genre | Cultural |
| Frequency | Annual except every third year |
| Locations | Dulan, Donghe, Taitung Taiwan |
| Years active | 2013—Present |
| Founder | Suming Rupi |
| Most recent | November 23–24, 2019 |
| Previous event | November 11–12, 2017 |
| Organized by | Mitaidea Dulan Villagers |
| Website | www |
The Amis Music Festival (Chinese: 阿米斯音樂節) is a cultural event held in Dulan Village, Taitung County. The event promotes music, arts and various cultures of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples, and is the first of its kind in Taiwan.[1]
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The very first Amis Music Festival was organized in 2013 by Suming Rupi, an indigenous singer-songwriter from the Pangcah (Amis) people, and the Dulan villagers in an effort to stimulate tribe-oriented economic development in their hometown.[2] Suming derived inspiration for the event from performing at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK and the Festival of Pacific Arts.[3] The festival is held around mid-November, resting one year after every two years.[citation needed]
The festival has its own Amis Music Festival Flag[4] which the organizers defined with symbolic significance referring to the lands, ocean, and traditional culture of the 'atolan 'amis nation.
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The story of how Suming Rupi founded the Amis Music Festival and the Amis Music Festival Flag was documented in the 2016 documentary Suming Carrying The Flag (扛旗子的人-Suming), which was first aired as an episode in the TV program Songs Blowing Over the Island (吹過島嶼的歌) of the Taiwan Indigenous Television.[5] The full documentary film was also selected for the 12th Native Spirit Festival in 2018, which is an international film festival in the UK.[6][7][8]
In 2017, Suming received the Taiwanese Presidential Cultural Awards' youth creativity award for his work in promoting traditional indigenous culture in Dulan village, with President Tsai Ing-Wen noting that it had resonated well with young people.[9]
