Featured Events in Taiwan in May, 2025 (July Updated)

2025 Penghu Fireworks Festival × Snoopy, a healing appearance, will accompany you to see the night sky! Snoopy takes Charlie Brown to fly into the night sky of Chrysanthemum Island to enjoy the fireworks over the sea together! Snoopy’s exclusive fireworks show + drone light show, so cute! A lovely promise this summer, watch Penghu’s romantic Fireworks Festival with Snoopy! Dedicated to all of you who love Snoopy, the exclusive fireworks show is super touching! 2025 The night sky of Kikushima will be lit up by Snoopy, and the sea fireworks show + drones will shine!

If you visit the Anping Tree House, you might as well stop by the calligraphy exhibition of Mr. Zhu Jiuying. Mr. Zhu Jiuying is a modern politician, scholar and calligrapher, and you can see many of his wonderful works here.

GUNS N' ROSES 2025 LIVE IN TAIWAN Legendary rock band Guns N' Roses announces return to Taiwan Specially present this event for fans To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band's founding, this global tour is based on the band's 40 years of classic works. The performance repertoire covers Guns N' Roses' representative works from various periods, using magnificent musical energy to give back to fans, showing the fusion of classics and innovation, and rekindling the passion of all rock souls. It also breaks through the previous concert's 2-hour scale and expands to 3 hours, bringing a more complete music experience, allowing fans to enjoy the shocking live performance for a longer time and creating a new chapter in rock history.

The annual "Dongshan Hot Air Balloon Carnival" returns to Dongshan, Yilan, and has become a summer event that cannot be missed for family outings, couples dating, and photography enthusiasts. The event will be held for four consecutive weekends starting from May 31, 2025, combining tethered aerial experience, light show, market, food and local attractions, attracting a large number of tourists to the old river channel of Dongshan River to share the summer atmosphere and the fantasy hot air balloon visual feast.

As winter approaches, Taiwan has officially entered the peak season for hot springs! Taiwan is blessed with a variety of hot springs, including cold springs, hot springs, turbid springs, and underwater springs, making it a world-renowned hot spring resort. The "Hot Spring Food Carnival" not only allows domestic tourists to soak in all the hot spring areas in Taiwan and enjoy discounts everywhere, but is also very attractive to international tourists. It is also an annual event that drives the hot spring tourism boom in Taiwan in autumn and winter.

The "Art Aquarium" interprets goldfish viewing, which has been loved since ancient times, in the form of a modern art space through light, sound, fragrance, and Japanese traditional culture and artwork. In addition to permanent exhibitions that can be viewed throughout the year, special exhibitions that change with the seasons are also held. In this fantastic performance space, you can admire adorable and unique goldfish.

Printmaking and drawing are fundamental forms of human artistic creation. Though their appearances and techniques differ greatly, both forms embody artists’ profound explorations of technique, medium, and expression. “Tiangong Kaiwu”, a legacy of Ming dynasty Chinese scientist Song Yingxing, stands as a comprehensive work on ancient Chinese craftsmanship and scientific spirit. Its documentation of woodblock printing, ink usage, and material selection laid the groundwork for the development of printmaking. This exhibition begins with the spirit of “Tiangong Kaiwu”, presenting outstanding works by Eastern and Western artists to examine the technical heritage and contemporary potential of these art forms.

Bringing together nearly 100 galleries from more than ten countries and regions around the world, mainly in Asia, the fair showcases a rich variety of outstanding works from artists at home and abroad, highlighting Taipei’s indispensable position in the global art market. It is also a regional art fair that supports the development of local art.

The J-POP boy group, BE:FIRST is heading to Taipei for the first ever time with their “Who Is Be:First? Tour” at Zepp New Taipei on 15, May, 2025!

From a galaxy far, far away celebrate Star Wars Day, May the 4th, at Leigh library by making your own alien creature. You'll be supported by visual artist Paul Pickford who will guide you through the process of designing and sculpting a creature inspired by the Star Wars Universe. Rebels, Jedi, Wookies and even Banthas are welcome, just this once! You will be able to take your model home to colour/paint. Suitable for age 7+ Children aged under 8 years must be accompanied by an adult. Accompanying adults do not need to buy a ticket unless they themselves would like to make a model of their own. Information Source: Wigan libraries | eventbrite

Qiangou, also known as drag net, is the earliest fishing gear invented by our ancestors and one of the ancient fishing methods in Taiwan. Nowadays, it is held in various parts of Taiwan to show the spirit of teamwork. Fishing method: When the fish are most densely approaching the shore, a sampan will cast a drag net into the sea, and the two ends of the drag net are fixed to the shore. After the fish are surrounded, dozens of people on the shore will work together to pull the fishing net ashore. In the early days, whenever the fishing season came, coastal residents assigned people to guard the seashore around the clock. When they found a school of fish, the residents immediately went out to sea on bamboo rafts or sampans, and cast nets along the coast in a large circle to encircle the school of fish, and put all the offshore fish into the net. The people who stayed on the shore tied a short rope around their waists. After the sampan drove the fish into the net, the people on the shore pulled the rope together to pull the fishing net to the shore, and everyone who participated could share some of the catch. Symbol: The spirit of mutual assistance and full cooperation, used to show the struggle of Taiwan's ancestors to fight against nature in the migration of reclamation. The fishermen's great help and sharing of the catch under unity and cooperation is exactly what the saying "leaning on the rope to share the fish" means. It even has a philosophy of peaceful coexistence and strong human feelings, and the humanistic color is higher than economic considerations. It is rare to see fishing activities in Taiwan today.

Seeing The Invisible! Launched in December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever built. Join Wendy from Daresbury Laboratory to learn more about this incredible telescope and how it’s helping us see the universe in new ways. After the talk and Q&A, enjoy a fish and chip supper. Suitable for age 10+. Information Source: Wigan libraries | eventbrite