Timeless Taiwan 2024

“Timeless Taiwan” is a signature event for upholding Taiwanese traditions and cultures. Every year, we have over 3,000 participants coming to this indoor fair, and we are excited to bring this annual carnival back to campus again. While bringing a welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere to attendees, the events create large amounts of food and container wastes that we try to tackle on this year, and the stage performances also require a large amount of energy consumption for lighting. This year, we envision not only promoting environmental integrity but also showcasing our social responsibility through nurturing and celebrating the richness of diverse cultural heritages or Taiwanese heritage with our officers and guests to enhance cultural consciousness.

Timeless Taiwan aims to heighten cultural awareness in our diverse campus community. The University of Washington is an extremely diverse campus in the greater Seattle area, and “Timeless Taiwan” invites people to celebrate our differences and share new experiences, fostering cultural awareness through a wide variety of Taiwanese food and stunning live performances. Our events can mainly be divided into two parts: 22 diverse vendors of Taiwanese iconic street foods such as popcorn chicken, traditional night market games, and business vendors around the Seattle area. Beyond vendors, Timeless Taiwan provides opportunities for participants to experience the diverse culture of our community through music and captivating performances by hired students, local bands, and Taiwanese singer ØZI. TOSA welcomes participants of all nationalities to get involved and join us to raise cultural sustainability. To successfully succeed our proposed goals in Timeless Taiwan, 76 members including TOSA officers and volunteers are trained at least two weeks before the events and collaborate to maintain smooth operations throughout the events. The training specifies on ensuring the smooth operation of the event as we faced challenges in traffic flow and food supplies. Plus, we emphasizes on people’s awareness of environmental sustainbility through proper recycling during the event. Every member involved in the food team is required to complete the food permit and training process to ensure the safety of our food production. We envision people connecting and sharing their cultural backgrounds through the vendor games at our event. Thus, vendor, performance, and human resources management would require funds to function smoothly and get connected.
 

Beyond cultural sustainability, Timeless Taiwan also aims to promote environmental sustainability through various aspects of our activities to raise awareness of environmental responsibility among all participants involved. First, we encourage people to bring their reusable utensils and plan to replace all food containers such as plates and utensils with recyclable and compostable ones. As some containers are vendor-specific, we will require funds to replace in in- house. Besides food vendors, to promote an eco-friendly environment, we plan to incorporate reusable materials to craft our vendor design and decorations. The fund is needed to obtain reusable and biodegradable materials to reach our expectations. Lastly, we recruited around 30 volunteers for the event, separated into different groups such as food, facility, and trash station monitoring specifically to manage trash flow to reduce improper sorting and cleanup.