2015 The Spirit of Taipei Photo Essay Contest Intro: Wandering in Taipei City, you will see the passion and spirit of its residents are shown in every corner of this beloved City. There is always a group of hard-working people holding up to their beliefs of making their home a better place. These people are truly the soul of this City. It is because of them, every corner of the City carries a unique feature. Through the 2015 The Spirit of Taipei Photo Essay Contest, we encourage you, the Souls of the City, to speak out your very own Spirit of Taipei. Organizer: Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government Submission Deadline: April 12th, 2015. Postal submission must be postmarked by April 12th, 2015. Eligibility: The Contest is open to all regardless of nationality. Each individual can submit a maximum of one entry, in MANDARIN or ENGLISH. Registration Guidelines i. Online Submission: Visit the official website (http://spirit.travel.taipei/ ) and click “Registration”, complete the online registration form and upload your entry, including subject sentence, essay, and ONE photo. ii. Postal Submission: Download the registration form on the official website (see Appendix 1), or use your own A4 paper, write the subject sentence and essay on the front page, attach your photo to the bottom left. At the back of the page, please specify your basic information and contact information. Please seal your entry in an envelope and mail it to Central wing, 4F, No.1, Shifu Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 11008. Team of the Spirit of Taipei, Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government by REGISTERED MAIL. Please specify the following on the cover: Entry for 2015 the Spirit of Taipei Photo Essay Contest. Submission Guidelines: Use one subject sentence to express your opinion on “The Spirit of Taipei”, in addition to a picture and an essay up to 300 words to help demonstrate your ideas. Please find submission details below. i. Subject Sentence: Submit your essay beginning with: “The Spirit of Taipei is……” (Sentence is limited to a maximum of 20 words, both English word and number are counted as 1 word.) ii. 300-word Essay: Write an essay to help explain your thoughts underlying the subject sentence. Essay can include a person, a view, an object, a piece of history, an attitude, or a story, etc. iii. Picture: It can be either a photograph or a picture, drawing, etc. There is no specific limitation as to what theme the entry should be about, however, it should be using Taipei City as the main topic or background. For the pictures using online registration, the size of the pictures should not exceed 2MB; and as for the postal submission pictures, the size of the pictures should not be smaller than 4x6 (10x15cm). Scoring criteria: (1) Accuracy of representing the spirit of Taipei: 50% (2) Fluency and inspirations: 30% (3) Artistic and narrative photography: 20% Award and Prize Details First Place: NTD 30,000 Second Place: NTD 8,000 Third Place: NTD 5,000 Note 1: Winner of the First Place will be working with professional design team to help design the logo of the Spirit of Taipei. Note 2: All 30 nominated entries will be included in the Collection of the Spirit of Taipei. Public Voting Raffle i. Raffle Regulation: Each individual will get one raffle to vote for nominated entries, and is limited to winning a maximum of one prize per winner. Prizes and winners will be declared on the official website, and in the meantime, winners will be given information about award-claiming by E-mail or phone call. ii. Raffle Prizes: iPad mini 3 (Wi-Fi version 16G, color: random)X1 Portable battery pack charger X1 NTD1,000 gift cards X16 Taipei City cultural and creative products X20 iii. Raffle Dates: The drawing for the raffle would be held at the Exhibition at the afternoon of May 28th, 2015. For more information, please visit the official website (http://spirit.travel.taipei/). --

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