Award Ceremony The 22nd National Award for Arts Ceremony was held on October 7 at the The Taipei Performing Arts Center, where the seven awardees beiguan master Chiu Huo-jung, landscape architect Kuo Chung-twn, film artist Huang Mingchuan, author Ping Lu, theater artist Wang Rong-yu, filmmaker Sylvia Chang, and choreographer puljaljuyan pakaleva, accompanied by friends and family, President Tsai lng-wen, Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te, and nearly 300 distinguished guests from the arts and cultural circles, basked in the joy and glory of being honored with the award.

 This year, the award ceremony theme was For Those Who Love the Arts, which not only suggests the love that artists feel for culture, aesthetics, life, and the land, but also for their eternal inner dialogues, the mutual support among artists and others, and the mutual attention between artists and their audiences. The award honored the long and unremitting artistic journey, and lifetime of personal cultivation of each of the seven artists, as well as those lovers of art who have accompanied them along the way. The ceremony included works by invited performers, starting with Puppet & Its Double Theater and their On the Edge of Reality: REMIX, then Shimmering Production with their pas de deux titled Side by Side, and finally Sangpuy and his band, who closed the ceremony with the upbeat selections Light, Follow Your Steps, and Cheerful Waggle Dance. 

In 2022, the ceremony was live streamed and recorded for later viewing for the first time, so that audiences who could not attend the ceremony were able to witness this tribute to awardees.