2023 Taoyuan Land Art Festival

Hakka Lion Head Art Workshop

Organized by the local development association, the event will feature a guided tour of the traditional Hakka Lion Head stories, teaching participants about the patterns and designs of Hakka Lion Head, and providing knowledge about Hakka Lion Head culture. The event will start with the stories of Hakka Lion Head, leading both children and adults to get to know Hakka culture and then proceed to create their own Hakka Lion Head.

Handmade Soap Making Experience with Tung Blossom Flowers

Event Description: The "捏捏皂" (Nienien Soap) has won the 2019 Taoyuan Gold Award and is unlike regular solid or liquid soaps. It is a highly malleable soap with a unique soft texture, similar to clay, allowing you to freely sculpt and shape it. Not only can it beautify and fragrance the environment, but it can also be used for cleaning purposes. Come and create your own unique and personalized soap!

Local Plant Pounding Dyeing

Event Content: Led by professional artisans, the hands-on workshop will focus on practicing the spirit of the Land Art Festival through the use of natural materials found in the environment. The workshop instructors will guide participants in using local plants to create pounding dyeing and printmaking artworks. Through this hands-on experience, participants will gain an understanding of the techniques of pounding dyeing and printmaking using local plant materials.

Hakka floral fabric zongzi scented sachets

This activity showcases the local characteristics of food culture by using the traditional "客家花布" (Hakka floral cloth) and local plants. Participants will handcraft their own unique "客家粽香包" (Hakka-style fragrant pouch) and receive on-site guidance on sewing techniques and fragrance pouch making. The historical significance of "客家花布" will be explored, and attendees will have the opportunity to create their own personalized fragrant pouches. Through the symbol of "客家粽" (Hakka rice dumpling), the importance of food culture in the Hakka community will be conveyed, and the design of the fragrance pouches will be inspired by the playful appearance of the Hakka rice dumplings.

Handmade Osmanthus scented bead bracelet

Event Details: Join us for a themed activity introducing common Hakka flowers, where we will combine bead bracelet crafting and the fragrance of Osmanthus flowers. Through engaging all five senses, each participant can establish a connection with this land. Let's come together and enjoy a joyful summer afternoon during the Land Art Festival, regardless of age.

「Blooming Rainy Night, Dancing Flowers in Summer」

2023 Commemorative Deng Yu-Xian Concert

Since 2015, Longtan District Office has been promoting the commemorative Deng Yu-Xian Concert, in honor of this talented local musician who brings pride to the people of Longtan. Through active promotion, the district office aims to deepen everyone's understanding of Deng Yu-Xian's life in Taiwan during that time, and to appreciate the spirit behind the many popular songs that still resonate today. To commemorate the "Father of Taiwanese Ballads" - Mr. Deng Yu-Xian, the 2023 Taoyuan Landscape Art Festival will celebrate Deng Yu-Xian in diverse ways. Apart from organizing five campus concerts in schools, there will be the "Blooming Rainy Night, Dancing Flowers in Summer" concert held in collaboration with the school at the sports park croquet field starting at 6:20 PM on August 20.

FOCA

The Deletaction Journey

FOCA was established in 2011, proudly named after Taiwan, the beautiful Formosa Island. It aims to create diverse contemporary circus art in Taiwan by combining traditional culture, local culture, street culture, and theatrical arts. FOCA integrates various performance styles to develop a unique and expressive physical vocabulary.

Headspring Theatre

Midsummer Party

At the moment of incessant disasters occurring in Taiwan , artist Chang-Wang, with some outstanding theatrical workers and dancers, founded the first troupe called Streamline Creative Group, in July 1998, which takes “reform environments” and “interdisciplinary productions” as the dominant performance factors.
In 2005, it renames “Streams Confluence Theatre,” which refers to create the artistic space and change the cultural environment as the new goal. The speaking “Rivers and streams flow to the sea” means the new trend of art is the confluence of different artistic forms, the era of collaboration with all talents, and the epoch without boundary and aspects. Streams Confluence Theatre absorbs the spirit of the age, creates the new trend of the age, and it also collaborates with all the talents to open a new artistic era and then to face the international market.

2023 Cultural Asset Promotion Plan "Shuiwei Settlement: The Story of Local Reclamation that Lives in Symbiosis with Water"

The Taoyuan Landscape Art Festival, which has been held since 2013, takes the city's natural and cultural landscapes as its core and connects art and landscape through multiple forms of creation. In this year's Longtan exhibition area, we can see the natural stream Laojie Creek, the pond "Longtan Dachi" where ancestors collected water, and the "Old Town", a settlement city built along the water. The local ponds, roads, residential buildings, streets, land fairs, etc. are all the footprints of the ancestors who overcame environmental constraints to live here. The historical memory of local development along the water is hidden everywhere. The 2023 cultural assets promotion plan "Waterwoven Settlement: The Story of Local Reclamation that Lives with Water" focuses on the relationship between local ethnic groups and hydrology, and launches a series of exciting and fulfilling activities based on in-depth research! Starting from fieldwork, with the help of local elders, cultural and historical workers and scholars, we gradually sorted out the context of Longtan water and culture, and shared these stories with everyone in last week's cultural and historical lecture. In addition, we also designed a landscape literacy lesson plan exclusive to Longtan, leading students from five elementary schools in Longtan, Delong, Qianlong, Gaoyuan, and Shimen to enter the real scene and explore the meaning of life through game-based learning. Historical details ~ Under the guidance of the artist, the children interpreted old place names and characteristic landscapes together, and created new words rich in local color to express their identification and imagination of the place!

"Old Culture, Shared Feelings" - 2023 Taoyuan Landscape Art Festival Art Forum

Moderator Shi Ruiren/Consultant of Taoyuan Museum of Art Huang Haiming/Former Adjunct Professor of the Department of Art and Professor of the Department of Cultural and Creative Industries Management of the National Taipei University of Education

Speaker: Chen Kaihuang/President of National Taipei University of the Arts Wang Kunsheng/well-known cross-border curator
 

This forum is based on one of the four major themes of the 2023 Landscape Art Festival, "Traditional Culture, Shared Sense". On August 12, Shi Ruiren, consultant of Taomei Museum, will be invited to serve as the moderator, and President Chen Kaihuang of the National Taipei University of the Arts will serve as the panellist. There will also be talks with participating artists Steven Harrington, Fan Chengzong, and Wallis Hayong (Wang Qi) in the Qingpu exhibition area, sharing how to use artistic creation to interpret local culture and shape cultural resonance; Professor Huang Haiming will be invited to host the session on August 13 Curator Wang Kunsheng served as the panellist. Longtan District curator Gao Qingrong and crazy designer Chen Shigang shared relevant planning features, and artists such as Men Shifu, Xie Yuyu and Onishi Yasuaki discussed the art participation process and community co-creation of this community co-creation. The importance of creation.

[Special Exhibition of Cultural Resources] Patrol the waterway to find the cultural path of Longtan settlement