2020 Carrefour Arts Festival
"Integrating Art into Everyday Life" has always been the spirit of the Carrefour Arts Festival. Art is neither distant nor singular because timeless art is ubiquitous in everyday life, where our home, land, and community are all stages for arts. Community revitalization, small farmers and social enterprises, and arts and culture constitute the 3 major dimensions of the arts festival. During the 3-day festival, 3 major night theatre performances, 20 outdoor day theatre performances, 40 marketplace stalls, and workshops and CreativeMornings talks allow participants to appreciate the beauty of arts in our everyday life and imbue strength to the people and land through arts. It is hoped that Carrefour Arts Festival brings every family and community close to arts in the friendliest way, portraying the hominess and playfulness of life.
“Day Theatre” is a carnival featuring more than 20 outdoor performances including acrobatics, dance, percussion, traditional music, singing, and magic performance, offering the audience an immersive performing arts experience and sharing the performers' dreams with them.
“Night Theater” consists of 3 major performances held in the evening of October 23, 24 and 25, featuring extraordinary Taiwanese troupes including Paper Windmill Theatre, Ten Drum Art Percussion Group, and Formosa Circus Art. Lawns will be open for public to enjoy the performance and starlight. Simultaneously, our audience can intimately integrate art into their life.
“Carrefour Marketplace” with the theme of environmental sustainability, food agriculture, and community revitalization, is comprised of 40 marketplace stalls, workshops and CreativeMornings talks. It will broaden the publics’ horizons and inspire their imagination through variable activities.
Time
2020/10/23（Fri）18:30-20:30
2020/10/24（Sat）10:30-20:30
2020/10/25（Sun）13:00-20:00
Artists and Companies
Paperwindmill Theatre｜10/23（Fri）19:00
A child running through a meadow with a paper windmill in hand is an idealized vision of innocence and bliss. Paperwindmill Theatre has thus adopted as its motto, "let the wind blow - march forward into the heart of the gale."
The first of Paperwindmill Cultural Foundation’s four performing-arts-related subdivisions founded in 1992, Paperwindmill Theatre has earned its widespread acclaim on the diversity of children theatres pieces. Paperwindmill's children's theatre works seek to be artistic as well as educational. Reaching beyond conventional methods of storytelling, the troupe's innovative productions combine elements of music, find arts, dance, and children’s literature with lighting, sound effects, and other theatrical techniques. With their unique vision and amalgamation of various styles, Paperwindmill presentations aim to catalyze the imagination, especially in children. Alternation between the traditional and modern arts, the company inspires children into the vast realms of imagination and artistic expression. It is hoped that, through Paperwindmill’s performances, audiences can become acquainted with the native character of children’s theatre in contemporary Taiwan.
Tendrum Art Percussion Group｜10/24（Sat）19:00
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group is Taiwan's only Grammy Award, American Independent Music Award, Taiwan's Golden Melody Award nominated art group and at the same time was invited to perform at Avignon, France and the UK Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won five-star highest evaluation honors.
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group was established in the spring of 2000 and "To share Taiwanese local culture and carry forward the drumming art heritage." is the group's main development goals. The word "ten" represents a pair of crossed drumsticks that bring together energy and gather together the strength of unity in order to establish the culture of unique drumming style in Taiwan so that one day Taiwan will become “Drumming Island”.
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group performed extensively on five continents all over the world (Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Oceania), to include 21 countries and 52 foreign cities. The Ten Drum Art Percussion Group done more than 30,000 performances for over 5 million people and so is Taiwan's first cultural tourism industry miracle.
Formosa Circus Art｜10/25（Sun）18:30
FOCA was established in 2011. Its purpose is to develop the various contemporary circus arts of Taiwan, mixing them with other styles of performance including traditional forms, acrobatics, street culture and theatre arts. FOCA’s team members come from many different fields of performing arts, which makes FOCA the only circus company in Taiwan that has over ten full-time members.
As a leading circus company from Taiwan, FOCA has set records for many Taiwanese circus in a diversified business model. Not only FOCA was the first Taiwan circus company to enter the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and twice to the Festival d'Avignon Off, it was also the first Taiwan circus company to conduct overseas tours. Due to its unique and diverse aesthetic form, over the years FOCA has been loved by a large number of audiences both overseas and in Taiwan. At the same time, in order to make the contemporary circus more visible in Taiwan, FOCA started the circus education promotion program in 2017, and has completed more than 250 educational/promotional lectures and workshops, reaching more than 50,000 people.
FOCA launched "Interdisciplinary Trilogy" project in 2017. By collaborating with different artists including Taiwanese theatre director Baboo, Filipino visual artist Leeroy New and German dance theatre company “Peculiar Man”, FOCA recognizes this process as a way of conversation and learning the ethics and methods from peers among the arts sector, trying to generate and expand the meaning of contemporary circus in Taiwan.
Presenter
Taiwan Carrefour Foundation
Over the past 24 years, Taiwan Carrefour Foundation has established strong ties with the local communities and reached out to different corners of the country to see the stories of different families.
In supporting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stipulated by the UN, Taiwan Carrefour Foundation has endeavored to shape the future of children, homes, creativity, health, and Earth via dimensions such as arts, education, philanthropy, environment, and food.
Taiwan Carrefour Foundation intends to lead the charge on the path to sustainability. Every year, Carrefour Arts Festival’s local artistic potential hopes to assuage people's souls, so that they can observe, appreciate, tolerate, and listen to their inner selves and surroundings. People’s perspectives and souls are quintessential to the city’s sustainability.
Impact Hub Taipei
Founded in 2015, Impact Hub Taipei is the first Impact Hub in the Chinese-speaking world. As a coworking space, Impact Hub Taipei is a unique ecosystem of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities that supports a more sustainable world! In Taiwan, we not only provide space for start-ups, social enterprises, and NPOs but also serve as a social innovation incubator and accelerator. In the meantime, we assist enterprises to plan and implement CSR and SDGs related projects. We are proud to be the first B Corp certified Impact Hub in Asia and the first B Corp certified coworking space and impact incubator in Taiwan.
2020 Carrefour Arts Festival
"Integrating Art into Everyday Life" has always been the spirit of the Carrefour Arts Festival. Art is neither distant nor singular because timeless art is ubiquitous in everyday life, where our home, land, and community are all stages for arts. Community revitalization, small farmers and social enterprises, and arts and culture constitute the 3 major dimensions of the arts festival. During the 3-day festival, 3 major night theatre performances, 20 outdoor day theatre performances, 40 marketplace stalls, and workshops and CreativeMornings talks allow participants to appreciate the beauty of arts in our everyday life and imbue strength to the people and land through arts. It is hoped that Carrefour Arts Festival brings every family and community close to arts in the friendliest way, portraying the hominess and playfulness of life.
“Day Theatre” is a carnival featuring more than 20 outdoor performances including acrobatics, dance, percussion, traditional music, singing, and magic performance, offering the audience an immersive performing arts experience and sharing the performers' dreams with them.
“Night Theater” consists of 3 major performances held in the evening of October 23, 24 and 25, featuring extraordinary Taiwanese troupes including Paper Windmill Theatre, Ten Drum Art Percussion Group, and Formosa Circus Art. Lawns will be open for public to enjoy the performance and starlight. Simultaneously, our audience can intimately integrate art into their life.
“Carrefour Marketplace” with the theme of environmental sustainability, food agriculture, and community revitalization, is comprised of 40 marketplace stalls, workshops and CreativeMornings talks. It will broaden the publics’ horizons and inspire their imagination through variable activities.
Time
2020/10/23（Fri）18:30-20:30
2020/10/24（Sat）10:30-20:30
2020/10/25（Sun）13:00-20:00
Artists and Companies
Paperwindmill Theatre｜10/23（Fri）19:00
A child running through a meadow with a paper windmill in hand is an idealized vision of innocence and bliss. Paperwindmill Theatre has thus adopted as its motto, "let the wind blow - march forward into the heart of the gale."
The first of Paperwindmill Cultural Foundation’s four performing-arts-related subdivisions founded in 1992, Paperwindmill Theatre has earned its widespread acclaim on the diversity of children theatres pieces. Paperwindmill's children's theatre works seek to be artistic as well as educational. Reaching beyond conventional methods of storytelling, the troupe's innovative productions combine elements of music, find arts, dance, and children’s literature with lighting, sound effects, and other theatrical techniques. With their unique vision and amalgamation of various styles, Paperwindmill presentations aim to catalyze the imagination, especially in children. Alternation between the traditional and modern arts, the company inspires children into the vast realms of imagination and artistic expression. It is hoped that, through Paperwindmill’s performances, audiences can become acquainted with the native character of children’s theatre in contemporary Taiwan.
Tendrum Art Percussion Group｜10/24（Sat）19:00
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group is Taiwan's only Grammy Award, American Independent Music Award, Taiwan's Golden Melody Award nominated art group and at the same time was invited to perform at Avignon, France and the UK Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won five-star highest evaluation honors.
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group was established in the spring of 2000 and "To share Taiwanese local culture and carry forward the drumming art heritage." is the group's main development goals. The word "ten" represents a pair of crossed drumsticks that bring together energy and gather together the strength of unity in order to establish the culture of unique drumming style in Taiwan so that one day Taiwan will become “Drumming Island”.
Ten Drum Art Percussion Group performed extensively on five continents all over the world (Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Oceania), to include 21 countries and 52 foreign cities. The Ten Drum Art Percussion Group done more than 30,000 performances for over 5 million people and so is Taiwan's first cultural tourism industry miracle.
Formosa Circus Art｜10/25（Sun）18:30
FOCA was established in 2011. Its purpose is to develop the various contemporary circus arts of Taiwan, mixing them with other styles of performance including traditional forms, acrobatics, street culture and theatre arts. FOCA’s team members come from many different fields of performing arts, which makes FOCA the only circus company in Taiwan that has over ten full-time members.
As a leading circus company from Taiwan, FOCA has set records for many Taiwanese circus in a diversified business model. Not only FOCA was the first Taiwan circus company to enter the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and twice to the Festival d'Avignon Off, it was also the first Taiwan circus company to conduct overseas tours. Due to its unique and diverse aesthetic form, over the years FOCA has been loved by a large number of audiences both overseas and in Taiwan. At the same time, in order to make the contemporary circus more visible in Taiwan, FOCA started the circus education promotion program in 2017, and has completed more than 250 educational/promotional lectures and workshops, reaching more than 50,000 people.
FOCA launched "Interdisciplinary Trilogy" project in 2017. By collaborating with different artists including Taiwanese theatre director Baboo, Filipino visual artist Leeroy New and German dance theatre company “Peculiar Man”, FOCA recognizes this process as a way of conversation and learning the ethics and methods from peers among the arts sector, trying to generate and expand the meaning of contemporary circus in Taiwan.
Presenter
Taiwan Carrefour Foundation
Over the past 24 years, Taiwan Carrefour Foundation has established strong ties with the local communities and reached out to different corners of the country to see the stories of different families.
In supporting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stipulated by the UN, Taiwan Carrefour Foundation has endeavored to shape the future of children, homes, creativity, health, and Earth via dimensions such as arts, education, philanthropy, environment, and food.
Taiwan Carrefour Foundation intends to lead the charge on the path to sustainability. Every year, Carrefour Arts Festival’s local artistic potential hopes to assuage people's souls, so that they can observe, appreciate, tolerate, and listen to their inner selves and surroundings. People’s perspectives and souls are quintessential to the city’s sustainability.
Impact Hub Taipei
Founded in 2015, Impact Hub Taipei is the first Impact Hub in the Chinese-speaking world. As a coworking space, Impact Hub Taipei is a unique ecosystem of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities that supports a more sustainable world! In Taiwan, we not only provide space for start-ups, social enterprises, and NPOs but also serve as a social innovation incubator and accelerator. In the meantime, we assist enterprises to plan and implement CSR and SDGs related projects. We are proud to be the first B Corp certified Impact Hub in Asia and the first B Corp certified coworking space and impact incubator in Taiwan.
