Objectives
1. Continue to promote the street dance activities in Banqiao.
2. Encourage young people to do healthy leisure activities through street dance teaching.
3. Market Banqiao Facilitate international cultural exchange through street dance activities to market Banqiao.
Introduction
has obviously become the ultimate exhibition for young people to express their young energies. After school or during holidays, passionate young people will gather in several public spaces in Banqiao Train Station to show off via competing with each other. Such atmosphere has added vitalities to Banqiao Train Station. With moving melodies and body movements of dancers, this emerging leisure activity is like a moving public art that has infused vitalities in our life.
The 3 consecutive street dance competition held in Banqiao has successfully attracted top street dancers from US and Japan. The activity this year, in addition to continuing promoting healthy street dances, the unique charms of street dances will be used as a media to promote the cultural exchange among Banqiao and foreign cities. The activities of the festival include street dance competition, street dance performances, graffiti demonstration and street dance teaching. Hopefully, with the continuance of this activity, the city image of Banqiao will be shaped as being creative and energetic.
About the Activity
1. Banqiao Street Dance Teaching Project: Teaching students one dance and those who complete the dance will show their learning results on the day of the street dance competition, allowing the public to become a part of the activity and encouraging participation in the competition.
2. Banqiao Street Dance Competition: The spectacular final competition is temporarily scheduled to be held on November 5th (Saturday) at the square of Banqiao Train Station. One foreign judge (for now) will be invited and 5 awards are provided to increase dancers' participation and ensure its fairness. According to the previous experience, the competition always attracts close to 100 groups to participate which make it worthy for watching. This year, dancers will be competing with each other in groups with funky salsa, making the competition more exciting and popular.
3. The Sedentary Graffiti Exhibition by Graffiti Masters.
4. Graffiti masters' artworks will be displayed on the day of the activity so that the public can appreciate street graffiti art at close range and get to know the cultural connation between graffiti and street dance from the exhibition. The street design brand market will be held around the location where the activity is held. Various street design brands, both domestic and international, will be invited to join the market to exhibit clothing of street trends and related products of street dances, allowing the public to gain a better understanding of cultural products as well as lifestyle derived from street dance.
Local Highlights
"Art Museum and Cultural and Creative Industry Park> in National Taiwan University of Arts was opened to the public on March 24th, 2008. Under the concept of "Museums professionally shape features of arts universities and, with academia, international exchange is enhanced", the university hopes, by combining its missions of academia, professionalism, culture and the exchange with the experience of industrial and academic departments , the goals of achieving new inspiration, promoting art education and nurturing more artistic talents are achieved. The combination of culture, art, creativity and industry has become the latest trend. Currently, there are 4 workshops and 3 innovation workshops established by innovation training centers. It not only provides a place for exchange, but also a chance for the students to cultivate culturally and practice further. Hopefully, in the process of learning and practicing, traditional art and modern industrial trends are further integrated to inspire new ideas that center on creativity to infuse new ideas to the creative industry of Taiwan.
Lin Family Mansion is formerly known as Banqiao Villa. It is the best well-preserved garden construction left in Taiwan now. The internal layout of the mansion is the traditional Chinese garden with numerous features of pavilions and towers. It took around 40 years to complete. Just imagine! How majestic this project was! The layout of the mansion is meticulous and perfectly proportioned. It was built with precious Taiwan camphor trees, exhibiting the wealth and splendor of a wealthy family. The Lin Family Mansion and garden is majestic with a pavilion every 3 steps and a building every 5 steps. The splendid landscapes are mesmerizing. The decorations such as patterned windows and carved beams are exquisite and extravagant. Walking in the garden, red lanterns are highly hung, the small bridge is surrounded by plants and water is running beneath it. Each brick and tile represents the glory it once had. The elegant garden construction is of complicated landscape arrangements, making the mansion more than just a dwelling but a place for spending time leisurely and relaxing. In a city filled with high-rise buildings, it shoulders a mission for culture inheritance and art cultivation.
<435 Art Zone> Walking into 435 Art Zone is as if walking into the Shangrila of Banqiao. Originally it's an art zone of the training center for Veteran Accountants. In recent years, after being renovated by the township office, its preliminary landscape and beautification are complete. 435 Art Zone is in the south while the Lin Family Mansion and Garden in the north looking at each other, the Chinese-style and western-style architecture make an interesting contrast. The courtyard next to the fountain is filled with white small stones, as if paved with snow if looking from the distance. In the center of the dream-like platform arranged like a fairy tale is a hall of ancient Greek-style columns and the only domed library. The mixture of modern and retro artistic allures, either under the sunshine at dawn or bathed in lights in the evening, are mesmerizing. The various sized exhibition rooms are provided to exhibit artworks by domestic and international artists. Occasionally, great shows are available in the big theater. Such a leisure and secluded space in hustling and bustling Taipei is truly hard to resist.
