The Environmental Art Festival, which has lasted for ten years, has changed the whole village! Jackie Chan Wetland becomes a treasure land, condensing three generations of centripetal force

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The Jackie Chan Wetland International Art Festival, which has been held continuously for 10 years, has earned the name of Jackie Chan Village in Kouhu Township, Yunlin County, and the number of tourists who visit it every year has repeatedly reached new highs. Jackie Chan Village ten years ago gave up hope and could not see any possibility in the future. After ten years of exploration, use art to give full play to the potential of wetlands and restore the local vitality.

However, frequent and lively activities also make residents think, "if you only organize activities for the sake of organizing activities, it will not help the community if it consumes manpower and centripetal force in vain." Jackie Chan community and companion group ─ Tree Education Foundation decided that the festival should return to "better community life" as the focus, return to community residents and producers, and re-forge consensus in order to enhance villagers' willingness to participate.

In contrast to the fact that in the past, it was residents who helped artists collect creative media, this year, artists helped residents to create the themes of their lives into art, and invited farmers and fishermen to build a market, looking forward to playing Jackie Chan's local brand to the outside world. the popularity accumulated by the environmental arts festival over the past decade will be poured into the development energy of the community industry and actually improve the local environment.

The work left by the artist and the villagers has now become a popular place for NetMei to sign in. Jackie Chan Community Development Association provides a bad place from the limelight to a beautiful place.

Jackie Chan Village is located in Yunlin Kouhu Township, known as "where the wind and water tail is located", which means "the fat and water of good health cannot flow here, but once the torrential rain and strong winds are raging, they have to block the front and suffer disasters." therefore, this kind of terrain generally belongs to areas with difficult living conditions.

Jackie Chan Wetland was originally a large area of fertile land. In 1979, Typhoon Wayne landed from the mouth of the Zhuoshui River, which hit the coast of Yunlin hard. A large amount of seawater was poured back and invaded, and nearly 100 hectares of fertile land in Chenglong Village was immersed in sea water. Due to the subsidence of the strata, the sea water could not be discharged, so it had to be abandoned eventually.

When they lost the land they relied on, the villagers wanted to cry without tears, and at one point they even had to move the village and abandon it. However, in reality, it is not a feasible option to relocate the village. when there is no hope for the villagers, the Forestry Bureau evaluates that wetlands breed rich ecology and put forward the concept of "ecological subsidy" in 2005. The Forestry Bureau leases waste land to landlords as ecological restoration areas.

In 2009, the Forestry Bureau further invited the Guanshu Education Foundation to accompany the residents in Jackie Chan Village to develop environmental education in Jackie Chan wetlands and promote the practice of "Caspian Sea Life". The initiative of the Forestry Bureau not only changed the situation of this fishing village, but also created the famous Jackie Chan Wetland International Art Festival in the future.

Jackie Chan community develops many interactive itineraries of producing areas to let more people go into this land to learn about its beauty and scars. The Community Development Association provides ten years of environmental art action to reconcile the pain of the land and explore the future for the place.

The Jackie Chan wetland used to be hundreds of hectares of fertile land. In the minds of the older generation, it is a painful memory to lose land due to the backflow of the sea water caused by the wind. They call the wetland the "bird grotto"-a place occupied by birds, but they are actually grieving and hostile to the wetland.

In order to reconcile residents with environmental disasters, the Guanshu Foundation has held the Jackie Chan Wetland International Environmental Art Festival since 2010. Many domestic and foreign artists have been invited to Jackie Chan Wetland to re-explore this "land that was about to be abandoned." let the local people take a new look at the wetland from the perspective of outsiders.

The works left behind by the festival often become public art that attracts tourists from other places. The images of many works pursue the reconciliation and symbiosis of people and the environment, imperceptibly to repair the scars that this land has experienced. _ photo by Lin Jiyang

The festival makes wetland ecology and life in fishing villages a medium for artists to create. Artists have become good friends of Jackie Chan Village, and more people regard Jackie Chan Village as another home because they are art festival volunteers. These include Lin Yuezhen, who is now the project manager of the Community Development Association.

Lin Yuezhen, originally a teacher at Forest Primary School, worked as an art festival volunteer in 2015. She said that she had traveled around to explore herself and came to Jackie Chan Village to find herself. She decided to berth in Jackie Chan Village from 2017 to work for the community and accompany the villagers to continue to move forward.

In the bazaar activities, many partners like Lin Jian-Zhen participated in the festival as volunteers, then left fetters in Jackie Chan Village, and have since become regular migratory fish.

Lin Yuzhen, originally a mountain-climbing girl, came to Jackie Chan Wetland Art Festival as a volunteer to find herself. Two years ago, she became the project manager of Jackie Chan community. Huang Yuzhen, the photographer, acted as a detective to investigate the human ecology of her hometown.

Along the way from the village to the bazaar, many young people can be seen shuttling in and out, directing traffic without difficulty, introducing stalls and assisting in activities.

It turns out that after the arrival of the Guanshu Education Foundation in 2009, it established a "Wetland Detective Society" in cooperation with Jackie Chan Primary School for environmental education, allowing children to interview their elders, observe the ecology of wetlands, and learn about the local human and ecological resources step by step. At the same time, it also allows the elders of the community to create a dialogue experience of three generations by "accompanying the children with their homework".

Step by step, they get to know shrimps, sand crabs, and migratory birds that are common in wetlands. Cash crops in villages, such as clams, white shrimp and lice, are also part of the course. However, the recent pleasure of the detective agency is to investigate the retention of black-faced spoonbills. Every year, several young birds stay in the wetlands to spend the summer and autumn, waiting to fly back to the north with other adult birds next year.

The Wetland Detective Agency is also known as the "Jackie Chan Wetland Class 3," which means that this wetland, which Grandpa calls the "bird grotto," used to be "Grandpa's field." it later became "Grandpa's fish fish", and now it's "the place where I finish my homework and go to do nature research." Through environmental education to disturb the community, but also to cultivate the next generation of land identity and local spirit.

The little detective fished in the wetlands, identifying wetland species one by one. The Guanshu Education Foundation provides Jackie Chan's new generation: the greatest sense of achievement comes from introducing your hometown and winning the thumb of outsiders!

The fresh troops of these communities not only have a sense of identity with their hometown, but are full of imagination about the future of the village. even if they work and study abroad, they come back to help whenever there are activities. Lin Yu-Jie, one of the young detectives, believes that the greatest sense of achievement in joining the Wetland Detective Agency comes from "being able to introduce your hometown to outsiders and change their impression of Jackie Chan Village."

When he began to introduce Jackie Chan Village to outsiders, outsiders asked: "Jackie Chan Village?" Huh? " Because outsiders remember that Kouhu Township is a small barren and withered fishing village. However, after his introduction of the beauty of his hometown, especially the rich ecological environment of Jackie Chan wetland, he will always win the heartfelt admiration of outsiders and become his proudest thing!

In the face of the future, he is very confident, because he has participated in international art festivals since childhood, has the opportunity to get along with foreign artists, is not afraid to speak English and dares to speak on stage, and it is not difficult for him to do special research. Lin Yujie is full of imagination about the community. Even if he goes out to study in the future, he wants to continue to promote Jackie Chan Village, and he still looks forward to making the place better.

The Wetland Detective Agency allows many children in Jackie Chan Village to explore the humanities and ecology of their hometown from an early age, and to be full of recognition and expectation for their hometown, just like the simple emotion expressed by the junior detective Lin Yu-Jie (left) in the second year of senior high school. He has already planted the seeds of returning home in his heart before he has traveled abroad. Return to the original intention: do not want the community to be as busy as a top, but forget the original intention of holding activities

Although Jackie Chan Village has held an international art festival since 2010, due to the artist's presence in combination with the creation of the landscape environment, the popularity has gradually increased, and the number of tourists visiting Jackie Chan Village has also reached new highs every year. But the villagers are also thinking: "the festival is so busy, who on earth is busy?"

"frequent activities keep the community as busy as a top, making achievements to subsidized units with achievements, but if you only organize activities for the purpose of organizing activities, it will be futile to consume manpower and centripetal force, and will not help the community." Guo Mingyuan, director of Jackie Chan Community, thinks about how to make the event a "feeling" public affair for community residents, rather than for a small number of people.

Guo Mingyuan said that the wetland art festivals over the past decade have accumulated a group of outsiders who are concerned about the future of Jackie Chan Village, including artists and volunteer friends. The village has also accumulated a group of young people, students' parents and elders who have a sense of identity and action, which is the greatest capital of the community.

At a meeting between the community and the foundation, it was decided that the arts festival must be transformed, that it should return to the focus of "making community life better," and return to community residents and producers. Only by re-building consensus can we increase the participation rate and let everyone know that the event is for the "common good of the community" and that the willingness of voluntary and voluntary villagers to participate can be enhanced.

Guo Mingyuan, director of Jackie Chan Community, believes that after ten years of holding the festival, the community is as busy as a top, but gradually lose its original ideal, so it is time to stop and rethink the future. Lin Jiyang Photo Festival transforms the community environmental art bazaar to show the potential of the industry

This year, Jackie Chan Community and Tree View Foundation decided to make the festival more localized. On November 16th and 17th, Jackie Chan held a community environmental art fair in Jackie Chan Wetland to publish this year's art creation achievements. At the same time, local producers, artists and volunteers were invited to set up stalls to show the industrial potential of the land.

The theme of this year's creation is to recycle clothes and match the knitting techniques of the residents. Artists and volunteers work together to produce knitting works as the main works of the joint exhibition.

The bazaar is the first attempt by the community and the Tree Foundation. Around the Jackie Chan Wetland, there are still many fish breeding areas. Jackie Chan residents mostly use clams as the main way of mixed culture of white shrimp and milkfish as the source of income for the villagers. This time, the association also arranged to experience the interaction between the producing areas, where the fish fish touched the clams and approached the wetland for ecological observation.