Oops! I’m Yuchi, hello! Come get into our Artist Community, find more friends and lifestyle of east coast Taiwan!

In its current incarnation, Ci’en Artist Village is a non-profit social enterprise, but it had a previous life as a community kindergarten. Founded in 1971 on 2000m² of land in Hualien, eastern Taiwan, the kindergarten provided a space for hundreds of kids to learn, live, and play. Over the course of more than thirty years, many a child of Hualien was nurtured in our grounds, and it holds a special place in the local collective memory. But times change, and in the end the kindergarten succumbed to declining birth rates, finally closing its gates in 2010, spending the next ten years in a state of abandonment.
Times changed again in 2019, and plans to turn the site into Ci’en Art Village began to form in the head of the landlord’s grandson, Yuchi Wu, who had returned to his hometown of Hualien after many years living abroad. With the guidance of his friends, Yuchi and his team gradually launched his plan to convert the abandoned kindergarten into an artist village.
Our team’s dream and plan is to bring a brand new vitality to the Hualien area’s contemporary art scene, and to offer a new, friendlier kind of platform for artists visiting from around the world, to stay, create, and share experiences together. We hope that young artists flowing into Ci’en Art Village will bring new life to the old kindergarten, and we look forward to collaborating with other art villages, social organizations, and schools both in Taiwan and around the world. We want to open the doors to people from disadvantaged backgrounds, students, and the local community, so that everyone can join in and help us create a space for contemporary art that exists in harmony with everyday local life in this laid-back town. Hualien is a quiet, unassuming town, yet it is located amid incredible natural scenery, wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the dramatic Central Mountain range of Taiwan, with the spectacular, marble-cliff Taroko gorge close by. The town is already a popular stopover for nature-lovers, but we want to turn it into something more than that; we want to make Hualien into a diverse, international meeting place for everyone who loves art, a place where art from around the globe can touch people’s hearts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Find more artists who wants to join our art project, as a community!

Interests

Arts

• arts
• graphic design
• photography
• partying
• movies
• drawing
• music
• panting
• murals

Music, Movies, and Books

Music, movie,mural,drawing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We’ve got a nice art project which is running, welcome join us!

Teach, Learn, Share

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What I Can Share with Hosts

Life, art work

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Taiwan