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Description
Our community is led by Director Gordon, who has a keen interest in puppets, carnivals, and abstract art. After traveling the world for several years, visiting festivals, and scouting community projects, he has been inspired by Seattle’s Fremont Solstice and Nevada’s Burning Man festival. Gordon aims to bring the ideas and inspirations he gathered from these experiences to life within our Community.
The highlight of our community is the Parade, held on the second Saturday of October. This vibrant festival brings diverse entertainment and joy to the community, drawing tens of thousands of participants each year. It includes a lively parade with decorated floats, Capoeira, various dance groups, community teams, stilt walkers, samba dance, and samba drumming, with teams joining from across Taiwan. The event aims to promote art and culture, enhance community cohesion, and convey the passion and dreams of its participants. -
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Creative DIY projects
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UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
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Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
During your time here you will have the chance to learn more about Taiwan culture and also about several different cultures. We have artists and volunteers from all over the world. We are a big family working in a good atmosphere.
For those who want to learn and share their art with the world, you will find our place a valuable experience. -
Help
We're looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join us in creating the Parade, Taiwan's largest and most unique community carnival! This is a wonderful opportunity to experience Taiwanese culture through art, creativity, and community life while working alongside local residents, international volunteers, and our resident Balinese artists.
During your stay, you may help with giant puppet making, float construction, costume making, painting, decorations, prop building, and other preparations for the Parade. Depending on your interests and skills, you may also have opportunities to contribute to photography, videography, or other creative projects.
When the parade takes place, you will become an integral part of the Parade. You'll celebrate alongside thousands of participants and visitors, experience the excitement of one of Taiwan's most unique community festivals, and see the incredible creations that you helped bring to life. -
Languages spoken
Indonesian: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): Fluent
English: Intermediate -
Accommodation
Volunteers usually help from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, with a one-hour lunch break from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (approximately 4 working hours).
Volunteers have 2 days off each week.
You will have your own room and a shared bathroom.
Volunteer rooms are equipped with electric fans. Please note that there is no air conditioning or Wi-Fi, so we recommend bringing your own mobile data.
Meals:
Please note that there are no kitchen facilities available for volunteers' use.
On the chef's working days, lunch and dinner are provided.
On the chef's day off, lunch is provided for volunteers who are scheduled to work, but dinner is not.
When both the volunteer and the chef are off duty, meals are not provided.
Our meals are prepared for the whole community, so we are unable to accommodate vegetarian, vegan, or other special dietary requirements. If you have strict dietary needs, please consider this before applying. -
What else ...
How to get to us from the Airport? Take bus 1843 to "Nangang Exhibition Center" get off the bus and go to the other side of the road to take bus 817, a 15-minute ride( if you don't cross the road you will go in the wrong direction). get down at the Jinlong village bus stop. the Art Center is 500m from there.
An easier solution would be to get off the bus 1843 at the Nangang Exhibition Center and take a taxi. it is 10 mins ride, 150ntd ( $5 us) .
Convenience store：3 min
Supermarket：5 min
Bus stop：3 min
Taipei City：30–40 min
Jinlong Lake nearby -
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Internet access
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Limited internet access
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We have pets
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We are smokers
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Can host families
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How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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I designed and made my own costume for the parade, you actually got a great freedom of creation and everybody is so funny and wild, I loved everyone there and made such good … read more
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I designed and made my own costume for the parade, you actually got a great freedom of creation and everybody is so funny and wild, I loved everyone there and made such good … read more
She has been helping a lot on our French exhibition, plastering, painting, cutting, constructing, airbrushing. She learns fast she does her job with lot of serious, and she is easy going. We definitely recommend Marina, She is the kind of volunteers that we are … read more
I spent one month helping Natha on the french floor with plastering, painting, cutting, constructing, airbrushing... and i really enjoyed it a lot!
I worked 7 hours a day, 5 days a week (you can choose which days you'd like to take off). It is more … read more
The main task I had was to make a wall painting as part of Natha's French project but I also helped him with other minor tasks. I also joined a Bollywood-themed Sunday party (which are regularly held at the community).
Some of the artists and voluteers who lived there were extremely kind to … read more
This community and the beautiful souls there, were such an important add to our lifes. Natha, Bridget, Raj, The Bali Guys and the Taiwan Team (and of course the Youtube crew), thanks to all of you, you are the best of the best! Special thanks and hugs to our cooker. We miss you so bad.
We create in … read more
When I arrived there the place blew the top off my head of is way more than what you can expect from the description. It took me few days to find my final task in the community as a kitchen help for the vegan/vegetarian volunteers and playing music on Sunday parades with fellow workers. I enjoyed the experience and the room … read more
The work hours are long but you're fed three good meals a day and the work is very rewarding. I felt very encouraged and … read more
This was our first workaway experience and we quickly felt like family here. As a volunteer it felt that everyone helps each other out and genuinely enjoys every day of work. We were able to make great friends with the Taiwanese staff as well as fellow … read more
Natha
We could stay only two weeks. For the first one, we create a short street performance for the Sunday's parade. The next one, we helped Natha for the … read more
