前言 Introduction

十八丁，一个拥有百年历史的渔港，人口虽只有区区的五千，却享有壮阔的大片红树林，并且孕育了深厚文化底蕴的传统行业如烧炭和造船等。除此，丰盛的海产加上精细的味觉，造就了十八丁成为美食天堂。一个如此得天独厚的海港渔村，他们的下一代是如何看待自己的家园以及未来呢？

2014年推动的“看见十八丁” 社区艺术嘉年华希望可以通过社区教育去发掘十八丁的自然人文，地理与历史文化的资产，并把它的色彩让人‘看见’，让渔村变得更生动、美丽与精彩，让村民感到骄傲。

“看见十八丁”社区艺术嘉年华的目的：

1.            积累马登-十八丁的自然人文，地理与历史文化的资产，并把它的色彩让人‘看见’；

2.            凝聚社区居民的力量，激发他们保存与维护文化资产之意识与行动；

3.            带领孩子们参与以自然与人文环境为题的活动，通过艺术及活泼的活动促进他们对家乡的认识与关怀；

4.            保育马登十八丁的生态与文化资产并永续经营此社区。

“看见十八丁”社区艺术嘉年华从今年三月开始启动至今，陆续主办了各种相关活动，包括‘小学生认识家园假期营、 “大手牵小手探索红树林亲子营”、太平－马登－十八丁古迹与生态保育研讨会暨工作坊等，无非是希望点燃起在地居民对自己家乡的关注和热忱，尤其是年青人和小孩。

Kuala Sepetang, a fishing village of over 100 years, though with a small population of 5000, enjoys a dense mass of mangroves and has a wide variety of traditional trades like charcoal production and boat building. In addition, with its rich array of seafood and savory delicacies, Kuala Sepetang is also a gastronomic paradise for foodies. It is a unique fishing village abounds with natural and cultural attractions. But how do future generations of Kuala Sepetang perceive their village and its future?

The “Look Port  Weld Kuala Sepetang Community Art Carnival” hopes to unveil the beauty of Kuala Sepetang's natural, landscape and heritage. Through this project, people will discover the colours and splendours of Kuala Sepetang. It will serve as a catalyst to inject new spirit to the village, enabling villagers to take pride in their community. This project is supported by Kuala Sepetang State Assemblywoman YB Chua Yee Ling and co-organised by Kelab Pemuda Kuala Sepetang, Persatuan Penganut Dato dan Seah Tee Kong (Baru) Kuala Sepetang, Perak and Persatuan Penganut Dewa Tai Seong Lau Kuen Kuala Sepetang.

The objectives

1.    To bring together the natural, cultural, geographical and historical heritage of Kuala Sepetang for people to discover its colours and splendours.

2.    To unite the villagers and promote awareness of protecting and preserving cultural heritage in Kuala Sepetang.

3.    To encourage children to participate in cultural and nature-themed activities in order to cultivate deeper understanding and caring attitude towards their hometown.

4.    To preserve ecological and cultural heritage of Kuala Sepetang for long-term sustainability.

Look Port Weld,  Kuala Sepetang Community Art Carnival committee has been organizing various activities, such as  “Know My Home Kids Holiday Camp”, Exploring Mangroves Forest Family Camp “ and “Symposium: Conservation of Historical and Natural Heritage in Taiping-Matang-Kuala Sepetang”. All these aim at raising awareness among the villagers, especially youths and children, to galvanize interest, love and enthusiasm for their village.

为什么值得你支持 ？  Why your support is valuable?

曾经有十八丁家长跟工委会成员分享他们的担忧，想把小孩子送到城市念书，因为城市里有更多的资源，可以学到比较多东西，小孩子以后比较有竞争力。然而，心里却很矛盾，觉得在十八丁，小朋友比较有童年，可以快乐成长。

我们一直在想，如何打破一种观念，城市不一定比乡村好，乡区的教育也可以很精彩。所以如何让乡区小镇的小孩也能有和城市小孩同样的教育资源，又可以让他们能抱有纯真无邪的童年时光，成了我一直专心想做的事。因此，我们有了创造营的构思，希望让十八丁的小朋友，在童年时候，就有机会接触到艺术，创意，想象力的美学教育，开拓他们的另一种学习潜力。

十月份将是社区艺术嘉年华的压轴节目即是【我爱我的家小学生艺术创作营】，工委和将邀请各领域的艺术家驻村，包括敲击、戏剧、舞蹈和视觉艺术，带领小学生及社区居民以在地的文化素材和生活故事进行创作，然后呈现给整个社区的居民分享。

本次的艺术创作营将会是十八丁有史以来的第一个，我们希望透过这项有意义的活动，让艺术走入社区，让所有十八丁人扩大视野并接触及学习艺术，并对“艺术”这门东西有新的见解而非再只是无感的名词。

您的捐款，将帮助我们实现十八丁的另一种可能，为这个小镇文创注入新的生命力，让这个充满人情味的小渔村，不会消失于城市化发展的巨轮当中。而是通过不一样的艺术教育，蜕变成更美丽，更迷人，更让人类向往居住的理想家园”

Some parents planned to send their children to schools at nearby city especially in Taiping. This is because urban schools have better facilities and resources. Their children can learn more things and will be well prepared for the future. However, these parents are also in a dilemma because it means their children have to sacrifice their happy childhood in Kuala Sepetang.

We’ve been looking for ways to break this perception. In fact, urban schools are not necessary better than rural schools. Studying in rural areas can also be interesting. So, ensuring that rural children can enjoy the same opportunity as urban children has become something that we've wanted to do all this while. Therefore, we have come up with this idea to provide Kuala Sepetang children with an avenue to expose themselves to aesthetic education where art, creativity and imagination can be used to develop their learning potential.

The highlight of the carnival is “I Love My Home: Students’ Creative Camp” in coming October. The committee invites 10 artists from various fields, including percussion, drama, dance and visual arts, to stay in the village. These fine art artists will be leading the primary school students and villagers to create a series of creative works based on their daily lives. All the completed artworks will be exhibited for public viewing.

This project will be the first of its kind in Kuala Sepetang. Through this meaningful activity, we hope to let art make inroads into the community and broaden the perspective of local residents. The villagers will also have the opportunity to learn more about art so that they can see art in a new light.

Your donation will make all these possible. It will breathe new life into this fishing village so that it will not disappear in the era of rapid urbanization. Instead, through a unique art and nature education, Kuala Sepetang will transform into a beautiful, mesmerizing and wholesome place to live.

活动内容 & 如何进行？The Programmes & Activities

邀请 9 名艺术家进驻校园，带领小朋友透过社区探勘、口述历史采集等活动，以十八丁红树林自然生态、古老行业如烧炭等，以及社区居民的故事为元素，一起携手构思，以舞蹈律动、戏剧表演（社区剧场）、敲击乐及造型艺术进行创作。所有的学习和创作成果将会在艺术踩街当天呈献。   透过表演艺术与视觉艺术的引介，引导小朋友认识自我，并且勇敢的表达自己，进而学习观察与关注身边的人、事、物，体验艺术教育真善美的丰富内涵。

• 创作题材：十八丁红树林自然生态及古老炭窑及社区历史故事为元素
• 艺术形式：综合四种艺术形式带动创作，即造型艺术、剧场游戏、律动（舞蹈）及敲击
• 活动结构：暖身互动—社区探勘—分享与激荡—构思创作主题—构图—排练—制作— 配乐—排演—艺术踩街
• 活动流程与内容：

【艺术家社群】

“学生艺术创作营”策划及“艺术踩街”艺术总监- - 孙春美

敲击与踩街造型总监- -张伟来

社区剧场导演---李永升

敲击乐--周顺兴、陈俊杰、廖世仪

舞蹈---陈晓波、林欣惠

视觉艺术---刘啟晖、黄秀娟

9 artists will be invited to the school and lead the children to explore the community and gather its oral history. Using Kuala Sepetang's mangrove ecology and traditional trades like charcoal production and local folklore, they will work together to present these elements through rhythmic dance, theatre performance (community theatre), percussion and visual arts. All lessons and artistic creations will be presented on the parade day. Through performing arts and visual arts, children will learn to understand themselves and express their inner selves as they observe the people, events and things around them. It will be their first-hand experience of the rich content of arts education.

•              Creative topic: Kuala Sepetang's mangrove ecology, traditional charcoal kiln and local folklore as creative elements.

•              Art form: A combination of 4 art forms, i.e. visual art, theatre games, rhythm (dance) and percussion.

•             Activities: Warm-up activities → community exploration → sharing and brainstorming → creative theme conceptualization → visual composition → practice → production → scoring → rehearsal → art parade.

The 9 artists are：

Soon Choon Mee （ “I Love My Home: Students’ Creative Camp” Artistic director）

Chang Wei Loy （Visual Director of Carnival cum Music Director of Community theatre）

Monstar （Director of Community theatre）

Cross Chin Chun Ket & Chew Soon Heng（Professional percussionist）

Tan Shioa Por & Lim Shin Hui （Dancer）

Low Khay Hooi & Wong Siew Jiuan ( Artist, illustrator and art teacher )

如何支持？How may you support us ？

由于地缘环境离开都市，居民向来甚少接触艺术，对该活动的陌生可能带来抗拒 。无论如何，我们还是希望十八丁的小朋友有机会学习艺术，提升他们的人文素养，因此，我们想透过“集资平台”创造如此的机会给十八丁的小朋友们。

您的任何资助对我们都很重要，多多益善。一旦您赞助RM200 就可让十八丁的一个小朋友参加六天的艺术创作营，让他跟城市的小孩一样可以扩大视野。我们也将在活动结束后让小朋友以富有创意的方式表达感谢。

Due to its remote location, Kuala Sepetang villagers are hardly exposed to arts. They might not show enthusiasm towards this novel initiative. However, it is our hope that the children of Kuala Sepetang will be given the opportunity to learn arts and elevate their humanistic literacy.

We welcome and appreciate contribution of any sort. A sponsorship of RM200 will enable a child of Kuala Sepetang to widen his or her perspective, like his or her peers in the cities. As a token of appreciation, the children will express their gratitude towards their sponsors in a creative way at the end of the camp.

您的支持，是我们最大的动力 ！谢谢 !

Thank you for your kind support and help to make it happen.

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欢迎联络我们 Contact us at :

庄白琦 Mdm Choong 019-3503563 （看见十八丁社区艺术嘉年华总策划）

王凌翠 Ms Ong  016-8889183（看见十八丁社区艺术嘉年华执行秘书）

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