Korean Adoptee Ministries will hold a 2023 Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday, January 28, 2023, 4:30 to 6:30 at Korean Presbyterian Church of Minnesota, 5840 Humboldt Avenue North, Minneapolis 55430 The event is the first after a pandemic break of three years.  It will feature Korean food, Korean traditional games, and a sebae (bow […]

Heinz Insu Fenkl, author of the just-published novel  Skull Water, will speak in a free live event sponsored by the Korea Society, to be held February 7, 5:30 p.m. CST (6:30 EST). Fenkl’s novel is based in his life experiences as a half-German, half-Korean kid growing up in 1970s Korea, dealing with identity and displacement, […]

Author David Mura will speak in a free book launch event of his new book The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives on Wednesday, February 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul. The book, available after January 31 from the University of Minnesota Press, uncovers pernicious […]

Korean Adoptees of Chicago (KAtCH) will hold its February dinner at Sun Wah BBQ, 5039 N. Broadway, Chicago, February 25, 6:30 p.m. The event is for Korean adoptees and their friends and family. Registration is required; seating is limited. For more information or for last-minute reservations or cancellation, please email:  kads@katchicago.com. KAtCH exists to represent […]

Laying Out a Roadmap for Peace in Korea in 2023 is the title of a free online webinar to be held at 2 p.m. (CST) Wednesday, March 1. New Korea peace legislation will be re-introduced in Congress on that day by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA). The discussion at the event will center around the political […]

Adoptee Hub will hold its fifth anniversary and fundraiser April 15, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Roseville Center Banquet Hall. The keynote speaker for the event will be Korean adoptee Rebecca Kimmel of Washington (state), whose birth family search resulted in her discovery that her birth records had been falsified.  Her story was reported […]

Jangmi Arts will hold a workshop on lotus flower lantern-making, a traditional lantern used for worship and for parades on Buddha's birthday in Korea.  The workshop will be held Saturday, May 6, in two sessions: 1 to 3 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m.  The event will be held at 34 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis. […]

The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota (CMSM) violinist and artistic co-director Ariana Kim, along with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, will perform the Minnesota premiere of Maksimal for violin and piano at its next concert on May 7. A modern work by American composer David Tempkin, Maksimal was inspired by the music of Beethoven. Tempkin is known […]

The documentary film Crossings will have a San Francisco premiere at the film festival CAAMFest 2023 on May 13, 5:30 p.m. at The Great Star Theater, located in Chinatown. Crossings, by award-winning documentary filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem, describes the journey of Women Cross DMZ, a group of international women peacemakers who crossed the demilitarized zone […]

Korean history researcher Hayana Kim will speak in a free virtual event May 18 (7 p.m. CST) on the legacy of democracy in South Korea, and in honor of the 43rd anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, a pivotal moment in South Korea’s struggle to reject a military dictatorship and re-establish democratic rule.  The uprising […]