Adoptee Hub will hold a cultural identity and self-care workshop targeted to adult Korean adoptees (age 18 and older) to be held Saturday, November 4. The all-day event will feature  four different sessions. Topics will include: yoga and meditation; massage therapy; the traditional Korean tea ceremony; essential Korean language learning; cooking classes for making kimbap […]

Twin Cities actor Sun Mee Chomet will perform her one-woman play How to Be a Korean Woman, at Theater J in Washington D.C., from January 4 through 14. How to Be a Korean Woman is part-commentary and part-satire on the experiences of  a Korean American adoptee woman who returns to Korea for the first time, […]

The Twin Cities Asian American theater organization Theater Mu will host a cabaret for Lunar New Year February 3 at the North Garden Theater in St. Paul. The Theater Mu 2024 Lunar New Year Cabaret is an annual fundraising event. This year’s cabaret will feature lion dancing, live music, comedy and merriment, and some complimentary […]

The Sejong Cultural Society will hold a concert of Korean-themed music on Sunday, February 4 at 2 p.m. with a 4 p.m. reception, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  The concert will be comprised of required pieces used in the Society’s annual music competition. The Society has commissioned numerous composers to craft pieces with Korean […]

JangMi Arts, a school for Korean dance and drumming in the Twin Cities, will hold its annual Seollal (Lunar New Year) Celebration on Saturday, February 10, with activities from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The celebration will include a Korean traditional marketplace with Korean American organization info tables, a lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 […]

HANA Center in Chicago will hold a Lunar New Year celebration for the Year of the Blue Dragon on Saturday, February 10, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center, located at 4300 N. California Ave. The event will include a poongmulnori (traditional drumming) performance, with opportunities to try the traditional drums,  New Year blessings, […]

Registration is open to participate in Korea Peace Advocacy Week, March 18-22. Every year, Korea Peace Advocacy Week brings hundreds of constituents from across the country to talk to their members of Congress about legislation to support peace in Korea. Participants of the 2024 Korea Peace Advocacy Week will join two or three half-hour virtual meetings […]

Free webinar on gendered impact of the Korean War A webinar in observance of International Women’s Day entitled The Gendered Impact of the Korean War; Past, Present and Future will be held Wednesday, March 6 at 6 p.m. (CST). The event will include two feminist scholar-activists: Suzy Kim, professor of Korean history at Rutgers University; […]

Korean percussionist and composer Jin Hi Kim will perform an original work, with some local musical help, in two March performances: the first in River Falls, Wisconsin and the second in St. Paul. The first concert of Kim’s commissioned work Ritual for the Earth 2024 will take place at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (UWRF) […]