Giving Voice to the Korean American Community
The Sejong Cultural Society, located in Chicago, will offer its annual teachers' program in a webinar format, designed for elementary, middle school and high school teachers. it is entitled Comparing Verses from Korea, China and Japan, to teach the art and discipline of sijo, a traditional Korean poetry form. Participants will be invited to write […]
This even will be a webinar by master sommelier Kyungmoon Kim. Kim discovered young that he had an exceptional palate. He leveraged his palate and his natural aptitude for memorization to build an extensive base of wine knowledge. In 2016, Kim earned a master sommelier certification; there are only 247 master sommeliers worldwide. Kim is […]
The Korean Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) will host a week of virtual conversations, blog posts, or other activity around topics related to Korean adoption. Events are scheduled from June 21 to June 26. As part of the programming, the film Side By Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and into the World will be […]
The Chicago Korean Dance Company has a free virtual Korean Dance Summer Camp ongoing on every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday June 23 through August 15. There are Tuesday sessions for sixth through eighth graders, Wednesday sessions for third to fifth graders, and Saturday sessions for high school students. Refer to the Facebook site, or email […]
The Textile Center, a fiber arts gallery, school and networking place for textile artists in St. Paul, is hosting an exhibit of three emerging artists, including one Twin Cities Korean adoptee artist, Dawn Tomlinson. The artists were funded by a year-long grant by the Jerome Foundation. The exhibition, entitled The Roots of Our Labor, also […]
Adoptee Hub, a Twin Cities service and education organization for and by adult Korean adoptees, will hold a virtual screening of The Ugly Model, which examines the paradox of a handsome male model who feels unattractive, ashamed and emasculated because of his Asian ethnicity. It looks at the reasons Kevin chooses to be a model, […]
Korean Adoptees of Chicago (KAtCH) will host researcher/author Eleana J. Kim in a virtual event to discuss the origin and evolution of the Korean adoptee community. The event is intended for adult Korean adoptees only, and will be held Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m. CST. Kim is the author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean […]
The Korean Adoptees of Chicago (KAtCH) is partnering with the advocacy organization, the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC) and its new affiliate, the Woori Center, in a calling campaign to urge voters to demand citizenship for all. The phone bank, to be held Wednesday, July 22, 4 to 6 p.m. CST, […]
Author Sung J. Woo, in collaboration with Odyssey Bookstore in Ithaca, New York will hold a virtual launch of his new mystery book Skin Deep. The novel is the first in a series featuring a Korean adoptee woman detective Siobhan O'Brien, and touches on themes of identity and family in a whodunnit story. The launch […]
