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 […]

Camp Pride Korea will hold a free week-long online camp experience for preschool age through 12th graders. The program, targeted for Korean adoptees and their siblings, will replace its week-long day camp, held every July in the Chicago area, and sponsored by Chicago Area Families for Adoption. This year’s program will begin Monday, July 27 […]

Registration for a free virtual version of Sae Jong Camp, a summer camp for Korean American youth, is now open. Sae Jong Camp, in other years, operates as an overnight summer camp in Roscommon, Michigan, focused on Korean American culture and identity. The 2020 virtual program, to be held August 3 to 7, will include […]

A free virtual event on how Asian American adoptees can challenge anti-Blackness will be held in three 90-minute sessions over three consecutive Sundays in August.  How Asian Adoptees Can Support Black Lives Matter, sponsored by AKConnection and the Network of Politicized Adoptees, will consist of a moderated panel, discussion about identity, racial consciousness, how white […]