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SUMMARY:Korea Peace Advocacy Training Session
DESCRIPTION:Registration is open to participate in Korea Peace Advocacy Week\, March 18-22. \nEvery 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. \nParticipants of the 2024 Korea Peace Advocacy Week will join two or three half-hour virtual meetings with Congressional staff of their representative and senators\, sharing personal stories and urging members to support legislation focused on Korean peace. \nAn online training session will be offered for all participants over Zoom during the week of March 4. \nThe intent of this national coordinated action is to urge a non-military solution to the security crisis in Korea. Participants will urge their elected officials to use diplomacy in pursuit of a binding peace agreement to formally end the Korean War. \nThis year marks the ninth year of coordinated advocacy days for the cause of peace in Korea. For the last five years\, this effort has been held online. \nKorea Peace Advocacy Week is organized by the American Friends Service Committee\, Mennonite Central Committee\, United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society\, and Women Cross DMZ. \nContact Echo at ec**@***********mz.org with questions. See the link for registration information.
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/korea-peace-advocacy-week-to-be-held-march-18-22-2/
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SUMMARY:Free webinar on gendered impact of the Korean War
DESCRIPTION:Free webinar on gendered impact of the Korean War \nA 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; and Na-Young Lee\, professor at Chung-Ang University (Seoul) and board chair of the Korean Council for the Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. \nKim will provide a historical account of how North Korean and international women intervened during the Korean War. Lee will discuss the impact of the ongoing state of unresolved war on South Korean women\, including militarized sexual violence\, and efforts underway to hold the South Korean government and U.S. military accountable. Moderator for the event is Ji-Yeon Yuh\, a board member at Women Cross DMZ and professor at Northwestern University\, Chicago. \nThe Korean War is considered unresolved because no peace treaty hs been negotiated between the parties in the war. The war is still technically suspended by a 1953 armistice agreement. The result is that U.S. troops are still stationed in South Korea\, and South Korean and U.S. troops are engaged in watching the southern border of the DMZ.  North Koreans stake out the northern border of the DMZ. War-like incidents that cost human lives have frequently occurred between the troops on the DMZ and in disputed territorial waters off the western coast of North Korea since the armistice was signed \nRegistration is free and available at the attached link.
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/free-webinar-on-gendered-impact-of-the-korean-war/
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SUMMARY:Percussionist/composer Jin Hi Kim to play two dates in Minnesota/Wisconsin
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe first concert of Kim’s commissioned work Ritual for the Earth 2024 will take place at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (UWRF) campus on March 14\, 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held at the Abbott Concert Hall\, and is free and open to the public. This concert is part of an annual Commissioned Composer event. Kim is this year’s guest commissioned composer and is doing some guest artist lectures and master classes with students. \nThe concert will include UWRF students playing a variety of instruments\, including handmade percussion instruments made from natural materials such as seashells\, gourds\, bamboo\, wood and metal. Members of Shinparam\, a Twin Cities-based traditional Korean percussion ensemble\, will provide some Korean rhythms that will be woven into the piece. \nIn addition\, Kim’s new commissioned composition\, Vocalization in Motion\, for chorus and two percussionists\, will be world-premiered at the UWRF concert. \nMore information on this concert and on the composer may be found at the attached link. \nThe second concert\, entitled Living Sounds: Music of Jin Hi Kim will take place at Zeitgeist Studio in downtown St. Paul\, on Saturday\, March 16\, 7 p.m. The concert will include works by Kim\, including NORI II for clarinet\, saxophone\, and two percussionists (saxophonist David Milne as guest artist)\, and Ritual for the Earth featuring Zeitgeist\, Kim\, samulnori ensemble Shinparam\, and other musicians. Rounding out the program\, Zeitgeist and Kim will join forces in an improvisation. \nAlso featured on the program will be the premiere of a newly-created work\, World Sanjo\, by Zeitgeist member Pat O’Keefe\, with O’Keefe on clarinet and guest artist Peter O’Gorman on drumset. \nKim’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally.  She is known as a pioneer for introducing komungo (also spelled geomungo\, a large traditional Korean stringed instrument) into the American contemporary music scene. She has also done extensive solo performances on the world’s only electric komungo with live interactive computer programs in several large-scale multimedia performance pieces such as Ghost Komungobot\, Digital Buddha\, and Touching The Moons. \nKim’s Living Tones compositions have been commissioned by the Kronos Quartet\, American Composers Orchestra\, Festival Nieuwe Muziek for Xenakis Ensemble (The Netherlands)\, Tan Dun’s New Generation East program for Chamber Music Society for the Lincoln Center\, Boston Modern Orchestra Project\, Meet The Composer U.S. Commission\, National Endowment for the Arts and many others. \n 
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/percussionist-composer-jin-hi-kim-to-play-two-dates-in-minnesota-wisconsin/
LOCATION:Abbot Concert Hall\, 420 E Cascade Ave.\, River Falls\, WI\, 54022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jin Hi Kim to perform new music concert at Studio Z in St. Paul
DESCRIPTION:Korean percussionist and composer Jin Hi Kim will perform an original work\, with some local musical help\, in St. Paul on March 16. The event is the second of two local March performances: the first is at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls on March 14. \nThe concert\, entitled Living Sounds: Music of Jin Hi Kim\, will take place at Studio Z\, located at 275 East Fourth Street\, Suite 200 in downtown St. Paul\, on Saturday\, March 16\, 7 p.m. Tickets are $20; $15 for students and seniors\, and are available at the linked website. \nThe concert will include works by Kim\, including NORI II for clarinet\, saxophone\, and two percussionists (saxophonist David Milne as guest artist)\, and Ritual for the Earth 2024 featuring Kim on several instruments\, the Zeitgeist wind and percussion ensemble\, samulnori ensemble Shinparam\, and other musicians. Rounding out the program\, Zeitgeist and Kim will join forces in an improvisation. \nAlso featured on the program will be the premiere of a newly-created work\, World Sanjo\, by Zeitgeist member Pat O’Keefe\, with O’Keefe on clarinet and guest artist Peter O’Gorman on drumset. \nKim’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally.  She is known as a pioneer for introducing komungo (also spelled geomungo\, a large traditional Korean stringed instrument) into the American contemporary music scene. She has also done extensive solo performances on the world’s only electric komungo with live interactive computer programs in several large-scale multimedia performance pieces such as Ghost Komungobot\, Digital Buddha\, and Touching The Moons. \nKim’s Living Tones compositions have been commissioned by the Kronos Quartet\, American Composers Orchestra\, Festival Nieuwe Muziek for Xenakis Ensemble (The Netherlands)\, Tan Dun’s New Generation East program for Chamber Music Society for the Lincoln Center\, Boston Modern Orchestra Project\, Meet The Composer U.S. Commission\, National Endowment for the Arts and many others. \nThe Zeitgeist ensemble\, consisting of percussion\, piano and woodwinds\, commissions new work and brings guest artists for performances in the Twin Cities. Zeitgeist is working with the University of Wisconsin – River Falls\, where Kim is the 2024 guest commissioned composer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/jin-hi-kim-will-perform-concert-at-studio-z-in-st-paul/
LOCATION:Studio Z\, 275 East Fourth Street\, Suite 200\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55101\, United States
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SUMMARY:New American Leaders offers women's training program
DESCRIPTION:A program targeted to Asian American women\, called AAPI Women Ready to Lead will be presented March 22 to 24 in Las Vegas by the non-profit organization New American Leaders (NAL). \nNAL’s Ready to Lead program is dedicated to preparing first- and second-generation Americans to run and win as candidates for public office and/or have meaningful roles in leading campaigns or in other civic leadership. \nThe training teaches participants how to embrace their heritage and use it for more effective leadership\, and how to employ messaging and fundraising in campaigns. There are 124 alumni of NAL in Nevada\, and some have returned to be trainers for the Las Vegas course. \nThe final application deadline for this training is January 29. An application is at this link.  There is a nomination form to nominate someone from your organization at this link. \nAn information session about this training is at a video recorded January 16 at this link.   The passcode is: =Xi70#Qc. In April\, NAL will host a second program for participants who identify as new Americans. The program fee is $150 (excluding travel costs)  and scholarships are available. \nFor questions or additional information about location\, costs and other details\, contact Lorenzita Santos\, program manager at New American Leaders\, at: lo*******@****************rs.org.
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/new-american-leaders-offers-womens-training-program/
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SUMMARY:Korean modern art exhibit upcoming at MIA
DESCRIPTION:The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) announced today a new exhibition of contemporary Korean art to be exhibited at the museum’s Target Galleries March 23 through June 23. The exhibit is entitled The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989\, and organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. \nTickets are $20\, with additional discounts for MIA members. \nUsing a variety of mediums\, including ceramics\, painting\, fiber\, photography\, lacquer\, installation\, metalwork\, mixed media\, embroidery\, and video\, these artists explore themes like conformity\, displacement\, gender and sexuality\, coexistence\, dissonance\, that together offer a deeper understanding of South Korea\, and its history and culture. \n One of the continuing themes\, dissonance\, is in some of the artists’ reflections on South Korea’s past and present\, the foundations of Korean society\, and the paradoxes of a divided Korea. Dissonance is shown in works such as Hayoun Kwon’s video 489 years (2016). The viewer occupies the role of a soldier on a day-long patrol of the demilitarized zone (DMZ)\, a strip of land separating North and South Korea along the 38th parallel. The work’s title\, 489 Years\, references the number of years experts think it would take to clear the one million mines within the boundary between the two Koreas. The video depicts a lush\, green area filled with wildlife\, with the destructive potential of the area hidden. \n The theme of reinvention is reflected in some of the artists’ use of traditional art forms\, with ancient aesthetics combined with contemporary sensibility. For example\, Suki Seokyeong Kang’s vibrantly woven mats are inspired by a handcrafted straw mat tradition dating back to the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392). \nArtists also reflect the theme of coexistence\, and imbue Korean values with new meaning. Eui-jeong Yoo’s Treasures of Daily Life (2018) expresses this fusion of ideas in his series of recognizable corporate logos for companies such as McDonald’s\, Louis Vuitton\, and Hello Kitty. \nThe theme of “being seen\,” challenging patriarchal power structures and cultural standards\, is expressed through works depicting experiences that are frequently marginalized\, silenced\, or erased in popular culture. An Attack by Green Horns\, by Sang-hee Yun\, is a pair of lacquered and gold dagger-like spikes worn on the front torso and back shoulder. Yun created these spikes to express a sense of protection for the wearer. \n The works in the section on “portraying anxiety” raise questions about group participation and larger societal challenges in Korea and elsewhere. In the video Let’s Do National Gymnastics\, Jaewoo Oh fuses nostalgia and the impact of a culture of conformity by portraying a compulsory exercise program for students\, used in Korean public  schools between 1977 and 1999. \nWorks from MIA’s permanent collection will be added to the exhibition in Minneapolis\, including Do Ho Suh’s Some/One\, a 2005 sculpture based on a coat of traditional armor. Composed from thousands of polished military dog tags\, the work juxtaposes the collective (represented by the armored sculpture) with the individual (symbolized by the dog tags\, each representing a single soldier). Also featured is a selection from Byron Kim’s ongoing Synecdoche portraiture project\, currently comprised of more than 400 panels\, each approximating the skin color of a person Kim has met. \n 
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/korean-modern-art-exhibit-upcoming-at-mia/
LOCATION:Minneapolis Institute of Arts\, 2400 3rd Ave. S.\, Minneapolis\, 55404\, United States
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SUMMARY:Korean adoptee comic tells his multi-media homeland trip story in Minneapolis
DESCRIPTION:Edward Yoo Pokropski will present his solo show Case 84: Adopted in the USA describing his return to Korea in 2015 at age 32 to discover his origins as a Korean adoptee. The show is a one-time appearance in Minneapolis\, sponsored by AK Connection\, an organization by and about adult Korean adoptees. \nCase 84: Adopted in the USA uses comedy to explore how the media shapes many misconceptions about adoption. The show uses compelling visuals from pop culture and personal pictures from the artist’s trip to Korea. The content of the presentation is a journey through one adoptee’s life\, from childhood to present day. \nProkropski is an executive producer of Asian Comedy Fest\, the longest-running all-Asian comedy fest in the country. He is also an Emmy-nominated writer/producer at NBCUniversal. \nDoors open at 2 p.m. Bryant Lake Bowl has a full menu\, and food can be served in the theater. \n 
URL:https://www.koreanquarterly.org/event/korean-adoptee-comic-tells-his-multi-media-homeland-trip-story-in-minneapolis/
LOCATION:Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater\, 810 West Lake Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55408\, United States
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