DC-Baltimore Korean and Adoption Community Events
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Next Coffee & Conversation: Saturday April 21 at Shilla in Annandale
Everyone needs breakfast, and everyone enjoys an opportunity to get together with others in the metro DC Korean adoption community to discuss current issues, parenting concerns, adoption experiences and more.
This year, KF is scheduling Coffee & Conversation for the third Saturday of each month starting at 11 AM (with time off for August vacations and winter holidays). Several coffees will be followed by trips to local Korean grocery stores to browse, learn and shop.
Mark your calendars now so you can join the conversation. Waiting parents and adoptees and families new to the area are especially welcome; coffees are a great way to pick up information about Korean Focus and other DC area resources.
A Korean Focus Board member will be at every coffee to make sure we find each other. Adults only please! RSVP info@koreanfocus.org - but if you forgot, please join us anyway.
Day & Time: Third Saturday of the month at 11 AM
Dates and Locations:
April 21: Shilla Bakery, 7039 Little River Tpke, Annandale, VA
May 19: Bon Appetit Bakery, 10155 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City, MD
June 16: Shilla Bakery, 10940 Fairfax Blvd, Suite E-F, Fairfax, VA
July 21: Shilla Bakery, 2089 Veirs Mill Rd, Rockville, MD 20851
September 15: Breeze Bakery, 4125 Hummer Rd, Annandale, VA
October 20: Shilla Bakery, 2089 Veirs Mill Rd, Rockville, MD |
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Korean Focus of Metro DC offers information and support to families interested in Korean culture and the Korean American community. Our members and friends include adoptive families, adopted Korean Americans, and Korean American families. All are welcome! Chapters in Cincinnati, Northern Maryland, Seattle and Indianapolis.
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Forever Freedom: The Art of Song Byeok
Exhibition and Speaking Events in DC April 12 - 30
Song Byeok was selected at 24 to become an official North Korean state propaganda artist. Byeok's faith in Kim Jong Il was lost when his family died in the North Korean famine of the 1990s. For crossing to China to find food, Song Byeok was tortured by the regime before finally escaping in 2002.
Song Byeok is making a rare Washington DC appearance during the month of April. There are several opportunities to hear him speak and see him work:
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Author Kyung-sook Shin of Please Look After Mom at the Korean Cultural Center April 13
The Korean Cultural Center Washington DC is hosting a public book reading, signing, and reception event with author Kyung-sook Shin on April 13 at 6:30 pm to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling book, Please Look After Mom.
Date & Time: Friday, April 13, 6:30 PM; doors open at 6:00
Location: Korean Cultural Center, 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20008
Fee: FREE! RSVP Required! Visit the event page for more information and to RSVP.
Shin, a familiar best-selling author in Korea, recently became the first Korean and first woman to receive the Man Asian Literary Prize for the English translation of Please Look After Mom, which is now being distributed worldwide.
In this beautifully written and intensely compelling novel, Shin tells the story of one family's search for their mother - who goes missing one afternoon on the Seoul subway - that unfolds to reveal the secret lives of mothers.
The paperback edition of the book will be available for purchase at the event, which is part of K-Literature, a program which aims to promote Korea-US understanding and artistic exchange by welcoming Korean literary figures to the Korean Cultural Center in Washington DC.
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The Korean Cultural Center Washington DC at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, also known as KORUS House, is dedicated to promoting Korean culture in the United States and strengthening Korea-US ties through a variety of exhibitions, presentations, educational programs, partnerships, and support for local events in the Capital area. The center is located at 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20008. To learn more about programs hosted and supported by the Korean Cultural Center, visit us online at www.dynamic-korea.com. |
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Edgar P. Richardson Symposium:
Asian American Portraits of Encounter Between Image and Word
Date & Time: Saturday, April 14, 11:15 am - 5:00pm
Address: Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Eighth and F Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Fee: Free and open to the public
Asian American art and literature offer portraits of identity and culture that reflect on lived experience and our place in the world. The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium Asian American Portraits of Encounter Between Image & Word brings these critical efforts to light by staging conversations and encounters between acclaimed Asian American writers and the artwork of Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter, the exhibition by the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program. The symposium will feature original literary work composed in response to the themes and feelings raised by the exhibition.
Come hear readings by writers David Henry Hwang, Garrett Hongo, Bao Phi, Marianne Villanueva, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Kazim Ali, and Anna Kazumi Stahl.
National Portrait Gallery curators will give a guided tour of the exhibition that includes artwork by CYJO, Hye Yeon Nam, Shizu Saldamando, Roger Shimomura, Satomi Shirai, Tam Tran, and Hong Chun Zhang.
View the full schedule
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