Ancestral Memory and the Korean Diasporic Body

This workshop gives members of the Korean diaspora the opportunity to dialogue with, express and explore the ancestral memory that resides in their individual and collective bodies.

We still start with group discussion about common challenges that members of the Korean diaspora face due to histories of war trauma, militarization, immigrant displacement, culture clashing, etc.

Then we'll move into a series of deep listening and somatic explorations into what within us wants witnessing, releasing, and remembering. What we discover will culminate into a group ritual using voice, sound and movement with the support of live Korean drumming and a chrysanthemum tea serving.

This workshop is FREE for members of the Korean diaspora and requires an application: https://forms.gle/KeUAs7KzEN8i4Zmm6

Exact location and details will be emailed upon admission.

Hosted by Hwa Records and faciliated by Saewon Oh.

The mission of Hwa Records is to create community spaces for diasporic Koreans to alleviate these stresses. Our team, composed of artists, musicians, and healers Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Kayla Tange, and C. Ryu, fulfills this mission through performance art and facilitating workshops that facilitate connection, group processing and diaologue in hopes of transforming our diasporic challenges into collective joy and catharsis.

Saewon Oh is an interdisciplinary artist, healing practitioner, educator and founder of Sun Song, an embodied research & ritual lab for vibrational essence therapy. Her work incorporates performance, sound, ritual, social practice, and decolonial healing technologies to engage the synergistic web of human, non-human, and ancestral consciousness.

This free workshop is made possible many thanks to the support of the ICA LA Artists in Residence program.

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