C H U S E O K KOREAN HARVEST F E S T I V A L 2019 PRESENTED BY GATEWAY KOREA FOUNDATION The Chuseok Festival: Saturday, September 28th Noon – 4:30 pm Webster University Community Music School 535 Garden Ave. St. Louis, MO 63119 Please visit https://www.gateway- korea.org/chuseok2019 for map and parking information Passport to Korea: Sunday, September 29th 1 – 4 pm St. Louis Art Museum 1 Fine Arts Drive St. Louis, MO 63110 REGISTER Admission is free. Please share this flyer with friends and colleagues on social media. www.gateway-korea.org Instagram #gkf_stl Facebook gatewaykoreaSTL The Gateway Korea Foundation will host its 6th annual Chuseok Korean Harvest Festival, with two free arts and culture events. This festival gives the community a chance to immerse themselves in all aspects of Korean culture ranging from art to food, dance and costumes to music and martial arts. Program Chuseok Harvest Festival Saturday, September 28th Noon – 4:30 pm Korean Lifestyle Demonstration & Visual Art Korean Traditional Food Korean Alphabet & Calligraphy Kite-Making, Fan-Making, Block Printing, Hanbok Paper Folding Traditional Korean Craft Korean Traditional Clothing Hanbok Experience Traditional Games and K-Pop Culture Performing Arts Korean Traditional Dance Samulnori TaeKwonDo K-Pop Dance Korean Folk Songs – Piano Cello Duet by Father and Son Location Webster University Community Music School 535 Garden Ave. St. Louis, MO 63119 Presented in collaboration with Community Music School Webster University Korean Lifestyle Demonstration & Visual Art Korean Traditional Food Sides of Seoul (SOS), Kimchi Guys, K-bop Korean Alphabet & Calligraphy Kite-Making|Fan-Making|Block Printing|Hanbok Paper Folding Korean Lifestyle Demonstration & Visual Art Korean Traditional Clothing Hanbok Experience Traditional Games and K-Pop Culture Traditional Korean Crafts Performing Arts Korean Traditional Dance Samul nori K-Pop Performing Arts Korean Folk Songs Piano by Juni Bae Singing by Korean Academy Children’s Choir from Korean Academy of St. Louis Cello Duet by Father (David Kim) and Son Program Passport to Korea Sunday, September 29th 1:00 – 4:00 pm Presented in collaboration with the St. Louis Art Museum as part of its Family Sundays program, this event offers a chance to make traditional Korean arts and crafts, learn about the Korean alphabet, play games and more. Hear Korean stories in the storytelling corner. Free tours of the museum’s Korean art collection will also be offered. 1:00 – 4:00 pm Pojagi Art 1:00 – 4:00 pm Learn the Korean Alphabet & Korean Traditional painting (flower painting) 1:00 – 2:00 pm Standing Drum & Samulnori 2:00 – 2:30 pm Story telling in the Galleries 2:30 – 4:00 pm Korean Folk Song & K-Pop Dance 3:00 – 3:30 pm Demonstration of Korean Games Location: St. Louis Art Museum 1 Fine Arts Drive St. Louis, MO 63110 Pojagi Art The art form called “Pojagi” (보자기) started about 2000 years ago in Ancient Korea. Pojagi was made by hand stitching fabrics like ramie (which is similar to hemp or (linen), cotton, and silk formed into 14” squares to wrap and carry things. Even today, it is said the Korean parliament uses Pojagi to transport documents. Women took old clothes and repurposed them into these wrapping cloths. It was a highly creative way to do improvisational designs from old clothes, scraps, and multiple fabrics, using only what was available to them. They would turn down the fabric from the top ¼ inch and crease it with a Clover Hera Tool. When the crease was made all the way across the fabric piece, the top is picked up folded inward and hand stitched. Then hand-stitching is done along that fold. From the side, the seam is folded down toward each other. The result is what we call “Flat Fell Seams”. The best way to describe them is they are a row of 2 seams with no fraying edges, finished both inside and outside. (Like the seams on your jeans!). Although it was used by all economic classes in Korean history, Pojagi had categories based on the fabric and who the recipient of the cloth would be. For instance, a princess would receive a lined Pojagi possibly made with silk, where as a commoner may be something coarser like ramie or hemp. They were called different names by type as well. Today, pojagi is used as screens, curtains, wall hangings, or sometimes fabric sewn on top of each other, irregular shapes and sizes, even repurposed clothing. Pojagi is a great project to do whatever design appeals to you. Korean Alphabet, Calligraphy, & Flower Painting Story Telling Illustration created by Paulina Conner Paulina by created Illustration I Heungbu and Nolbu Brothers (Korean: 흥부와 놀부) is a Korean story written in the late Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897). The identity of its writer is unknown; it was passed down through generations. It is now told as a popular bedtime story for Korean children. “Many, many years ago, a farmer had two sons Heungbu and Nolbu. Heungu, the younger son was kind and gentle and everyone in the village loved him. But Nolbu, the older son was greedy, mean and selfish………” Please come to hear a whole story. Standing Drum Samulnori K-Pop Dance Performance K-Pop (abbreviation of Korean pop; Hangul: 케이팝) is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements. Although it generally classifies "popular music" within South Korea, the term is often used in a narrower sense to describe a modern form of South Korean pop that is influenced by styles and genres from around the world, such as Western pop music, rock, experimental, jazz, gospel, Latin, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, classical, and Japanese pop music on top of its uniquely traditional Korean music roots. The more modern form of the genre emerged with one of the earliest K-pop groups, Seo Taiji and Boys, forming in 1992. Their experimentation with different styles and genres of music and integration of foreign musical elements helped reshape and modernize South Korea’s contemporary music scene. Modern K-pop "idol" culture began with the boy band H.O.T. in 1996, as K-pop grew into a subculture that amassed enormous fandoms of teenagers and young adults. After a slump in early K-pop, from 2003 TVXQ and BoA started a new generation of K-pop idols that broke the music genre into the neighboring Japanese market and continue to popularize K-pop internationally today. With the advent of online social networking services and Korean TV shows, the current global spread of K-pop and Korean entertainment, known as the Korean Wave, is seen not only in East and Southeast Asia but also Latin America, India, North Africa, the Middle East and the Western world, gaining a widespread global audience. Korean Traditional Games Korean Folk Song by Columbia Youth Choir Please Join Us to Celebrate the Korean Chuseok Festival together……. Chuseok, which is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, consists of thanksgiving services in which newly harvested crops and fruits are offered to the ancestral spirits. Generally held to be as important as the Lunar New Year’s Day, Chuseok is all the family members gather together and hold a ritual with newly harvested crops and fruits to give thanks to their ancestors and to nature. As it falls in the harvest season, a time of abundance, there is even a saying, “Not more, not less. Just be like Hangawi (‘Hangawi’ being another name for Chuseok).” When Korean families visit ancestral hometowns, they enjoy song, dance and folk games, and share a feast of traditional food and rice wines. REGISTER Visit https://www.gateway-korea.org/chuseok2019 E-mail: [email protected].