Chuseok Harvest Festival

535 Garden Avenue,Webster Groves MO 63119

17 September, 2022

Description

Thanks in part to funding graciously provided by The Korea Foundation in Washington D.C. A family-friendly event fun for all ages. Come discover Korean culture through our many fun interactive exhibits. • Learn the Korean alphabet and how to write your name in Korean. • Make Korean arts & crafts including a Korean lantern decorated with a traditional Korean pattern and Hanji paper flowers, a folded paper ornamental tassel called a Norigae, and a Korean letter bracelet using traditional knots. • Participate in our Korean Calligraphy demonstrations. • Play traditional Korean games like Yut-Nori, Jegi-Chagi, and Gong-Gi. Make a Korean spinning top, and folded paper tile game called Ddakji. • Eat DELICIOUS food for sale by Buzz’s Hawaiian Grill Food Truck featuring some of their Korean menu items like Kalbi and house made Kimchi, as well as some tasty Hawaiian options. • View a Kimbap making demonstration. • Try on traditional Korean Hanbok clothing. • Listen to K-Pop music and enter a drawing for a chance to win some K-Pop goodies from KORK, St. Louis Missouri’s 1st K-Pop store. • Watch some amazing traditional Korean music and dance performances by The Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago, and drumming performances from the Samulnori and Standing Drums groups of Washington University. • Enjoy a martial arts performance by Y. S. Rho Martial Arts-Chesterfield, a K-Pop dance from K:ODE, an orchestra performance by the St. Louis Youth Ambassadors, and Korean Folk songs sung by Korean college students visiting the USA. If you are ready for a day of culture and fun, please join us. WHEN: Saturday, September 17th, 2022 WHERE: Held on Webster University’s Campus, Community Music School: 535 Garden Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119 TIME: 12 pm – 4:30 pm Masks are encouraged indoors while not eating or drinking at this event. Free parking in the parking garage. For More Information, visit: https://www.gateway-korea.org/chuseok What is Chuseok? Chuseok, which is held on the 15th day of the 8th 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 when family members gather 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, Chuseok even comes with a saying: “Not more, not less. Just be like Hangawi,” Hangawi being another name for Chuseok. Based in St. Louis, MO, The Gateway Korea Foundation’s mission is to inspire cross-cultural appreciation and understanding among the American Midwestern Heartland Community in connection with Korean Arts and Cultural experiences.