The workshop 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, participants move into a series of deep listening and somatic explorations into what is within that wants witnessing, releasing, and remembering. What you 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. Exact location and details will be emailed upon admission.

This workshop is 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. Their team is composed of artists, musicians, and healers Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Kayla Tange, and C. Ryu, that fulfill this mission through performance art and facilitated workshops that bring connection, group processing and dialogue in hopes of transforming 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 supported by ICA LA Artists in Residence program.