Summer’s over, Chuseok approaches. Must mean it’s time for the Thames Festival.
Events for September are as follows:
Exhibitions
Last chance to see
- Hada Contemporary’s Summer Show at the Albemarle Gallery (till 3 September)
- Haegue Yang at Modern Art Oxford (till 4 September)
- Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries (till 26 September)
Almost last chance to see
- Tradition Transformed: Contemporary Korean Ceramics at the V&A, which ends early October.
New this month
- From the Corner Window – a group show at St-Martin-in-the-Fields (5-11 September)
- Artists at Work: Process Recorded – a live show at the KCC featuring one artist per day (14-24 September)
And probably relevant
- There’s probably a few Korean artists exhibiting at the Chelsea MA show (2-8 September)
- There are usually Korean designers to be found at 100% Design at Earls Court (22-25 September)
Film
- The KCC’s films this month are Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, 2001) and Rolling Home With a Bull (Yim Soon-rye, 2010) on 8 and 22 September.
Talks and classes
- There’s a Formula 1 Fan Forum at the KCC on 5 September
- SOAS’s first evening seminar of the term is Censoring the Mind and Hand: Competing Literary Orthodoxies in Eighteenth-Century Korea on 8 September, 5pm
- There’s a lunchtime gallery talk at the V&A by the curator of the contemporary ceramics exhibition on 28 September
- Kiejo Sarsfield‘s cookery classes are 3, 10 and 17 September. Contact kiejosarsfield at hotmail dot co dot uk for details
- The Korean Artists Association have their monthly meeting on 3 September at the KCC from 2pm with a talk by Lee Key-hyung on the use of CGI in movies. Contact koreanartuk at gmail dot com to reserve your place
Music
- Ha-Young Jung plays Koussevitzky’s Concerto for double bass at the Royal College of Music on 29 September
Social and get-togethers
- The AKS Diners get together on 6 September – this time at Arang
- The K-pop team has a SHINee giveaway special on 10 September in Houndsditch
The Chuseok Festival
- AKS Members are reminded to sign up for the Chuseok reception on 15 September
- And finally, but definitely not least, Korea celebrates Chuseok at the Thames Festival, 10-11 September with Taekwondo, a Gayageum Orchestra, top clowns and more.