Can’t believe May slipped by so quickly. Here’s what I know of for June:
Film
- This month’s director at the KCC is Lee Jun-ik, with screenings, on successive Thursdays, of King and the Clown (2005), The Happy Life (2007), Sunny (2008) and Battlefield Heroes (2010), the latter being at the Apollo Piccadilly with Director Q&A. Read more on Otherwhere.
- For those who follow cinema from across the East Sea, there’s a big season of Kaneto Shindo & Kozaburo Yoshimura at the BFI.
Arts
Plenty to choose from this month
- Lorenzo Fusi leads a roundtable on the Gwangju Biennale at the Tate Modern, 6 June
- Artist Lee Bul is at the Hayward Gallery in an illustrated talk entitled From Me, Belongs to You Only on 15 June.
- While you’re in the area, check out Choi Jeong-hwa’s green plastic baskets and balloon-decorated tree underneath the Hayward Gallery – all summer. The ugly dark concrete underworld has never looked so bright.
- Wire-wrapping artist Park Seungmo has a solo show at HADA Contemporary in Hackney, 7-28 June
- Jack Goldsmith Award-winner Kwon Dae-hun exhibits some new sculpture at Rachmaninoffs from 7 June
- HADA Contemporary is also holding its annual group show, Korean Collective, in the Albemarle Gallery, till 23 June
- Mikhail Karikis’s sound and film installation Sea Women, on the divers of Jeju-do, is on all month at the Wapping Project
- There’s some very affordable Korean fashion at Mokspace, until 17 June. If I was a girl in my 20s or 30s, I’d be getting my credit card out.
- Union Gallery in Teesdale Street feature Minae Kim and Soonhak Kwon in a show entitled White Rain, all month.
- You can just catch the tail end of the Place not Found exhibition at the Smokehouse Gallery till 3 June.
- The Function of the Oblique at Son Gallery also closes on 3 June
Music & K-pop
- Hugh Keice plays the 100 Club on 8 June
- Wonhee Bae plays at the RCM on 8 June, in a programme which includes Bach’s famous D minor Chaconne for unaccompanied violin, but with an added accompaniment by Mendelssohn.
- Joo Yeon Sir has a lunchtime recital at Charlton House, 22 June
- The Kpop team has one of its events at the Abacus Bar on 9 June
- YG is holding a global audition at the KCC on 16 June.
Everything else
- There will be a Korean poet or two at the Poetry Parnassus event at the South Bank, 26 June-1 July. More details soon.
- Kiejo’s cookery classes are on 2, 9, 23, 30 June. Contact kiejosarsfield at hotmail dot co dot uk for details.
- The AKS Diners meet for dinner on 12 June, and the British Korean Women’s Society meets for lunch on the same day.
- Korean adoptees gather in Paris, 29 June – 1 July.
LKL’s Google Calendar is definitely not up to speed with all the above yet. I’ll try to remedy that over the next day or so. I’ve also probably missed a whole bunch of events off the above list. If you know of any, please drop me a line.
Philip, there are three Kim Ki-duk films screening at the ICA as well (Arirang, 3-Iron and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring) plus the documentary Planet of Snail (which won the Best Documentary award at the Rotterdam Film Festival – can’t wait to see it!).
If you want to go beyond London, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is also screening 3 Korean films at the end of the month. King of Pigs is one, don’t remember the names of the others, but I’ll post details about it on my blog later today.
Thanks. I’d forgotten about the KKD, but didn’t know about Planet of Snail. Although I made it my film of the year last year just from the trailer, I’ve never actually seen it yet. I hope I’m in London at the right time.
I think most people don’t know about Planet of Snail – miniminimovies was raving about the Kim Ki-duk mini-retrospective at the ICA without noticing that the documentary follows right after. Planet of Snail screens from the 22nd-28th (not every day), so you should have a chance to catch it.
I have all the links on my calendar (http://alualuna.wordpress.com/film-events/calendar-film-events-londonukworld/), but need to do a post as well….
I shall have to educate Mr Verney
Ha ha ha! 🙂
Then he’ll probably scold me for calling him out on this.