June events 2013

June is music month, but there’s plenty more besides. Let me know what I’ve missed.

Music

• The SOAS Korean Drumming Society performs at SOAS on 3 June
• Kim Hyelim (daegeum) performs with the Yin Yang Collective at the Royal Asiatic Society on 6 June
• The National Orchestra of Korea under Won Il will open the K-music festival at the Barbican on 14 June
• Jung Ji-eun performs Roh Tae-hwan’s “Far East Calm” Suite for Gayageum and Orchestra at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington on 15 June
• The K-music festival continues at Scala with Uhuhboo Project on 16 June and Jang Kiha & the Faces plus Yi Sung Yol on 20 June
• Coinciding with the K-music festival, the KCC has organised a week of lunchtime classical concerts, 17-20 June
• Korean-born “avant-pop” violinist Amadeus Leopold appears at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown festival on the South Bank on 18 June
• The Cadogan Hall hosts Geomungo Factory on 19 June and a Pansori night with Ahn Sook-sun on 21 June, finishing off the K-music festival.
• Jong-Gyung Park plays Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto with the Lambeth Orchestra on 29 June

Exhibitions

• Last chance to see:
  • Shin Meekyoung’s Plinth Project in Cavendish Square (till 30 June)
  • Wisdom and Compassion – Buddhist art at Mokspace until 9 June
  • The Tainted – Hur Shan in a duo show at Gazelli Art House until 5 June
  • The Hidden Cost of Prosperity – at the KCC till 6 June
• New this month:
  • Memories through Line and Colour: Anna Jung Seo at Vyner Street Gallery, 4 – 9 June
  • Chung Heeseung and Je Baak at HADA Contemporary, from 6 June
  • Moon Jar – Contemporary Translations in Britain, the KCC’s new exhibition, from 18 June
• Still on: Shin Meekyoung in Couriers of Taste at Danson House, and Lee Hyungkoo in Beastly Hall at Hall Palce & Gardens, both in Bexley

Film

• Shin Sang-ok’s Bound by Chastity (열녀문, 1962) is screening as part of the KCC’s Women on Screen series on 6 June. Lee Man-hee’s Homebound (귀로, 1967) is on 20 June
• The Jeon Do-yeon season continues at the KCC with screenings on 13 and 27 June
• The Terracotta Festival includes three Korean films: Young Gun in the Time (7 June), Berlin File (8 June) and Werewolf Boy (9 June) and plenty of other Asian film besides
• Ann Shin’s documentary The Defector: Escape from North Korea can be watched throughout the Sheffield Docfest, 12-16 June

Talks, seminars, classes

• SOAS’s screen culture conference, Years of Radical Change, finishes on 1 June
• LSE has a conference marking 60 years after the end of the Korean War on 3 June
• SOAS has an afternoon conference on New Songdo City and South Korea’s Green Economy, on 5 June
• The Anglo Korean Society has a guided walk of Chelsea on 12 June
• Talk, Tea and Books – a new book club discusses Park Wan-suh’s Who Ate All the Shinga at the KCC on 28 June
• Kiejo Sarsfield’s cookery classes are on 8, 15, 22 June