January events 2015

Here are some of the events for the first month of 2015:

Music and dance

• The first event of the New Year is a performance by Korean / Japanese experimental musical duo Tengger, in the Redchruch Brewery in Bethnal Green, 7 January
• Violinist Joo Yeon Sir has recitals at St Martin-in-the-Fields (9 January) and the National Gallery (23 January); a music/dance/animation event at the Royal College of Music on 28 January; and a Beethoven Violin Concerto on 31 January.
• Cellist Catherine Lee is giving a lunchtime recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 20 January
• Pianist Jason Bae is giving a late morning recital on 21 January at Asia House.
• The K-Arts University Dance Company performs at Trinity Laban Theatre on 28 January.

Exhibitions

• The Silversmithing and Jewellery exhibition at the KCC finishes on 10 January (LKL review here), to make way for a fashion – related exhibition later in the month.
• Park Chang-kyong’s first UK solo show is at Iniva starting on 14 January
• Hanmi Gallery’s first exhibition of the year is Meme, starting on 14 January
• Hanmi Gallery will also be showing at the London Art Fair (21-25 January), at which you can normally find a couple of other galleries with artists too.
• Mokspace’s current show, Hongjung Park’s Voice of Spring & Autumn, finishes on 10 Jaunary.
• Bada Song’s solo show at Asia House, This Way & That, closes on 9 January.
• Ham Jin’s solo show at HADA Contemporary, Somewhere Underneath, continues all month. (LKL review here)

Talks and seminars

• The All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea meets on 14 January with a sessino entitled The Role of North Korean Refugee Women in Peace-Building
• SOAS’s first seminars of the year (in Brunei Gallery room B102) are
  • 16 January Pop Nostalgia, Pop Canonization and Korean Music Reality Shows,
  • 23 January North Korea Faces the World: A Story of Nuclear Weapons, Economic Reform, and Normalization​ and
  • 30 January Rhee Syngman in the first decade of the twentieth-century

Film

• The KCC’s film programme for 2015 has not yet been announced.
• Slightly off-topic, but there’s a Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme commencing 30 January. On 1 February the ICA will be screening a film called Jinx which features K-pop group T-ARA idol Hyomin as its lead character.

Food

• Judy Joo’s new restaurant, Jinjuu, opens on 13 January and her new TV show, Korean Food Made Simple, starts screening on 26 January.