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LKL articles by Events Editor (page 104)

Screening: Hyperbolae of Youth

event date Fri 22 Mar 2019 posted

LEAFF’s #KCinema100 series, a celebration of the centenary of Korean cinema, starts on Friday with Director Han Hyeong-Mo’s HYPERBOLAE OF YOUTH (1956), one of Korea’s earliest comedies. The screening is at London’s historic Cinema Museum, once home to the great Charlie Chaplin. The screening will be followed by a reception with Korean food and soju … [Read More]

Jinjo Crew in Breakin’ Convention

event date 04 May - 05 May 2019 posted

Reigning Battle of the Year World Champions Jinjo Crew bring an astounding showcase of elite level breaking, acrobatics and Korean culture, led by crew leader B-Boy Wing, to the annual Breakin’ Convention festival of breakdancing. Performing Saturday 4 May & Sunday 5 May 2019 at Sadlers Wells | Rosebery Avenue | London EC1R 4TN Buy … [Read More]

Seong-jin Cho plays Rachmaninov at the Barbican

event date Thu 28 Mar 2019 venue Barbican Centre posted

Hear from the teenage Shostakovich in this all-Russian programme with conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto opens quietly enough, but this simple and beguiling beginning quickly gives way what is in fact one of the most technically demanding concertos in the classical piano repertoire. Its lush and romantic elegance is followed by Balakirev’s Islamey, … [Read More]

Novus String Quartet lunchtime concert at the Wigmore

event date Mon 25 Mar 2019 venue Wigmore Hall posted

Established in Korea in 2007, the Novus String Quartet has gone on to achieve widespread success, notably with first prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2014. Its programme comprises masterpieces by Respighi and Berg composed during the years 1924–6. Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): Quartetto dorico Alban Berg (1885-1935): Lyric Suite Monday 25 March 2019 1:00PM Wigmore Hall … [Read More]

Hanbok-inspired fashion on show in Kingston University

event date 12 Mar - 16 Mar 2019 venue Stanley Picker Gallery posted

An international project in which the Royal School of Needlework collaborated with the Korean Hanbok Advancement Centre, KBCE and Kingston University, has offered a unique opportunity for students to create exhibitable works which creatively reinterpreted elements of the traditional Korean dress (Hanbok) using both traditional and contemporary hand embroidery techniques. The finished pieces by Kingston … [Read More]

Remembering Kim Bok-dong 1926 – 2019

event date Wed 13 Mar 2019 venue SOAS posted

Kim Bok Dong was a victim of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, and one of the first of the survivors to speak out in the early 1990s. She became a prominent human rights campaigner on this and other issues affecting lives of young women. She passed away this year on 28 January. On March 13th, … [Read More]

Wu Wei premieres Donghoon Shin’s Sheng Concerto

event date Thu 21 Mar 2019 posted

Donghoon Shin has two world premieres this month. The first is with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Murmurs Music dissolving borders, and the world premiere of BCMG Apprentice Composer-in-Residence Donghoon Shin’s Sheng Concerto Thursday 21 March 2019, 7.30pm | Book tickets CBSO Centre | Berkley Street | Birmingham B1 2LF | cbso.co.uk As the world … [Read More]

Hyon Gyon: solo exhibition at Parasol Unit

event date 23 Jan - 31 Mar 2019 posted

Late notice about a solo exhibition in the Old Street / City Road area: Hyon Gyon 23 January – 31 March 2019 Parasol Unit | 14 Wharf Road | London N1 7RW | parasol-unit.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10 am-6 pm | Sunday: 12-5 pm Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is delighted to present for the first … [Read More]