Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s 2023-2024 season kicks off September 21st with a virtual gathering via Zoom called “Whiteness on Fire: Where are we Now?” But before I go on, let me tell you a story of where I am now. Watch this on Instagram. I am in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in a neighborhood called Midwood. Midwood is a predominantly […]
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Greetings! I hope this email finds you well. As 2022 comes to an end, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the milestones Kyoung’s Pacific Beat reached this year and share some reflections for the New Year. DISMANTLING WHITE SUPREMACY KPB began the development of NERO in September 2020 to catalyze a conversation
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Greetings! I hope this email finds you safe and in good health. As 2021 comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on what I’ve learned while living through a global catastrophe that affects us all. In the beginning of the pandemic, Kyoung’s Pacific Beat held space with Cara Page, an architect of the healing
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Greetings! There are no words to describe 2020. I find myself aghast, sitting in front of my computer, barely managing to cope with the chronic tightness in my stomach that has been ailing me since the summer of 2019. America was not in a good place before this year’s global pandemic. By last year, Trump’s
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“Whiteness on Fire: A Cultural Reconstruction”Monday, October 57-9PM EST BIPOC members of our community and our white allies are invited to join us online for an evening of art and social convening. This program will feature NERO’s “Suck My Violin,” an original music video produced virtually during this pandemic, followed by an in depth conversation
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Greetings! It has been 18 months since the last Kyoung Update. Where have I been? Since 2018, I’ve participated in the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) and Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) Leadership Fellowship programs, learning more about the work of arts and culture bearers of color working with indigenous communities across the country, while
Greetings! I’m thrilled to invite you to Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s PILLOWTALK, part of the Consortium of Asian-American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) “Radical Acts Festival” in Victory Gardens in Chicago. PILLOWTALK Set in contemporary Brooklyn, PILLOWTALK brings to life one night in the lives of Sam and Buck, a recently married interracial couple. Through a formal
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Greetings! On behalf of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat, I’m thrilled to share with you news about our company’s work. We are in a moment of tremendous growth, experiencing a whirlwind of opportunities, growing pains, and feeling both the excitement and challenges of pursuing a peacemaking mission in these troubling times. “I have been offered help to
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I am a third generation North Korean. My grandparents lived through Japanese colonial rule and lost their country when the Korean War divided the Korean peninsula. My parents left South Korea and built a new life in Chile following the fall of Pak Chung Hee’s dictatorship. I witnessed Chile’s transition from Pinochet’s military regime to
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Greetings! The World Premiere of PILLOWTALK continues its performances tonight at The Tank, located at 312 W. 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avs. Come join the conversation and let’s celebrate #loveisradical! “‘Radical’ may not the first descriptor that most people would instinctively assign to the word “love,” but it is precisely that pairing, in its
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