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[Exhibition-Related Program] Conversation with Production Designer HAN Ah-rum (October 28) The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC), in collaboration with the Korean Film Archive (KOFA), is pleased to present a special conversation with production designer HAN Ah-rum on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, as part of the exhibition <Production Design: Scene Architects Build On-Screen Worlds>. HAN Ah-rum is an acclaimed Korean production designer who received the Best Art Direction Award at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards for <Kingmaker>(2022). His notable works also include <Kill Boksoon>(2023) and <I, the Executioner>(2024), showcasing his distinctive approach to creating cinematic worlds. During this special conversation, HAN Ah-rum will share insights into his major works and creative process, exploring how stories on the page are transformed into cinematic scenes through concept development and spatial design. The talk will offer a closer look at the role of production design in bringing a film's historical setting, characters' emotions, and overall atmosphere to life. The event will begin with a screening of <Kingmaker>(2022), directed by BYUN Sung-hyun and featuring production design by HAN Ah-rum, at 4:30 PM. The exhibition opening and conversation with the production designer will follow at 6:40 PM. We invite you to join us for this special opportunity to hear directly from the creative mind behind the visual worlds of Korean cinema. Event Details - Event: Conversation with Production Designer HAN Ah-rum - Date & Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 4:30 PM - Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St #101, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4) - Admission: Free Program Schedule - 4:30 PM – Film Screening: <Kingmaker> (2022) - 6:40 PM – Production Designer Talk & Exhibition Opening -  Registration:  https://forms.gle/8vYkzt4wmi1drs9R8  

Beyond the Screen: Exploring the Art of Production Design in Korean Cinema The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) and the Korean Film Archive (KOFA) are pleased to present <Production Design: Scene Architects Build On-Screen Worlds>, on view from Wednesday, October 28, 2026, to Friday, January 29, 2027. The exhibition is presented as part of the Touring K-Arts Project, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and administered by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE). Since its launch in Europe in 2024, the exhibition has travelled across Asia, Oceania, and Latin America before arriving in Ottawa, Canada. <Production Design: Scene Architects Build On-Screen Worlds> explores the art of production design, the creative process of bringing cinematic worlds to life. Production design involves interpreting scripts and characters and shaping the visual elements of a film, from its historical setting and atmosphere to its spaces, sets, and props. Moving beyond the traditional focus on directors and actors, the exhibition highlights the creative contributions and artistic achievements of production designers who shape the visual worlds of cinema. The exhibition features the works and creative processes of three leading Korean production designers: RYU Seong-hee, CHO Hwa-sung, and HAN Ah-rum. Through concept art, sketches, technical drawings, behind-the-scenes photographs, and 3D visualizations, visitors can explore how cinematic worlds take shape, from script and character analysis to concept development, spatial design, and set construction. By revealing the creative processes behind familiar scenes from Korean films, the exhibition invites visitors to experience cinema from a new perspective and discover the artistry, imagination, and craftsmanship of production designers who have played a vital role in shaping the visual identity of Korean cinema. Exhibition Details - Exhibition: Production Design: Scene Architects Build On-Screen Worlds - Dates: October 28, 2026 – January 29, 2027 - Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St #101, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4) - Featured Production Designers: RYU Seong-hee, HAN Ah-rum, CHO Hwa-sung Special Programs | Wednesday, October 28, 2026 - 4:30 PM – Film Screening: <Kingmaker> (2022) - 6:40 PM – Exhibition Opening & Conversation with Production Designer HAN Ah-rum -  Registration:  https://forms.gle/8vYkzt4wmi1drs9R8 

To celebrate Hanbok Culture Week, the Korean Cultural Centre Canada is hosting a hands-on workshop inspired by traditional Korean lacquerware. Using a mother-of-pearl craft kit, participants will create keyrings in the shape of a Hanbok jeogori (traditional Korean jacket) and a gat (traditional Korean hat). During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to try on Hanbok and create their own Hanbok keyring using decorative mother-of-pearl pieces, experiencing firsthand the beauty of Hanbok and traditional Korean craftsmanship. No previous art or crafting experience is required. All materials will be provided. Workshop Details - Workshop: Mother-of-Pearl Hanbok Keyring - Dates & Times:    Friday, October 23, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM (ET)    Friday, October 23, 2026 | 6:30–8:00 PM (ET)    Saturday, October 24, 2026 | 10:30 AM–12:00 PM (ET) - Location: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin Street, Unit 101, Ottawa, ON) - Capacity: 25 participants per session - Participation: All sessions offer the same workshop content. Participants may register for one session only. - Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/kcc-mother-of-pearl-craft-workshop-hanbok-keyring-tickets-2001381051601

The Korean Cultural Centre Canada will present the hands-on workshop <Minhwa Wooden Theatre> on October 16–17, 2026. In this workshop, participants will discover the beauty and symbolism of Minhwa, traditional Korean folk painting, while creating their own wooden theatre frame inspired by Korean folk art. Using a wooden theatre frame kit, participants will decorate and assemble their own artwork, exploring the vibrant imagery and cultural meanings found in Minhwa. No previous art or crafting experience is required. All materials will be provided. Workshop Details - Workshop: Minhwa Wooden Theatre - Dates:    Friday, October 16:10:00–11:00 AM / 1:30–2:30 PM /5:30–6:30 PM / 7:00–8:00 PM (ET)    Saturday, October 17: 10:30–11:30 AM / 1:30–2:30 PM / 3:00–4:00 PM / 4:30–5:30 PM (ET) - Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin Street, Unit 101, Ottawa, ON) - Participation: Each session covers the same content. Participants may register for one session only. - Materials: All materials will be provided. - Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/kcc-minhwa-wooden-theatre-workshop-tickets-1998541706042

The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) is pleased to present <Artist Talk: Resonant Connections> with curator Seihee Shon and artists Jade Sujin LEE and Ryth Kesselring on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 6:00 PM (ET). <Resonant Connections> is a contemporary art project that explores the possibilities of creating art in collaboration with nature through site-responsive installations, sound art, and digital art. Conceived as a platform for artistic experimentation, the project invites artists to listen attentively to a specific forest ecosystem, engage with the living beings that inhabit it, and explore the aesthetics that emerge where the natural environment meets digital media. Event Details * Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 6:00 PM (ET) * Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St #101, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4) * Admission: Free * Registration: https://forms.gle/Y6X4zXVzQipnR7cy6 Resonant Connections <Resonant Connections> is a contemporary art project that highlights collaboration with nature through site-responsive installations, sound art, and digital art. Conceived as a research laboratory, it supports risk-taking and artistic experimentation. By listening attentively to the ecosystem of a specific forest environment, the participating artists engage with the living beings that inhabit it and explore the aesthetics emerging from digital realities within the forest. Baron Lanteigne, Caroline Gagné, Gabrielle HB, Jade Sujin LEE, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, and Ryth Kesselring explore the resonances between place, the soundscape, and today’s digital world. These works will be on view on 6 September in Sainte-Christine. The project is co-curated by Seihee Shon and Ryth Kesselring. About the Curator and artists  Seihee Shon Seihee Shon is a curator, writer and educator based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Focusing on time-based media art and the intersection of art and technology, she explores questions of landscape, place, memory, and, more recently, ecological thought. Her latest projects and exhibitions include More Than Meets the Ear (2025, Seoul), Tuning (2023-2025, Seoul), Anywhere Arts (2024-2025, Seoul), Silent Walk (2023, Seoul), Walking Festival of Sound (2022, Seoul, Vancouver), Explore Sound (2022, Incheon), and Parallel Landscape (2019, Incheon). She studied History of Art, and Art Museum and Gallery Education. She is the founder of Organic Project, a curatorial laboratory for time-based art. Jade Sujin LEE Jade Sujin LEE, Exhibition view of Polyphony Club: Mondegreen Expanded Edition, The WilloW, Seoul, 2025  Jade Sujin LEE explores a range of invisible signs and sensations, including light, memory, and sound, which appear in particular border areas of the everyday world. LEE imagines an arbitrary virtual world in which all beings, including humans, construct themselves. Based on the imagination, she reconstructs the fluid concepts that flow between the temporality of the "past, present, and future," expressing them through various creative forms that encompass spatial installation, performance, narration, and video. Born and raised in downtown Seoul during the economic growth in the early 1980s, the artist has been interested in various characteristics of urbanization and industrialization, such as ‘confrontation and discrimination,’ ‘conflict and clash,’ ‘destruction and renewal,’ and ‘migration and settlement.’ In the process, the artist has discovered the various ways in which nature and disparate spaces and places are layered with time. She overlaps ‘individual/collective memories and narratives,’ ‘an imagination of a novel-like world beneath the surface of science fiction’, and the ‘primitive vitality that revives (or rehabilitates)’, which transforms the state of ‘confrontation and conflict’ that has been continuously manifested since the transition to industrial society into a situation of ‘reconciliation and healing’—with specific situations, attempting to make the infinite possibilities compatible with them. Ryth Kesselring Ryth Kesselring, Abstractions géographiques_strophe d'épinettes, 2025  Born in Switzerland, Ryth Kesselring moved to Canada during her childhood. Her interdisciplinary research translates through weavings, electronics and sound, creating interactive ecosystems that reflect on political and ecological issues. Her work draws parallels between the archival potential of textile objects and the memories emerging from audible materials. She holds an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices from Concordia University (2024) and her graduate studies were supported by the prestigious FRQSC, SSHRC and the Yvonne L. Bombardier Graduate Scholarships. Her work is supported by the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec and has been awarded by the Culture Montérégie's Prix numérique (2021) and the Jury’s prize at the international Land Art event Créations-sur-le-champ (2024) among others. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally as at the Arte Documento gallery in Ensenada, Mexico (2023), the Diagonale gallery in Montreal (2025) and the art center Nabi in Seoul, South Korea (2025). She deepened her research through various residencies including the tExtilEs residency at EasternBloc in Montréal (2022) and the Jorisch family artist residency in Salzburg, Austria (2023). She lives and works as an artist and an educator in southern Quebec. (www.rytha-kesselring.com)

Presented in connection with the KCC exhibition <Perhaps, All of Us> The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) is pleased to host a special Artist Talk with Park Hyesoo on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM (ET). Organized in conjunction with the exhibition <Perhaps, All of Us>, this talk offers audiences an opportunity to meet the artist, learn about the artist’s creative journey and gain deeper insight into their practice. Join us for this engaging occasion to connect directly with the artist, explore the diverse practices of contemporary Korean art, and discover the ideas and processes that extend beyond the exhibition space. Event Details * Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 5:00 PM (ET)  * Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St #101, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4) * Registration: https://forms.gle/svkQ7LubSrNtdD1h8 * Free admission Park Hyesoo 박혜수  Park Hyesoo (b. 1974) focuses on the concept of what society accepts as “universal.” Words such as “ordinary,” “us,” “family,” and “loss” seem commonplace and are routinely used in everyday life, yet beneath their familiar surfaces lies a margin of interpretation that can be subtly twisted or expanded at any time, depending on who writes these words and who reads them. The artist explores precisely these delicate gaps—the points at which meaning wavers and splits apart—to slowly unfurl linguistic distances and then unsettle them again with meticulous precision. Through this process, the audience is confronted with the blind spots of the collective that are often concealed beneath the idea of normality. <A place for anybody and somebody> consists of installation objects along with a video documenting a lecture-performance program presented at Korea Artist Prize 2019 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. In this experimental performance, the artist poses a question to visitors: “On a 10-hour flight, to whom would you give the seat next to you?” The installation objects represent the seats of the “somebody” and the “anybody” directly chosen by the audience, revealing the invisible distance between oneself and others, as well as the boundaries of relationships. It prompts us to consider who exactly is included in the word “Us” and how far that sense of our distance extends. Park Hyesoo <A Place for Anybody and Somebody>(2020), Seoul Museum of Art Collection

From September 22 to 25, the Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) will visit Nunavut to host the 2026 Korean Culture Day in Northern Canada. The event will feature a range of cultural programs at three local schools. Students will have the opportunity to explore Korean culture through K-pop dance and Taekwondo classes. For the wider Iqaluit community, the KCC will also host Korean film screening and a Korean food sampling event at the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre. Korean Film Screening Date & Time: Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 6 PM (ET) Venue: Astro Theatre Admission: Free

The Korean Cultural Centre Canada is pleased to announce that we will be supporting K-Pop Night, hosted by Ottawa Rapid FC. Event Details ▷ Date & Time: Saturday, Aug 22 / 7:00 PM ▷ Match: Ottawa vs Vancouver ▷ Location: TD Place(1015 Bank St, Ottawa) What's there? - K-Pop music all night - Korean Night Market - K-Pop Halftime Show - K-Pop Experience Zone - Korean-themed matchday activities & more!

The Korean Cultural Centre Canada is pleased to present DOKEBI, a Toronto-based Korean fusion band rooted in traditional Korean music. DOKEBI Dokebi is a Toronto-based Korean fusion band rooted in traditional Korean music. The four-piece (Sangah Lee on pansori vocals, Jay Yoo on guitar, Sienna on piano and flute, and Kklily on Korean percussion) draws from the deep well of Korean traditional sound to create music that is both gripping and playful, spanning from the raw intensity of traditional Korean forms to the softer edges of contemporary pop. DOKEBI brings together original music inspired by Korean traditions, traditional repertoire, and popular K-pop covers in a vibrant and accessible concert experience. Named after the playful and spirited Korean folkloric goblin (dokkaebi), the band's music is energetic, expressive, and full of character, offering something for both longtime fans of Korean culture and those discovering Korean music for the first time. Several members of DOKEBI will also be performing at the Ottawa Jazz Festival this summer. This concert offers audiences a unique opportunity to experience the diversity of Korean music, from traditional sounds and original fusion compositions to contemporary interpretations and K-pop covers, in an intimate setting. Event Information 📅 Date: Sunday, June 28, 2026 🕓 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 📍 Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin Street, Unit 101, Ottawa) 🎟️ Admission: Free (Registration required) 🗓️ Registration Opens: Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM (ET) 🔗 Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dokebi-korean-fusion-music-concert-tickets-1991424434090  ⚠️ Limited seating available. The approximately one-hour program will include: • Original compositions by DOKEBI • Traditional Korean music repertoire • K-pop cover performances

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Korean Cultural Centre Canada, this special concert celebrates the historic milestone and a decade of cultural achievements, while looking forward to a brighter future. On this occasion, DOSI and Maria Kim have travelled from Korea to showcase the richness and depth of Korean music. Through this event, the Korean Cultural Centre Canada aims to further promote cultural exchange and foster a deeper appreciation of Korean culture in Canada.  - Ticket: Available through the NAC website (ticket sales open starting at 10:00 AM on May 29, 2026).      Resonance: Korean Cultural Centre 10th Anniversary Concert | Gonia, Dosi and Maria Kim | Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:30 pm | Southam Hall | National Arts Centre      Résonance : Concert du 10e anniversaire du Centre culturel coréen | Gonia, Dosi et Maria Kim | sam 18 juil 2026, 19 h 30| Salle Southam | Centre national des Arts  - Price: Free   * Ticket Information We regret to inform audiences that the vocalist of Gonia is unable to participate in this performance due to an unexpected medical issue and will not be travelling to Canada. Therefore, this performance has been converted into a free event.  

The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) is excited to team up with the Ottawa Jazz Festival (OJF) to showcase the sensational Korean band, LEENALCHI, for a weekend of unforgettable music and community engagement this June. About LEENALCHI LEENALCHI is a phenomenal seven-piece band from Seoul that is redefining modern music. The group draws on pansori—the traditional Korean art of folk musical storytelling—and brilliantly fuses it with a massive, groove-heavy contemporary sound. Driven by a unique lineup of four powerhouse singers, two bassists, and a drummer, their rhythmically complex, genre-bending style creates an infectious, high-energy performance that will have audiences moving all night. Performance Schedule Catch their live, open-air performance at the heart of the festival: ●Date: Sunday, June 21, 2026 ●Time: 10:30 PM ●Location: Elgin Street Stage, Confederation Park, Ottawa ●Tickets and more info:  LINK Exclusive Meet & Greet Session To offer fans and music enthusiasts a deeper connection with the artists, the KCC and OJF will host a special, intimate "Meet & Greet" session the following evening. This is a unique opportunity to chat with the band members, ask questions about their innovative musical style, and meet the artists up close. ●Date: Monday, June 22, 2026 ●Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ●Location: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St., Unit 101, Ottawa) This is a free event We are incredibly excited for this dynamic collaboration and look forward to welcoming you to both the stage and the Centre.

The Korean Cultural Centre Canada will operate a Veterans Memorial Zone within the Korea Cultural Experience Pavilion during the 2026 Canadian Tulip Festival. In addition, on May 10 and May 17, cadets will present a special program reflecting on the sacrifice and bravery of Korean War veterans. We warmly invite your interest and participation. Date: May 8 - 18, 2026 Venue: Korea Pavilion, Commissioners Park Memorial Zone Hours: Weekdays 10:00 - 18:00, Weekends 10:00 - 20:00 Presentation:  May 10 & 17, at 13:00