To celebrate Hanbok Culture Week, the Korean Cultural Centre Canada is hosting a hands-on workshop where participants will use a mother-of-pearl craft kit inspired by traditional Korean lacquerware to 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    Friday, October 23, 2026 | 6:30–8:00 PM    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

Intersecting Identities, Lives: <Perhaps, All of Us> Comes to Ottawa The Korean Cultural Centre Canada (KCC) and the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) are pleased to present the touring exhibition <Perhaps, All of Us>, on view from Tuesday, August 25 to Wednesday, October 14, 2026. 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). Conceived in Seoul and presented as a traveling exhibition in Washington, D.C. and Ottawa, <Perhaps, All of Us> examines the shared sense of place between these capital cities. It explores key themes of publicness, historicity, and diversity through the lens of contemporary Korean art and the eyes of visionary artists Gala Porras-Kim, Ayoung Kim, Jaehun Park, Park Chan-kyong, Park Hyesoo, Shin Mi Jung, Jisun Shin, Eunu Lee, Lee JeeYang, Im Youngzoo, Jung Yeondoo, Young-jun Tak, and Jungwon Phee. Capitals function not only as political, administrative, and cultural centres, but also as spaces where diverse identities, memories, and relationships intersect. They also evolve as urban environments shaped by the accumulation of countless individual lives and experiences. Within this context, <Perhaps, All of Us> reflects on how we perceive and relate to one another, including which memories and values are preserved or excluded in society. The participating artists explore the intersection of personal experience and social reality through a wide range of media and perspectives. Their works reveal the norms and boundaries formed within urban spaces, the relationships between communities and others, and the emotions and memories often overlooked in everyday life. In doing so, the exhibition moves beyond individual or regional narratives to raise universal questions that resonate with contemporary audiences. <Perhaps, All of Us> is organized into three thematic sections. Part 1, <Our Unknown Country>, examines publicness through the dynamics of exclusion and hospitality that emerge along the boundaries between “us” and “others.” Part 2, <Time Out of Bounds>, recalls forgotten or silenced histories to reconsider how the present has been shaped through layers of accumulation and omission. Part 3, <Perhaps, All of Us>, confronts unfamiliarity and interpersonal difference while also exploring possibilities for coexistence grounded in diversity. Through the diverse social experiences and sensibilities captured in contemporary Korean art, <Perhaps, All of Us> invites visitors to empathize with the lives and perspectives of others, and to consider how such empathy may expand into meaningful solidarity. Exhibition Details - Exhibition: Perhaps, All of Us - Dates: August 25 – October 14, 2026 - Venue: Korean Cultural Centre Canada (150 Elgin St #101, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4) - Opening & Artist Talk with Park Hyesoo: Tuesday, August 25, 5:00 PM (Registration recommended: https://forms.gle/3YCMbLvPRj7TNZU98) - Featured Artists: Gala Porras-Kim, Ayoung Kim, Jaehun Park, Park Chan-kyong, Park Hyesoo, Shin Mi Jung, Jisun Shin, Eunu Lee, Lee JeeYang, Im Youngzoo, Jung Yeondoo, Young-jun Tak, and Jungwon Phee