THURSDAY JULY 30TH 7:30 PM
@ AGITPUNKT *NEAR HONGDAE STATION, exit 4
PB&J 31: 'UNLEARN WAR - PROLIFERATE PEACE'
Benefit Showcase for Nodutdol for Korean Community Development based in NYC cover: 10,000 won
To
commemorate July 27, the date of the signing of the Korean War
Armistice in 1953, we will have a benefit show with performances,
readings, and films about the painful legacies of war that still affect
us today and the dire necessity for a Peace Treaty in Korea.
2009,
also marks the 10 year anniversary of the founding of Nodutdol, part of
a nation-wide network of Korean-American, veterans and human rights
orgs working together to call on the U.S. gov’t to sign a Peace Treaty
to officially end the Korean War.
LIST OF PARTICIPATING WRITERS, PERFORMERS, ARTISTS:
Haja Brazilian Percussion Troupe
Haja
Production School is an alternative High School in Seoul focusing on
art, design, performance relating to social issues. Students from HPS
will preform music which is heavily influenced by Brazillian
percussion and sounds.
Jason Ahn
A
graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and is currently
in his 2nd year of studies as a physician-in-training at Harvard
Medical School. The urgency of the divided families issue has pushed
him to pursue this project. While a Fulbright scholar to Korea, Jason
became interested in the divided families through Saemsori, an
organization that works towards formal family reunions between Korean
Americans and Koreans living in North Korea.
Young
Young is an aspiring novelist who has nothing but his aspirations.
Ji Young Yoo
A
member of Nodutdol, a contributing visual artist for the traveling
exhibition, 'Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten
War', and a lecturer of Media Arts in various colleges. She received
her MFA from the City University of New York and an MA in Media Studies
at the New School University in NY. She has exhibited her work both in
Korea and the U.S. In May 2009, she participated in a group show
'Meta-Data' at Guro Art Belly in Seoul.
Grace M. Cho
A
member of Nodutdol, a contributing performance artist for 'Still
Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War', and an
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the City
University of New York. Her first book, 'Haunting the Korean Diaspora:
Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War' was published last year with
University of Minnesota Press.
*Note:
If you would like to purchase the book, you can order it on-line
through Amazon. As a supporter of Nodutdol, 25% of the author's
proceeds will go towards the organization.
Sung Joon Cho
A
second generation corean american from New York and a member of
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and (TRACK) Truth and
Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea.
Jane Jin Kaisen
A
visual artist working with film, video, performance, text, and
photography. Jane is a co-founder of UFOlab, and the collective Chamber
of Public Secrets. www.janejinkaisen.org
Maja Lee Langvad
Her
first book, 'Find Holger Danske' was published in 2006 with Borgens
Forlag. She has received several awards and grants including a 3 year
work grant from The Danish Arts Foundation. Since 2004 she has been the
co-editor of the literary magazine 'Banana Split'. She has translated
'Fragebogen' by the Swiss author, Max Frisch, into Danish. At the
moment she is writing a fictional book about her experiences living in
South Korea where she currently resides.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
노둣돌 no-dut-dol
1. stepping stone; 2. home, opening, entryway; 3. bridging; 4. love and longing in separation; 5. reunification.
WHO WE ARE
Based in New York City, Nodutdol is a community of first through fourth
generation Koreans living in the U.S. We are a community that has
families in both, the south and north of Korea. We are diverse in our
backgrounds and perspectives, but bound together by our shared sense of
the Korean homeland that continues to suffer under division [with the
understanding that the concept of ‘home’ may vary]. We are part of the
Korean diaspora spread throughout the globe made up of artists,
filmmakers, teachers, students, workers, professionals, young families,
etc. who believe in social justice.
HISTORY
In April 1999, Nodutdol was founded in New York City. Inspired by the
democratic social movements in Korea, there was a desire to create a
progressive space in NYC that promotes the self-determination and unity
of the Korean people through grassroots organizing and community
development. With a critical analysis of the U.S. - Korea history [that
is closely linked to war and militarism], Nodutdol began putting
together workshops, lectures, and study sessions, believing in the
importance of educating present and future generations of Koreans
living in the U.S. to be actively engaged in social change.
MISSION STATEMENT
Through grassroots organizing and community development, Nodutdol seeks
to bridge divisions created by war, nation, gender, sexual orientation,
language, class, and generation among Koreans and to empower our
community to address the injustices we and other people of color face
here and abroad. Nodutdol works in collaboration with other progressive
organizations locally, nationally and internationally as part of a
larger movement for peace and social change.
Nodutdol
seeks to contribute to a global people’s struggle against war and
militarism as part of a Korean struggle for national unification and
democracy, and as part of a U.S.-based peoples’ struggle for racial,
social and economic justice in New York City. In that spirit, we are
building a broad base of NYC Koreans who struggle against war and
militarism on these two fronts.
*To learn more about Nodutdol and our work, please visit: www.nodutdol.org
Our
work is only possible through the broad support of community members,
friends, and allies. Nodutdol is incorporated under New York State law
as a nonprofit co and is a 501(c)3 federal tax-exempt charitable
organization. All donations to Nodutdol are tax-exempt.
*NOTE:
if you can not make it the event on thursday, but would still like to
make a donation to Nodutdol, you can make an on-line tax deductible
contribution: http://nodutdol.org/index.php/support/ 
STUDIOS
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