Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
As Russian-born American writer Emma Goldman once said “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution! If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution! If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma was absolutely right about dancing and celebrating a revolution. These two elements were born together and without having both, a movement can’t be called a revolution.
The Uhang-ri Dinosaur Museum is south of Gwangju and Mokpo, near Haenam. It is set in rolling hills with life-sized dinosaurs placed around the parking lot and the sidewalks on the way to the museum.
On Sunday, March 11, the GIC hosted a dance workshop entitled “Interpretive Dance Does not Exist… Or does it?” Angie Hartley, a dancer who currently works as an English teacher with the EPIK program here in Gwangju, led the participants through a variety of movement-based exercises.
What does it mean to pack up and come to a country without having to know the language? Distance from a community is never part of a plan. Perhaps it is the adventure of it all that wins in the end; the desire to radically transform our realities into something new and exciting, something that might be uncomfortable but promises growth in the end.
Gangjeong is often served during important events such as weddings, ancestral rites and Lunar New Year (Seollal). It is covered with white sesame, black sesame, white soybean flour and black soybean flour. Gangjeong is a Korean traditional confectionery popular with women as a low-calorie snack.
Korea is famous for its many and varied festivals, and spring is the perfect time to go festival hopping, as the number of events taking place around the country reaches its peak at this time of year.
Jeju Island, the idyllic getaway for Korean honeymooners and nature-loving tourists alike, has been at the center of a controversial conflict which has heightened in intensity, and the voices involved are as varied as the opinions on the issue itself.
Gwangju is home to a large variety of bands, from shoegaze to electroclash, and punk is not excluded from the mix.
