The Program

KYCC’s Koreatown Storytelling Program is an intergenerational, multilingual and multiethnic oral history and digital media program that teaches ethnographic and storytelling techniques to high school students and elders to investigate cultural practices and racial, economic and health inequities in our community. 

The program promotes greater understanding and respect between generations and documents marginalized narratives for preservation in public archives while also cultivating wellness outcomes for all participants.

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Intergenerational. Multiethnic. Multilingual.

We are high school students and elders who live and work in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Read our stories, listen to our interviews, and look at our photos and videos to learn more about our thoughts and insights on our community.

OUR PARTICIPANTS →

LGBTQIA+ Community In Koreatown

KSP’s 2023-2024 cohort will explore the LGBTQIA+ community in Koreatown. We will record our multiethnic and multilingual LGBTQIA+ older adults on their life experiences–their home countries, cultural traditions, childhood, faith, family, immigration and coming out (and not-coming out) narratives, intersectionality, discrimination, milestones and celebrations. Our curriculum will study the history (and threat to) LGBTQIA+ rights and educate our participants on LGBTQIA+ cultural competencies. We will be partnering with organizations and artists that reflect the cultural heritages and identities of our community. 

Free Workshops with Community Members!

  • Foodmaking with Ms. Cathy

    Our KSP older adult participant Cathy Yi will be leading a foodmaking workshop on the birthday and postpartum favorite – miyeok guk – or seaweed soup with beef. This class was requested by the KSP students who wanted to learn how to make this delicious, nutritious traditional Korean soup.

Su historia es un regalo. Share Your Story.

당신의 이야기는 선물입니다.

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Our Upcoming Work

In 2024-2025, KSP will explore the traditional healing arts in our Koreatown community. We are interested in learning from the diversity of healing practices and modalities from our largely Latine and API community, like acupuncturists, herbalists, shamans, botanicas, curanderas, and kabarajis. KSP will interview, gather and archive oral history narratives about the traditional healing arts from our primarily limited-income, immigrant community, where the majority of countries of origin (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Korea, Bangladesh and Mongolia) have strong cultural roots in these modalities. Many residents of our community understand or practice these cultural traditions, rituals and methods, but these voices are rarely explored, documented and archived. We will invite traditional healing artists to lead workshops and demonstrations in their areas of expertise and are excited to learn from and with our Koreatown community.  

Please reach out if you are open to conversations with us!

 

Koreatown Storytelling now on TikTok

Need K-Town restaurant recommendations? Curious about life at a nonprofit? Want to see what KSP is up to? Follow us on TikTok!

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Cogenerational Social Healing

Koreatown Storytelling Program is thrilled to be among a select group of creative projects whose work is featured in a new media collection from The On Being Project and CoGenerate. Our piece speaks to how generations are coming together to advance social healing and gives an invitation and explanation of how you can participate.

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KSP Short Film Elective 2023

KSP participants have spent the past several months working with multimedia journalist, filmmaker, and content creator Billie Porter on short films about their experiences and stories in Koreatown. We are looking forward to sharing our films in the following months!

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Journal

 

Podcast