KSP Culmination 2025!

On Friday, March 7, Koreatown Storytelling Program wrapped up our 2024-2025 Traditional Healing Arts cohort with our annual Culmination party! It was an incredible night of celebrating our students and narrators who participated in this year’s oral history interviews.

Throughout the year, our KSP students learned about the various traditional healing practices that exist in our Koreatown, Westlake, and Pico-Union community by interviewing older adults who specialize in these techniques, such as acupuncture, cupping, plant-based medicine, and limpias. They also participated in weekly workshops where they learned art skills, visited traditional healing facilities, and refined their oral history techniques. During our culmination, friends, family, and community members came together to celebrate the amazing work our students have done this year.

A BIG thank you to all of our Traditional Healing Arts narrators – Deisy Gutierrez, Han Jik Kim, Sion Kim, Junwoo Kim, Sejun Oh, Lauren Kim, Kwung Hun Kim, Edith Rincon, and Bob Ramirez – for sharing your incredible stories and knowledge in healing. Our students and narrators were also awarded certificates for their work in the community from the office of Assemblymember Mark González, presented by Nina Suh-Toma.

Thank you Cathy Choi and Chelsea Mason from The Eisner Foundation for joining us for this celebration, and thank you to all of our funders, without whom this program could not exist: California Humanities, California Arts Council, Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture, ArtsHERE, Snap Foundation, California Department of Health Care Services, Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco, Sierra Health Foundation, Behavioral Health Recovery Services Project, and the National Endowment for the Arts.