KSP was super honored to be granted $100,000 from the Snap Foundation for our 2023-2024 cohort on the LGBTQIA+ community in Koreatown.

KYCC’s Koreatown Storytelling Project (KSP) has been awarded a 2023-2024 Honda Community Grant for $25,000, which will contribute directly to the growth of KSP and the expansion of intergenerational outreach events and historical multimedia education in the Koreatown community.

Yesterday the KSP crew joined our friends from St. James Manor for a lovely outing at the Huntington Library and Gardens in Pasadena!

This year’s Big Brothers Big Sisters of America National Conference was held from June 26-29 in Anaheim, CA. Koreatown Storytelling Program Director Katherine Kim, alongside CoGenerate’s Janet Oh and Elly Katz, as well as Civics Unplugged’s Michaela Davenport, spoke on a panel to discuss co-mentorship between youth and older adults and the importance of intergenerational relationships in supporting youth leadership.

On Thursday the KSP team visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with some of our friends at St. James Manor to watch a screening of Next Sohee, directed by Jung July.

Celebrate a year of intergenerational stories and delicious memories with Koreatown Storytelling Program! KSP's 2022-2023 cohort on the food industry in Koreatown has reached its culmination, and we couldn't be prouder of our participants. To celebrate we gathered at Feng Mao Lamb Kebab on Western for a meal with KSP students, the amazing individuals we interviewed and learned from, as well as our dedicated interns!

In 2022 and in partnership with Korean American Story, Koreatown Storytelling Program interviewed Barbara Uni Lee Potter. Barbara spoke to her experiences of being a Korean American Pioneer, a descendant of the First Wave of Korean immigration, and one of the earliest known Korean American adoptees.

We know you have been waiting for the promised japchae (잡채) recipe!!! Find it and a KSP style demo here!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS!!! With your help, Abbi reached her goal of $2,800 and was able to print and distribute her curriculum. If you, or someone you know, is an educator who is interested in receiving access to the AAPI curriculum and furthering Abbi’s mission of legitimizing AAPI counterstories in school curricula learn more here!

Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) has been approved for a $30,000 grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), for the second time, to support the Koreatown Storytelling Program! Learn more here!

Koreatown Storytelling Program will be learning how to make JAPCHAE from Jenny! Before the big cooking day we went with Jenny and Cathy to get ingredients and supplies. We CANNOT wait to learn (and to eat) Jenny’s delicious japchae and share the recipe with you.

Get ready to tune in and turn up the volume, because the KSP Podcast is almost here! Our KSP Podcast Intern, Tony, has been hard at work teaching our participants how to create amazing audio content, and we can't wait for you to hear our first episode all about street vendors in K-Town's Salvadoran Corridor!  

Thank you for joining Koreatown Storytelling Program, @GYOPO.us, San Gabriel Valley PFLAG and the UCLA community @uclagenderstudies at Navel for last weekend’s @Navel.LA screening of the South Korean documentary Coming To You! It was SO special to meet the director, Byun Gyuri @gyuri_byun, the stars of the documentary, Vivian and Nabi, and be in such a warm and welcoming space. After the powerful screening, KSP participant Chloe Kim Manilay shared the stage with the stars and SGV PFLAG activist Sung Tse in a panel discussion of the film and their experiences with some time for a Q&A!

We had an incredible night exploring race and class in Los Angeles with our partners @KAFLA and @KYCCLA, and @CTGLA's performance of monologues from Twilight, a play that continues to be relevant decades after the 1992 LA Civil Unrest and the issues of race and class that surrounded it. Afterward, we had a thought-provoking conversation with Steph Cha, author of YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY, who shared her deep insights into Los Angeles' racial tensions and cultural clashes.

On Saturday, May 6, from 1 to 4 p.m. at NAVEL Koreatown Storytelling Program, in partnership with GYOPO, San Gabriel Valley API PFLAG, and UCLA Department of Gender Studies, invites you to a screening and panel discussion of the groundbreaking documentary film Coming to You.

Recently, Chef Jose Spillari of Paseo Chapin taught Koreatown Storytelling Program & KYCC Bridge Students how to make Guatemalan Chilaquilas. The chilaquilas consisted of chayote and queso fresco fried in an egg batter and topped with a delicious roasted salsa. Jose was a joy to have as a culinary guide and we learned so much from him about how to make food as well as his own food memories and stories.

In honor of Global Intergenerational Week, Koreatown Storytelling Program wants to highlight an interview we conducted with Janet Burt in partnership with Korean American Story. Our KSP participant, Lauren, asked Janet about her experience as a “1.5 generation” Korean American, growing up in Koreatown and her favorite kind of kimchi!

The On Being Project and CoGenerate, created a guide to meaningful cogenerational knowledge sharing through the intimate process of creating and sharing a recipe together. This semester our youth participants have shared this experience with older adults and have learned new recipes, cooking techniques, and about the personal experience and memories of foodmakers!