Kala Séraphin is a noted belly dancer and writer whose vivacious spirit has brightened the Seoul arts community for the four years that she has been here. Kala joins Artist’s Journey’s Wilfred Lee to talk about her winding path around the world, what inspires her in Seoul, and where she is heading next.
Groove Korea: How did you come to Korea originally?
The expat film community in Seoul has seen an explosion of creativity and productivity in the past year. Artist’s Journey’s Wilfred Lee sat down recently with two veterans on the scene, director Edward Burgos and director/actor Paul Stafford, to discuss their most recent film, “A Cold Soul,” and the future of expat filmmaking.
Groove Korea: First off, congratulations on a successful screening of your film. After working on “A Cold Soul” and finally showing it to an audience, what was the experience like?
In its mission to obfuscate fact in new and exciting ways, the Encyclopedia Show-Seoul is back. The Encyclopedia Show-Seoul is a variety show that commissions poets, performance artists, painters and musicians to create an artist's interpretation of the encyclopedia.
Justin Lee is a man of many titles. He is an actor, producer, entrepreneur and undefeated mixed martial artist. Most know him simply as Annyong, the adopted Korean son of Lucille and George Sr. from Fox’s beloved ex-sitcom “Arrested Development.”
Over the past four years, artist Cho Sun-young has painted more than 2,000 portraits for people around the globe. These aren’t your average portraits, however; Cho is an inner portrait artist. Through each piece she focuses not on capturing the outward appearance of her subject, but on revealing something of their inner nature. The Artist’s Journey’s Wilfred Lee recently sat down with Cho to talk about her process and how she came to develop her unique vision of portraiture.
For the second year in a row, Probationary Theatre will stage the production “SantaLand Diaries” by David Sedaris.
The comedy takes audiences on a behind-the-scenes tour of Santaland in Macy’s department store. Told through the eyes of a disgruntled employee working as Crumpet the Elf, this one-man show takes the magic out of the holiday and injects it with a heavy dose of hilarious reality.
This November, White Box Theatre, Seoul’s English-speaking performing arts space, is bringing the “feminist classic” of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” to the stage.
Written in 1879, the play sent shockwaves around Europe due to its sharp criticism of 19th-century marriage norms, and the scandalous plot turn of a young wife and mother choosing to abandon her family and comfortable home life in favor of self-education.
After a season of sexually explicit and controversial shows, Probationary Theatre aims to show that their latest offering, Steve Martin’s absurdist comedy “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” can do more than shock Seoul audiences.
This family-friendly event tells the fictional story of a young Picasso and Albert Einstein meeting in a Parisian bar (the Lapin Agile) on Oct. 8, 1904.
Filmmaking junkies from all over town are gearing up to once again brave sleep deprivation, caffeine overload and wedding-level stress — all to make a movie in just 48 hours.
After successful runs in 2009 and 2010, the 48 Hour Film Project is making its way back to Seoul from Oct. 19-21, and space is already limited.
If you’ve been to a fish market in Korea, you may have been confronted with flashbacks from your last screening of “Alien.” Fish, rays and other sea life beckon to the passing throngs, strung up and crucified on wooden frames. Hung like victims of a vicious inquisition, the impaled subjects add a chill to the air.
