GYOPO X SSI YA GI
SUPPER + LISTENING PARTY
June 25, 2022 ~ CultivaLA Community Garden
The act of listening, recording, and amplifying our immigrant elders’ stories and memories is a way for us to protect and uplift some of the most vulnerable members of our community. When we listen to an elder's story, we form a relationship with them. This empathetic solidarity urges us to protect and cherish them. Through this act of celebration and care, we make our elders visible and heard.
From 3-5pm, we brought together elders from St. James Manor, the community of CultivaLA in MacArthur Park, students of the Koreatown Storytelling Project, and volunteers for a private meal in the CultivaLA garden. The meal, prepared by Mina and Kwang of @baroolosangeles and @shikulosangeles, honored those who shared their stories and recipes with us over the course of the past few months.
From 6-7:30pm, the wider GYOPO X SSI YA GI community was invited to join us to learn more about and to participate in this cultural memory project. Project partners engaged in a brief panel discussion, followed by a reception during which all in attendance were invited to share food memories with GYOPO and KSP volunteers who collected oral histories for the SSI YA GI x GYOPO archive.
Special thanks to our co-hosts CultivaLA @cultivala1 and GYOPO @gyopo.us, and to our amazing partners for helping bring this project to life!
@shikulosangeles
@kyccla
@kacfsanfrancisco
@hildasolis
@goodiefarm
@secondgenerationseeds
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Beverage Partners: @drinksool @dokkaebier
This project was made possible by generous funding through GYOPO from KACFSF and honors the lasting legacy of Myung Soo "Mary" Kim
Photos by Michael Wells
