Creativity, which everyone says is important, necessary and something to be nurtured, is nevertheless ambiguous. Is there any way of awakening the creativity inherent in everyone, from children and youth all the way to adults? The very first national event on creativity, the 2009 Seoul Youth Creativity Summit & Festival, is preparing mime, video, food, theatre, performance, and other diverse workshops.
① Greening: Environmental Design Workshop
Greening is a small card that promises to protect the environment. This is a workshop with designer Yang Ji-yoon, who won first place at the international ‘Green Earth’ design competition with this simple and honest design. Through gathering together small promises one at a time, a grand and beautiful expanding spectacle will emerge.
June 2, 14:00-17:00, the lobby at the Concert Hall, Namsan Art Center/Everyone is welcome/ Language: English/ Korean
② Following Movement 1: Animation Workshop
“Animation is not art of moving drawings, but drawings of moving art.”
In this workshop, director Jang Ho-jin, who studied visual arts at UC Berkeley, focuses on the essential element of animation—motion—while experimenting with the digital foundation and sound that draws together motion, the subject of motion, the relationship between motions, and the speed of motions.
June 3 14:00-17:30, June 4th 10:00-12:30, 14:00-17:00/ Namsan Art Center Art Hall 4th floor/ 30 young people aged 15-19/ Language: English/Korean
③ Following Movement 2: Animation Workshop
School for Designing a Society members, Jeff Glassman and Lisa Fay are theatre artists performing experimental theatre and mime, and visiting professors Evergreen State College and the University of Illinois. Putting together small and delicate movements, look into life’s various joys, angers, sorrows and pleasures and find a little bit of real life in one piercing, compressed gesture that explosively overflows with language.
June 3 14:00-17:30, June 4 10:00-12:30 14:00-17:00/ Namsan Art Center Art Hall 1st floor/ 30 young people aged 15-19/ Language : English/Korean
④ Book Play / Storyteller’s Book Performance
An experimental workshop that borrows from role-playing games to create a new sort of book play. Participants become imaginary characters from books, and experience the exciting fun of creatively interpreting the missions of stories, helping storytellers who have taken on the guise of the main characters.
June 2 10:00-12:00, 14:00-16:00/ 20 kids aged 7-10 / Namsan Art Center, Art Hall 4th Floor/ Language : English/Korean
⑤ C.C.MIXTER
A Workshop that finds the meaning and methods of sharing creativity with other people while enjoying, downloading, sampling and remixing works through the creative commons license, the CCL. Through this process, simple samples you make—guitar leads, drum bit, and raps—are revitalized by another person’s hand, and participants from amateurs to professional musicians experience the joy of cooperative creation beyond the limits of space and time.
June 2 13:00-17:30 4hours and 30 minutes in total/18 young people aged 15-24 (excluding middle school students) / The Literature House Seoul, 1st floor
⑥ Cooking and culture workshop/ Nakayama Haruna
15 young people (aged 15-24) /cooking studio at haja center
Nakayama Haruna is a designer and chef at Studio Node. She studies the relations and interaction between diet and culture and tries to connect it to art. She reflects the results of her experiments to the exhibition or catering, and realizes artistic cooking in cooking workshops with kids and the disabled.
- June 2 10:00-12:00, 13:00-15:00, 15:30-17:30, 17:30-18:30/ Cooking Studio at haja Center/ 15 young people (aged 15-20) /Language : Korean /Japanese
⑦ Social Enterprise workshop for youth in their twenties
3 Guy’s HOW-TO-WORK Studio
A social enterprise workshop for Korean youth in their twenties offered by three young Japanese social entrepreneurs presenting at the Korea-Japan Youth Special Conference. They share about motivation, communication, partnership and other ‘work methods’ needed for the youth generation and social enterprise.
June 3 19:30-21:30, June 4 18:00-21:00/ Sono Factory / 50 final competitors of SVCY/ Language : Korean /Japanese
⑧ Sherpa experience workshop with Nepal’s 3Sisters
We’ve invited the activists of 3Sisters Adventure Trekking, who work to raise female mountaineering guides in the interest of bettering the public welfare and social position of Nepalese women. In this workshop, you can hear about what kinds of fair travel ventures there are and briefly experience the physical and mental training it takes to become a mountaineering guide.
June 4, 10:00-13:00/ haja Center 999 Club/ less than 30 people/ Language : Korean/ English
⑨ noridan Instrument Production Workshop
Looking for a way of coming together through a recycling culture. A workshop for recycling everyday objects into instruments with social enterprise noridan. Experience the culture of working together with diverse people from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds. Discover creativity within community.
June 3,15:00-17:30/ in the yard of the Literature House Seoul/ 50 young people aged 10-19/ Language: Korean/ English
