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• BKA Co-Presents "Geographies of Kinship" at the Boston Asian American Film Festival

  • When
    10/27/2019
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Paramount Theater, Boston MA

  BKA is excited to announce that it will be co-presenting the film "Geographies of Kinship", by Deann Borshay Liem at the Boston Asian American Film Festival this year!  

  From the BAAFF website: 

  In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew."

  To learn more about the Boston Asian American Film Festival and purchase tickets, please click here:

  http://www.baaff.org/festival2019.html
  

  Looking forward to seeing you there!

   

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• "Mixed Korean" Book Reading

  • When
    11/02/2019
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • Location
    Skyline Commons, Brandeis University

  Please join anthology contributors to Mixed Koreans: Our Stories for a reading from their incredible stories that capture the essence of what it is to be a mixed Korean. This event is free and open to the public.
  
  With common themes of exclusion, and recollections of not looking Korean enough, black enough, white enough, or "other" enough, this powerful collection features works by award-winning authors Alexander Chee, Michael Croley, and Heinz Insu Fenkl, alongside pieces composed by prominent writers, poets and scholars. Interwoven between the better known literary names, are the voices of newcomers with powerful memories that have never been captured before. Collectively, these stories will resonate with anyone who has ever stood on the outside of a group, longing for inclusion.
  
  Special guest and award-winning filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem will also preview her upcoming film Relative Strangers. Her latest work follows adult children of U.S. servicemen and South Korean women, mixed race adoptees, as they seek out their birth parents in Korea and the U.S. sparking unexpected discoveries about family, race, culture, and themselves.
  
  Boston Korean Adoptees, 325Kamra - Reuniting families through DNA, and the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Department at Brandeis University are cosponsoring the free public event that is made possible, in part, by a grant from Korea Adoption Services.
  
  Here is the location of the Skyline Commons (part of Brandeis's Skyline Residence Hall): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Skyline+Residence+Hall/@42.3673356,-71.2560169,18.39z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xcff6e6cd92b9ffb7!8m2!3d42.3671271!4d-71.2560917
  
  There is free parking on the Brandeis campus; just be sure not to park in any spots marked "reserved."

  Find this event on Eventbrite at:

  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mixed-korean-book-reading-tickets-73045726735
  

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• December Ice Skating & Dinner

  • When
    12/08/2019
  •  
    2:30 PM
  • Location
    Reilly Memorial Rink in Cleveland Circle, then Bukkyung in Allston

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  Join BKA on Sunday, December 8 for its winter quarterly event... ice skating and Korean food! 

  We'll meet at 2:30pm at Reilly Memorial Rink (355 Chestnut Hill Avenue,  Brighton in Cleveland Circle) for indoor ice skating. We'll stay until the rink closes around 3:50, then head over to Bukkyung (151 Brighton Ave, Allston, near the intersection of Brighton Ave and Harvard Ave) for a very early dinner around 4:30pm.

  This event is general admission, pay as you go, and family and friends are welcome! Come to one part of the day or both.

  We're collecting registrations mainly to get a sense of reservation size (and so we know to look for you at the rink!). 

  Both locations are on public transportation, on the green line. For those who drive, there is street parking nearby to both places, as well as a municipal lot in Allston near the restaurant (behind the plaza with Sweet Kingdom & Dumpling Kingdom).

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