[KS] Schedule for "Quest for Justice"

HELEN HYUNG-IN KOH hhk18 at columbia.edu
Sun Oct 8 14:40:31 EDT 2000


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The turnout was tremendous for the New York opening of "Quest for
Justice:
The Story of Korean Comfort Women, As Told Through Their Art" and I
encourage those in other cities to view the touring exhibit of drawings.
As per Jacqueline Pak's request, I am forwarding the schedule for the
rest
of the North American tour and the description that was originally
posted.

Best, 
Helen Koh



Oct. 19-25
Lotus Art Gallery 
4265 W. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA  90020

Oct. 31-Nov. 4
National Liberty Museum
321 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA  19106

Nov. 9-12
City Hall Rotunda
100 Queen Street W
Toronto  M5H2N2

Nov. 20-Dec. 3
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 
401 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA  94102


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:40:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: HELEN HYUNG-IN KOH <hhk18 at columbia.edu>
To: Robert C. Provine <provine at wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Comfort Women

Dear Rob,

I am pleased to inform the list about an exhibit of drawings by Korean
"comfort women" to be shown at Columbia University next week.  I hope
those in the New York area will be able to view it.  The art exhibit wil
also be traveling to other cities in North America.

Thank you,
Helen Koh
East Asian Institute
Columbia University


Quest for Justice: The Story of Korean Comfort Women, As Told Through
Their Art


Opening:  Friday, October 6, 2000 at 6:00pm
Barnard College, 4th floor, James Room
3009 Broadway (at 117th Street), New York, NY 10027
Exhibition runs October 6-12, 2000
Exhibition hours:	October 6, 6:00 pm
  	October 7-10, 10:00 am-7:00 pm
		  	October 11, 9:00 am-12:00 pm and
		  	October 12, 10:00 am-7:00 pm

The term "comfort women" is a euphemism for those women forced into
sexual
slavery in Japanese military camps during World War II. After the war,
those who returned home often lived in poverty, enduring physical and
emotional problems while keeping secret their painful experiences. Since
the early 1990s more and more former comfort women have come forward to
reveal their pasts and to demand reparations from Japan.

Several former comfort women, now the age of grandmothers, moved in 1992
into the House of Sharing in Seoul, South Korea, where they received art
instruction as part of their therapy. The paintings and sketches from
these sessions have evolved into the compelling expressions of this
exhibition, full of shame, anger, bitterness and lost innocence, yet
powered by a determination for justice and understanding. 

Speakers on opening night will include: Soon-Duk Kim, one of the
featured
artists; HyeJin, founder of the House of Sharing; Dai Sil Kim-Gibson,
director of the documentary film Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women,
which will be screened at the event, and; Rhonda Copelon, Professor of
Law
at City University of New York.  

The exhibition, which opened in Chicago on September 22, will also be
shown in Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The event will be sponsored by Barnard College, The Richard W.
Weatherhead
Fund of the East Asian Institute, Young Koreans United and The New York
Alliance for Peace and Reunification of Korea.

For more information, please contact Kristi Barnes, East Asian
Institute,
Columbia University at (212) 854-1742.





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