On May 2 and 16, UCLA art students and sisters Piper and Trixie Begler led a ceramics workshop series. During the first workshop, participants learned how to mold clay into their very own pieces including mugs, matcha bowls, plates, and more! After the pieces were fired, we then spent the second part of the workshop painting and adding finishing touches.

At this year’s Unwind Your Mind Youth Conference, KSP hosted a workshop titled “96 Story.” The workshop focused on teaching students the principles and approaches in oral history with the focus on our current project “96 Story.” This project is focused on documenting community responses to the current immigration enforcement happening around Los Angeles. Students had the opportunity to record one another and voice their concerns.

On Thursday, April 30, KSP program coordinator Dilan Askew led a workshop on portable altars! She walked us through sewing together various charms, fabrics, and keepsakes to create our very own portable altars. These can serve as portable shrines to support grounding, intention-setting, or spiritual connection.

On Thursday, April 23, Andrea Jimenez of Herb Club LA led a workshop on the medicinal uses of native plants. During the workshop, she taught us how to locate, how to use, and the properties of native plants.

In our latest RYSE workshop, we created tiny altars and memory boxes out of Altoid tins. Led by Piper, this workshop was all about piecing together memories, images, colors, and other elements into a portable package

Yesterday, we welcomed back our amazing partners Meztli Projects for a second arts workshop! This time, we learned native beading techniques, which we sewed onto various patches. They talked about beading as medicine, grounding, and an intentional practice.

On Thursday, March 19, our longtime partners Meztli Projects taught an exciting workshop on linocut. We created our designs with inspiration from native plants, drawing and carving various designs onto linoleum sheets/rubber. Once our designs were ready, we stamped them onto paper to create prints to take home with us!

On Thursday, March 12, KSP held our second arts workshop of our spring RYSE workshop series. Photographer Dahlia Kim Levy (IG @dahliasimonephotos) walked us through lifting polaroid images and transferring them to new surfaces.

On Saturday, March 7, KSP kicked off our new community arts workshop series with bojagi, or traditional Korean gift-wrapping. This workshop was led by Ellen Lee (aka @nossibojagi), a Los Angeles based bojagi artist who provides workshops around the city.

On Thursday, Feb. 26, KSP welcomed back our friend Katherine Bahena-Benitez for a poetry and storytelling workshop. Katherine is a queer Mexican Indigenous multidisciplinary artist who has led poetry workshops for KSP for the past three years. Her workshop focused on the importance of storytelling as a means of preserving emotional truth and as a tool for liberation.

Through funding from the L.A. County Public Health’s Reimagining Youth SUD Engagement (RYSE) Initiative, KSP will be hosting FREE arts workshops to high school youth and community members to learn new techniques and co-create in community.

Since the June 2025 ICE raids in Los Angeles, approximately 68,000 people have been detained. KSP is gathering first-person narratives to document this important moment in history from the people who have been directly affected.

On Thursday, December 18, KSP held a Benglai Foodmaking Workshop led by Rozina Al Salem. Rozina is a celebrated foodmaker from Little Bangladesh, and she taught us how to make a delicious butter chicken masala.

Koreatown Storytelling Program recently attended the inaugural Futures Summit LA25, hosted at Snapchat headquarters and presented by Creative Futures Collective and the Snap Foundation. The event brought together artists, storytellers, and other creative orgs from across LA who are shaping the future of creative work.

As his final project of his student internship with Koreatown Storytelling Program, Raúl Cubias created a short-film documenting a day in his life. Raúl is a sophomore at RFK-LAHSA High School and plans to study photography and graphic design.

Last Thursday, Oct. 23, KSP welcomed back our friends at Las Fotos Project for another photography workshop! They walked us through some photography basics, such as the difference between aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Then, we got to practice our new skills and do a photoshoot, playing with different lightings and backdrops.

On Tuesday, Oct. 21, LA Local student journalism mentor Mallory Carra led an introductory “What is Journalism?” workshop! After delving into the principles of oral history in our first few weeks of the semester, students are now learning journalism basics.

On 10/7, KSP Audio Producer Tony Morales led a workshop on oral history editing techniques! Students went over how to transcribe and edit oral history interviews and archival practices. Then they broke into groups to practice editing real oral history interview transcripts!