Upcoming Events
Pocket Altars workshop
Participants are invited to design and create a personal pocket altar, a small portable shrine that supports grounding, intention-setting, or spiritual connection, acting as a personal sacred space wherever you go!
Ceramics Workshop
UCLA Arts students and sisters Piper & Trixie will be leading a ceramics workshop! Learn how to make your own vessel, from raw clay to a glazed and fired ceramic artwork! This is a two-part workshop, please ensure you can attend both sessions before you RSVP!
Native Plants Workshop
Andrea of Herb Club LA will be a workshop on the medicinal uses of native plants. Learn where to locate, how to use, and the properties of native plants.
Cyanotypes Workshop
Dahlia will be leading a cyanotype workshop! Learn about the process of cyanotype photography, a camera-less technique that involves laying an object on paper coated with a solution of iron salts before exposing it to UV light, and make some prints of your own!
Sewing Workshop
Isha & Ila will be leading a sewing workshop! Learn your way around a sewing machine and some new sewing techniques!
Collaged Dioramas
Piper will be leading us in creating collaged altars, dioramas, and keepsake boxes from altoid tins. Bring images and items you want to honor, and we will make a special home for them!
Native Beading and Patchwork with Meztli Projects
Our friends at Meztli Projects will join us to teach another workshop! This time, we will be learning native beading and patchwork.
Stop the Hate Community Mural Event
KYCC’s Environmental Services Unit and KSP are collaborating with a local artist to paint a community mural wall at our new office location!
Native Plants Linocuts Workshops
Our friends from Meztli Projects (@meztliprojects) will be showing us our to create linocuts with native plants. Linocut is a printmaking technique that involves carving a design into a linoleum sheet to create high-contrast images.
Polaroid Transfers Workshop
Learn how to do polaroid emulsion lifts with Dahlia Kim Levy. This is the process of removing the thin gelatinous layer that contains the image away from the plastic of the Polaroid, and floating it on to a new surface.
Bojagi Workshop
Come learn how to make bojagi (aka Korean quilting/patchwork). Artist and founder of @nossibojagi Ellen Lee will be walking us through patching fabrics together to create our own pieces!
Stop the Hate Chalk Day Event
KYCC’s Environmental Services Unit is collaborating with the Koreatown Storytelling Program to spread awareness and foster inclusion, safety and resilience through art and storytelling.
Poetry & Storytelling Workshop with Katherine Bahena-Benitez
Interested in learning more about poetry and storytelling? Join us as Katherine Bahena-Benitez, artist, writer, and advocate, leads a workshop on the power of poetry and storytelling, and how to harness the power of our own stories and voices.
Stop the Hate Utility Box Maintenance Event
KYCC’s Environmental Services Unit is hosting a utility box painting and maintenance event to spread awareness and foster inclusion, safety and resilience through art! KSP will also be interviewing volunteers and community members about how to stop hate and make our communities feel safer.
Sew & Tell Quilting Workshop
Excited to learn to quilt? Curious about the ways that quilting has been involved in women's history? Interested in participating in a women's affinity space? If sew...join us! We'll be hosting a laid-back workshop with different variations of quilting for different levels and ages. We hope to see you there!
Bangladeshi Foodmaking with Rozina
KSP elder partner Rozina will be sharing her recipe for butter chicken masala. Join us for a time of cooking and sharing a delicious homemade meal together!
Ethics of Journalism
In this workshop, you will learn the core principles of ethical journalism, including honesty, fairness, and responsibility in reporting the news.
Finding a Story
In this workshop, Mallory from the LA Local will be teaching us how to discover, develop, and shape compelling story ideas that capture attention and inform an audience.
Media Literacy & News Values
In this workshop, you will learn how to critically analyze media, identify reliable sources, and understand the key values that make news accurate and trustworthy.
Portraiture Workshop with Las Fotos Project
Are you in Koreatown and want to learn about photography? Las Fotos Project is partnering with KSP to lead a workshop on photography skills! We will learn some camera basics and have a portrait shooting station where we can execute what we learned using the new tips and tricks LFP teaches us!
What is Journalism?
In this workshop, you will learn how journalism gathers and shares accurate, truthful information to inform the public through news stories, interviews, and reports.
Oral History Interview Techniques
Interested in documenting stories through oral history? Koreatown Storytelling Program is holding an Oral History Interview Techniques Workshop on 10/7 at 4:30pm! Join us as KSP Audio Producer, Tony Morales, leads workshop on how to transcribe and edit oral history interviews and archival practices.
History of K-Town at GenSpace
History of our community, who built it, and where is it now? With KSP Program Director and Koreatown book author, Katherine Kim!
Screen Printing Workshop w/ Meztli Projects
Meztli Projects will lead a screen printing workshop and guide us through the process of creating and printing our own designs. Join us as we launch our 2025-2026 youth newsroom with Los Angeles Local!
Dragonfly Workshops: Zine-making
Join us for our final workshop in our Dragonfly Workshop series! We will be taking our collages from Tuesday’s collaging workshop to create our own zines. Feel free to bring any of your own materials–written works, photos, magazine/newspaper pages, stickers, etc.–to include in your zine!
Dragonfly Workshops: Collaging
Join us for our next Dragonfly Workshop! This workshop will be focused on collaging, so make sure to bring photos, magazines, and other fun scrap paper to use in your collage.
Dragonfly Workshops: Embroidery
Join us for our final workshop in our Dragonfly Workshop series! We will be taking our collages from Tuesday’s collaging workshop to create our own zines. Feel free to bring any of your own materials–written works, photos, magazine/newspaper pages, stickers, etc.–to include in your zine!
Dragonfly Workshops: Henna
In our Dragonfly Workshop, we will be learning all about henna! It will be led by Tabassun Zaman, who will provide some background about henna, including the origins of henna art and how it is used today in different cultures. Then, we’ll practice doing our own henna art!
Dragonfly Workshops: Poetry & Creative Writing
We’re excited to start our latest workshop series: Dragonfly Workshops! This will be a five-part series throughout the month of August, kicking off with a People’s Poetry and Creative Writing workshop on Aug. 12. Join us as KSP Audio Producer Tony Morales leads us through this writing workshop. Come with your creative hats on!
Culmination 2024-2025!
Koreatown Storytelling Program warmly invites you to our 2024-2025 culmination! Join us next Fri., March 7 at 4:30 p.m. as we celebrate the end of our Traditional Healing Arts cohort. Our students will be presenting their work from their past year of interviewing and exploring traditional healing in Koreatown! The event will take place at Ye Stage & Tea, who will also be providing traditional Korean teas and Boong’o-bbang (Korean fish-shaped pastries). 🐟🍵🌿
Botanicas with Dr. Shorter
Koreatown Storytelling Program's final workshop of our Traditional Healing Arts cohort will be Botanicas with Dr. Shorter!
UCLA World Arts and Cultures Professor Dr. David Delgado Shorter will lead a workshop on the diverse modalities of healing in the Koreatown Latine community, which includes bonesetters, limpias, botanicas, and curanderismo, which incorporates folk medicine, scientific medicine, and spiritual practices.

