Photos from Korea
July 7-9, 2017

Enjoy some photos from Encompass’ and Iftopia’s Paradigm Shifts: Music & Film Festival
that took place in Seoul, Korea.

 

Encompass New Opera Theatre’s 4th Annual Paradigm Shifts: Music & Film Festival took place in collaboration with Iftopia, a Korean feminist art collective, at the Academy of Dialogue Culture (Pyung Chang Dong) in Seoul, Korea.

Iftopia (If + Utopia) is a Korean feminist artists collective working on women’s festivals, performances, and political activism for the last 15 years. Iftopia has organized Korean women’s festivals, Holotropic Breath Work, Sufi meditation, Salimist festivals, Korean Ecofeminism, and more.

 
 
The selection of films showcased at Encompass’ Music & Film Festival
 
 
Nancy Rhodes and Korean performers:
바리톤 정 경 Baritone Claudio Jung, 현경 Author and Professor, Hyun Kyung Chung, Traditional Korean Vocalist 정마리 Marie Jung, and 강기원 Poet, Ki-won Kang.
 
 
 
 
 
Day 1: Friday, July 7th
 
 

Vocalist 정마리 Marie Jung, singer of traditional Korean vocal music and poetry.

 
 

Nancy Rhodes, Curator and 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung, Keynote Speaker

Academy of Dialogue Culture, Seoul, South Korea

 
 
In sook Choi and 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung, Organizers
 
 
Author 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung with her new book.
 
 

Paradigm Shifts’ Program and Author 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung’s Book

 
 

So lee Kim and So hyun Kim, Staff assistants

 
 
Film still from “Paradise With Side Effects” (2004) directed by Claus Schenk, featuring Dolma Tsering and Tsewang Lden of the Alliance of Ladakh. Photo Credit: Green Planet Films
 
 
The Academy of Dialogue Culture – venue for Paradigm Shifts, Seoul, Korea
 
 
Vocalist 정마리 Marie Jung and 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung
 
 
 
 
 
Day 2: Saturday, July 8th
 
 
Opera Baritone 정경 Claudio Jung
 
 

In sook Choi, Organizer, 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung, Keynote Speaker,
and Nancy Rhodes, Curator and Speaker for the Festival

 
 
현경 Hyun Kyung Chung and In sook Choi
 
 

현경 Hyun Kyung Chung and Opera Baritone 정경 Claudio Jung

 
 

Audience members

 
 
Our great Audience
 
 
Q & A Session
 
 
Film still from “Felt, Feelings and Dreams” (2013) directed by Andrea Odezynska. Photo Credit: Andrea Odezynska
 
 
Film still from “The Eagle Huntress” (2016) directed by Otto Bell, starring Aisholpan Nurgaiv and Rys Nurgaiv; narrated by Daisy Ridley. Photo Credit: Sony Pictures Classics
 
 

Wangari Muta Maathai was an internationally renowned Kenyan environmental political activist and Nobel laureate.

The film, “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai” (2008) tells the story of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization encouraging rural women and families to plant trees in community groups, and follows Maathai, the movement’s founder and the first environmentalist and African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Photo Credit: Martin Rowe

 
 

Film still from “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai” (2008) produced and directed by Lisa Merton & Alan Dater, starring Wangari Maathai, Larisa Eryomina, Njogu Kahare, and Leah Kisomo

Wangari Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. They told her they were walking long distances for firewood, and that clean water was scarce. The soil was disappearing from their fields and their children were suffering from malnutrition. “Well, why not plant trees?” she suggested. Photo Credit: Marlboro Productions

 
 
Audience members
 
 
 
 
 
Day 3: Sunday, July 9th
 
 

(Photo, L to R) 서유정 Yong-jung Seo (Shaman), Master 김금화 Keum-Hwa Kim (Master Shaman), Korea’s renowned charismatic national Shaman and lineage carrier of Korea’s important intangible cultural assets, and 이경자 Kyungja Lee (Novelist)

 
 

(Photo, L to R) 조성제 Jung-jae Seo (Shamanistic Researcher), 서유정 Yong-jung Seo (Shaman), and 김봉준 Bong-Jun Kim (Director of the Art Museum of Ancient Future Myths)

 
 

A song concert of traditional Korean music with Hee-jung Noh (singer).

 
 
(Photo, L to R), 조성제 Jung-jae Seo (Shamanistic Researcher), 서유정 Yong-jung Seo (Shaman), Master 김금화 Keum-Hwa Kim (Master Shaman), 이경자 Kyungja Lee (Novelist), and 강기원 Ki-won Kang, a Korean poet who read her poem, “SSitkkimgut” (“Red Wind”), a story of the rites a shaman makes to wish a begrudged lover to release his resentment so that he may go to paradise.
 
 

In sook Choi (lower left) with audience members.

 
 
Question & Answer Session
 
 
(Photo, L to R), 현경 Hyun Kyung Chung and guest speakers: 조성제 Jung-jae Seo (Shamanistic Researcher), 서유정 Yong-jung Seo (Shaman), and 김봉준 Bong-Jun Kim (Director of the Art Museum of Ancient Future Myths).
 
 
Film still from "The Whisperer" directed by Andrea Odezynska. Photo Credit: Andrea Odezynska
 
 
Film still from “Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits” (2013) directed by Chan-kyong Park, starring Keum-hwa Kim, So-ri Moon, Ryoo Hyoun-Kyoung, and Kim Sae-ron. Photo Credit: Chan-kyon Park
 
 

Audience members during a break for afternoon refreshments

 
 
Inside the Academy of Dialogue Culture (with library, kitchen, and dining tables), Seoul, South Korea
 
 

Inside the Academy of Dialogue Culture, Seoul, South Korea

 
 
Changdeokgung Palace 창덕궁 in Seoul, South Korea.
 
 
Traditional Korean clothing, jeogori (long blue garment on man, left & man in center in light blue); hanbok dress, consists of a chima (long skirt and jeogori, short jacket with long sleeves, as seen on the woman on the lower right), and baji (trousers, as seen on the young male children).

Location: Changdeokgung Palace 창덕궁

 
 

무궁화, Hibiscus syriacus, the national flower of South Korea in the Changdeokgung Palace Garden

Location: Changdeokgung Palace 창덕궁

 
 
So lee Kim and So hyun Kim, students and staff of Paradigm Shifts

Location: Changdeokgung Palace 창덕궁

 
 
So hyun Kim and In sook Choi
 
 
Film still from “Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits” (2013) directed by Chan-kyong Park, starring Keum-hwa Kim, So-ri Moon, Hyoun-Kyoung Ryoo, and Sae-ron Kim. Photo Credit: Chan-kyon Park
 
 
Film still from “Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits” (2013) directed by Chan-kyong Park, starring Keum-hwa Kim, So-ri Moon, Hyoun-Kyoung Ryoo, and Sae-ron Kim. Photo Credit: Chan-kyon Park