Chuseok 2023

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Chuseok 2023 Eine Ensemble

Chuseok Korean Harvest Festival | Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, 11:30 am - 6:30 pm

Held on Webster University’s Campus – Community Music School

Location: 535 Garden Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63119-3141
Date – 9/30/23
Admission- FREE

Free Parking in the parking garage

With support from the Regional Arts Commission

Explore and celebrate Korean culture through traditional and contemporary Korean performing arts featuring The Eine Ensemble from South Korea, youth performance groups from the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago and Chicago Korean Dance Company, and other local groups. Participate in Korean arts and crafts, traditional games, Korean alphabet, and calligraphy demonstration. Visitors can also enjoy a martial arts demonstration, K-pop dance performances, sample delicious foods, try on traditional Korean clothing called hanboks and learn about the traditional Chuseok charye table setting.  

Since 1985, the Regional Arts Commission has supported and fostered the arts in St. Louis City and County.

WHAT IS CHUSEOK?

Chuseok, which is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, consists of thanksgiving services in which newly harvested crops and fruits are offered to the ancestral spirits. Generally held to be as important as the Lunar New Year’s Day, Chuseok is when family members gather together and hold a ritual with newly harvested crops and fruits to give thanks to their ancestors and to nature. As it falls in the harvest season, a time of abundance, Chuseok even comes with a saying: “Not more, not less. Just be like Hangawi,” Hangawi being another name for Chuseok.