4 Kimchi Contest and May Mothers conducted demonstrations, experience events, and various cultural performances which were well received by participants.
Gwangju City News From the Gwangju Metropolitan City Press Release (http://gwangju.go.kr)
The city of Gwangju expects such events to further expand the popularization of Gwangju rice balls.
The 2022 Art Picnic Opens on June 11
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Gwangju News, July 2022
Furthermore, the event promoted the various flavors of kimchi through the provision of yeolmu kimchi, a representative kimchi of summer. What is more, the 29th Gwangju World Kimchi Festival (October 20–22), and the 2022 Bitgoeul Love Sharing Kimchi Festival (November 22 – December 11), will also be held.
Gwangju Metropolitan City announced that the 2022 Art Picnic, a cultural and art excursion event, will open on June 11 in many places around the city.
Gwangju City Hosts a Kimchi and Rice Ball Outing Event Gwangju Metropolitan City held its Kimchi and Rice Ball Outing Event at the Sangsang Madang area of the Asia Culture Center on June 4. This event was held with the 5th Gwangju Agricultural Life and Food Safety Division to inform citizens of the development direction of Gwangju rice balls, a food that symbolizes the “sharing and solidarity spirit” of the 29th Gwangju World Kimchi Festival and the May 18th Democratization Movement. The May 18 Commemorative Foundation and Gwangju Design Promotion Institute jointly participated in the project. In addition, the winners of the Presidential Prize in the Gwangju World Kimchi Festival
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The “Art Picnic” has been in the spotlight as a family-oriented cultural and artistic experience program for citizens, but over the past two years, citizens have not been able to enjoy the program due to online and offline parallel promotions as a result of Covid-19 distancing. The 2022 Art Picnic is an on-site program and will be held every Saturday from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. (4 p.m. – 8 p.m. in summer) until November. In particular, the program plans to provide a richer program centering on the Gwangju National Museum, which is full of living history and artistic resources. The Art Picnic at Gwangju National Museum includes an art camp for toddlers, a children’s art camp, a family art camp, a family play camp, an imagination playground, an art stage, a forest fairy tale camp, and a creator camp. Healing programs and museum-related programs will also be introduced. The self-governing district Art Picnic is operated as a differentiated program according to the characteristics of each autonomous district.
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