“Open Campus K-Arts,” a Social Contribution Program for the Locals, At Hand

The Performance & Exhibition Center of the K-Arts funded by the K-Arts Foundation hosted the “Open Campus K-Arts” on 7 June to connect with the local community. This year, the program runs twice, each the first and the latter half of the year. This time, “Play Like a Clown,” a performing art with music, was presented to the locals living near the Seokgwan campus.

The program is designed to encourage young artists to make more friends in their neighborhood, in different pools, so that they have chances to ponder on the social responsibility of arts and eventually carry out various experiments and challenges for it. The program, in general, was arranged and made up in ways friendly to its visitors. On the event day, the program participants were accompanied by a portable musical performance from the school gate to where the main campus buildings were. Also, there were outdoor booths installed, enabling effective communication with the event attendants, and a music concert at the Art Theater S.

While it continues to communicate with the locals through on-campus programs, K-Arts will also seek to associate its social contribution projects with students’ curriculum, such as arts volunteering or arts performance planning, to pursue the sustainability of programs.

President Kim Daejin addressed, “It’s already been 30 years since K-Arts set in Seokgwan. I wish these communications bring us closer, that our neighborhood feels the pride and greater interest in arts. And I also wish our artists, who spent a significant amount of their youth in this town to treasure their time here for a long time.”