General Information About AKASF Regular Meetings
In addition to other events, AKASF hosts regular meetings every other month. The meetings rotate from locations within San Francisco, the peninsula/South Bay, and the East Bay.
Join AKASF for
Free-Wheelin' Wednesdays
Last Wednesday of every month
Who said there's no such thing as a free meal? Well, whoever said that was clearly wasn't a paid member of AKASF!
Announcing Free-Wheelin' Wednesdays, a last Wednesday of the month light dinner with your fellow AKASFers. That's right! If you're a paid member, your grub is on us (up to a $5 value). If your tab is more, you pay the difference.
Details of each dinner will be distributed to AKASF members through the Yahoo discussion group. For more information or questions, please contact AKASF.
Family-Friendly Dinner
Sat Feb 1st, 2008 • Oakland
Contact akasf@akasf.com for details and to RSVP.
Hawaii Mini-Gathering
October 10-13, 2008 • Honolulu, Hawaii
The Korean Adoptees of Hawaii (KAHI) group is sponsoring a mini-gathering in Honolulu, Hawaii, in October 2008. More details will be announced later this year. Be sure to check out the KAHI Web site.
Korean Cultural Center of San Francisco offers courses in
Korean Traditional 'Nori' Culture
Various locations
Poong Mul & Mask Dance Class
Poong Mul Nori is traditional Korean percussion music that combines ritual, dance, and acrobatics. Its origins date back 4,000 years. Mask dances evolved from dances, music and dramas, and was held to pray for the nation's peace and the well-being of the people.
Korean Folk Dance & Folk Song Class
Korean folk dances are close to the lives of the people. They came forth spontaneously through the years, and its plots and choreography are simple, revealing the essential fun-loving character of rural life.
Korean people have always loved to sing. Minyo refer to songs with no recognized composer using simple strophic melodies. The lyrics of minyo are timeless histories evoking life's joys and sorrows through the seasonal changes of time.
The Korean Cultural Center of San Francisco offers these workshops and courses of classes in an interactive, fun environment for students of all ages.
Classes will be taken at various places. For more information contact Diane at 510-543-6242 or e-mail general@sfculture.org.
Dongari Korean-English Conversation Group
Every Friday, 8 p.m. –10 p.m.
Bay Area locations
Dongari, founded in 2002, is a Korean-English conversation group based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anyone interested in learning and practicing Korean or English language is welcome. Since Dongari is an informal conversation group in a friendly setting and does not offer formal instructions on language, people in any level of proficiency can join. Dongari is a group of people interested in a wide variety of issues related to Korean, American, and Korean-American culture, society, people and our daily experiences.
With members from both San Francisco and the East Bay, the meeting locations alternate between the two places: one week in San Francisco and the next in the East Bay (usually Berkeley). Usually the group meets at a café or a similar public place, or occasionally at a member's house. For more information and to sign up for the group mailings, check out the Dongari Yahoo Groups Web site.