Second Sunday Culture Films

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The 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make places and people distinctive and create bridges to connect them with other cultures around the world.

Please stay for a catered reception to celebrate the season finale.

Fugetsu-Do

Dir. Kaia Rose, 2021, 12 min.

A small sweetshop in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles carries on the culinary tradition of mochi and other pastel confections, anchoring a Japanese-American community over three generations.

Morkovcha

Dir. Lidiya Kan, 2021, 22 min.)

A special carrot salad created by a hybrid of three cultures, Korean, Russian and Uzbeki, provides a premise to delve into this particular microculture created by an accident of history.

Screening is followed by remarks by filmmakers Lidiya Kan and Kaia Rose, and Rob Buscher, Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, and a tasting of foods from the films.