Romi Kim: Sharing experiences and broadening connection: a potluck and free workshop on racialization, stereotypes and allyship

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Janelle Hardy

Romi Kim, "Sharing experiences and broadening connection: a potluck and free workshop on racialization, stereotypes and allyship," 2019

Sharing experiences and broadening connection: a potluck and free workshop on racialization, stereotypes and allyship. Armstrong-raised Romi Kim, Caetani Cultural Centre’s current artist-in-residence, is hosting a conversation about being human and doing better.

The free workshop and potluck will be on Thursday August 22^nd from 5-7pm in the Caetani Centre’s Studio Gallery.

 “As a second-generation Korean Canadian queer person, I’m continuously questioning how I see myself and how others see me. I spent my pubescent years in Armstrong, the population of Koreans being just my family.”

Because of this, Kim searches for stories of belonging to explain society and its hierarchies. 

Romi Kim obtained her BFA at the University of Victoria in W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen peoples territories in a double major of Visual Arts and Gender Studies and, after spending 2 years in South Korea, has returned to the North Okanagan after being awarded one of Caetani Cultural Centre’s 2-month Fresh!AiR Artist-in-Residence spots.

She primarily works within an interdisciplinary approach in video, installation, and performance, so, in addition to searching through histories of the Caetani house, Kim returned to her old home in Armstrong to do a performance piece, walking the streets of in full drag, wearing a handmade paper gown inspired by Sveva Caetani's gown.