Individuals take part in making a standard small transportable eating desk product of wooden in the course of the Seoul Woodworking Pageant on the Seoul Museum of Craft Artwork in Jongno District, Seoul, Thursday. Korea Instances picture by Jung Da-hyun
Occasion invitations residents to discover and interact in hands-on packages
By Jung Da-hyun
The Seoul Metropolitan Authorities hosted the Seoul Woodworking Pageant from Thursday to Saturday on the Seoul Museum of Craft Artwork (SeMoCA), providing residents a possibility to interact with carpentry and discover varied leisure actions with wooden.
With the theme “Let’s Play with Wooden, Let’s Play with Haechi,” the pageant featured a variety of hands-on packages, together with woodworking workshops, exhibitions showcasing picket sculptures, video games utilizing picket toys and dwell music performances that includes picket devices.
The occasion particularly aimed to familiarize contributors with the artwork of woodworking whereas selling cultural experiences centered round woodcraft.
Individuals all for woodworking confirmed nice curiosity in cubicles that provided hands-on crafting experiences.
Kim Tae-hyung, a 53-year-old participant, attended the pageant together with his daughter and made a standard small transportable eating desk.
“My daughter is all for woodcraft, so I believed this might be an amazing alternative to bond and make lasting reminiscences collectively,” he stated.
“Not solely crafting experiences, I feel the pageant additionally supplies an amazing alternative for households to get pleasure from performances and discover locations to chill out collectively.”
The pageant featured cubicles from 10 districts inside Seoul, every working woodworking facilities. Every sales space provided a wide range of packages, the place contributors might craft gadgets reminiscent of conventional transportable eating tables, round stools, pot rests and keychains, all product of wooden.
Yoo Chan-kyeong, a 49-year-old lady, who additionally made a standard eating desk, stated she attended due to her husband’s curiosity in woodworking.
“I feel the desk I made might be very sensible. It was an amazing alternative to study issues about wooden I hadn’t identified earlier than,” she stated.
Animal character sculptures crafted from wooden are displayed at a sales space on the Seoul Woodworking Pageant in Seoul’s Jongno District, Thursday. Korea Instances picture by Jung Da-hyun
A number of cubicles on the pageant showcased distinctive picket sculptures.
One notable show was operated by Eunpyeong District, that includes cute animal characters made with wooden.
“These sculptures had been all carved from broken bushes that collapsed and had been deserted within the district,” Kim Mi-ran, who managed the sales space, defined.
She famous that after the pageant, the sculptures can be put in in native parks inside the district, offering the neighborhood with lasting artwork.
The bushes used for these sculptures had been both felled or left minimize and uncared for after they had been broken.
“Creating artwork from uncared for, broken bushes is significant. It not solely gives residents a visible attraction but additionally offers new life to in any other case discarded assets,” Kim stated, emphasizing the importance of recycling and repurposing these supplies.
Households with youngsters loved dwell musical performances in the course of the Seoul Woodworking Pageant in Jongno District, Seoul, Thursday. Korea Instances picture by Jung Da-hyun
The picket play space on the pageant featured 15 various kinds of picket toys, providing leisure to individuals of all ages. Actions included rubber band taking pictures and spinning tops.
“It was a beautiful occasion, particularly for the youngsters, and an effective way to spend time outdoor,” Marco, a 36-year-old who lives in Korea together with his household, stated.
Along with the video games, the pageant provided instructional packages, together with studying about various kinds of wooden, studying wood-related books and fixing quizzes in tents. Individuals might additionally paint on leftover wooden items, including a inventive ingredient to the expertise.
“A lot of the packages had been well-suited for households with youngsters, which attracted many household guests,” a metropolis official stated.
Thursday’s lineup included a musical efficiency that includes devices product of wooden, reminiscent of violins, guitars and the gayageum, a standard Korean zither. A bubble present, which drew enthusiastic responses from youngsters, additionally passed off that day. On Saturday afternoon, a live performance organized by SeMoCA was held.
“We hope the pageant serves as a possibility for residents to turn into extra aware of wooden and woodcraft via hands-on experiences and delight with nature,” Lee Su-yeon, head of town authorities’s Backyard-Metropolis Bureau, stated.
“We’ll proceed to assist woodworking expertise facilities in Seoul to advertise woodworking tradition and improve leisure and cultural actions for residents.”
