[Seoul District News] Jungnang-gu to Hold Event at Yongma Waterfall Park from 1 PM on the 29th & This Year, Jungnang Youth Dream Festival and Innovation Education Expo Held Together & Various Experience Programs and Celebration Performances... Geumcheon-gu Operates Urban Camping 'Campul' at Doksan Youth Culture House... Dongdaemun-gu Dapsimni Film Media Art Center Offers 'Projection Mapping' Education Starting the 21st... Gangseo-gu Recruiting 50 Students for 'Gangseo Happy Humanities School' from the 25th & Bestseller Author
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Jungnang-gu (Mayor Ryu Kyung-gi) will hold the Jungnang Youth Dream Festival and Jungnang Innovation Education Expo around Yongma Waterfall Park from 1 PM on October 29.
The Youth Dream Festival, where children and adolescents take the lead in planning and operation, and the Innovation Education Expo, a place to share the achievements of the Innovation Education District project with the local community, are both celebrating their 4th year this year.
This time, the festival and expo will be held together in one place, offering various attractions and entertainment to meet residents. The district plans to help youths, who faced many activity restrictions due to COVID-19, freely express their talents and passion at the Dream Festival, while the Expo will serve as a communication platform for educational stakeholders by sharing the achievements of village education communities.
Starting with the opening declaration at 2 PM, the youth club ‘Ttudakgaebi’ will perform a street parade, followed by a cheerleading congratulatory performance by the Nori-teo Regional Children's Center. Until 7 PM, performances will be presented by village schools, parent clubs, regional children's centers, and 17 youth club teams. The festival will be enriched with musical instrument performances, Nanta drumming, musicals, rap, dance, Korean traditional music, and orchestra.
Experience booths will be divided into two locations and operate from 1 PM to 5 PM. At Yongma Waterfall Park Circular Plaza, visitors can find 28 booths featuring youth clubs and youth organizations. Various hands-on experiences such as making mugs, aroma sprays, bags, mini harp performances, electric cars, and magic shows are prepared.
Booths of teams participating in the Innovation Education District project will welcome residents at the park entrance’s Chaekgaebi Library. There will be 32 experience booths including tea coasters, rattan crafts, shampoo bars, coding, and 25 exhibition booths displaying various craft works and activity photos, providing diverse attractions.
Ryu Kyung-gi, Mayor of Jungnang-gu, said, “The Youth Dream Festival and Innovation Education Expo will be a festival where various educational stakeholders gather and harmonize,” adding, “We will continue to do our best to improve the quality of education for local children, youth, and residents.”
Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yoo Sung-hoon) will operate an urban camping project called ‘Camp-le’ for youths at the Doksan Youth Culture House Sunken Plaza from 2 PM on the 22nd.
According to this year’s Geumcheon-gu youth activity demand survey, to support healthy growth of youths, a ‘rest space where friends can talk’ is needed, and the most desired leisure activity among youths is ‘travel and camping.’
Accordingly, Geumcheon-gu planned a program that allows youths to enjoy camping even in the city, supporting various leisure activities and creating an environment where peers can relax together to promote healthy growth.
The Camp-le event on the 22nd will have a Halloween theme, featuring various activities such as youths decorating tents themselves.
The camping program was also operated in April and May. Participating youths enjoyed board games with friends inside tents, shared simple snacks, and spent diverse leisure time. They also enjoyed movie watching in a camping movie theater space called ‘Camping with Cinema’ set up in the city.
In fact, the stress scores of youths participating in the program dropped from an average of 5.3 to 2.8 out of 10, indicating that it helped relieve youth stress.
‘Camp-le’ means camping with favorite people at a camping hot place, a name chosen by participating youths through voting. Over 100 youths from Geumcheon-gu participated in the past two sessions.
Yoo Sung-hoon, Mayor of Geumcheon-gu, said, “Through the Doksan Youth Culture House, a dedicated space for Geumcheon-gu youths, we will actively support and pay attention so that youths can freely engage in desired activities, rest, and play.”
Dapsimni Film Media Art Center (Dongdaemun Cultural Foundation Chairman Lee Pil-hyung) will start education on ‘Projection Mapping,’ a representative convergence content of the 4th Industrial Revolution, from the 21st.
Projection mapping is a technique that projects images onto real surfaces such as buildings or objects to create virtual images, transforming real-world objects into new images.
As a representative convergence content of the 4th Industrial Revolution, projection mapping uses CG graphic technology and can be applied in various ways such as replacing old murals in urban regeneration areas, outdoor advertising, performances, and exhibitions, making it a recently spotlighted technology.
Dapsimni Film Media Art Center will conduct projection mapping technology education, which has high applicability, to nurture creative professionals who will lead the development of the K-media content industry. The education will be held every Friday from the 21st to December 2, totaling 7 sessions.
This projection mapping education consists of various theoretical and practical courses covering everything from video planning to production methods. Participants will experience motion graphics video production and projection mapping using mapping tools, and on the last day, there will be a presentation of the results.
A representative of Dapsimni Film Media Art Center said, “Projection mapping technology may be somewhat unfamiliar to the general public, but it is highly applicable and promising technology related to the 4th Industrial Revolution,” adding, “We hope that the students of this education will learn the entire process of actual production, technology, and operation of projection mapping and grow into professionals who will lead the development of the K-media content industry.”
Gangseo-gu, Seoul (Mayor Kim Tae-woo) is recruiting students for the second half of the year for the ‘Gangseo Happy Humanities School,’ which has been highly loved for its practical themes and high-quality lectures.
‘Gangseo Happy Humanities School’ has been regularly operated twice a year since 2015, helping residents enhance their knowledge and humanities literacy, and has received continuous interest.
This second half course will be held face-to-face for the first time in three years, recruiting about 50 students, roughly half the capacity, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The theme for the second half course is ‘The Era of Everyone as a Creator! My Own Special Words and Writing.’
The course consists of ▲How to master speaking and writing simultaneously (Author Bok Joo-hwan) ▲Speaking skills that change life (Author Lim Dae-hyuk) ▲How to create your own language (Author Eun-yu) ▲Can my writing also be an essay? (Author Jung Yeo-ul).
The course will be held four times every Wednesday from November 16 to December 7 at the Gangseo Lifelong Learning Center auditorium on the 2nd floor, with a tuition fee of 15,000 KRW.
Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis from 9 AM on the 25th, and anyone in the district can apply through the Gangseo Lifelong Learning Center notice board.
For more details on registration, visit the ‘Gangseo Lifelong Learning Center website (Nuri-jip) - Notices.’
Kim Geon-nyeon, Director of the Education Support Division, said, “In the era where anyone can be a one-person media creator, we prepared a course where you can showcase your own content with refined speaking and writing skills,” adding, “We hope this will be a time to acquire knowledge and know-how from top experts and develop humanities literacy and expressive ability.” For inquiries, contact the Gangseo-gu Education Support Division.
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