Citizenship for All: Storytelling Through Nonggi Community Gathering

Event Date: Sunday, June 1 · 12 - 4pm CDT

Gather at Hull-House and celebrate over one hundred and thirty years of immigrant narratives in Chicago. Over eighty Nonggi will be on display in the Hull-House courtyard. Listen to video testimonials from banner makers across Chicago. Visit the museum’s current exhibition Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935.Stay for food and story sharing.

Nonggi created in the workshops will be archived at HANA Center. The banners are a resource for the center and are used for celebrations, marches, street protests, and visits with legislators and representatives.

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About Aram Han Sifuentes
Aram Han Sifuentes (she/they) is a social practice and fiber artist, writer, and educator who works to center immigrant and disenfranchised communities. She aims to confront social and racial injustices against the disenfranchised and riffs off official institutions and bureaucratic processes to reimagine new, inclusive, and humanized systems of civic engagement and belonging. She does this by creating participatory and active environments where safety, play, and skill-sharing are emphasized. And even though many of her projects are collaborative and communal in nature, they incite and highlight individual’s experiences, politics, and voice.

Han Sifuentes has been a recipient of numerous awards including: the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Map Fund, Asian Cultural Council’s Individual Fellowship, Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Illinois Art Council Agency’s Artist Fellowship Award, Center of Craft’s Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship, 3Arts Award and 3Arts Next Level.

About HANA Center
HANA Center builds the power of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities in Chicagoland through social services, education, culture, and community organizing to advance human rights.

Launched in February 2017, HANA Center is a merger of Korean American Community Services (KACS, founded 1972) and Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (KRCC, founded 1995). Meaning “one” in Korean, HANA is the culmination of a vision which held by key stakeholders of KRCC and KACS. These leaders recognized the great potential of establishing a single, united organization that combined KACS’ history of responding to the critical needs of the Korean American and local resident communities and KRCC’s track record of powerful community organizing, advocacy, and celebration of cultural heritage.

HANA is committed to serving the diverse interests of its multiethnic immigrant community- including immigrants, women, youth, people of color, low-income families, older adults, LGBTQ+ folks, and adoptees. In Korean, HANA means one. We are stronger together than we are apart. Our shared history and culture are our strengths. By combining our resources, we can accomplish more for ourselves than we can by ourselves.

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