Asia North Exhibition And Festival

Celebrate BALTIMORE’s Charles NORTH – Station NORTH – neighborhood’s constantly evolving identities as a Koreatown, arts district and creative hub. Co-produced by Asian Arts & Culture Center and Central BALTIMORE Partnership.SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Discover & Dine Asia North Kamayan Feast 6 – 8:30 p.m. The Club Car TICKETS: $60, purchase by May 6 Experience Asia North's annual communal Filipino feast where food is artfully laid out atop banana leaves in the middle of long banquet tables. "Kamay" literally translates to "hand" in this traditional Filipino practice of eating with your hands. Enjoy specialty cocktails by Club Car while Asia North featured artist Thea Canlas talks about her food-centered artwork. Participating caterers include Frisco Baltimore and Barkada Breads. Discover & Dine Kantahan at Pulutan: Karaoke & Pinoy Food Trucks 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. The Club Car FREE REGISTRATION COMING SOON Karaoke all night long Asia North-style, featuring Filipino song selections plus other Asian song lists. Satisfy your late-night cravings with pulutan (small bites/snacks) from local Filipino food trucks which you can bring into The Club Car. Kamayan Feast attendees enjoy a discount on drinks at the bar. Veiled Forms By appointment and 5 – 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 10 This exhibition highlights the work of local Asian artists Lika Yuyun Su, Winter Dior Hart, Kei Ito, Dooree Kang, and Lucia Shuyu Li, each engaging with the tactile and ephemeral qualities of texture, light, color, and form. Through intricate layers, coverings, and floating elements, their works invite viewers to explore the interplay of materiality and meaning, as traditional and contemporary elements merge. Lika Su’s sculptures, with their meticulous textures and layered forms, evoke a sense of both groundedness and lightness, blurring the line between permanence and fragility. Winter Hart’s vibrant use of color and unconventional materials creates surfaces rich in texture, where layers and coverings hint at hidden histories. Kei Ito’s photographic works are imbued with light and shadow, using transparency and layering to echo themes of memory and intergenerational trauma. Dooree Kang’s installations and videos evoke a sense of floating and impermanence, with translucent materials and delicate compositions that capture the fleeting nature of time. Lucia Li’s digital works play with fluid color and form, creating a dialogue between the digital and physical, where lightness and depth coexist in tension. The exhibition itself becomes a layered experience, offering viewers multiple modes of engagement. From the opening performance, which enacts the fluid interplay of light and form in real time, where layers of meaning will be uncovered through dialogue, each event invites reflection on how surface and depth, covering and revealing, shape our understanding of both art and life. A Baltimore Kawasaki Sister Cities Committee fundraiser will further activate the space, fostering a community that supports and uplifts local and international l artists. Through this thoughtful exploration of form and texture, this exhibition transcends the visual to create a sensory experience. It celebrates the lightness of floating forms and the weight of layered histories, offering viewers a space to reflect on how cultural and personal narratives are woven into the fabric of contemporary art. Curated by Liz Faust and Michael Young.