KCCNYC COMMUNITY NEWS - June 2026
By KCCNY Monthly Team
KCCNYC x 14 th st. Y: From Kimchi to Sauerkraut
On May 19, 2026, the KCCNYC community explored the connections between Jewish and Korean food traditions one pickle at a time. 🥬🌶️🥢✨
From kimchi to sauerkraut, guests gathered for an evening of conversation, live demos, tastings, and hands-on pickling with Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Madalyn Warren, and Gabriella Gershenson. Along the way, we dug into the history, techniques, and stories behind fermentation traditions across cultures, while enjoying incredible bites and drinks from Kimchi Harvest and The Gefilteria.
KCCNYC was able to partner and co-present the event, and we had a great time sharing our knowledge and food. Many of our community members were at the event with their families and friends, and students with Korean heriatge also shared their own unique family traditions around Kimchi. Many of our community members have noted how the discussion of similarities and differences between two cultures were fascinating, and how the talk provided the opportunities to think about what food means for a culture.
The event was filled with great food and cultural lessons. The food included: Bibambap, Kimchi, Pickled Carrots, and Pickled Golden Beets from Kimchi Harvest, and Smoked Herring ‘pinxtos’, Half Sour & Full Sour Pickles, and Lemon Pickle Soda from The Gelfilteria.
We also all made quick pickles — with sliced cucumber, black peppercorn, garlic, green apple, rice wine vinegar brine.
The event allowed us to bond over food, and cultural heritage, while also learning about traditions of Jewish culture. We look forward to co-hosting these cross-cultural events to build bridges of compassion and understanding. We thank 14th St. Y for letting us partner for this wonderful event. We also want to thank our co-presenters: Lunar Collective and UJA-Federation of New York
Photo credits to Ben Asen.
UPCOMING June COMMUNITY EVENTS
Author’s talk: Love in the Big City with Park Sang Young
For June 2026 Dosan Hakdang, we will celebrate Pride Month by reading Park Sang Young's Love in the Big City. The book has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, the International Dublin Literary Award 2023, and the Prix Medicis award for foreign literature 2024.
Park Sang Young will talk with us via Zoom from Korea to discuss the book. KCCNYC Dosan Hakdang is very grateful to have the author with us!
Please join us on June 21st, 2026 at 8PM EST to share this important story with the KCCNYC community! Please note that the time is different from our gathering to accomodate the time difference in South Korea.
Please RSVP here to receive the zoom link. You can also submit questions for the Q&A here.
Feel free to join with friends and Family!
Seoul Disability Film Festival in New York
The Seoul Disability Rights Film Festival, which has been calling out for the rights of people with disabilities around the world such as Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Edmonton, and Toronto, is leaving for New York on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The 8th Korean Disability Rights Film Festival in New York, will take place June 11th from 2-7pm at the Paul and Eslanda Robeson Cinema at The People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York.
The Film Festival will feature three films:
A White Lie
The film opens with Ibom struggling to make her way to the water dispenser. Ibom isn’t a good liar and gets very nervous with the “welfare assessor”. At a self-help group, she meets Beolgu, an incredible liar, and asks him to share his secrets about how to be a good liar, so she can log enough hours of personal attendance services. Beolgu tries to help, but realizes they don’t have enough time. He introduces Ibom to an “expert” for her to get a crash course. With the expert’s help, she realizes she needs to practice getting away with some lies. When D-Day arrives and she is face-to-face with her welfare assessor, can she pull of the lies? This film is fiction, rather than a documentary.
Uncompromising Mr. Jo
Seondong Jo, who has a serious disability, spent almost 14 years at the residential facility ‘Kkotodongne’ in Gapyeong. In 2021, he moved out into the community in Gimpo. Once he was able to walk and run, but over time, his condition progressed to the point where he spent most of his time in bed. With the help of Nodeul Night School and Gimpo Independent Living Center, he left the institution, a place he thought he would die in, and returned after 14 years to the world. He seemed to enjoy his time at an independent living transition house, but then he set his sights on Seoul. Leaving the transitional house and the 24-hour Personal Assistance Services (PAS) only available in Gimpo, he goes to Seoul and plans to attend the Nodeul Night School there and live in Seoul. The film follows Seondong’s journey as he starts his life over from scratch in Seoul.
Good Morning, Citizens
Every weekday morning at 8 am, a Seoul subway platform fills up with people that have disabilities, as well as their fellow citizens. “Piss on Pity, Hatred to the Trash, Life before Profits, and Rights for People with Disabilities!” During the morning rush hour, they take the train and appear in front of the fellow citizens. “Good morning, citizens. We are Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination.” They speak of disability rights, the rights they have not yet realized, even within the law. The train is still not moving. The idle train at the most hectic hour is filled with silence, curses and applause. More than 20 years have passed since SADD began in 2001. Yet people with disabilities are still denied their rights. The people who sit idle and the people whose lives were erased for lack of rights sit together on this train. Ordinary citizens with their mundane lives do not live forgotten in the community. How are the voices that echo, “We want to be citizens,” heard within the society?
Each film screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by disability rights activists from South Korea.
You can visit their website here.
The 2026 27th Seoul Queer Parade (SQP)
June 13 (Sat), Namdaemun-ro and Ujeongguk-ro area (Euljiro 1(il)-ga Station–Jonggak Station)
For any of our community members currently in Seoul – the Seoul Queer Parade (SQP) is a public cultural event held downtown every year to promote LGBTQIA+ visibility, human rights, cultural enjoyment, and pride. It is held every year alongside pride parades held in cities around the world.
It started as a parade section of ‘Queer Culture Festival - Rainbow 2000,’ later became an official event under the name ‘Queer Parade,’ and is now officially known as ‘Seoul Queer Parade.’
Programs include booths, stage events, and the parade itself. The parade is hosted by the volunteer-led Seoul Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee and organized by its internal body, the Seoul Queer Parade Executive Committee.
You can visit their website here.
NYC Pride 2026
Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times
Youth Pride 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 11 AM - 6 PM
Pier 16, 167 John Street New York, NY 10038
NYC’s leading event for LGBTQIA+ youth returns Saturday, June 27, 2026 with live performances, free snacks and beverages, carnival installations, affirming activities and resources, and more.
RSVP here to attend. Free event.
Dyke March
Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 5PM
Stepping off at Bryant Park and marching down 5th Ave to Washington Square Park
The NYC Dyke March is a protest march, not a parade. The 33rd annual NYC Dyke March is a demonstration of the First Amendment right to protest and takes place without permits or sponsors. The march is committed to accessibility. Resources include sighted guides, wheelchairs, ASL interpretation, and transportation assistance for disabled and chronically ill marchers who wishes to participate.
The Parade
Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 12PM
26th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan
The 57th annual NYC Pride March - among the world's oldest, largest LGBTQ+ demonstrations - touches off at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 28, 2026. The March begins at 26th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, passes the historic Stonewall Inn, and disperses near 15th Street and 7th Avenue.
PrideFest
Sunday, June 28th on 4th Avenue from Astor Place to 14th Street!
PrideFest is BACK on Sunday, June 28, 2026 for our annual LGBTQIA+ street fair - the largest of its kind in the U.S. See world-class performers, sample local bites and goods, and connect with local service providers. RSVP to attend PrideFest on Sunday, June 28, 2026.
