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Busan City Hall Open Library to Host “At the End of a Cold Winter, A Heart Ready to Begin Again” Event

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will host a humanities event for citizens, titled “At the End of a Cold Winter, A Heart Ready to Begin Again,” from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on both February 19 and 26 at the Busan City Hall Open Library (Deullak Nallak).

This event is an adult program planned in connection with the winter book curation exhibition, “A Bitterly Cold Winter, Somehow: The Recovery, Standing by Slow Recovery.” Set against the seasonal backdrop of winter, it provides time to reflect on the pain of loss and to explore the process of recovery together through humanistic reflection.

*Curation: the act of collecting, selecting, combining, and classifying only high-quality content to imbue it with special meaning and recreate its value.

In particular, this program moves beyond a passive lecture format and is organized as an “integrated humanities” program that combines customized music selections, a themed lecture, a citizen talk session, and an arts-based experience. Professional facilitators from the humanities and arts will join to engage citizens in philosophical conversation and broaden the scope of empathy through emotionally evocative music and workshops.

The program begins with a dialogue-based lecture centered on the exhibition books, titled “A Heart Crossing a Cold Winter,” which addresses emotional changes after loss, and then continues into a time of communication in which participants directly share their own experiences of recovery. Each session features facilitators who examine the various emotions of “loss” that individuals face within the flow of emotions and explore together the possibility and meaning of recovery.

In the participatory workshop and hands-on program, “Creating a Fragmented Sentence of Recovery,” participants will experience first-hand how discarded emotions can become the foundation for new recovery by taking part in a workshop that records thoughts on loss, relationships, and emotions in sentences and then completing them as a visual object.

Further details on the event are available on the library website (https://library.busan.go.kr/openlib/index.do) under Apply/Reservations > Events & Lectures. A total of 30 participants will be recruited, with 15 participants per session.

Kim Gwi-ok, Director General of the Youth and Industry-Academia Cooperation Bureau, said, “I hope this event will provide an opportunity for citizens to pause at the end of a cold winter and look back on their lives,” adding, “I also hope it will become a warm place of empathy where people, after passing through a time of loss, can prepare for a new beginning.”