About the performance

Is there a chapter in your family’s history that is too painful to write? This performance is about how self-acceptance created a pathway to actualizing self-love while living between languages and cultures. In 1976, a diplomatic connection between the mayors of Seoul and Tehran marked more than the naming of streets; encountering a public statue symbolizing a bilateral agreement for cooperation initiated a personal journey to learn to love oneself through integrating a language that once felt distant and foreign in one’s country of birth. During this encounter, the performer shares the ways in which Farsi cannot be fully translated into English. However, in a Korean context, new understandings for exploring multiple identities and relationships are created, nurturing healing across generations through language exchange. After enjoying tea, participants will be invited to write their version of the final chapter of Learning Farsi on 테헤란로 Teheran ro.