Jongno-gu, Family Month Campaign and Family Performance Festival at Daehakro

'Family Love Campaign' at Marronnier Park on the 21st
'Jongno Family Performance Festival' at Children's Theater

Jongno-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Jeong Munheon) is launching a campaign to celebrate Family Month and presenting a performance festival that children and the whole family can enjoy together. The "2024 Family Love Campaign" will be held on the 21st from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Marronnier Park (104 Daehak-ro).

On this day, under the theme "The Birth and Meeting of Family," life-cycle experience programs will be prepared to build public empathy, and promotional booths for family-related projects will be set up to raise awareness of the district's related initiatives.

The experience booths will be operated by dividing into stages: infancy and childhood, adolescence, adulthood, family formation, child-rearing, middle age, and old age. Programs are diversely organized to suit the participants' perspectives, such as making gifts for oneself who has become an adult and experiencing traditional wedding attire to learn about weddings.

Additionally, activities like "Warm Words," where participants place stickers on words they want to hear from their family, and the "Rose Tree," where parents, children, or teachers write messages of gratitude, will be conducted to enhance the campaign's meaning.

At the Jongno Children's Theater (91 Sungkyunkwan-ro), the "2024 Jongno Family Performance Festival" will run from the 15th of this month to June 22. Among 128 submissions received through an open call, outstanding works were carefully selected through expert review, aiming to provide a special time for the whole family to unite through performing arts experiences.

The festival will sequentially present the cheerful fairy tale musical "Samyang Donghwa," which overturns stereotypes about classics; "Rainbow Island Story," depicting the friendship between a baby whale and a boy unfolding in an imaginary sea; and the shadow puppet play full of imagination and creativity, "Story Sso! Story-ya!"

This year's Jongno Family Performance Festival at the Children's Theater is divided into two seasons. In addition to the three performances available in the current "Spring Flower Breeze" season, the July "Summer Sunshine" season is preparing to present "The Child Given by the Moon," a recreation of Baridegi and the Fairy and the Woodcutter, and "Red Balloon," depicting the friendship between a child and a balloon.

Admission is 20,000 KRW for all seats, and an "All Pass Package," which allows viewing all three performances at a 50% discount, can be purchased until the 24th. For performance dates, reservations, and other details, please refer to the Children's Theater website.

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