Catholic University Humanities City Project Group to Host 20th Humanities Week

A Humanities Festival in Collaboration with the Local Community

The Catholic University Humanities City Support Project Group will host the 20th Humanities Week event, titled 'Beyond Bucheon: 2029 B Project, Beyond Space!', for seven days from October 27 to November 2, 2025.

This event will take place across Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, including at Catholic University, Bucheon Citizens' Hall, Bucheon Art Bunker, and the Bucheon Cultural Foundation Media Center. Any Bucheon citizen is welcome to participate freely.

Poster for the 20th Humanities Week organized by the Catholic University Humanities City Support Project Group. Catholic University

This Humanities Week is part of the '2025 Humanities City Support Project' funded by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. The main theme is 'Urban Culture and the Convergence Experiment of Humanities/Arts/Technology.' The event aims to reinterpret Bucheon's industrial heritage and cultural spaces from a humanities perspective and to realize 'Bucheon as a humanities and arts city beyond boundaries' through creative technology and arts programs that encourage direct citizen participation.

The opening ceremony will be held at 7:30 p.m. on October 28 at the Small Theater of Bucheon Citizens' Hall. The opening performance, 'Rediscovering Reading: Wonmi-dong and Hangyeryeong,' is a choral reading play that adapts 'Hangyeryeong,' a story from 'People of Wonmi-dong' by renowned Bucheon author Yang Gui-ja. The performance combines reading, choir, theater, and AI video. Professional and amateur artists, citizens, and students from Bucheon will share the stage, artistically reinterpreting the city's life, memories, and the human inner world.

Other diverse programs include the citizen-participatory festival 'Busking B39' set in the city, the 'Media & Art Festival' where technology meets art, and the creative storytelling stage 'Story Battle Microphone.' Additionally, citizen-participatory humanities and arts programs such as 'Be the AI Artist,' 'Walking the City through Stories,' and 'Bangbanggokgok-Bucheon, B-Road Expansion' will provide opportunities for exchange, connecting various spaces in Bucheon with the stories of its citizens.

Lee Dong-eun, head of the Catholic University Humanities City Support Project Group, stated, "This 20th Humanities Week will serve as an experimental platform where humanities converge with art and technology to engage with citizens' everyday lives. We hope this will be an opportunity for the entire city to expand into a single stage for humanities and the arts."

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