Spa Night screening + Q&A with Andrew Ahn and Karen Tongson

The Underground Museum
3508 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018

Space is limited; RSVP recommended
This event is free; $10 suggested donation to GYOPO

GYOPO invites you to a screening of Andrew Ahn’s film, Spa Night (2016), in the Purple Garden at The Underground Museum, followed by a conversation and Q&A between writer and director Andrew Ahn and author, cultural critic, and podcaster Karen Tongson. Together, they will discuss queerness in the context of US Asian American, immigrant, and POC communities; how queerness flourishes and how it is monitored; how we grapple with ideas of homophobia in minority communities; and how queerness is translated across generations and traditions.

About the film:
Los Angeles’ Korean spas serve as meeting place and bridge between past and future for generations of immigrant families; Spa Night explores one Korean-American family’s dreams and realities as each struggles with the overlap of personal desire, disillusionment and sense of tradition.