Icheon Ceramic Festival is a South Korean festival opened every year in

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province.

About

Icheon, Gyeonggi-do has been a valuable city for

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arts since the

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. In 2010, the city was designated as "City of Crafts and Folk Art" on the

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Creative Cities Network. A variety of South Korea's finest ceramics such as Cheongja (celadon porcelain), Baekja (white porcelain) and Buncheong (grayish-blue powered celadon) are exhibited in this festival. This festival is Korea's largest ceramic culture festival and is a free exhibition that takes place every year during April and May.

History

The first Icheon Ceramic Festival was held at the event area of Seolbong Hotel in the form of small scale ceramic market. During the time, revenue of the festival was only 20 million won. As a part of the Seolbong Cultural Festival, Icheon Ceramic Festival was organized by Icheon Cultural Center until the 8th festival in 1994. It was a small-scaled local festival due to insufficient budget and low participation of ceramic artists.

Ceramic product hall

*Ceramic products *Ceramic road booth *Docent operated

Exhibitions

*Meeting of tradition and modernization *Symposium *Ceramic road workshop *Ceramic making demonstration and large ceramic performance *Ceramic exhibition

Events and performance

*Icheon youth art festival *

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contest *

Face painting Body painting is a form of body art where artwork is painted directly onto the human skin. Unlike tattoos and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, lasting several hours or sometimes up to a few weeks (in the case of mehndi or "h ...

Nail art Nail art is a creative way to paint, decorate, enhance, and embellish nails. It is a type of artwork that can be done on fingernails and toenails, usually after manicures or pedicures. Manicures and pedicures are beauty treatments that trim, s ...

*Invitation performance by military music group *Street performances *Hands-on programs

Gallery

File:이천 도자기 축제 (1).jpg, Icheon Ceramic's exhibition File:이천 도자기 축제 (2).jpg, Ceramic plates and utensils File:이천 도자기 축제 (4).jpg, File:이천 도자기 축제 (5).jpg, Ceramics File:이천 도자기 축제 (6).jpg, Ceramics File:이천 도자기 축제 (11).jpg, Ceramic dolls

Location

The festival takes place at Seolbong Park which can be reached by taking an intercity bus from

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or Seoul Express Bus Terminal to Icheon Bus Terminal, which is a 10-minute drive to the destination.

References

External links

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