For Koreans, kimchi is like air – there are hundreds of variations of kimchi, and we eat at least a few types every day. We need kimchi as much as we need air – so when Koreans go into space, how do we bring kimchi with us?

Come speculate with us at a cucumber kimchi gimjang at Pulse & Pickle! "Gimjang" is the traditional Korean practice of making large batches of kimchi together as a community. You'll learn how to make oi kimchi, a classic summer kimchi made with cucumber!

All are welcome! We especially invite those who are unfamiliar with Korean culture and/or those with little to no experience with fermentation.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN JARS OR GLASS TUPPERWARE.

All ingredients and other equipment for the kimchi-making workshop provided.

Key Info

Date: Saturday 23 August 2025

Time: 4 to 5pm

What to bring: glass jars and glass tupperware with airtight lids

Hosts: Yen Ooi and Dr. Taun

Tickets: Solidarity sliding scale*

Pricing info for "Kimchi in Space":

"At cost" = £12
Subsidised = £6
Solidarity = £18

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Chapunk Hour is hosted by aunties Danbee “Tauntaun” Kim and Yen Ooi, who use speculative fiction to vividly imagine decolonising futures that celebrate and project Asian mentalities, languages, and cultures into the future. More broadly, they share the dream of fostering a vibrant community enthusiastically engaged with the politics of speculative storytelling, and ready to challenge the status quo by acknowledging how the stories we tell of our own futures – and the people and ideas we see thriving in the future – can powerfully impact our lives in the here and now.

Meet the Chapunk aunties!

Yen is a narrative designer, writer, and researcher whose works explore East and Southeast Asian culture, identity, and values. She's currently exploring zoefuturism - a futurism of life-becomings through connectedness, engagement, and relationality. Her projects are varied, but they aim to cultivate cultural engagement in our current technology-driven ways of living. Learn more at www.yenooi.com.

Danbee “Tauntaun” Kim (they/them) is a Korean-American field neuroscientist, community organiser, and storyteller. They study the history of science, teach neuroanatomy, and develop cultural technologies that help us share knowledge, embrace change, and face the unknown. They are the guardian of two twin cats named Ramiro and Minima, and they aggressively befriend dogs, horses, goats, sheep, birds, pigs, and more, wherever they go. Dancing in any and all forms makes Tauntaun super happy. To learn more, please visit danbeekim.org.

* Our Solidarity Sliding Scale

At Pulse & Pickle, we are trying out a sliding scale pricing system for some of our events, to acknowledge economic inequity and increase the inclusiveness of our events.

Pulse & Pickle is a non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that operates a radical cultural centre and community hub on the Walthamstow High Street. We rely on our community to pay fairly, or as much as they can afford, to help us cover our running costs as well as provide affordable and accessible food and cultural experiences.

We also understand that people have different financial experiences and access to resources. We hope to make our events truly accessible to a diverse number of people no matter their financial status.

Pricing info for "Kimchi in Space":

"At cost" = £12
Subsidised = £6
Solidarity = £18

The "At Cost" price covers the cost of delivering this event, with no mark-up included. In order to help us maintain a free-choice sliding scale ticket price system, we encourage those who can to pay the "Solidarity" price. 100% of ticket proceeds help us fulfil our affordable and accessible ethos.

These prices are simply here for your information -- when you register, you will have the option to freely choose how much you pay for a ticket. This includes paying less or nothing at all for those who can’t afford our subsidised prices.

A useful tool for thinking about where you might fall on the solidarity sliding scale is the Green Bottle: