Name: Adopting Our Own Ways of Being*
Start: 2025-06-21T14:45:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T16:00:00-0400

The KAAN 2025 Conference will take place at The Grand Hyatt in Atlanta, GA, on June 20-22. The theme this year is Growth and Change. As always, we offer an adoptee-only track alongside our general breakout sessions, which are open to all. We also offer programs for adults and youth (ages 8-17). All are welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Saturday June 21, 2025 2:45pm - 4:00pm EDT

Buckhead BR 1 (Lower lobby)

Food, art, and identity, oh my! Join Chinese-Canadian adoptee, Annika Walsh for this hands-on session that explores how to transform your identity into a dish that best encapsulates you. Together, through collaging and conversation, we will dive into the fluidity of identity, culture, and food. Annika is an artist and graduate student at the University of British Columbia who presents experience based work that often relate to their experiences as an adoptee. Annika has used food to connect to all of the cultures they are genetically embedded with but also the ones they have absorbed along the way.

This session will also be held on Friday at 2:00 - 3:15 PM.

Speakers

Annika Walsh

Annika Walsh is an emerging transdisciplinary artist and researcher who works with food, cooking, and everything in between to further the notion of connectedness and togetherness. Annika completed a BFA with a specialization in Media at the University of Ottawa in 2022. This grounds... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 2:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Buckhead BR 1 (Lower lobby)

General Session (Open To All Attendees), Repeat Session

KAAN 2025

Annika Walsh

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