A Special Land of Gazillion Adoptees Podcast: Chasing Lovely’s Dedication to KUMFA

Chloe and Taylor Turner, aka, Chasing Lovely, have dedicated a song to the mothers and children involved with the Korean UnwedMothers Families’ Association (KUMFA).  Check out the podcast/interview and ditty below:

–>Chasing Lovely<–

Like what you hear?  Go to the Chasing Lovely website, and listen to some of their other stuff.  I’m partial to “Need You to Know” because of its reference to my son’s favorite book.

Enjoy.

P.S. Mama Kat Turner, a Korean adoptee, is Chloe and Taylor’s mother.

The last post of 2011

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We here at Land of Gazillion Adoptees wish all of you well during this Holiday Season.  Thank you for your support, interest, and contributions.  You make LGA happen.

We’ll see you in 2012.  Until then, a preview of upcoming attractions as LGA transitions from “just a blog” to a company.

  • Kevin Ost-Vollmers to hand off half of the blogging duties to another adoptee.
  • Additional adoptees to join list of contributors.
  • Revamped LGA website.
  • LGA store.
  • LGA’s ongoing participation in the KUMFA/HEATER, YOU FOLLOW: A Search for One’s Past, and Korean Heritage House fundraisers.
  • LGA offering fundraising/strategic planning services to other projects, programs, and organizations.
  • CQT Media And Publishing/LGA “adoptees as parents” anthology.
  • Rainbow World/LGA adoptee film distribution collaboration.
  • Rainbow World/LGA film symposiums.
  • Live podcasts/fundraisers.
  • LGA’s amped-up counter to the traditional adoption narrative.

And much more…

Headlines: Another $1,000 gift for KUMFA/HEATER and “The Adoptee Film Wave”

From LGA Press – Jenny Town, Washington, DC hipster and scholar of the Pyeongchang, South Korea Olympics, shared great news with the KUMFA/HEATER fundraising team today.  She informed the organizers that her incredibly generous colleague transferred $1,000 into the KUMFA bank account.  The KUMFA/HEATER fundraising team were pleasantly shocked by the news, and scrambled to figure out the best way to thank Jenny’s colleague.  The following video is all that they could muster.

In other related news, the nation has been swept in the fervor of the “Adoptee Film Wave.”  In a recent one sentence article called “They make me cry,” the not so insightful film critic Kevin Ost-Vollmers wrote, “They make me cry.”  Do they make you cry?

One day in Seoul from ellwyn on Vimeo.

Finding Seoul from John Sanvidge on Vimeo.

indie gogo Help us video… from sharmila ray on Vimeo.

seoul searching // an adoption story from shutterbliss on Vimeo.