Samuel Son
A One-Person Show
Spam
Kimchi
Kimchi
Seoul food·Soul food
“I belly laughed and ugly cried — sometimes both in the same moment.” — Rita Spalding
Seoul food·Soul food
“I belly laughed and ugly cried — sometimes both in the same moment.” — Rita Spalding
Also Appearing
Spam Kimchi Lite
30-minute version with new material
WorldFest
Saturday, September 6
3:30 – 4:00 PM · Overlook Stage
“Spam Kimchi is at once hilarious, poetic and heartbreaking. Most of all it’s emotionally true — not just for Samuel Son but for everybody who hears him talk about his Korean heritage and realizes it’s just like their own, wherever their ancestors are from.”
— Keith McGill, Actor & Director
“I belly laughed and ugly cried — sometimes both in the same moment.”
— Rita Spalding, Award-Winning Poet
About the Show
“Your own birth is like the worst hangover…”
Spam Kimchi is a one-person show about family, amoebas, trauma, canned meat, and the dish that holds it all together. It's funny and sneaks up on you.
Samuel Son is a comedian, a spoken word artist, and a preacher — so you know this show is gonna be a delicious hybrid dish.
From the show
The amount of kimchee is the weight in your heart.
And the amount of gochujang?
When the water is as red as deep sunset — it’s enough.
You don’t measure cooking.
You listen to all the sacrifices of the ingredients.
Listen to all your ancestors
who survived one shared meal at a time.
— Samuel Son, from his poetry book America, My America
Event Details
Date
Wednesday
September 16, 2026
8:00 PM Show
Doors
7:00 PM
Come early, grab a spot
Show
8:00 PM
Approx. 75 minutes
Venue
Planet of the Tapes
640 Barret Ave
Louisville, KY 40204
Capacity
60 Seats
Intimate. No bad seats.
Tickets
General Admission
Discounted price — limited time.
Only 60 seats. First come, first served.
For more on Samuel Son — sonsamuel.com
Audience
“His deep well of wisdom and commitment to justice always took the punch line a step deeper and left me thinking beyond the joke. I left lighthearted but also thinking about new ways of perceiving this hurting world.”
— David Maxwell
“Your show is one of the best I’ve seen. You touch people in ways you’ll probably never understand.”
— Nikki Stigall