By Barbara Grady
Oakland Tribune
05/08/2008
Filmmaker Socheata Poeuv was born in a refugee camp in Thailand for Cambodians escaping the Khmer Rouge regime and its genocide. But she never knew that — until she was an adult. Nor did she know that her sisters were actually cousins of her parents saved as they made their escape from the dictatorship.
Poeuv's film "New Year Baby," about her journey to Cambodia in search of her family's history, is one event in a rich display of Asian cultural heritage that will be offered at Oakland's Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival starting this Saturday, May 10.
Saturday's kick-off events include Asian Arts Together, an arts-and-crafts workshop for families to make such traditional crafts as Japanese paper dolls, Cambodian theater masks, Korean kites, Lunar New Year Rats, and Vietnamese dragon mobiles.
It begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center at 388 9th St., Oakland.
Earlier that day at the Cultural Center, the festival's National Dishes Workshops get under way with a 10:30 a.m. workshop on how to make Korean Kimchee. Three other workshops will follow in May and early June.
The film "New Year Baby" will be shown Tuesday at 6 p.m.
And on May 31 at 8 p.m., the "Asian Rhythms, Asian Beats" will perform the Stick Dance and other traditional Asian dances followed by "Word and Violin" musicians and the "Karmacy" dancers at an evening of performances at the Asian Cultural Center.
Oakland Tribune
05/08/2008
Filmmaker Socheata Poeuv was born in a refugee camp in Thailand for Cambodians escaping the Khmer Rouge regime and its genocide. But she never knew that — until she was an adult. Nor did she know that her sisters were actually cousins of her parents saved as they made their escape from the dictatorship.
Poeuv's film "New Year Baby," about her journey to Cambodia in search of her family's history, is one event in a rich display of Asian cultural heritage that will be offered at Oakland's Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival starting this Saturday, May 10.
Saturday's kick-off events include Asian Arts Together, an arts-and-crafts workshop for families to make such traditional crafts as Japanese paper dolls, Cambodian theater masks, Korean kites, Lunar New Year Rats, and Vietnamese dragon mobiles.
It begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center at 388 9th St., Oakland.
Earlier that day at the Cultural Center, the festival's National Dishes Workshops get under way with a 10:30 a.m. workshop on how to make Korean Kimchee. Three other workshops will follow in May and early June.
The film "New Year Baby" will be shown Tuesday at 6 p.m.
And on May 31 at 8 p.m., the "Asian Rhythms, Asian Beats" will perform the Stick Dance and other traditional Asian dances followed by "Word and Violin" musicians and the "Karmacy" dancers at an evening of performances at the Asian Cultural Center.
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