Asian arts festival starts
By Barbara Grady
Oakland Tribune
Article Launched: 05/08/2008 07:50:04 PM PDT
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 =97 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.
For information on any of these events please contact April Kim at
510-637-0462 or akim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barbara Grady at bgrady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or 510-208-6427.
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