By Jonathan Van Dyke
Staff Writer
Downtown Gazettes (Long Beach, California, USA)
The Second Annual Cambodian Arts and Culture Exhibition will give younger members of the community and outsiders a sense of the diverse and interesting Cambodian culture, organizers say.
“We expect probably between 500 and 600 people and it’s going to be a very diverse group,” said Richer San, exhibitions coordinator. “This year’s program is going to be much better (than last year’s).”
There will be events from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday, split between MacArthur Park and Mark Twain Library, that will demonstrate a number of the cultural aesthetics and history that make up Cambodian culture, San said. Admission will be free, and attendees will have an opportunity to participate in several different interactive demonstrations.
San said the exhibition also is a chance for local artisans and vendors to show off an area that not everyone in Long Beach may be familiar with.
“We do this to bring in some traffic to central Long Beach for the business folks who need this,” he said.
There will be textiles, dressmaking, weddings, games, Yantra Mantra, cooking, costuming, painting, drawing, shadow puppets, Cambodian Court Dance, music and different musical instruments.
At 11:30 a.m., curator Jeffrey Weaver of the J. Paul Getty Museum will make a special presentation on the Gods of Angkor in the community room of the Mark Twain Library. He will talk about the Getty Center’s (in Los Angeles) upcoming exhibition on the subject, which opens in February of next year.
At 2 p.m., there will be a movie screening of “Twilight.” King Norodom Sihanouk made the film in 1969, during a strong period of Cambodian cinema, San said. It follows the story of a prince falling in love, and demonstrates a great deal of what Cambodia was like before war changed it. There will be English subtitles. Former United Nations Ambassador Sichan Siv will introduce the screening.
“This is before the war came to Cambodia,” San said. “It’s going to be so important for the younger generation (to see). It shows Cambodia back in the 1960s, when it was very peaceful and vibrant.”
Both the movie and presentations will provide an important opportunity to remind the youth in the community of a heritage they may feel removed from, while introducing the rest of the community to it, San said.
“It is important,” he said. “Mainly we want to share with our neighbors and our new generation. We want to show them our heritage and rich culture — to promote harmony. People can communicate through culture.”
The Second Annual Cambodian Arts and Culture Exhibition will take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday at MacArthur Park, 1321 E. Anaheim St. The special presentation and movie screening will take place at Mark Twain Library, 1401 E. Anaheim St. Admission will be free.
For details, call Sixth District Councilman Dee Andrews’s office at 570-6816.
14 comments:
It's even much better if Richer San and his wife are not asskissers of Hun Xen.
Richer San?
Richer San to go live in Tell Cambodia. make sure you got all the fact before bullshiting about hard working Khmer people....
Why all kind of negative comments.
You should have a better idea or constructive critics.
It is not bad to show the young Khmer generation the situation of our country before 1975, let them to make their own decision and tell us from their point of view.
I do not criticize the Khmer dancers; I myself is a singer, though not famous. I criticize the exhibtion coordinators who have been living in a country of democracy and freedom turn themselves to be some kind of despicable lickspittles of a dictator. Why? Running after money, power, and fame?
CONGRATULATION FOR YOUR HARD WORK!..IT IS GOOD TO HOW BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL OUR COUNTRY WAS BEFORE...GEN LON NOL AND POL POT WAR.....WHAT DID THEY GET...POL POT OR GEN LON NOL...AFTER THEY PASSED AWAY....DID YOU EVER GO TO POL POT GRAVE SITE IN ONLONGVENG....IT IS A GOOD PLACE TO LEARN...POL POT MAY KILLED MILLION OF KHMERS DURING HIS TIME BY HIMSELF OR BY YUON....BUT WHAT DID HE GET AFTER ALL...HOW ABOUT GEN LON NOL...WHAT DID HE GET...NO ONE GO TO HIS GRAVE AND RESPECT....
AND NOW DESTROYED ALL OF OUR COUNTRY BEAUTY AND TREES AND FISH AND....SPIRT OF KHMER...
2:57AM,
What are you trying to teach?
None of us bring anything with them after their deaths.
none this BS comments going to what or have answer to each other. please stay away from politic if you are a singer, farmer or a dancer....please
Anonymous said...
It's even much better if Richer San and his wife are not asskissers of Hun Xen.
9:14 PM
==== Yes Richer & Sithea san are Pay C Pest affiliation. What else who Know, they used to work for Cambodian COmmunity in Long Beach and they are the most corrupted group ever under Mr. CORRupted Pok Than and his gangsters...=====
Now they are still here. wow. They are serving Cambodian Commnity my ass they are serving themselves. They affiliating with Whore 5 Hong and invited SaK Ann the "HunSen Terrorists group to Long Beach" it enough Khmer aey Khmer... what else you want?
But please do not use your project in the Name of Khmer in Long Beach including me for your own personal interest.... be sure you gave back ok.
Unknown Kone Khmer..........LB, CA
Richer & Sithea San are hard working individual for FAME & CLASS and for themselves. They claimed that they both are from an affluent community.
They both are corrupted. We Know they both used to for work with Pok Than in 90's. Oh, boy they were corrupted. Richer and Sithea brought a pay check home almost $75,000 a month by doing nothing. I meant "nothing" they go out and party and collecting pay check.
What a shame! They live off our tax money. They are very smart but in the wrong way. They make profit out of those struggling Khmer Long Beach, now they are doing it again, and they are learning from DicK-Head Hun Sen.
They are Hun Sen cronies.....
Good Luck Richer&Sithea.......LB,Ca.
Khmer Long Beach are proud of Cambodia. We are Khmer and we are proud of Khmer culture and Khmer reconciliation and reconstruction.
Khmer Long Beach and Cambodia are one family.
Those who criticize in here are not true Khmers.
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