FUN STUFF Workshops

FUN STUFF WORKSHOPS:
1. Khmer Poetry Workshop (no experience necessary in writing)
2. Storytelling and Folktales Workshop (Ages 2 +)
3. Poetry Reading & Conversation with author of Apsara In New York, Sokunthary Svay (www.Sokunthary.com)

FREE ADMISSION (Donations Accepted)

Date and Time: Saturday, Aug., 11, 2018; 9:30AM - 12:30PM
Where: CMAA: 465 School St., Lowell, MA 01851

RSVP via on this FB event page or via EventBrite.com (Search: Fun Stuff)

Organized by the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA) in partnership with the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA).

Contact: CALAA.LOWELL@GMAIL.COM
IG: CALAALOWELL
FB & TWITTER: CALAAASSOCIATION

Light refreshments will be served.

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ABOUT CALAA
The Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA) works with historically underserved refugee communities including at-risk youth with a commitment to inclusion. The organization was established by a majority of Southeast Asian refugee women reflecting a diversity of educational and economic experiences.

MISSION
Through safe and welcoming spaces, CALAA’s vision is to engage and cultivate the amateur, emerging, and established writers in the Cambodian diaspora, refugee, and multicultural communities through the literary and performance arts by providing creative writing workshops, intergenerational knowledge exchanges, and professional resources. CALAA also empowers the voices of the Cambodian diaspora and refugee communities through healing, wellness, and self-identity workshops by bridging the intergenerational gap through comprehensive programs and resources focused on the preservation, enrichment, and creative projects of the community’s historical, social, spiritual, and cultural values.

ABOUT AUTHOR SOKUNTHARY SVAY
Sokunthary Svay was born in a refugee camp in Thailand shortly after her parents fled Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. They were sponsored to come to the United States and resettled in the Bronx where she grew up. She is currently poetry editor for Newtown Literary, a founding member of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA), the recipient of the American Opera Projects' Composer and the Voice Fellowship for 2017-19 and the 2018 Emerging Poets Fellowship at Poets House. Her publication credits include Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place and Time, FLESH, Prairie Schooner, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Perigee, and The Margins. Her first collection of poetry, Apsara in New York, is available from Willow Books. She is an incoming Ph.D. student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. More info can be found on her website: sokunthary.com.