On April 4, 10am - 4pm, Cambodian New Year will be celebrated at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland's Fruitvale. The festival is multicultural with Cambodian dance groups from all over Northern California performing dances from palace and court and from village in dazzlingly costumes, as well as Burmese, Thai and Nepali dancers. Restaurants including the legendary Battambang will sell delicious Cambodian food throughout the event.
For the past four years, members of the Cambodian community have partnered with Peralta Hacienda to bring music and dance, food and festivities, celebration and fun to the local community and the wider Bay Area public. The Cambodian community wants the public to appreciate their rich arts and culture, as well as to acknowledge the war and genocide that all but destroyed Cambodia in the 1970s.
We cordially invite all music and food lovers to celebrate the resilience and beauty of Cambodian arts.
Background: On April 17th, 1975, the Khmer Rouge Regime rose to power in Cambodia in the aftermath of years of U.S. carpet bombing. By the end of their rule four years later the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) were responsible for the deaths of over 2 million Cambodian people. In 2012, the Khmer Rouge's top officials are finally on trial for war crimes. An estimated 95% of Cambodia's artists, dancers, and musicians were executed by the Khmer Rouge, which targeted all culture and learning as part of the old order. The dancers and musicians featured at this year's Cambodian New Year in Oakland command a special respect, both from Cambodians and lovers of world music and culture as they are preserving a rare art form.
You can also see permanent historical exhibits in the Peralta House museum that tell the story of the transformation of the East Bay during the Spanish and Mexican periods through sound, images, and touchable objects, inside the evocative architecture of the 1870 Antonio Peralta House.
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