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Cupertino Poet Laureate Presents: A Hoisan-wa “Talk Story”
A Hoisan-Wa ‘Talk Story’ Poetry Performance with Poets Genny Lim, Nellie Wong, Flo Oy Wong, and the Del Sol String Quartet – 從台⼭到⾦⼭: Cupertino Poet Laureate Jing Jing Yang hosts a special event blending poetry and music on Saturday, October 24th at 11am on Zoom. Program Welcome & Introductions – JING JING YANG, Cupertino Poet…
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Lunar New Year 2020 at the Oakland Museum
For the 2020 Lunar New Year Celebration at the Oakland Museum, Flo and Nellie conducted a special poetry reading in English and Hoisan-wa to pay homage to their mother language on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 2:30pm. Nellie read three poems: Ngoi Leng Gah Thlim, My Two Hearts (1981) (04:04); Poem for My Grandniece, Eva…
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The Last Hoisan Poets @ CHSA
Genny Lim, Nellie Wong, and Flo Oy Wong return to CHSA! These three monumentally influential women artists and poets all trace their roots to China’s Toisan villages, home of the Hoisan-wa (a.k.a. Toisanese/Taishanese) Chinese dialect. They will do a special poetry reading in English and Hoisan-wa, to pay homage to their mother language which is…