Ko Festival of Performance

The Ko Festival will bring "From Refugee Camp to Project, " a new project by Sokeo Ros, as part of the 24th Annual Ko Festival of Performance held each summer in Amherst, MA. The piece is a solo show about a young man born in a Thai refugee camp in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge. In America, he finds himself trapped in a ghetto filled with poverty and violence, courted by gangs, and at the mercy of the explosive moods of his traumatized parents. Through hip-hop dance, traditional Khmer dance, storytelling and video, Sokeo Ros shares how self-expression helped him rise above his past and discover the beauty in life. Performances will be accompanied by multiple engagement activities.