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KhmerConnection

Our culture. Our communities. Our stories.

A community-maintained guide to Khmer community life and cultural memory, connecting people with organizations, creative works, living traditions, food, heritage places, the people who make them, and first-person stories.

Organizations and temples533 records, including 126 cultural businesses

Scholarships and grants11 opportunities

Creators88 people and ensembles

Books40 books

Films26 films

Living traditions29 practices

Music releases18 releases

Dishes and recipes35 dishes, 35 recipes

Heritage places23 places

Cultural objects15 objects

Learn Khmer14 resources

Oral histories31 recordings, 20 collections

Featured entries

Organizations

• Cambodia Town Film Festival
• Cambodian Association of America
• The Cambodian Family
• Khmer Girls in Action
• Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell
• Cambodian Living Arts
• Watt Munisotaram
• École Khmère de Paris

Cambodia aid

• Ponheary Ly Foundation
• Exceed Worldwide
• Passerelles Numériques Cambodia

Cultural businesses

• Sophy's
• Phnom Penh Noodle Shack
• Christy's Donuts
• DK's Donuts and Bakery
• Artisan Boulanger Patissier

Scholarships

• Rosana Chanou Memorial Scholarship
• The Sok Impact Scholarship
• CHPAA Scholarship
• KAA Scholarship Program

Creators

• Rithy Panh
• Loung Ung
• Kong Nay
• Em Theay
• Dengue Fever
• Christine Su
• Chef Nak
• Davy Chou

Books

• First They Killed My Father
• In the Shadow of the Banyan
• Afterparties
• Koan Khmer
• Year of the Rabbit
• Voices of a New Generation: Cambodian Americans in the Creative Arts
• Kroeung: Cambodian Cooking with Chef T
• A Nail the Evening Hangs On

Films

• First They Killed My Father
• The Missing Picture
• Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
• The Donut King
• Monkey Dance
• White Building

Living traditions

• Cambodian New Year
• Pchum Ben
• Bon Om Touk
• Robam Tep Apsara
• Sbek Thom
• Chapei Dang Veng
• Bokator
• Prahok

Music releases

• Cambodian Rocks
• Don't Think I've Forgotten
• Venus on Earth
• Dalama: The End'n Is Just the Beginn'n
• Time To Rise
• Full Monday Moon

Dishes

• Fish Amok
• Samlor Korko
• Num Banh Chok
• Bai Sach Chrouk
• Prahok Ktis
• Kuy Teav
• Num Ansom Chek
• Kroeung

Heritage places

• Angkor Wat
• Bayon
• Banteay Srei
• Temple of Preah Vihear
• Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
• Choeung Ek
• Cambodia Town, Long Beach
• Khmer Refugee Monument

Cultural objects

• Jayavarman VII
• Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
• Khmer lintel at the British Museum
• Khmer illustrated Ramayana and Jataka manuscript
• Buddha Sheltered by a Naga

Learn Khmer

• Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader
• Colloquial Cambodian
• SEAlang Library Khmer Dictionary
• ReanKhmer Learn Khmer full course
• Khmer at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute
• Cambodian American Studies Model Curriculum

Oral-history collections

• Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives
• The CamCHAP Archive
• Bophana Center Archive
• Southeast Asian Digital Archive Oral History Project
• Cambodian Genocide Collection (USC Shoah Foundation)
• The Khmer Generations Project
• Southeast Asian Archive (UC Irvine)

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