Bonna Neang Weinstein at her Khmer Art Gallery.By Jeff Gammage
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A grand Cambodian New Year Celebration featuring authentic music, dance and food will be held today at the Khmer Art Gallery, just north of Chinatown.
While everyone is invited, Bonna Neang Weinstein, who runs the gallery at 319 N. 11th St., has issued a special invitation to Cambodian adoptees, to help those children better know their heritage.
The event is 6 to 8 p.m. Admission is free, but a reservation must be made at rsvp@punchmedia.biz or by calling 215-300-6081 or 215-882-1188.
There are only about 1,755 Cambodian adoptees in the United States. Their coterie is the opposite of the big communities surrounding children adopted from Guatemala, Russia and world-leader China, who come by the thousands each year.
Cambodia opened adoptions to American families in the 1990s but closed in 2001, without completing many adoptions in between. Because the Cambodian children arrived in the same short span, they have no older generation of role models, and no new arrivals behind.
While the United States is Weinstein's adored, adopted country, for adoptees, she says, "there's still that missing part."
While everyone is invited, Bonna Neang Weinstein, who runs the gallery at 319 N. 11th St., has issued a special invitation to Cambodian adoptees, to help those children better know their heritage.
The event is 6 to 8 p.m. Admission is free, but a reservation must be made at rsvp@punchmedia.biz or by calling 215-300-6081 or 215-882-1188.
There are only about 1,755 Cambodian adoptees in the United States. Their coterie is the opposite of the big communities surrounding children adopted from Guatemala, Russia and world-leader China, who come by the thousands each year.
Cambodia opened adoptions to American families in the 1990s but closed in 2001, without completing many adoptions in between. Because the Cambodian children arrived in the same short span, they have no older generation of role models, and no new arrivals behind.
While the United States is Weinstein's adored, adopted country, for adoptees, she says, "there's still that missing part."
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