About this event
In the Khmer language, the word for taste is រសជាតិ rosacheate. To know the plants រុក្ខជាតិ roukkhcheate, to know nature ធម្មជាតិ thommocheate, to know your country ប្រទេស ជាតិ brates cheate, and to know your origins, you must know and feel the land through the senses. You must taste the land.
In Khmer, the heart and mind ចិត្ត chett are one. To be stricken with grief is ខូចផ្លូវចិត្ត khauch phlauv chett, meaning the road to the heart/mind has been broken. To journey out of grief is to តាម លូវចិត្ត tam phlauv chett, to follow the path to your heart—a path which begins with the taste of the land.
This four-part course with Sundance Award–winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam invites us to reconnect cheate and chett through opening our senses to the land, and explore how this can lead to an embodied relationship with place. With a deep, heartfelt approach to storytelling, Kalyanee will draw on both her ancestral origin story and personal journey as a filmmaker working in the field for over two decades. Offering a framework for braiding land and story, she will guide participants in exploring how heart-centered narratives can both help us hold grief and bring us into deeper kinship with the more-than-human-world.
Sessions will include lectures, facilitated discussion, and personal reflections through written prompts and storytelling.
The program is open to everyone and is available at a sliding scale of $50–$200. Scholarships are available for those who need them. Payment is due upon registration. Refunds will be given to those who cancel up to 15 days before the start of the course.
All sessions will take place via Zoom. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link a few weeks before the start of the course. Please contact events@emergencemagazine.org if you’d like to enquire about a scholarship or have any questions.
DATES: October 8-29, 2024
Tuesdays, 10am - 12pm (Pacific)
*Please note that the stated times are in Pacific.
